USB Blue tooth dongle, bit unfair!
I'm not sure if I'm going about this right but I feel a bit robbed by the all situation 
I have a mikomi cheapy USB Bluetooth dongle I think from Argos
I recently added it on my work pc to swap photos from my samsung mobile.
Not having used this for ages I couldn't find the CD that came with it so eventually I dlownloaded Bluesoliel 6 which I remembered being the software that was with the dongle.
So anyway I learned the hard way that BS6 isn't free and they don't provide the drivers for my dongle all answers seem to head to finding the original disc which I did.
Problem being that after installing my original version it will no longer connect to my phone through Samsungs own software & I have a 5mb limit from blue soliel which disconnects after 2 pictures.
Surely this can't be right ! How can they impose limits on the usage? The dongle is mine, I paid for it & I have the original software.
Fair enough not supporting my phone I can live with as it came out 3 years after the dongle but restricting how much I can transfer, seems a bit unfair.
Anybody came across this before? I don't actually want to use the BS software anyway, its well bloated with rubbish I don't need & to be honest I only want to use the Samsung pc studio anyway.
Is there any way I can extract the driver out of the install cd and use without running BS
All help appreciated.
I have a mikomi cheapy USB Bluetooth dongle I think from Argos
I recently added it on my work pc to swap photos from my samsung mobile. Not having used this for ages I couldn't find the CD that came with it so eventually I dlownloaded Bluesoliel 6 which I remembered being the software that was with the dongle.
So anyway I learned the hard way that BS6 isn't free and they don't provide the drivers for my dongle all answers seem to head to finding the original disc which I did.
Problem being that after installing my original version it will no longer connect to my phone through Samsungs own software & I have a 5mb limit from blue soliel which disconnects after 2 pictures.
Surely this can't be right ! How can they impose limits on the usage? The dongle is mine, I paid for it & I have the original software.
Fair enough not supporting my phone I can live with as it came out 3 years after the dongle but restricting how much I can transfer, seems a bit unfair.
Anybody came across this before? I don't actually want to use the BS software anyway, its well bloated with rubbish I don't need & to be honest I only want to use the Samsung pc studio anyway.
Is there any way I can extract the driver out of the install cd and use without running BS
All help appreciated.
Cable is much better I agree, I have a business account which only came with a 1 port router, I thought this would be a handy way temp for at work to transfer files from my laptop to the main pc in another room without having to disturb whoever was working in there. ( I know get a modem router, will do 
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That aside though I feel I should still be able to use the device as much as I want. It seems the equal of say my nvidia card which is sold by Gainward for instance, if gainward stop making newer drivers for my card should Nvidia bring out a driver that switches my card off after 5mins unless I pay for new software
BTW james unless I'm going about this wrong the BS app needs to be running otherwise my software can't find it and even when it does the dongle seems to still monitor the usage and cut PC Studio(samsung) after the 2mb limit.
Possibly the hack mentioned would make samsung work without BS running not sure.
Searching for answers I find a lot of torrents for dodgy copies of BS & disgruntled people in the same situation, In cases like this I'm not surprised software piracy goes on.
Makers of the dongles should add the costs of supprting their hardware on to the price of the dongle or at least have a driver that makes sure it will always work with other apps.
)That aside though I feel I should still be able to use the device as much as I want. It seems the equal of say my nvidia card which is sold by Gainward for instance, if gainward stop making newer drivers for my card should Nvidia bring out a driver that switches my card off after 5mins unless I pay for new software
BTW james unless I'm going about this wrong the BS app needs to be running otherwise my software can't find it and even when it does the dongle seems to still monitor the usage and cut PC Studio(samsung) after the 2mb limit.
Possibly the hack mentioned would make samsung work without BS running not sure.
Searching for answers I find a lot of torrents for dodgy copies of BS & disgruntled people in the same situation, In cases like this I'm not surprised software piracy goes on.
Makers of the dongles should add the costs of supprting their hardware on to the price of the dongle or at least have a driver that makes sure it will always work with other apps.
Quote from: AverageWhiteBloke Cable is much better I agree, I have a business account which only came with a 1 port router, I thought this would be a handy way temp for at work to transfer files from my laptop to the main pc in another room without having to disturb whoever was working in there. ( I know get a modem router, will do
Connecting your phone to your computer with a USB cable has nothing to do with how you connect to the internet.
Matt I'm on xp, windows has something built in but didn't work with my dingle for some reason.
Yes I know the two pc's only have one ethernet port apiece and ones plugged in the router. It just would have been handy as I have BT dongles to transfer files between the two pc's and upload stuff from my mobile to the pc.
I still think its a tad unfair, fair enough I'll take the old stack bluesoleil made as oppose to a newer version I'd expect to pay for their new one.
Why restrict its use though.
Quote Connecting your phone to your computer with a USB cable has nothing to do with how you connect to the internet
Yes I know
the two pc's only have one ethernet port apiece and ones plugged in the router. It just would have been handy as I have BT dongles to transfer files between the two pc's and upload stuff from my mobile to the pc.I still think its a tad unfair, fair enough I'll take the old stack bluesoleil made as oppose to a newer version I'd expect to pay for their new one.
Why restrict its use though.
Quote Why restrict its use though
they probally called this idea somthing like future growth.
find out how to remove the limit and you will be adored around the world.
i had a simlar problem with a logitech quickcam pro 3000 not being surrported on vista and they droped the cam from there drivers and software for vista because they didnt pay microsoft to have a vist cert for the devices. did alot of seraching and found some one that had found it was simple as rediting the pid numbers in the driver files and deleteing the secruity files to each of those files you edited.
worked perfect with out any problems and found my 2002 webcam to be still out performing cams of the same money value today
for any one searching for this workaround you will find it here http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.periphs.webcam/browse_thread/thread/26fe03adc93272ca/396b34c...