Driver for Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 - downloading and installing it

Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 is a Bluetooth hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by Qualcomm Atheros Communications. The hardware id of this driver is USB/VID_0930&PID_0220.

1. Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 driver - how to install it manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 driver. The archive contains version 8.0.0001.0306 dated 2013-09-18 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is running please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will analyze your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed by Qualcomm Atheros Communications.
Driver file size: 320363 bytes (312.85 KB)
Driver rating 4.6 stars out of 85298 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows Vista 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. Installing the Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 driver using DriverMax: the easy way

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install 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 follow a few steps!

1. Open 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 detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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