Qualcomm Atheros Communications General Bluetooth Device - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

General Bluetooth Device is a Bluetooth device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Qualcomm Atheros Communications. The hardware id of this driver is USB/VID_0CF3&PID_E021; this string has to match your hardware.

1. How to manually install Qualcomm Atheros Communications General Bluetooth Device driver

1. Download the driver setup file for Qualcomm Atheros Communications General Bluetooth Device driver from the location below. This download link is for the driver version 8.0.0000.0228 released on 2013-05-23.
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3. Run the driver installation file from a Windows account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is running then you will have to accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver installation wizard, which should be pretty straightforward. The driver installation wizard will scan your PC for compatible devices and will install the driver.
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7. Shutdown and restart your PC and enjoy the updated driver, as you can see it was quite smple.
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This driver is not digitally signed.

This driver received an average rating of 3.4 stars out of 22873 votes.

2. Using DriverMax to install Qualcomm Atheros Communications General Bluetooth Device driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Start DriverMax and press on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Qualcomm Atheros Communications General Bluetooth Device driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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