No way to disable the "Bluetooth Device Not Discoverable" message?! Annoying.

CZroe

Lifer
Jun 24, 2001
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This message pops up all the time. I see it when I log in, resume from sleep (even without the welcome screen), Hibernate, etc or even when I just toggle my WiFi on and off for whatever reason. It pops back up. Any way to disable this besides selecting an option I don't want and shouldn't have to select that even tries to discourage me from selecting it?

I have made my selection. I do not want it to be discoverable all the time wasting battery power by broadcasting its presence needlessly. I pretty much only use it with my Razer Orochi mouse, which is why I ordered and installed the OEM Bluetooth module (was tired of my 2.1 dongle using a valuable USB port). Why pretend to be a useful prompt about a setting I may not be aware of when I AM aware and have made my choice? I've toggled it on and off and it still nags me. In fact, the setting itself explicitly tells you to ONLY enable it when you want your computer to be visible to other devices in order "to protect your privacy." OK, so why does it nag me to enable it when it is disabled and yet warn me against enabling it?

Instead of "Allow Bluetooth devices to find this computer Yes/No," it should say "Enable nag bubble and remain not discoverable/Disable nag bubble and become discoverable."

I could disable the BT tray icon but, if anything, you need it more when it is not discoverable so that you can still pair devices. Obviously, I don't do that often enough to be worth wasting taskbar area by disabling the tray daemon and pinning a control panel shortcut, but that would get rid of the nag.

Grr... it's almost enough to make me switch back to the external dongle with the other BT stack. Whoever made it behave like that is a complete idiot.

In particular, I am using a Dell 365 BT module in an Alienware M11x.
 
 

CZroe

Lifer
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On top of this, there doesn't seem to be a way to re-enable BT except restarting when you turn it off to save battery. Also, I connected a headset for A2DP the other day and it disconnected a few minutes into the A/V playback. When I checked, the adapter had completely disappeared from the Device Manager. I hibernated and restored, which power cycles it, and it showed back up. Grrr... this is annoying. Still, though, I think I prefer integrated BT and just wish the software would work right.