If you have ever tried to pair a Nokia phone with Microsoft Bluetooth Stack in Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008, what did you end up in the Device Manager? A bunch of annoying Bluetooth Peripheral Devices listed under Other devices, am I right?
How Are They Discovered at First?
To connect any device, this is the routine, you open the Bluetooth applet from Control Panel, go to the Devices tab and select “Add...”. Then turn the mobile phone’s Bluetooth on, check My device is set up and ready to be found. and click Next. After selecting a passkey and completing the pairing process, the annoyance begins, with Found New Hardware as a start. Select I don’t have the disc. Show me other options., then Browse my computer for driver software (advanced), select the Bluetooth driver folder discussed before, and click Next. The result is a page showing Windows was unable to install your Bluetooth Peripheral Device, Windows could not find the driver software for your device. Inspecting their details will show all these unknown Bluetooth Peripheral Devices are all discovered on Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator (BTHENUM).
The discovery of these unknown Bluetooth Peripheral Devices depends on the services you select for your paired cell phone. In fact if all the Bluetooth services for your cell phone are deselected, no unknown Bluetooth Peripheral Devices will be detected. To remove these services from your Bluetooth device, select a device and click Properties, inside the Services tab, deselect all the services and click OK. But before deselecting all of them, keep on reading, because there’s a chance you could install some of them successfully.
Installing Nokia PC Suite which includes Nokia Connectivity Cable Driver (known as Nokia PC Connectivity Solution in the past) will not solve the problem. The reason is because that drivers are for USB connection, and don’t include any Bluetooth INF. There’s an INF folder however (C:\Program Files\Nokia\Nokia PC Suite 7\Inf) including two INF files (nokbtmdm.inf and Nokia_Bluetooth.inf) which might help a little bit. The INF file nokbtmdm.inf (included in Nokia PC Suite) is supposed to support one of our unknown Bluetooth Peripheral Devices, the one responsible for Dial-up networking (DUN) service, but fails to start the modem. It includes the appropriate GUID (00001103-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) for each Nokia phone, but fails to start each model’s specific Bluetooth modem (Nokia N95 8GB Bluetooth Modem in my case, GUID: BTHENUM\{00001103-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb}_LOCALMFG&000a). Then I tried the less-specific Nokia Phone Bluetooth Modem Version 7.0.0.1, and it worked.
Then using the INF file mdmbtmdm.inf (Microsoft Windows Bluetooth Modem Driver Inf) discussed before, which can be found among Microsoft Bluetooth Stack driver version 6.0.6001.18000 (06/21/2006), the same device was installed as Standard Modem over Bluetooth link.
The INF file btwavdt.inf (Broadcom Bluetooth AVDT Service Installation) discussed before, which belongs to Broadcom (Widcomm) Bluetooth driver version 6.0.1.5500 (08/31/2007) contains a series of definitions which might help more than Nokia’s own INF files to install “Bluetooth Imaging Responder” and “Bluetooth SyncML”. Please note once installed, Bluetooth Imaging Responder and Bluetooth SyncML will not be shown anymore, because they’d be listed under “Bluetooth Virtual Devices”, only visible when “Show hidden devices” is selected. It also includes the definition for “Bluetooth Remote Control”, which is another virtual (hidden) device, but unfortunately it fails to start the device, reporting the error code 10.
A Detailed List of Services and Their Corresponding Devices
Service: Dial-up networking (DUN)
Device description (unknown): Bluetooth Peripheral Device
Hardware Ids: BTHENUM\{00001103-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb}_LOCALMFG&000a
Compatible Ids: BTHENUM\{00001103-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb}
INF file: mdmbtmdm.inf (Microsoft Windows Bluetooth Modem Driver Inf)
Provider (manufacturer): Microsoft
Device description (model): Standard Modem over Bluetooth link
Device class: Modem (listed under Modems)
INF file: nokbtmdm.inf (Nokia Bluetooth modem for Windows XP Home, XP Pro, XP X64)
Provider (manufacturer): Nokia
Device description (model): Nokia Phone Bluetooth Modem
Device class: Modem (listed under Modems)
Notes for utilizing Nokia PC Suite nokbtmdm.inf:
- Nokia Phone Bluetooth Modem Version 7.0.0.1 [5/22/2008] is OK.
- Nokia Phone Bluetooth Modem Version 3.8.0.0 [5/22/2008] fails.
- Nokia N95 8GB Bluetooth Modem fails.
Service: Imaging Responder
Device description (unknown): Bluetooth Peripheral Device
Hardware Ids: BTHENUM\{0000111b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb}_LOCALMFG&000a
Compatible Ids: BTHENUM\{0000111b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb}
INF file: btwavdt.inf (Broadcom Bluetooth AVDT Service Installation)
Provider (manufacturer): Broadcom Corp.
Device description (model): Bluetooth Imaging Responder
Device class: BluetoothVirtual (listed under the hidden Bluetooth Virtual Devices)
Service: SyncMLClient
Device description (unknown): Bluetooth Peripheral Device
Hardware Ids: BTHENUM\{00000002-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000002}_LOCALMFG&000a
Compatible Ids: BTHENUM\{00000002-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000002}
INF file: btwavdt.inf (Broadcom Bluetooth AVDT Service Installation)
Provider (manufacturer): Broadcom Corp.
Device description (model): Bluetooth SyncML
Device class: BluetoothVirtual (listed under the hidden Bluetooth Virtual Devices)
Service: Remote Control
Device description (unknown): Bluetooth Peripheral Device
Hardware Ids: BTHENUM\{0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb}_LOCALMFG&000a
Compatible Ids: BTHENUM\{0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb}
INF file: btwavdt.inf (Broadcom Bluetooth AVDT Service Installation)
Provider (manufacturer): Broadcom Corp.
Device description (model): Bluetooth Remote Control
Device class: BluetoothVirtual (listed under the hidden Bluetooth Virtual Devices)
This device cannot start. (Code 10) Deselect the service.
Service: Nokia OBEX PC Suite Services
Device description (unknown): Bluetooth Peripheral Device
Hardware Ids: BTHENUM\{00005005-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000001}_LOCALMFG&000a
Compatible Ids: BTHENUM\{00005005-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000001}
Cannot be installed. Deselect the service.
Service: Nokia SyncML Server
Device description (unknown): Bluetooth Peripheral Device
Hardware Ids: BTHENUM\{00005601-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000001}_LOCALMFG&000a
Compatible Ids: BTHENUM\{00005601-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000001}
Cannot be installed. Deselect the service.
Service: SyncML DM Client
Device description (unknown): Bluetooth Peripheral Device
Hardware Ids: BTHENUM\{00000004-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000002}_LOCALMFG&000a
Compatible Ids: BTHENUM\{00000004-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000002}
Cannot be installed. Deselect the service.
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