Docked W520: How to turn on Bluetooth from SimpleTap

[erehm]

Normally i have bluetooth turned off to save battery life on my W520. 

When undocked, it's easy to turn on Bluetooth via Fn+F5.

When docked, I tend to use SimpleTap to do Fn + ? things like Suspend, mute, volume control, etc.  However, I can find no way to turn on/off Bluetooth via SimpleTap.  The "Wireless Radio" SimpleTap icon doesn't let me separately turn on/off Bluetooth.  I can't find any additional icon on the Lenovo site to add.

Am I missing something?

/eric

[tanujhanda Retired Partner]

As I understand you want to enable or disable Bluetooth in Lenovo SimpleTap

The default tiles comes in Lenovo SimpleTap are

• Display brightness
• Mute sound
• Mute microphone
• Camera preview
• Camera privacy
• Wireless radio
• Sleep
• Lock
• ThinkLight control
• Screen rotate
• Touch screen lock
• Lenovo Tile

You can enable or disable the Bluetooth in normal mode then come to Leovo SimpleTap as it has one option for Wireless Radio

Best Regards,

Tanuj

[erehm]

You didn't answer my question.

I want to turn on/off Bluetooh independently from WiFi via SimpleTap.

So, ideally I would have a separate Bluetooth button on the SimpleTap screen JUST FOR BLUETOOTH.

Possible?

/eric

[tanujhanda Retired Partner]

Hello Eric,

It has one option as Wireless Radio which control all wireless devices in system.

So separate option for Bluetooth is not available.

So, as I suggested to enable or disable Bluetooth in Windows mode before entering into SimpleTap

Best Regards,

Tanuj

[someotherguy · Accepted solution]

SimpleTap doesn't have any built-in tile to turn bluetooth on and off.  But you can do this from a command-line as follows:

off:    c:\program files\lenovo\hotkeys\tpfnf5.exe /btoff

on:   c:\program files\lenovo\hotkeys\tpfnf5.exe /bton

So I created 2 tiles to do this for you.  You can copy the files in the attached zip to your "%appdata%\Lenovo\SimpleTap" folder.  Then log off and log on to windows (to make SimpleTap find the new tiles) and see if they will work for you.

[Apercu]

Excellent! Thanks for the tiles!
Great solution for Win8 BT control on my x220t.

[billjames]

Hi, I tried same solutuon on my tx220 with windows 7 & didn`t work...actually the appdata folder had slightly different root: C:\Users\TX220\AppData\Local\Lenovo\SimpleTap_StrongName_fkunmocwvwxehr0nkgi5y1prvtgqkau3\1.0.0.0   Any help would be MUCH APPRECIATED !

[billjames]

...problem solved! I just created a tile in simpltap that points to tpfnf5.exe    :-)  Works great. Thanks for the clues.