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dusk007

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Dec 5, 2009
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I am trying to connect iphone 3GS and MBP 15" (2010 with ML) with bluetooth.

After I activate bluetooth on both devices I can see on my Mac the iphone and click connect too and I can see on the iphone the Mac Book Pro but on either side they complain that they couldn't connect and I should check if I am in range (20 cm :().
I can try to setup the iphone on the Mac and that seems to work and finishes with the message. Pairing completed successfully and three available things. However connecting doesn't work.
I get various errors from network unavailable to now on the iphone a this Mac Book Pro is not supported and a button to forget this device (iOS5 [jailbroken] to ML WTF).
Or on the bluetooth browser and send file and so on report that "this device does not have the necessary services". It does report "1 found" so they can discover each other. Just not connect and do some actually useful communication.

I never used or needed bluetooth but I could use it for a presentation remote now where there is no wifi. Any ideas how to fix those problems. Something seems to be missing.
I never used any other bluetooth with either device and all settings should be standard. These are my only bluetooth devices.

I had the same problems on all previous OS combinations, I never cared enough to fix it. iOS was always Jailbroken standard iphone dev team as I need the carrier unlock but I doubt the baseband has anything to do with it and the original one should still work. OSX was SL or ML.
 
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