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 hardware device. The developer of this driver was Qualcomm Atheros Communications. USB/VID_0CF3&PID_3004 is the matching hardware id of this device.

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

1. Download the setup file for Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS driver from the location below. This is the download link for the driver version 8.0.1.315 dated 2014-01-02.
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3. Run the driver setup file from a Windows account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control (UAC) is started then you will have to accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which should be quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will analyze your PC for compatible devices and will install the driver.
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7. Shutdown and restart your computer and enjoy the new driver, it is as simple as that.
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Qualcomm Atheros Communications applied a digital signature to this driver.
Download size of the driver: 789826 bytes (771.31 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.3 stars out of 17341 votes.
This driver was released for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 32 bits
• 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. The easy way: using DriverMax to install Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS driver

The most important 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. How easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Open DriverMax and push on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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