Unknown Bluetooth peripherals

[raichea]

Not long had my Z3 compact, but very pleased with it so far.

I tried pairing it with a desktop machine that had an old Bluetooth dongle in it and it paired ok, but lots of unknown BT peripherals. Put a BT4.0 dongle in and again it pairs fine, but I'm still left with 2 "Bluetooth Peripheral Device" entries in Device Manager (Windows 7 64-bit) with warning triangles (Driver not  installed, code 28)

VID and PID are:

VID&00020fce_PID&01bb

I get the same results if I pair the phone with a new laptop... two "Other devices" that aren't installed. I found a reference to this in an open source project bug report, but little else on the net... http://sourceforge.net/p/libmtp/bugs/1280/

Trying reinstall drivers fails, and I've not found any suitable drivers on the Sony site... anyone have any thoughts on this?

[Thommo]

Quite common as it's waiting for drivers to be installed or authorised from the paired devices - Usually because it will want to use your device as a modem to access the internet which was a way of doing things back in the day - Some call it tethering or mobile hotspot now

[_alexdon_]

Check this out:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20229038&postcount=6

[raichea]

Thommo... don't think it's a modem device... Windows should recognise these as they're quite old now.

Alexdon... some COM ports are configured, so I don't think they're COM ports either.

Thanks both, but I think this is some other problem

[_alexdon_]

@Rickard Maybe you could take a look after the weekend.

[Rickard]

These unknown devices are bluetooth profiles that your phone supports but your computers bluetooth dongle/software doesn't support.

If you want to remove them from the device manager you can go to Controlpanel -> Device and printers -> Bluetooth devices, right click your phone, select Properties and then Services. Here deselect the bluetooth profiles that your computers bluetooth dongle/software doesn't support and you should no longer see these devices in the device manager.

[raichea]

Thanks - I've been able to remove  the unknown features from the Device Manager, but curious why my dongle (new v4.0) doesn't support them.

The two were: AAS and Tethering Control Channel Protocol.

Steve.

[Rickard]

I'm not sure but i believe AAS is specific for our Smart Connect app which may explain why it's not supported. If i disable Smart Connect in my phone i can no longer see the AAS profile from my PC.

I found the following description of the other service:

This protocol facilitates the sharing of a server’s network connection with one or more clients. By using it, clients can make a request to share a server's Internet connection. The server responds to clients with the appropriate Wi-Fi information, specifying the tethering configuration settings.

I can still use bluetooth tethering (connect my PC to the internet using my phone) without this service though.

[Thommo]

As I said in the 1st reply it's to do with your device been used as a modem