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    iPhone and Bluetooth discovery.

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by THE J3RK, Sep 3, 2010.

  1. THE J3RK

    THE J3RK Newbie

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    I am having a helluva time getting my M11x-r2 to connect to my iPhone via Bluetooth. It is enabled in Bios and all that. Every once in a while it will pick the phone up but will quickly fail. The iPhone never finds my laptop in discovery.
    I have no other BT devices to try something else.

    Anyone else have success with iPhone?

    (Dell wireless device 365 Bluetooth module)
     
    THE J3RK, Sep 3, 2010
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  2. drows

    drows Notebook Guru

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    Took me a few tries to get it to pick up the Iphone the first time, once it WAS detected, it was all good. Have used it many times since and the tethering always works fine.
     
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  3. THE J3RK

    THE J3RK Newbie

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    Does your phone have a yellow icon with an exclamation mark in it in the discovered devices?
     
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    sagman76 Notebook Consultant

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    I also had problems but re booted phone checked codes were the same and it did show connected, but I had the yellow exclamation mark, and it said it needed trouble shooting and that it could not find the bluetooh peripheral device driver.
    I followed this guide I found and now all seems fine. Bluetooth Peripheral Device Driver

    Still a shame you cant share files from iphone 4 and PC this way, maybe Ibluetooth from cydia does I may try that

    hope this helps
     
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  5. THE J3RK

    THE J3RK Newbie

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    After 100 or so attempts I finally got the iPhone to connect to my laptop only to get the peripheral device driver error.

    Thanks for the link sagman, but it looks like the download for the drivers have been removed by Microsoft for some reason. This might get me going in the right direction.

    Jeez I thought the whole idea og Bluetooth was to make things simpler. What a joke. Anything and everything I've ever had that was Bluetooth was a PITA!
     
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  6. sagman76

    sagman76 Notebook Consultant

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    yeh i had the link problem. jumped through the validation hoops. I came out went in again re pasted another code and it downloaded this time.

    Edit: i have the exe file if you want it let me know
     
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  7. danyune

    danyune Notebook Evangelist

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    when you go into bluetooth options on the laptop, enable "discovery by other devices" or whatever, it's near the top

    I'm not on my alienware atm but when I enabled that I never had a problem connecting my phone to bluetooth
     
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  8. THE J3RK

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    Right clicked my iPhone in connected devices window.
    Clicked on properties.
    Clicked on services tab.
    Unchecked Wireless iAP.
    I left both "Audio source" & "Remotely Controllable Device" checked.

    Now I have no yellow/exclamation mark icon and the iPhone is connected via BT.
     
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  9. THE J3RK

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    I retried the link several times but Im going to leave well enough alone for now. I've been messing with for a while and Im kinda sick of it.

    Thanks for all the suggestions and help!!!!
     
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    drows Notebook Guru

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    That's how I got the yellow mark off as well (sorry didn't respond sooner, least you figured it out :) ) Took me awhile to find that out, and was annoying to me (still worked just hate seeing the, "Fault" triangle.
     
    drows, Sep 3, 2010
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