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Wednesday, May 9, 2018

How to rename a Bluetooth device on Windows 10 - a problem with TWS earbuds - air-pods knockoff

I own a pair of Bluetooth air-pods knockoffs from China - i7S-TWS from TWS I assume. The actual brand changes depends where and who do you buy it from but I think they are manufactured by the same company.

In any case, you can use each of the earbud separately or connected but I always struggle when connecting those to my Windows Machine since I never know which one is the left and which one is the right one since they both show up on the device list as tws-i7 !

I was looking for a way to rename those but I do not have that option on the Show Bluetooth Devices window below:


I looked for a solution and finally found the answer!
1) Open your file explorer and on the address/url go to the following address:
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Devices and Printers

2) The following will open:

3) Do a right click on the device you want to change the name, select Properties - Bluetooth

4) Edit the device name and hit apply! he device name will remain the same! SORRY, this is just to show you the problem!
5) The are some extra careful steps you will need to take to make this work!

  • Make sure that your device is actually connected to your pc before starting step 3
  • then repeat step 3 and 4, but this time, wait, DO NOT hit apply yet! Turn off your Bluetooth device first (physically on your device side, not on windows), THEN HIT APPLY on the properties window above and then OK. This time the device name will  change
  • reconnect the bluetooth device and it will now show on the Bluetooth & Other devices with the updated name!
Hope this works for you! Pass this blog post around if you found this useful!


5 comments:

Unknown said...

So long searching for this! Thanks heaps, worked perfectly.

Deepakraj said...

Wow! Super it worked perfectly

Unknown said...

Perfect tutorial...worked wonderfully and it was well expressed.

JodieJo said...

het is nu veranderd op mijn laptop maar niet op mijn telefoon jammer

Zie said...

is this only works for one device? the other device still recognized my tws bluetooth by the default name.

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