BEWARE: If you flash a Bluetooth 350 with Vista, you can't go back to the XP stack.

Just got off chat with Dell Support and was told what I seemed to have already learned: Flashing a Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth module to the Vista stack is a oneway street.

I upgraded to Vista and tried to DualBoot XP, but never could install the bluetooth manager since it always failed at the chip flash. And since it's an installer and not a self-extracting .zip, I can't just get the software and not the firmware.

Also, he said that could never replace it for me under warranty, since I installed Vista and took the risk myself.

On a positive note, whatever I pair to the chip in Vista works in XP, I just don't have the manager to turn the radio off at will/disconnect certain devices that are sill powered on. I also can't view the settings from within XP.

Now, if anyone could package the Dell Bluetooth Manager and host it somewhere, that would be amazing, and you would have my thanks

 

Just a quick bump, still no answer to this

 

I have an "Vista" Bluetooth module that came with my m1210. I installed XP but couldn't flash the module...is this why? How do I get an xp-module? If I'd known that the m1210 wasn't really XP-compatible anymore I wouldn't have bought it. So sad... =(