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    Pairing Motorola S9 HD headphones with XP

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by jparekh, Mar 26, 2012.

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    I am trying to make my Motorola S9 HD bluetooth headphones work on my Dell Inspiron 1525 running Windows XP SP3. My generic blue tooth dongle came without any software or drivers. I first tried the native XP blue tooth stack which did not work at all. I have since tried the Toshiba stack and the Widcomm stack. Toshiba produced sound (of dubious quality) but did not recognize the headphone mic. Indeed, while watching youtube online, I discovered that the audio and video were not in sync. The Widcomm stack does not even find the headphones. Lastly, the BlueSoleil stack produced sound and the mic seems to work, however, the sound quality is terrible. I have a trial version of the BlueSoleil software that limits me to 2MB transfers, hence, I am unable to experiment much.

    I hear Windows 7 offers better blue tooth audio support but I am not quite ready to move to 7 as I am uncertain if some of my current software will work on it. If anyone can offer solutions, I would be most obliged. I have emailed Motorola, but not heard back yet.

    I reviewed the following discussion, however, it relates to using the S9 HD phones on Vista.

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/dell-xps-studio-xps/324998-s9-hd-pairing-help.html
     
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    Further info: my generic blue tooth dongle does support a2dp. I have been running a few tests with Bluesoleil and am able to use the headset (earphones AND mic) on a voip app (Yahoo messenger and Adepto telecom).

    I also found this forum thread interesting:
    A2dp motorola S9+windows xp - xda-developers

    One of the posters on this thread claim that they got Widcomm to work with their s9 hd headset; however, with me, Widcomm does not even find my headset. In fact, I have a blue tooth enabled mobile phone and Widcomm does not even find this. I have tried numerous versions of Widcomm (5.x, 6.x).
     
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