Why is Windows 10 Bluetooth so so so bad ?

Anonymous
2020-03-30T19:38:06+00:00

I am sick of connecting through Bluetooth on my Windows 10

  1. Disconnects automatically randomly
  2. Bluetooth is on but can't connect to the device because it tells that your bluetooth is off.
  3. Devices appear when bluetooth is toggled off, disappear when toggled on.
  4. Nothing happens no matter what you try. The only solution is to restart your device.
  5. After restarting, works for some time. Then randomly ... (please start from point 1 again).

I am so sick of this happening everytime. How can it be so bad? Is Microsoft doing absolutely nothing to fix this.

It makes me want to throw my laptop and pull out my hair. Then I remember, how stupid of me. This has got to do with my Windows, software. How will throwing my laptop help. And then I remember again; if it's a software - it can be fixed! Fix it please!! You made such a huge operating system, you can maybe fix a bluetooth.

PS - I'll check this thread later. I need to restart my system again, need to connect to bluetooth

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-01-26T22:33:17+00:00

    Windows Bluetooth really really really really sucks. If you want to use Bluetooth use a Mac. Otherwise use wired headphones.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-01-25T16:47:05+00:00

    Same issues, just hopping on the wagon. And why is the UI so bad on top of all of that? I have to navigate through multiple menus to accomplish the complex task of....connecting my headphones. Why should I have to go to settings to do more than turn the BT on and off? you've already accomplished making a menu from the right click....just display most used devices there.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-12-16T12:41:50+00:00

    > Apparently you need a degree in IT

    Does not help. I am M.Sc CSE -- I have the same poor sound as the rest. The mouse connected thru BT works -I guess I am lucky

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-12-16T07:37:50+00:00

    It is absolutely terrible. I spend an hour last night to jump thru hoops, run around the block, swear, etc and finally got it working again. Just to find out this morning that again it is not working. This has happened a number of times already. Apparently you need a degree in IT to operate a system that you paid for that should be user friendly, but clearly it is just a load of ****. I strongly feel that I will be moving away from windows in the future with my next laptop purchase. I refuse to pay people to annoy me and cause random frustration. This has been a problem for years now, and clearly Microsoft could not care to address the matter what so ever. No customer satisfaction considerations from Microsoft. Absolutely terrible. I wish there was a rating system for operating systems, then the true uselessness of Microsoft will be open for everyone to see, and will either get people to move to a operating system that does not go out of its way to sour your live, waste your time and money, or if hell freezes over, maybe Microsoft will decide to attend to problems instead of just ignoring their customers complaints.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-11-20T23:20:46+00:00

    Frankly, at this point we should realize Microsoft doesn't care about this issue and will most definitely use the windows 10 bluetooth issues as a selling point for windows 11. I've made a list of things the developers forgot how to do that worked seamlessly in windows 7...

    1 anything related to bluetooth with a non-microsoft product (even then it's sketchy)

    2 connect and utilize more than a single network connection at a time

    3 have sound from one application output to more than one audio output

    4 manage multiple graphics adapters

    5 retain settings from one update to the next

    6 still haven't managed to understand that edge is a PoS and will never replace Chrome

    7 security keys...there was an update this year that broke them forcing the use of "windows security" to manage them instead of expensive dedicated software built specifically for that purpose

    My personal issue with bluetooth is that the first time I connect a device it works perfectly...but after an indeterminate amount of time windows disconnects and will never reconnect. The error I get is "We didn't get any response from the device. Try connecting again." and that's where the bluetooth functionality ends. My android device has never had an issue with bluetooth nor has my Windows 7 device...same peripherals just Windows 10 is the issue

    Maybe one day I'll make the full switch to linux...cause Windows is making it obvious they don't care about fixing anything.

    It's been 20 months since this thread was created and windows solution is and will forever be "turn it off and turn it back on"...how about you just turn Microsoft off and...that's it...accept that it's a failed product now

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