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

Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 is a Bluetooth hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Qualcomm Atheros Communications. The hardware id of this driver is USB/VID_13D3&PID_3402; this string has to match your hardware.

1. How to manually install Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 driver

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 8.0.0001.0326 dated 2014-06-12 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 running please accept 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 quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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2. How to install Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 driver using DriverMax

The most important 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, not just this one. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Start DriverMax and press on the yellow button named ~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 locate the Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Enjoy using the updated driver! :)
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