[DM-MUG] bluetooth phone

[Jon Engelhardt]

For what it's worth.  I do long distance motorcycle touring and I  
have a unit in my helmet w/microphone that links to my cell phone w/ 
bluetooth.  Every time I step away from the bike and leave my hemet  
there the Bluetooth disconnects, sometimes........ not always.  I  
know there's a "grace" period when it goes standby but it's not  
consistent.  Oh well, no big deal as my phone beeps at me and wants  
to know if I would like to reconnect, but not always :)

Just my .02 but in actuality it's only .01 at the moment.
Jon
On Jul 24, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Ray Bowler wrote:

> Matthew,
>
> Just did what you suggested and it worked.
>
> On Jul 21, 2009, at Jul 21, 20098:58 AM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Ray Bowler <rbowler at mchsi.com>
>> wrote:
>> Thanks. I'm glad it isn't just me. I guess I'll just have to keep
>> fumbling around. I hate that.
>>
>>
>>>>>> On Jul 19, 2009 1:30 PM, "Ray Bowler" <rbowler at mchsi.com> wrote:
>>>>>> My wife recently received an LG 600G phone which has a camera and
>>>>>> Bluetooth. I turned on Bluetooth in both the camera and the
>>>>>> computer
>>>>>> and got them paired and connected to download a photo. Now I am
>>>>>> trying
>>>>>> to send some more pictures from the phone to the computer but
>>>>>> neither
>>>>>> one of them can connect to the other. The firewall has Bluetooth
>>>>>> sharing enabled. Both the computer and the phone have visibility
>>>>>> turned on. I am running OS 10.5.7.
>>>>>>
>>
>> This is kind of par for course w/ bluetooth. The common technique is
>> to disaccociate and then reconnect. I had to do this a couple times
>> with it working sometimes and not others then it started working
>> consistently (mine even shows up as a modem and I can connect to the
>> internet).
>>
>> Click the bluetooth icon in the upper bar, presumably your device is
>> listed there. Don't click it, insted click bluetooth preferences.
>> Click once on the name of your phone and then hit the minus sign at
>> the bottom left corner of the window. Then hit the plus sign and re-
>> add it.
>>
>> For some mysterious reason you just have to do this once in a while.
>> As I mentioned, after a few tries finally mine has a good connection
>> and I haven't had to re-do it. And if it makes you feel better, I've
>> had to do this on every operating system, not just Mac OS.
>>
>> Personally I don't understand why the phone doesn't show up as a
>> mounted drive that I can just browse w/ finder. (it does if I use
>> USB instead of bluetooth) But again, this is not just a mac thing...
>> in Windows and Ubuntu I also have to use the "browse device" feature
>> to look at it through a special window.
>>
>> -- 
>> Matthew Nuzum
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