iPhone Tethering Cannot Install Driver for Bluetooth Peripheral Device

Comment by Herry Chris

October 21, 2009 10:31 PM

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

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

Comment by bimbanil

March 15, 2010 2:31 PM

worked great on windows 7 thx

Comment by virgil

March 16, 2010 11:00 PM

worked perfect for me! thanks! window 7 64 bit on vaio

Comment by Claud

March 18, 2010 1:46 PM

After many tries I cannot make it work on my computer with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. No other advice?

Comment by raymond

April 14, 2010 9:16 PM

so ive unchecked the wireless ip box and it searches the bluetooth for something then says element not found.

Comment by Jason

May 3, 2010 12:44 AM

Man you rock. Im about to fly on business and wanted to take my netbook with me. This will save me so much hassle when i try to stay connected. Thank you so much for this simple solution to an anoying problem

Comment by Alex

May 7, 2010 10:32 PM

i have the same problem as Michelle hope someone can figure out what is the problem

Comment by Drew Jones

May 18, 2010 3:31 AM

Thanks for this, it was bugging me beyond belief..
iPhone tethering now working over bluetooth on windows 7.

Comment by Sean

May 18, 2010 9:24 AM

Thanks man....worked a treat

Comment by Bin-Jumah

May 24, 2010 11:45 PM

Thank you

Comment by Jan

June 7, 2010 5:12 PM

Thanks for the helpful advise!

Comment by Jason

June 8, 2010 1:55 AM

I keep getting a message when connecting using an access point: "An unexpected error occurred. Please contact your system administrator."

I am the admin of the computer. It's Windows 7 32 bit (notebook)



I unticked the Wireless iAP too.

Comment by Bernardo

June 11, 2010 6:07 PM

Michelle, Alex and Jason:
Turn tethering on go to the bluetooth tab on the iPhone and click on your pc name and then click on “connect using -> access point”. This worked for me

Comment by Macca

June 24, 2010 8:50 AM

Respect Brother... worked a charm.. for those peopel having trouble. unistall iphone form pc and pc from iphone.. then do a search for devices then add device again do the code thing then do as discribed here..

Comment by Sam

July 3, 2010 1:30 AM

Awesome tips! Though it still worked without doing this, but I hate those yellow exclamation marks. Thanks so much!

Comment by dennistio

July 6, 2010 6:56 AM

it works for me via bluetooth connection.i kept allowing the computer search for the drivers till frustrated, lucky got u. thanks lot man.

Comment by jul

July 22, 2010 9:22 PM

thank u ...worked a charm

Comment by CGlover

August 2, 2010 2:28 PM

This works for me on Win 7 64bit _but_ you must be in Internet tethering on the iPhone before you do the connect access point thing. Took me a while to figure it out.

Comment by shampD

August 7, 2010 3:00 PM

I dont want to tether the internet, i'm looking for my windows 7 and my iphone to connect via bluetooth for transfers, etc. is this possible?

Comment by MicLinc Yip

August 13, 2010 8:07 AM

Thanks a lot for the tips.

It also works on iphone 4 with Win 7 64 bit.

But the bluetooth connection speed is only 1Mbps, not 7.2Mbps as was advised by salesman of the service provider. Is the speed normal or is there other tips to boost the speed.

Like shampD, I'm also interested in doing iTunes transfers over bluetooth. Is it possible ?

Comment by Steve

August 15, 2010 7:06 AM

cheers for that. make sure you have tethering on when you try.

Comment by read4liberty

August 18, 2010 4:25 AM

help like this saves us from wasting more time figuring things out. thanx a mill

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August 24, 2010 7:52 PM

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Comment by Caetano

August 31, 2010 5:37 PM

It worked!! thx a lot =D