How to completely remove a Bluetooth device from Win 10?

Try3 said:

What are the symptoms of the failure? What actually happens from the moment of clicking on Remove device?

Denis

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! had this problem for 5 months now and after contacting windows multiple times this actually worked!!!! not gonna lie, actually cried tears of joy

Just came across your post. I have a Bluetooth JBL Flip 5 speaker. Whenever I shut it off, in order to reconnect it I have to Remove Device (even though it shows it's paired), then repair it. Only then will it reconnect. Sounds like the problem you had. Tried "btpair -u" - but it didn't help. Any other suggestions?

Tried Kieth's method - but it didn't work either. Also, could not remove "Lazer Ears" after several tries.

1 - Generic Attribute Profile
2 - Bluetooth LE Generic Attribute Service
3 - Device Information Service
4 - Laser Ears
5 - Generic Access Profile


Thank you.........

xzion said:

wouldn't normally necro a thread but i spent two weeks trawling the internet trying to sort this out and this thread is pretty high up on the search rankings, hopefully can help someone.

My symptoms:
- Previously working bluetooth speaker (UE BOOM 2 in my case) stops connecting
- Windows 10 'Bluetooth and other devices' menu shows the device as Paired
- Pressing connect makes it attempt to connect but fails then it goes back to Paired
- Remove device hides the device from the menu, but as soon as you turn bluetooth on and off, or restart the computer, the device comes back
- You pull your hair out.

Solution that worked for me after much, much unsuccessful internet trawling and one system restore:
- Download this 7 year old command line bluetooth toolset: Bluetooth command line tools - work with bluetooth from the command line
- Install it, make sure you enable the option to "Add Bluetooth Command Line Tools directory to path"
- Open Powershell
- Put your device that isn't working properly into pairing mode
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING COMMAND WILL UNPAIR ALL BLUETOOTH DEVICES
- type in "btpair -u"
- Boom, all of a sudden Windows asks me if I want to allow pairing to my device that isn't working
- Hit yes, successfully connected again
- Cry tears of joy

God I hope that helps someone else.

xzion said:

wouldn't normally necro a thread but i spent two weeks trawling the internet trying to sort this out and this thread is pretty high up on the search rankings, hopefully can help someone.

My symptoms:
- Previously working bluetooth speaker (UE BOOM 2 in my case) stops connecting
- Windows 10 'Bluetooth and other devices' menu shows the device as Paired
- Pressing connect makes it attempt to connect but fails then it goes back to Paired
- Remove device hides the device from the menu, but as soon as you turn bluetooth on and off, or restart the computer, the device comes back
- You pull your hair out.

Solution that worked for me after much, much unsuccessful internet trawling and one system restore:
- Download this 7 year old command line bluetooth toolset: Bluetooth command line tools - work with bluetooth from the command line
- Install it, make sure you enable the option to "Add Bluetooth Command Line Tools directory to path"
- Open Powershell
- Put your device that isn't working properly into pairing mode
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING COMMAND WILL UNPAIR ALL BLUETOOTH DEVICES
- type in "btpair -u"
- Boom, all of a sudden Windows asks me if I want to allow pairing to my device that isn't working
- Hit yes, successfully connected again
- Cry tears of joy

God I hope that helps someone else.

Worked perfectly for me, followed to the letter. Didn't know what "Powershell" was, so I just opened the "Bluetooth Tools Command Prompt" that I had just installed..

C:\Program Files (x86)\Bluetooth Command Line Tools\bin>
C:\Program Files (x86)\Bluetooth Command Line Tools\bin>btpair -u

Unpaired everything that was paired to my BT dongle

Like magic, my $250 Skullcandy Crusher headphones that were bricked suddenly popped up on the Pairing list again and are functioning as normal. After MONTHS of banging my head on the wall and neglecting my work because of the frustration of not getting it to work.

THANK YOU.

@xzion - Subscribed to this Forum to say a big thank you for sharing your solution. Appreciate that it was ages ago but it really helped me and saved loads of time.Thanks again.

xzion said:

wouldn't normally necro a thread but i spent two weeks trawling the internet trying to sort this out and this thread is pretty high up on the search rankings, hopefully can help someone.

My symptoms:
- Previously working bluetooth speaker (UE BOOM 2 in my case) stops connecting
- Windows 10 'Bluetooth and other devices' menu shows the device as Paired
- Pressing connect makes it attempt to connect but fails then it goes back to Paired
- Remove device hides the device from the menu, but as soon as you turn bluetooth on and off, or restart the computer, the device comes back
- You pull your hair out.

Solution that worked for me after much, much unsuccessful internet trawling and one system restore:
- Download this 7 year old command line bluetooth toolset: Bluetooth command line tools - work with bluetooth from the command line
- Install it, make sure you enable the option to "Add Bluetooth Command Line Tools directory to path"
- Open Powershell
- Put your device that isn't working properly into pairing mode
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING COMMAND WILL UNPAIR ALL BLUETOOTH DEVICES
- type in "btpair -u"
- Boom, all of a sudden Windows asks me if I want to allow pairing to my device that isn't working
- Hit yes, successfully connected again
- Cry tears of joy

God I hope that helps someone else.

The download page for this tool still exists, but unfortunately the actual download link is broken.
It seems to be the only source for this tools, because sites like SoftPedia also link to this page.
Can someone here make this tool available>

TIA,

Bart

BartZorn said:

The download page for this tool still exists, but unfortunately the actual download link is broken.
It seems to be the only source for this tools, because sites like SoftPedia also link to this page.
Can someone here make this tool available>

Did you try the PowerShell code that uses the BluetoothRemoveDevice​ API?