Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS is a Bluetooth hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Qualcomm Atheros Communications. USB/VID_0CF3&PID_3004 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS driver - how to install it manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS driver. The archive contains version 8.0.0001.0312 dated 2013-11-22 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is started please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow 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 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.
The file size of this driver is 273626 bytes (267.21 KB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.5 stars by 87205 users.
This driver was released for the following versions of Windows:

• 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. Installing the Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS driver using DriverMax: the easy way

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and click on the yellow button named ~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 available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Qualcomm Atheros Communications Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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