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iPhone Tethering Cannot Install Driver for Bluetooth Peripheral Device

Posted on September 22, 2009 10:09 PM

Initial symptom:  After pairing an iPhone using Bluetooth, Windows 7 would show the phone icon with a yellow exclamation point stating it could not find a driver for Bluetooth Peripheral Device. 

To fix this and get tethering to work over Bluetooth, go to the properties of the phone in the Bluetooth devices and click on Services tab.  Uncheck “Wireless iAP” (wireless internet access point).  Windows will stop saying that it needs a driver and you can right click on the phone and select “connect using -> access point”.

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Comment by Herry Chris

October 21, 2009 10:31 PM

Thank you for the helpful guidance. Now the internet tethering works perfectly. Smile

Comment by Laurent Vézina

October 25, 2009 9:48 PM

Thanks very much for the help, it worked like a charm! :d

Comment by C Young

November 3, 2009 6:32 PM

Worked for me as well - thanks!!!

Comment by Asilado

December 4, 2009 9:52 PM

Excellent! Thanks a lot...

Comment by shalom

January 4, 2010 3:21 PM

thank you so much, after 18hrs of brain frying, I stumble on your post, and now everything working great.

Comment by Michelle

January 19, 2010 10:15 PM

Doesn't work! I did exactly what you all did, but I keep getting this error message:

"The connection with the Bluetooth network device failed. The device may already be connected to another computer, or it may need to be configured to accept connections from this computer. Consult your device documentation for futher information."

I am definitely not connected to another computer, or any other device for that matter with my iphone. Any suggestions?

Comment by Jonatan

January 20, 2010 1:09 PM

Got the same problem. Make sure that tethering is turned on in the iphone and try to connect again. This solved the problem for me.

Comment by Raheel

January 21, 2010 6:58 PM

Thank you so much, now its working.

Comment by mht

January 25, 2010 9:23 AM

i did the above but i keep getting the message that windows 7 cannot find iphone driver to install. Never had this problem before upgrading from windows xp professional

Comment by hamed

February 15, 2010 9:14 AM

thx worked nice

Comment by The_spartans

February 21, 2010 7:59 PM

Having the same issue, this does not fix it on wondows 7.

Comment by DoubleSpeed

February 25, 2010 1:36 AM

Fantastic fixed the issue on my Windows 7 machine grat thanks!

Comment by Ozcan

February 27, 2010 10:05 AM

Thank u so much. It worked with this solution...

Comment by Chris

March 3, 2010 10:01 AM

This does not work for my i-pod touch.
The yellow exclamation point disappears and it does stop asking for a driver but I don't have the 'Connect using..' option, just short-cut/troubleshoot/remove/properties..

Comment by Silva

March 11, 2010 2:49 AM

Perfect!!! works great on windows 7

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