Bluetooth discussion - Cell phone says "no devices found," but laptop finds it.

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Cell phone says "no devices found," but laptop finds it.

MichaelAwad

2005-11-30, 5:48 pm

I have a non-Bluetooth enabled laptop, so I bought a "billionton" class
1 USB adapter for it. It comes with the Blue Soleil software, which
detected my Bluetooth cell phone (Motorola V551) without any problem.
But when I do a Bluetooth device search on the cell phone, it says "no
devices found."

Using the Blue Soleil software n the laptop, I already set the security
profile to Low, so that no password is required, but that made no
difference. What else should I check?

I would like to be able to do two things (in order of priority):
1) Get my laptop connected to the Internet by using the phone as a
modem. Cingular tells me that I need to add a data plan (between $5
and $20 per month) for that, but is that really true?

2) Send data (such as photos or address book) from phone to laptop.

Thanks.

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MichaelAwad

MichaelAwad

2005-11-30, 5:48 pm

Oh, I forgot to mention that I also disabled my laptop's firewall, but
that didn't seem to help.

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MichaelAwad

rcpaccialjr@gmail.com

2005-12-09, 5:48 am

I hope you did not fail to check that your laptop's BT is on
"discoverable mode". As this mode is not enabled by default for
security reasons. It has to be discoverable first before your phone can
find it. I just dunno how you'd go about it with Bluesoleil because I
am on WIDCOMM, and I don't know a thing about IVT's stack.

Hope that helps.

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