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Microsoft Phone Link issue - Pairing process stuck on PC

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Dear Guys,
I have spent two entire days trying to fix the MS Phone Link on my wife's Dell Laptop. It stopped working, and I have carried out all the suggested fixes and remedies I could find in various fora on the Internet.
I also uninstalled it from the Labtop by running a command line in Powershell - and I uninstalled it from my wife's Samsung Smartphone.
It has worked just fine until recently. This is the remedy steps I have followed:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/your-phone-link-to-windows-stuck-at-60-during-set/b16d0834-57f0-41c9-a290-87a7c1df26e2


When the pairing process is in progress, the QR Code is scanned by the Smartphone and the pairing process is successful on the Smartphone, and done here.
On the Laptop the process is stuck, and behind the QR Code window just looping. I close the QR code window and the process is just stuck on the pairing step. Browse Permissions and Final OK steps are never reached. The connection between Smartphone and PC is established (indicated in the SpartPhone Phone Link app) - but when I close down the Phone Link window on the Laptop, the connection in the SmartPhone app is discontinued!

I add the two screendumps from the Laptop. I am very sorry the language is Danish, but I still think it can make sense to you.

Please let me know if you need further information. PS. I have checked all settings related to Phonelink and Reset and repaired the program on the Laptop....

Best regards,
Anders
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The first link is invalid: Here is the correct one: Redirecting
Take a look at these posts I made on another forum to see if it makes sense. I used Phone Link to connect my Samsung S21 to my Acer laptop called EventHorizon with Windows 10.


I have done all those steps several times. All of them. I end up each and every time being stuck after scanning the QR code. Connection to the pc on the smartphone succede, but the pairing process just stalls om the pairing step on the computer. When I click done on the QR code window, the configuration does not move ahead to the permission step.
I don't know how to fix this issue. I am so close to give up....in the troubleshooting steps where others succcede, I fail to make it work....
I found it important to start the process in Phone Link settings. Select Reset.

On Phone Link on the PC proceed until it shows the QR code. Then...

On the phone if the laptop is already showed as paired, delete it. Then add it back. When the laptop is shown as available select it. The the scan option appears on the phone screen. Point the phone's camera at the QR code on Phone Link on your PC. After a second it should say done on Phone Link.
I have done it several times before, but I have just done the process you describe above:
Yep, I reach the step:
On the Phone it says PC and Phone are paired and connected. In the title line I can see the Phone Link icon, so the units are connected.
On the PC the window presenting the QR Code, I just scanned from the Phone, must be closed. I do that. The blue, rotating circle disappears and the configuration is stuck in the pairing process point on the blue process line. Nothing happens. Things are stuck. When I close down the configuration window on the PC, the Phone Link icon on the Phone disappears.
PS. much prior to this I, ran the sfc /scannow command line from a CMD. It found corrupt system files and repaired them all.
Thank you so much! Thought you had forgotten me...sounds like the solution!
Will try this weekend and let you know the outcome.
Anders
I was ready to to run the solution sent to me from TSG, but both the user and the post is gone - help!!??
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drknebula replied to a discussion you are following at Microsoft Phone Link issue - Pairing process stuck on PC

Hi, I just resolved this problem today. I completely uninstalled the version I had running, which I think was the latest version. I uninstalled it using this string in powershell: Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.YourPhone -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage I then downloaded an older version, Phone Link...
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Where is it??
Anders
Did find the download links for older PhoneLink versions.
Uninstalled current version. Did a reboot and installed the January 30 version.
No luck. Still stuck in the pairing process on the Laptop.
I throw the towel in the ring......../Anders
Yes - the issue is with the Laptop. Stuck-stuck-stuck in the pairing process. When the photographing process is done and I close down the window absolutely noting happens. Then I shut down the PhoneLink config and the connection is lost. In everything I have done day after day we always get stuck in the very same part of the configuring process.
Yes - the issue is with the Laptop. Stuck-stuck-stuck in the pairing process. When the photographing process is done and I close down the window absolutely noting happens. Then I shut down the PhoneLink config and the connection is lost. In everything I have done day after day we always get stuck in the very same part of the configuring process.
Did you ever find a fix for this?
No Sir,
I had to give up after a long troubleshooting.
The pairing process on the pc just gets stuck in the loop.
Have you tried a system restore on laptop to a time before this started?
No Sir,
I had to give up after a long troubleshooting.
The pairing process on the pc just gets stuck in the loop.
I have the exact same issue as you - doesnt get paired. I can pair the phone manually in settings/bluetooth/add device, but Phone link doesnt recogize the phone when doing it like that.
I have a company phone, and Im sure there are some security applied to the phone by the company policy, and I start wondering if that could be the issue...
I can see the phone is paired in the phone config. But on the Labtop it will not work.
An earlier restorepoint on the Labtop would have been great, but the Labtop is my wifes, and it is is not set up for creating restore points, unfortunately. I have only limited access to"do things" here :)
Thanks for coming back to me. You might be right on your Company Phone. Security policy can be causing various problems, especially if you as a private person take over a company configured phone.
Microsoft is the problem. They want you to pay now. Greg
Microsoft is the problem. They want you to pay now. Greg
Why? Microsoft has never said that Windows was perfect. I have been using Windows for 28 years. Sometimes problems develop that requires a reinstall of Windows. You then have to decide whether that is worth it or not. I have had to reinstall Windows more times than I can remember.

BTW, I have a laptop with Windows 10 Pro on it. It had several problems that I only fixed by reinstalling Windows twice in the last few weeks. I lost a little but not much because the computer was backed up so I could recover my data.
Microsoft is the problem. They want you to pay now. Greg
This is no issue for us in Denmark. No demand for payment whatsoever.
But I begun to have an annoying issue on my own PC. Every time I start it up and open Phone Link, it is off line and I have to reconnect from my Samsung SmartPhone.
This happened automatically until recently. Quite annoying. Anybody have a fix for that?
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