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here’s a fix for a problem i encountered: i had to manually update the drivers (right click on each of the bluetooth devices in the device manager and select update driver software), and now everything works flawlessly.

for those who might be in a similar situation, some time ago i hacked together drivers from various sources to get basic bluetooth functionality, and pretty much everything worked except for the audio gateway. all the drivers appeared in the device manager properly(including the audio drivers), but i could not select bluetooth as an audio playback or recording device in the sound manager. that just happened to be one of my most desired functionalities, so i attempted this fix. i was initially disappointed that this “totally” working fix didn’t work for me either, until i realized my old drivers weren’t being updated despite uninstalling them before running the patch. turns out my old drivers were signed properly, and windows defaulted to reinstalling them over using an unverified but newer driver. so after manually updating the drivers and clicking through the red flag warnings, everything–including a2dp–is indeed working perfectly on my windows server 2008 r2 laptop workstation without using a usb dongle or proprietary software. not sure why the cmd script didn’t override the [uninstalled but still on the hard drive] old drivers when run as an administrator, but i’m not complaining now that i finally got it worked. out.

thanks!

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