why my bold 2 failed to pair with windows7

You are setting up your modem?

Have you set your BB bluetooth enabled, discoverable = yes ?

Go to Option -> Bluetooth , press BB logo button, scroll to options, set Discoverable to yes, then only your PC can detect your BB.

Hope it helps.

Just wondering he is using Desktop Manager 5/6 and using Windows 7, 32Bit/64Bit??

BLUETOOTH Driver Fix Windows 7 64-bit and Blackberry DTM

Manually load the extra two PORTS by choosing from a list of drivers.

Find the 2 problem drivers-missing entries in your Bluetooth devices list, right click on the first one, choose UPDATE DRIVER SOFTWARE. Then choose Browse My Computer, then Lets Pick From a List of Device Drivers. Scroll down till you see PORTS, then choose Rim Virtual Serial Port v2 and click Apply.

You'll get a warning message from windows 7, ignore this choose OK or apply and load the driver. It will report the device is set up correctly.

REPEAT this process 1 more time for the 2nd problem child bluetooth device that is missing the driver.

Then pair up your Blackberry with your laptop. Don't forget to REMOVE your laptop or PC from the blackberry list of paired bluetooth devices and then pair it all over again now that you've fixed the drivers on the pc/laptop side of things in Windows 7 by adding those two ports that were missing (assuming you're upgrading to Windows 7 and having problems where you can't sync with Outlook and your Blackberry using BLUETOOTH.

This post has been edited by dicksonbell: Oct 14 2010, 11:06 AM

I notice tethering with BT really sucks the juice out of the battery. Anyone?

When tether it will charged the battery at the same time..

ya unless u r tethering by using USD and not via Bluetooth

Bluetooth is not recommend for tethering as line not stable..

Ya bluetooth connection is slow and unreliable. I prefer using USB to tether.

USB with Desktop Manager 6 is always the best choice for tethering..

Yeah, I agree with USB with latest BDM over BT, I created this thread as the earlier version of BDM did not support tethering.

If you are using bluetooth tethering, I always charged my BB (using its charger not USB) while tethering, the connection speed quite stable, I always use it when I am back to hometown.

My connection speed download is around 1.2Mbps, upload is around 0.4Mbps.

Agree. I had no issues tethering with BDM 6. Plug n play. I avoid bluetooth tethering as it sucks my BB battery and also notebook battery.

That the reason why I choose USB rather than Bluetooth..

USB is the best stable way to go.

As I mentioned earlier, the earlier version of BDM (4.x.x) did not support USB tethering, it's lot of hard work need to do your config your PC/Mac setup, that's why I started this thread and asked for pinned.

Now, it's pretty easy with new BDM for PC on USB tethering, I hope BDM for Mac will come up with USB tethering soon.

The other day got a forumer ask about Mac tethering, i think I already answer in that topic, need to search for it again..

Ya it was answered already.

I will search for it.. Give me some time..

Thanks.

You are welcome "rattan"