Broadcom Broadcom Bluetooth 3.0 USB - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Broadcom Bluetooth 3.0 USB is a Bluetooth device. This Windows driver was developed by Broadcom. The hardware id of this driver is USB/VID_04AD&PID_2501; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Broadcom Broadcom Bluetooth 3.0 USB - install the driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Broadcom Broadcom Bluetooth 3.0 USB driver. The archive contains version 12.0.0.8047 dated 2013-10-18 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your UAC (User Access Control) is started please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed by the manufacturer.
File size of the driver: 1861727 bytes (1.78 MB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.4 stars by 95250 users.
This driver was released for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 32 bits

2. How to install Broadcom Broadcom Bluetooth 3.0 USB driver using DriverMax

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Start DriverMax and push on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Broadcom Broadcom Bluetooth 3.0 USB driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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