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    Lenovo X220 Bluetooth not working ?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by amol0010, Jun 2, 2011.

  1. amol0010

    amol0010 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Things I did to resolve this :

    -reformatted the drive to factory settings with the recovery partition
    -tried the FN+f5 thing
    - installed access connections module in thinkpad toolbox
    - started bluetooth services from the services module
    - tried reinstalling the drivers but the drivers say that there is no BT module present.


    this is on a brand new laptop I got recently, and yeah, I did order BT 3.0 with it.

    What's the problem?
     
    amol0010, Jun 2, 2011
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  2. Colonel O'Neill

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    Is it disabled in BIOS?
     
    Colonel O'Neill, Jun 3, 2011
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  3. amol0010

    amol0010 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the reply, but it looks like its enabled.

    I also did upgrde the bios to the latest version 1.06.
     
    amol0010, Jun 3, 2011
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    Seems like an obvious question for technical support. That's what they are there for.
     
    david1274, Jun 3, 2011
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    Is there a bluetooth light? If not, it doesn't have the module.

    If it is there, is it green? If not, check the physical switch on the laptop for wireless radios.
     
    bogatyr, Jun 3, 2011
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    ha, I asked this to my sales men, as I ran into the same thing ... Fn + F5 should bring up the pop up...and you have to enable bluetooth.

    ALL I had installed was the hotkey stuff for lenovo, and the battery monitor.
     
    vivithemage, Jun 3, 2011
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  7. amol0010

    amol0010 Notebook Enthusiast

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    The bluetooth module was loose and wasn't seated correctly on the connector.

    I had to open the laptop and fix it myself.

    Tried calling the tech support and they said I will need to send it back to them and they will order a new machine which would've taken another 20 days.

    When I told them that you could just open this machine up and put in a bluetooth module, they refused to do that. duh..so went ahead and opened the machine up myself and seated the BT module in its place.

    Works fine now.
     
    amol0010, Jun 3, 2011
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  8. be91proactive

    be91proactive Newbie

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    I went through the same sequence with Lenovo support. They wanted me to send it in and wait. That sounds like a lot of time so I said no thanks. I have drivers but they don't install because they don't find the device. It has worked fine, but has become intermittent, then stopped completely. Sounds like a loose connection to me. I don't go into laptops often. Can you tell me how to reconnect the BlueTooth hardware, assuming that is the problem? Is there a video on youtube? If I knew what I was looking for, I'd do it now. I've also got a Thinkpad X220.

    You're help would be appreciated.
     
    be91proactive, May 9, 2012
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  9. takeabyte

    takeabyte Notebook Evangelist

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    Videos for removing/replacing components:

    Service Videos
     
    takeabyte, May 9, 2012
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