Official Sony Vaio Fit multi-flip PC Owners' Thread

Hi xuantran,

I don't know if anything can be done in your case, someone else may have ideas. After reading many-many unsatisfied Flip users who game, I can't help but comment on this situation, again : a) ultrabooks are not designed for gaming. Some light gaming sure, but the hardware is optimized for battery life, not performance, and b) I believe the Sony team in charge of creating the Flips didn't do enough testing with the nVidia card configurations, allowing machines to be sold that could not perform as customers expected. Bad judgement, project rushed to production, probable lack of strong leadership within the team, etc...

Selling Flips with Core i7s and 2GB graphics cards sent a strong message from a marketing point of vue. Unfortunately, a wrong message for those expecting gaming hardware. This is partly why Sony got rid of the VAIO division I'm sure...

 

Hi Mark,
thanks for your post. Yes, of course is all right what you have said. My purpose is not to game all the time too, but I would really like to play just one game like FIFA in my freetime.
I just think there must be a way to lock the graphic card on its most powerfull state (P0) since my laptop never goes through 75 °C. I am on the way to look for a programm that will help me do this. Maybe there is someone here, who 's already succeeded to do this. Otherwise I will continue to do it myself.

Best regards,

 

The Flip is a special case so please don't equalize price with CPU/GPU performance alone.

Here's why you pay more than for a traditional laptop:
- Hybrid design with a unique display flip design (not many in 15"!)
- Touchscreen & Digitizer
- Additional graphics chip (even though NOT a high-performance part! No offense, but: You could have checked before purchase...)
- Sony brand
- Vaio brand (and its not one of the lower Vaio models, too)

Also price-related:
- Sleek ultrabook design (many laptops are now ultrabooks but a year ago the trend really took off)
- Case construction using aluminium (you still won't find that in very cheap notebooks)

And then there are the even more expensive Flip variants:
- 15" hi-dpi IPS LCD ("3K")
- Core i7 CPU (overpriced for the performance plus, especially as it is a dual core CPU)

In other words:
In late 2013, early 2014 you had exactly three choices for 1.000 Euros when wanting a 15" machine:
- Purchase a hybrid Vaio Flip
- Purchase a hybrid Acer R7
- Purchase a traditional Windows-based notebook without hybrid design but with better CPU/GPU performance
- Purchase a used Mac Powerbook

And if it's some comfort for you:
I got the most expensive 15" Flip version and put a 1TB SSD in it for a combined cost of just under 2.000 Euros... ;-)
Some people would blame me for not buying a Powerbook but that wouldn't have gotten me a notebook/tablet hybrid with digitizer, wouldn't it?

 

I updated the synpatics driver to the most current one on the synapatics website. I had to change the windows settings to be able to install an unsigned driver, to be able to do this. The newer driver enables four finger gestures, but unfortunately it seems to break three finger flick. Has anyone else ran into this problem/have a solution? Thanks!

 

I actually have this problem and have been firing it up via Assist Button. I will report back in a few days incase the update does not fix the Powerbutton.
Many thanks for the Info.

 

Has anybody been able to get three finger flick and four finger swipe working at the same time?

 

Hi there erajsalman,

My daughter has the Flip now so I won't be of much help in that department. However, you should know - if you don't already - that the touch layer on the Flips are N-Trig, not Sony or anybody else's. The touch gestures are driven by N-Trig. I am not familiar with how the N-Trig layer works, if there are options or updates for the drivers...

Sorry I can't help more. Perhapas you could contact N-Trig support via their website and ask them directly :
Contact N-trig Support - N-trig

Cheers,

 

Thanks for the help! I'm actually talking about the touchpad, which is manufactured by synaptics. You are correct in saying the touch panel on the screen in an N-Trig.

 

Hi xuantran,

The GPU voltage (VDDC) is locked in the P8 state to around 0.8180V - 0.8250V. Setting the clocks too high at the P8 state will cause system instability hence a crash/BSOD.You will need to identify the maximum GPU Core Clock at the P8 state. My machine went all the way up to GPU Core Clock of 745MHz. Below is the batch setting I'm using for my machine:

C:\Downloads\nvidiaInspector\nvidiaInspector.exe -setMemoryClockOffset:0,0,144
C:\Downloads\nvidiaInspector\nvidiaInspector.exe -setGpuClock:0,1,745 -setMemoryClock:0,1,1000
C:\Downloads\nvidiaInspector\nvidiaInspector.exe -setGpuClock:0,0,745 -setMemoryClock:0,0,1000
C:\Downloads\nvidiaInspector\nvidiaInspector.exe -forcepstate:0,5

You'll notice that I've also increased my memory clock and limited myself to the P5 state. Since I prefer consistent performance, I never use my P0 state. Increasing the memory clock was intended to increase my memory bandwidth to get as much performance as possible when gaming. Unfortunately, I haven't found a stable way to get the P8 state clocks as high as the P0 state.

I'm also using Intel XTU to undervolt my CPU by -70mV. Again, results will vary, I found this to be the most stable for my system.

As always, overclock responsibly. Don't blame me if you set your laptop on fire. Attempt at your own risk. Best of luck.

EDIT: If anyone out there has successfully modded their BIOS and/or vBIOS then this throttling issue can be eliminated rather easily. I'm sure there are hidden settings in the BIOS that will allow changes to be made to the throttling profile. I was also able to extract and customize the vBIOS but I've been unsuccessful in flashing it. The vBIOS is embedded in the BIOS and making changes to it will make the BIOS file un-flashable. I believe the BIOS needs to be signed before use and altering it will cause it to fail verification.

 

Ah. Insert big [facepalm smiley] here. I was low on caffeine : that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it

Sorry about that. I'll repeat your earlier question just in case somebody has missed it and might know : can three finger flick and four finger swipe be activated at the same time on a Flip's touchpad ?
Thanks.

 

Hello all, new flip 15 owner, followed alot of stuff about this convertible and finally, once I found the one I wanted pulled the trigger on it. I was wondering if someone could tell me how to know if my 1tb SSHD is actually working and utilizing the 16gb nand flash. When I look in My Computer I only see the one C: drive. Just trying to make sure it is working because I got the laptop off Fleabay and was told it was new without box, but am having doubts about that now. Any help would be great, thanks

 

It is working as designed assuming the 1TB Hybrid SSD wasn't replaced with a regular 1TB HDD. There will only be one drive (C) and not what I think you are expecting (16GB NAND OS Drive C: + 1TB D). You can always check the model of the drive to see if it's a SSHD or not. If you still have doubts, open it up and see for yourself. I don't know of any other way to verify if it is a SSHD in software other than rebooting your computer multiple times (with fast boot disabled) and checking to see if the boot times are reduced.

See here to see how hybrid drives work: Hybrid drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Right click on the drive in Explorer, choose properties and go to the Hardware tab. Find the model number and search it up.

 

Thanks for the info. I did look it up, and it is the wd10s12x-55jtet0 which is a WD hybrid drive. The only problem I see tho is that the info I have seen states that the drive needs a WD Boost program and that it will eat around 2gb of RAM because of a driver leak problem. The thing is my Flip doesn't seem to have WD boost on it and it also doesn't have the RAM problem. So I went to WD site and downloaded their Boost software and it gives me an error and wont install. I have the SVF15N18PXB which has 16gb RAM so I am not too worried about the memory consumption. I just want the benefit of the SSD. Still doing more research on this issue, but if anyone has any more info please chime in.

 

I only had the hybrid drive installed for a few days until I installed an SSD and got rid of the necessary driver software but I think the driver for the WD hybrid drive was installed as a system service.

I strongly suspect that you already have this driver installed as it should be by default in your configuration and the installation error could be pointing to this, too.

You should open the Windows services utility and search the running services if there is anything by "Western Digital" or "WD". If you find something and it is indeed running you'll have found the confirmation that the drive is being used as it should.

And if the driver/service is running but you don't notice a speed increase after a few days of regular usage you will likely have hit the limit of what the "mini-SSD" can do for you.

According to the benchmarks I saw you may get quicker boot times but as you can't control what the driver will put into this mini-SSD (it works automatically and is transparent to the system) the overall acceleration is pretty much hit & miss.
Still better than no SSD of course but if you are really after a performance increase you should swap the drive for a real SSD.

 

I think that getting an actual SSD will do me better. Was just hoping not void the warranty so soon after getting it LOL. @Calibrator What was the necessary driver software you got rid of, and how did you do it? Also did you clone your drive or do a fresh install?

 

That's great job mister! Thanks for the research. I will try these on my system.
There is that magic in the way today's PCs work. I had Sony Vaio F11M1E (4 years old now) and I could swear that it had similar performance in games as my new Vaio Flip 15 with GT735

I've been thinking about removing the throttle threshold as well - this must be a hidden setting somewhere in BIOS, unavailable for the user. Since my laptop barely gets warm while gaming, it throttles even on simple game like Duel of Champions (trading card game) after an hour of playing... which is very disappointing.

I've been also thinking about installing OSX Yosemite on the Flip (windows 8.1 drives me crazy!), but I'm almost sure I will lose the touchscreen functionality. The rest should work just fine since our Flips use the same chipset as previous Apple's Macbooks.

Also I find the Flip's keyboard very uncomfortable

 

You actually don't need to get rid of (= deinstall) the driver software if it works as a system service. You then only stop and disable it.
I suspect that if you swap the hybrid drive with an SSD the driver will cease to work anyway as it won't find the hybrid drive anymore.
But better safe than sorry: Just disable the system service and everything should be fine.

As for the SSD: I got a Samsung EVO 840 for which a working cloning software is available from Samsung.
It didn't clone the recovery partition, though, which I discovered when it was too late but it doesn't bother me much as I would've gotten rid of it anyway (because of the precious space on an SSD).
To rapidly clone a drive with the Flip you need a USB3-to-SATA adaptor which I already had and the cloning process took about 15 minutes (the harddrive was pretty much empty besides the OS and the bloatware).

Given all that my recommendation for you therefore would be to create recovery media with the current harddrive on an USB2-stick (don't use USB3 sticks for this!), then swap the drive with the SSD and then reinstall the system from the recovery media.
That way you also make sure that your recovery media actually is in working condition.

For recommendations which USB stick to use and details on the process you can search this thread as people have described it several times by now.
Also make sure you read up on how to open up the Flip and replace the harddrive!

Good luck!

 

Right on, I already did the recovery USB from the Flips original state(before Win 8.1 upgrade and such) You think I should redo the recovery USB to use the newer updated system? Wondering too if replacing the SSHD with an SSD will have an increase in my battery life? I'm only getting around 4 hours of battery time.

 

i have 1tb with 16gb cache but accidently deleted all partition and i only have drive C:\ ,can someone please help me to get my cache drive back?

 

No - you would waste your time!
The recovery media is the data from the hidden recovery partition on the harddrive - and NOT the C-partition where your (updated) Windows installation resides!
In other words: When you updated to Windows 8.1 you did NOT update the recovery partition - it still contains the Win8-based system installation that gives you a "factory reset" if you start the process.

There may be a slight increase in running time (some people claim half an hour) but contrary to common belief modern SSDs are not energy saving wonders compared to modern harddisks like the hybrid drive that came in your Flip. You can compare the wattages for idle drives and active drives (reading or writing data) to see that they aren't that far apart.

But if you see an increase in running time - say, 10 minutes - then it comes from the fact that the SSD has finished its task (data reading or writing) quicker and it spends more time in an idle state.

The SSD speed advantage varies depending on what data you read (a single big file like a movie or many small files) and how you read it (continuous ("sequential") access like with a movie or irregular ("random") access like database entries or the Windows boot process).
Everything that results on many harddisk head movements (randomly accessing many small files or data sectors) will give you a benefit if you install an SSD. If you mostly watch videos you won't get the same speed increase and therefore not the same energy savings.

I'm only getting one and a half hour - if I run the notebook at full steam like with graphics benchmarks...
But I'm getting about six hours if I practically do nothing (only reading long texts).

In other words: Your four hours is a figure nobody can really judge. You always have to describe how the computer spends this time period.
Maybe there are other ways to increase the running time? Optimized energy settings, for example, or sacrificing a bit of CPU speed?

I would also assume that you don't always get 4 hours - because you do different stuff with your Flip and some stuff needs more energy (because it takes longer to finish).
The million Dollar question is therefore: Will you actually notice a plus of 10 minutes battery time that the SSD may give you?

But besides the massive speed increase an SSD has another big advantage compared to a classic harddrive: It is more rugged because of the fact that is has no moving parts and no drive head flying over a rotating disk surface with a distance that is so tiny that it's ridiculous.
This means that you can now move your Flip while using it - just like you would with a "normal" tablet computer.

Also, a SSD is completely silent and doesn't generate vibrations. It just feels more "comfy" to use for the lack of a better word.

So even if you don't get a massive increase in battery time you should get enough advantages to decide to replace your HDD with an SSD.

 

Can you please share the modded bios file? I managed to extract the vBios but the options to modify voltages or to set a higher throttle temperature were unavailable. Can you teach us please how you did it? I'll try to find a way to flash the bios without the signature, maybe bypass the verification? Another, more extreme way to fix this is to enlarge the air vents on the bottom and use a cooling pad... maybe some dry ice too

 

I only repacked the BIOS with the modded vBIOS using the procedure outlined here: donovan6000's Blog: Insyde BIOS Modding: GPU Overclocking

I don't remember what I could change in the vBIOS but here's the one i used: http://www.overclock.net/t/1474548/...previous-users-who-want-to-know-what-it-means

I didn't want to risk flashing my BIOS and bricking my VAIO since I haven't found a way to flash the stock BIOS in a sort of recovery mode in case of a bad flash. I took a big risk of trying to flash it anyway but decided to call it quits after it failed to flash. I've since scrapped this project and I don't have the modded BIOS file anymore.

 

Thanks you for the documentation. I'll give it a try to see if I have any luck with flashing it... Enjoy your awesome Vaio Flip!

 

To those having issues with BSOD's after exiting a game or driver crashes when overclocking the GPU in conjunction to using ThrottleStop. Go into NVIDIA Control Panel and change the preferred graphics processor as "High-performance NVIDIA processor" and power management mode to "Prefer Maximum Performance"

In addition, under program settings, add ThrottleStop to the list and make sure it's using the High-Performance NVIDIA processor.

My theory is when you get BSOD's like DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE and DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION an exception occurs with NVIDIA Optimus and the NVIDIA Inspector modifications.

Since I have a scheduled task that launches ThrottleStop on startup, it will constantly run in the background making the NVIDIA processor always active and will not let Optimus switch to the Intel GPU. Give it a shot and let me know how well this works for you.

 

Anyone else getting an extreme amount of lag when trying to pan in Zbrush using the stylus or touchscreen?
Rotating around an object is usually relatively smooth regardless of polycount unless you're in the millions. But panning at any polycount causes the laptop to almost lock up completely. It's a little better when panning with a usb mouse but the stylus/touchscreen is almost unusable at this point.

Mudbox doesn't seem to have this problem which makes me wonder if it's an issue of Zbrush not being x64 bit or if it's CPU/GPU related. Tried installing Throttlestop which doesn't seem to help at all.

EDIT: I'm working on the i7 4500U, 12GB ram, nvidia 735m, 1tb hdd

 

Quick side note: just downloaded and installed latest firmware update ("Critical" R1140DD). This then prevented my laptop from "restarting" when I needed to change display settings. So, went back to previous w/o issue. Just FYI.

 

@Calibrator thanks for all the info. Think I am going to Strip down the Recovery USB and just reinstall from that.As for time till I need to recharge, yes it does Vary. But for what I do it averages about 4 hours. Since I am going to end up opening the case anyway for the SSD was thinking of replacing the wireless card with a dual Band AC card. Only problem is I am not sure which to get that will work. Any Ideas which card is compatible?

 

This should be the card you need :
Amazon.com: Intel Network 7260.HMWG.R Revised WiFi Wireless-AC 7260 H/T Dual Band 2x2 AC+Bluetooth HMC Free Mounting Screws Included: Computers & Accessories

Interesting to note the mention * Revised* they have for this card. Revised as of September 1, 2014. I hadn't seen that before...
The model ID now contains a *R* at the end for this model (revised) : 7260.HMWG. R

 

thanks!

Will I get significantly improved reception with this card? My wireless access point at work is a good 40 feet away and covered by a door, so my signal is at 2 bars and drops every 10 minutes. I read somewhere that the poorly placed antennas in Vaios as being the reason for the patchy performance. Will this card still offer improved reception?

 

I can only guess because I haven't upgraded the wi-fi card yet myself. Some here have installed the 7260AC card so they would know more than I do.
What we do know is there have been problems with most of the 7260 line and yes, I have heard of the Flip's antenna design being a problem.

This card says *revised* but I can't find anything with substance concerning this revision. What you would definitely gain is AC compatibility, good only if you use AC access points though. As far as performance goes, perhaps other members have experience and/or opinions.

 

I just got my Flip 15 back from the warranty repair centre. When I flip it into Presentation Mode, the screen flip upside down - which is correct. When I put then put it into Tablet Mode the screen remains upside down - which is wrong. If I carefully go from Laptop Mode to Tablet Mode without flipping the screen, the screen in Tablet Mode is the right way up. I'm fairly sure I didn't have this problem before it was sent away.

Does anyone know how Tablet Mode is detected, and how to test the sensor? I tried a System Restore to the week before it was sent but it didn't change anything.

Cheers

 

Well, I replaced the Broadcom 34142 card with the Intel(R) Dual Broadcand 7260AC wireless. So far so good, will have to test it out at work tomorrow.
Weirdly, the card came with no install disc, and Windows 8.1 recognized and auto-installed the drivers after I powered the machine on. Driver version is 16.5.3.6 from 9/19/2013.

 

Wow. Just wow. So here I was, a relatively content 13A owner, when this BIOS update popped up last night. Then it got stuck for 3 hours, and since Sony's software's so buggy anyways, I thought it was just doing the usual stunt, i.e. nothing. So after 3 hours I shut the vaio down and went to sleep. This morning it tells me to reset the system due to faulty firmware. Usually I have men around who tell me not to do this sort of thing, but since I'm alone this weekend, I thought I'd rather ask you guys. What now? All my stuff is on Dropbox since I got the flip, for exactly reasons like this. Does this mean I'll be spending my weekend installing all the drivers, Win8.1 and the rest back again? Jeeze this sucks. Is there anything I can do now to make it less of a pain? Thx a lot!

 

Well, the wifi reception went from 2 bars to 4 bars at the office and can maintain it pretty well, with the Intel card in. So it wasn't simply an antenna placement issue; Sony gave us a pretty crummy card in the Broadcom. I highly recommend this Intel card to anyone thinking of upgrading. Took about 5 minutes to open the case up, swap out the cards, and put everything back together.

 

So after its swan song this morning, my Flip just sort of rose from the grave. I guess after a day of solitude it thought better of being such an idiot and decided to run on the old BIOS. The update's still in the queue, as if nothing had happened. I think I'll get it manually from the website, though, and give it another go once today's work's done. apparently it's supposed to fix a loooot of things, sounds like the update we were wishing for a year ago...

OK, so just to make sure this gets out there. The update is the R1130VA, and my SVF13N1C5E is not even listed among the supported devices... I don't really understand why VAIO Update's pushing it on me. I guess it could work with my system, but I'm less and less willing to experiment.

 

I got that BIOS update for my Flip 13 last month. It's been fine so far, although I did have a problem with my wifi driver (now resolved). I couldn't find anything about the details of the update on Sony UK, but I did find this:

What Does This Do?

This utility updates the BIOS to version R1130VA and provides the following benefits:
Reduces fan noise
Corrects an issue where the Windows® button on the computer display may not work
Corrects an issue where the computer may not power on after pressing the power button

Source; Sony eSupport - SVF13N290X - Drivers & Software

 

Yeah, that's all I could find. The second round was successful, no problems with updating this time. I haven't seen any difference either, though, so far.

 

That's great to hear, jvan01 :thumbsup:

Don't know if you read my recent posts (up a few), but I mentionned finding the "Revised" model for the dual band 7260AC card ; it has an "R" at the end of the model number. Is that the card you got ? If not, could you check with Intel if there's a firmware upgrade for your card available ? I'm not asking you to install anything, because I firmly believe in " if it ain't broke, don't fix it...", but I am curious nonetheless.

@fl0werstar : glad to hear you have the Flip back from the dead. My guess is that the Flip somehow used a recovery routine to get back to life (and to the old BIOS). Some variation of the last known good configuration in non-boot situations.

If others have comments on the new BIOS upgrades, please share

 

Yeah, that's what I thought must have happened. A friend also told me that I could plug in the BIOS image (or some such) on a USB and it would grab that in case no healthy version was found on site. But I was really glad to have it come to, it could have been a very looooong weekend...

 

Hi all,

I have now 8 gb of memory! I've added the memory yesterday and honestly my flip 15 is now much better. 4 gb on win 8 are not enough...

I hope could help someone, so I've taken some pictures of opening the flip that you can see here:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/101746339026803652243/posts/W8hdVNtdWSR

Open the laptop was relatively easy, unscrew the visible screws, then unglue the two rubber support gently shaking them till they comes out (glue still in place so easy to reinstall). Than there is the long rubber support on the base; unglue it and in my case the glue tape remains in place. Under it there are 4 screws, two at the end and two at 1/3 2/3 of the length; do not try to remove the tape, just find the screw tapping on it (when sounds empty there is a screw underneath) and brake it just locally to unscrew.

Put in place the ram module is easy, just push it in place and push it down. It is under a protective plastic film near the original module. I've brought the same module that is already installed, a Samsung ram memory 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800,1600MHz, 204 PIN SODIMM (Amazon).

Next step for me is to buy an SSD, the Crucial MX100 that can really speed up the Vaio.

Now I've to ask you something... With no apparent reason sometimes the touch screen (and pen input) switches off. To wake it up I've to go to the Device Manager, HID compliant touch screen, disable it and enable it... Not so elegant. I've all the firmware updates, the touch screen driver is the standard windows one, under the Vaio update program is all right... I really can't find the issue with it and this problem is very annoying, especially when I'm with a client showing him something and everything freezes!

PLEASE HELP!

Thanks!

 

Mark: I got the "Revised" 7260AC card, off the Amazon link that was posted upthread. But I didn't check the card's markings carefully when I got it and before I put it in the machine, sadly. And it didn't come with any documentation, just the card in a blister pack. The Intel Upgrade utility reported that a newer set of drivers was available for my card. But when I installed the updated drivers, it broke the Bluetooth functionality; so I rolled back to the original set of drivers and everything is working correctly now. Any idea what the Revised card offers over the older cards?

 

If you have the latest BIOS and drivers I can only suggest two things without taking a hardware defect into account:

a) There is a calibration program available from Sony for problems with the touchscreen. A decalibration could mean that the device doesn't seem to work any more and your solution (disconnect/reconnect) will only reset to a known value. You should download the calibration tool and try it as you can't break anything with it.
I don't have the link readily available but the tool should be available on the update page for your specific machine.

b) Another possible reason could be that the touchscreen somehow is disabled by a powersaving scheme and simply doesn't wake up just because you touch on it. The reconnect will then simply wake it up.
This problem was relatively prominent in the beginning and was fixed with a BIOS update. The so-called "spring refresh models" already came with a fixed BIOS.
The fix disables the "computer can disable the device to save energy" (or something like that) in the energy settings tab of the respective pointing device in the device manager.

You can get more information in this thread by searching the topic as this has been discussed several times.
In your place I'd first try to recalibrate the touchscreen, though.

 

@jvan01 : thanks for the follow-up. No worries. You probably have the "R" card, but I don't think it really matters since you have it working pretty well from what you've said. I tried to find info on this mysterious revision the other day, but came back empty handed. I could have another go at it and might just do that when I have free time.

That's strange about the new drivers breaking BT though. Reverting was a good move for sure.

Anyboby else out there had problems with newer Intel drivers ?

I'm not promising anything, but I'll see if I can find someting about the "R".

 

Got the 14" version of the bios update and after loading, computer would not "log off". Went back to the previous.

 

I am having the same BT problems. I hsve to uninstall/reinstall the Sony BT driver that allegedly was in the model as delivered by Sony (precise number and date of these to be supplied when I get back on the 13V and can easily link to the driver set found with my model's drivers and sftwe on sony esupport. I had updated all the Intel wireless drivers from the Intel site (seems I had a reason at the time??!!) but lost BT entirely from it. Rolled back to get BT back but now every couple of days BT device drivers are gone and all enrolled BT devices show up grayed out. I reinstall the drivers from Sony esupport and repeat every couple of days. Additional strangeness : though the BT drivers I keep re-installing are labeled "Intel Wireless Bluetooth 4.0 + HS Adapter" the drivers that show up in Device Manager are labeled : "Generic Bluetooth Adapter.

Given there is absolutely pnothing else the slightest bit untoward about my Flip 13A / SVF13N13CXB now I hesitate to do anything drastic - even reflashing BIOS - is something I'm loathe to do. I've grown extremely fond of this device yet use BT daily and the work around is such a kluge.

Thoughts?

 

I had some sporadic problems with BT yesterday after reverting to the original 16.5.3.6 drivers. The service was stopped with an Error 43 / yellow exclamation point in Control Panel. I fiddled around with disabling/reenabling/uninstalling the Bluetooth adapter driver in the Control Panel. Somehow Windows finally installed the proper drivers a few minutes later without prompting. I haven't had any problems with the BT service since.

 

Thanks for the response, but can you pinpoint what action you took that fixed things? Thanks.

 

I will try with the sony Calibration software (that I don't have installed). Thank you!

I don't think it's a hardware problem because I'm able to solve it via software deactivate/activate it on the driver... So I hope! I've changed the screen as I've bought it (ghost images) and it will be really a if the new unit is again broken..!

 

lovelaptops try uninstalling/removing the Bluetooth adapater in the Control Panel, reboot the pc and then let Windows autodetect and reinstall its own BT drivers. Personally I'm not a fan of Sony's drivers for anything.