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mersea

macrumors regular
Original poster
Mar 28, 2005
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I'm having problems with my bluetooth on my iBook G4 - just transferring files to/from my phone. It works sometimes, but other times the bluetooth just errors out on the computer, even when its turned on.
Selected from the list of favorite devices, my iBook tries to connect to my phone to transfer files, and then errors "Problems connecting". If I change the phone name and do a search for devices, the phone doesn't appear.
It appears that even though the bluetooth is supposed to be turned on, it isn't working. I've tried trashing preference files to no avail. My computer is in no way pristine condition, but I don't see how this could be a hardware issue since it DOES work sometimes.

Any ideas?
 
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