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

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Devices and drivers

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-03-13T11:23:37+00:00

    I recently upgraded my cpu and mobo, the mobo includes a new version of Bluetooth. windows, kindly as it is, reminded what Bluetooth devices I had connected. but you're mistaking if you think they still work! I couldn't just remove them with the **** windows setting program they try to force you trough your nose. every time I try to remove one it says "failed to remove". So I tried my dear old friend control panel and scrolled a long time through my device manager list and tried to delete all evidence of Bluetooth connected devices. sadly I still haven't found the drivers for my cadmouse and thus cannot use it...

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-22T08:05:21+00:00

    I have the same experience.

    Cannot get my Sennheiser PXC 550 headset to work with high quality on Windows 10 w/o a cable.

    Over BT on  W10 the sound quality is really bad.

    Works flawlessly over BT to my Android 9 phone.

    Would love to have decent tools to troubleshoot.

    I believe the root cause is driver on Windows 10 but cannot tell for sure.

    For business reasons I have not switched to use Linux my main platform for laptops. Not yet.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-30T10:04:09+00:00

    Bluetooth hasn't worked properly on Windows for a long time. When I had Windows 7, I could connect bluetooth headphones with no issue. After upgrading to Windows 10, the connection is unreliable and drops, the audio stutters constantly and the whole experience is just frustrating to say the least! And it definitely is the OS because I tried installing Linux on the same hardware and bluetooth works perfectly! I also have a Windows 10 laptop, and again I can't use bluetooth headphones with it because if I move more than a few centimeters from the laptop the headphones disconnect.

    Microsoft, why hasn't this been fixed? It's been years and years and years. It's truly pathetic.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-03-30T21:41:56+00:00

    Same here. My laptop loses my Bluetooth mouse and keyboard every few weeks. The toggle in settings has disappeared so I can’t switch it back on. Sometimes I can get it back by updating drivers and sometimes that doesn’t work so I have to reset the laptop and reinstall windows. Ridiculous. 

    I only use windows for work because I have to. I’ve used Apple for 15 years and never had Bluetooth issues. Never dropped connections to mouse, trackpad or keyboard- or anything else for that matter. 

    The fact Microsoft haven’t sorted it just reinforces my view that windows is rubbish.

    One person said you have to learn how to use it.... it’s Bluetooth! for every other manufacturer it just works. Why should we have to find work arounds just to use a mouse!!!

    I’m sick of it so I’m going to go back to the old wired options! Microsoft a modern company....lol

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