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blue in the tooth
Monday, March 3rd, 2014 12:10 amWhen Bluetooth works like it should, it's great. When it doesn't, it's so much dang easier to just plug in a cable.
Like on my laptop. Couldn't ever get my old Rocketfish Bluetooth adapter to work, so I recently bought a different kind. Yesterday I installed it and it worked fine. Today, it wouldn't work even after disabling and re-enabling it, and after uninstalling and reinstalling it. The icon doesn't show up in the notification area like it did yesterday. Maybe if I unplug the adapter and reboot, then it will work again. [Nope, still didn't work.]
Like on Qiao's Win8 computer. To get the Bluetooth speaker to work a 2nd time, have to remove the device and add it back again, on the appropriate screen. No option to simply reconnect. Not even an option to disconnect, if I remember right. That seems more a design flaw with the O/S, than with the hardware... Ok, there actually is a way of doing it from the Playback Devices panel rather than the Bluetooth devices screen. But that only works for speakers & headphones, not for other kinds of Bluetooth devices.
Like on my laptop. Couldn't ever get my old Rocketfish Bluetooth adapter to work, so I recently bought a different kind. Yesterday I installed it and it worked fine. Today, it wouldn't work even after disabling and re-enabling it, and after uninstalling and reinstalling it. The icon doesn't show up in the notification area like it did yesterday. Maybe if I unplug the adapter and reboot, then it will work again. [Nope, still didn't work.]
Like on Qiao's Win8 computer. To get the Bluetooth speaker to work a 2nd time, have to remove the device and add it back again, on the appropriate screen. No option to simply reconnect. Not even an option to disconnect, if I remember right. That seems more a design flaw with the O/S, than with the hardware... Ok, there actually is a way of doing it from the Playback Devices panel rather than the Bluetooth devices screen. But that only works for speakers & headphones, not for other kinds of Bluetooth devices.