W7J Bluetooth Dropout - Potential Fix

Some people, including myself, have been experiencing random dropouts with our bluetooth mice. Turns out, there may be a fix.

The drivers provided by Asus are somewhat old (an entire software generation behind, actually). Do a google for Widcomm driver version 5.1.0.1100, which is the latest available. Unzip it to a directory on your harddrive.

Download WidcommLicensePatcher (latest is version 1.7), and use it to patch the license.dat file for the 5.1.0.1100 drivers. It just adds the device id of the USB bluetooth device in the W7J, so that it will install correctly.

Uninstall the current Asus bluetooth drivers, and reboot the system.

Install the updated drivers, then reboot again.

I installed these on Monday, and haven't experienced any dropouts yet. With the previous drivers, I generally experienced a connection loss that required me to run the Bluetooth device setup again every 2-3 days.

Hope this helps, until Asus gets around to releasing some updated drivers.

 

Thanks Burn! I will try this soon. Hopefully Asus will respond to my only other problem with the W7j being the external mointor output is buggy.
I contacted them 2 days ago, still waiting.