I’ve been struggling with my Realtek Bluetooth adapter randomly disconnecting after a driver update. Has anyone found a specific version that works reliably?

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Realtek Bluetooth Adapter Keeps Disconnecting After Driver Update?
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October 20, 2024 -

So i built a new pc a few weeks ago and have been using my bose qc ultras with my realtek bluetooth adapter without any issues so far. That was untill yesterday at least when all of a sudden after a restart they wouldnt connect anymore. Windows is giving me error code 31 saying it cant load the drivers for this device. I ran the troubleshoot which apparently reset all the drivers - same issues. I reinstalled the latest drivers manually - still nothing.

Any other ideas i could try?

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August 28, 2024 -

Hi everybody c:

I had a few HP laptops (Elitebook G10 and G11) getting BSOD whenever someone connected an airpod and others who would connect any bluetooth headphone and it wouldn't give BSOD, but it also wouldn't work.

3 in the beggining of the month I was able to fix by installing the latest MediaTek bluetooth from HP website.

However this past week I had a few with the same issue and when I tried approaching it with the same solution, either updating the driver to the latest MediaTek or RealTek bluetooth driver, or getting the latest from HP website for that specific laptop Product ID: nothing happened.

I download the driver from HP website, clicked it so it extracted the files, went on devmgmt.msc and selected upload drivers, selected the SW**** file with the driver and it would not be installed.

If the bluetooth drivers were there it would say it already has the latest, if I deleted all blueetoth drivers I would install it and the bluetooth icon would disappear form devmgmt list like I hadn't uploaded anything, then I would hold power button for 10 seconds and it would install all of the same drivers all over again (including probably the faulty one).

Any ideas? Thaaanks!

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