Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS is a Bluetooth device. This driver was developed by Qualcomm Atheros Communications. The hardware id of this driver is USB/VID_0489&PID_E04A; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Install Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS driver. The archive contains version 8.0.0001.0312 dated 2013-11-22 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is enabled please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will scan your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
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Qualcomm Atheros Communications applied a digital signature to this driver.
The file size of this driver is 273626 bytes (267.21 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.8 stars out of 50877 votes.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows Vista 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 32 bits

2. How to install Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS driver using DriverMax

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and press on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of available driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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