Acer 2012 Users - Good News! I got bluetooth installed successfully on my laptop! - Page 2

bman-

Glad to help! Let me know how it goes if you, or anyone does this upgrade

Sid-

I am almost certain it is proprietary to the Acer 20xx series. I have seen bluetooth modules for HP notebooks, Dells, Toshibas, and even the Acer 17xx, and they are all different, unlike say the Intel Wireless B/G cards that everyone has in their notebook.

I posted the phone number for the company. I asked, and I think they said they didn't have a website.

hey sorry i didn't respond sooner, I havn't been here in a few days.

tozeagle-

I'm not sure how the Acer 2026 works feature wise. What I mean by this is that the Acer 2012 and the Acer 2025 were pretty much identical with parts, at least in terms of them using the same motherboard and body design. But with the 2025 you got 3 extra features - bluetooth, the keyboard arcade buttons, and a slightly faster CPU. The 2012 was the bargain laptop, while the 2025 was the "loaded" version of the 2012, which cost $800 more for such a minor upgrade. I don't know how the 2026 is feature wise, and if there is even a higher end identical version of it with bluetooth. If there is, then call up Acer and get the bluetooth part number for the higher end "loaded" version of the 2026. Once you get that part number, if you are lucky you might be able to find it on google.com, otherwise you will have to start calling up companies that are authorized acer repair dealers. I did this and eventually found a company that had it.

Good luck


suhaildesigns-
If I remember correctly, the 2001 had the same body and motherboard parts as the 2012/2025, so I would guess that yes you can use the same bluetooth part on it. As for the warranty, I don't think it voids it, but you never know. As far as Acer being able to tell that you installed it, they shouldn't be able to , as the wiring is located right under your battery. Just remove the battery, as seen in the picture on the first page of this thread, and you should then see a little space with a plastic cover. Remove the cover and put in the bluetooth module.

Good luck and let me know how it goes.

one other interesting thing I noticed. I follow the x1000forums.com website occasionally, as I had a HP zt3000 (same as the Compaq x1000) at one time, and I saw that some people were installing the bluetooth module into their x1000 notebook just like I did. HP offers bluetooth as an option, but some people decided at the time of purchase not to get it. All they do at HP is just not install the Bluetooth module. The laptop case, mobo, etc all stay the same.

What's interesting about this is that the person who showed how they did this had some pictures of the bluetooth and it looked the EXACT same as the module I installed on my acer 2012, so I think just like the Intel B/G wifi cards, this is a somewhat common oem part, but acer may relabel it. This may invalidate what I said earlier about this being a proprietary piece of hardware, although I have not tested out the "compaq" bluetooth module Even more interesting, they linked to a guy on ebay who was selling these parts for around $40, so perhaps if someone here could try using the x1000 bluetooth module on their Acer 2012, we'd have a more affordable option. $80 is a lot for bluetooth, but I am so glad I got it because it was a fun project to get it working, and I use it all the time. I would like a cheaper alternative though.

http://www.x1000forums.com/index.php...9&hl=bluetooth

here we go. You may need to login to view it. It has pictures and that looks exactly like what I used on my 2012. However the acer 2012 already had the cable hooked into the motherboard, it was just unpluged. Thinking about it somemore, I would bet that the x1000 and Acer 20xx series are built at the same plant. Laptop makers like Dell, HP, Acer usually use the same company to create and assemble the parts, so maybe they share the same bluetooth module afterall. The bottom of the x1000 looks pretty close to the acer 20xx

hehe. that was a while ago, but I still use it in the car whenever on a long drive.

I use verizon's family plan which includes national access, meaning you can call from almost anywhere in the nation without roaming fees. Ontop of that, after 9pm (monday - friday) access is free, in terms of not using any minutes, until 7am. And ALL weekend is free as well. As for having it on 24/7 durring the weekday, you'd have to get some other plan. Otherwise durring the day you'd burn through your minutes pretty quick. I believe bluetooth, in theory ;-) , gets around 700 kbits/sec. But that's just the speed you are connecting to the phone; the speed to the phone network is the real speed test. Using Verizon's 1X data network you can connect at 114Kbits/sec. I get anywhere from 5 - 12 kilobytes/sec download speed, so not too bad for using your phone.

While going through the desert in vegas I got pretty good signal bars on my v710, so my internet connection was pretty reliable, in terms of not dropping a download or chat session. I imagine this is because there just wern't a lot of obstructing objects near the road; the desert was pretty open on both sides of the road. Although I didn't do any official benchmarking, I remember loading webpages may have seemed a bit slower driving then siting in the hotel, so perhaps moving in the car did affect the signal somewhat. I also remember that I needed to download AIM for my laptop, and got around 5kbytes/sec while in the car. Whereas while I was sitting still in the hotel, the max download speed I got was 9-12kbytes/sec. However, the max speed in the hotel could be because I was in the city and not on the road, so I had better line of sight with the cell tower. My point is that going 70mph in a car probably does affect the connection speed, but I don't want to rule out this being a line of sight signal issue. No real scienctific testing here, just some observations.

I was chatting on AIM with a friend and browsing the web for a good couple of hours without any disconnects while in the back seat. I didn't get a chance to watch the signal every minute to confirm if the slow webpage loading was due to low signal, but for the most part the connection was reliable, up until I started going through the border on Arizona, where you have some mountain/hills very close to the road, plus you're really far away from any major city. Once in that area, it did seem to slowdown even more, and disconnects would happen. So really is just depends where you are driving; going through the desert in vegas probably isn't an everyday test for people since most people are going in and out of cities, mountain areas, etc, with much more obstructing objects. But if you can count on your travel route being pretty standard with no major obstructions near the road and have a decent signal, then going 70ish in the car shouldn't cause your internet connection to be so unreliable that you can't maintain a connection. As for battery, I get maybe 2 hours with my motorola v710, so when on a drive I leave it pluged into the car.

hehe. yeah I should've checked the pictures before I installed the bluetooth module completly. Once it was in and I discovered they came out blurry I wasn't in the mood the rip it out again.

I'm waiting for someone here to throw in a dothan 2ghz and see what kind of improvements they get.