Bluetooth Phone not Working
I recently bought an LG BlueTooth phone and am very frustrated because I can't seem to communicate with it at all through my iBook. Bluetooth works fine with my keyboard. I set up Bluetooth on the phone and the iMac found it no problem. It gave me a passkey to enter on the phone and I added it as a device without any trouble.
Problem is that I can't communicate with it at all. I have tried the following types of communication:
1. Download/Upload with address book. Address Book doesn't even give me an option to download numbers from my phone. iSync says "iSynx cannot connect to this device" when I try adding it. I tried sending a single address card to my phone with Address Book and it said "Unable to validate device."
2. I can't find any way to download or upload photos from/to my phone.
3. As a modem is doesn't work either. Internet Connect says "Unable to communicate with the device."
Does anyone know how to solve any of this? I thought the whole point of BlueTooth was that it works cross platform, but it looks like OS X doesn't work with cell phones other than the iPhone or something like that. Any ideas?
LG phones are notoriously tricky to get working with Macs, not because of any shortcomings in the Mac, but because LG have chosen to ignore most of the industry standards for connectivity.
The other thing that could be causing your problem, is that many US network providers deliberately cripple the phones Bluetooth functionality to stop you from doing what you want. This forces customers to use 'over-the-air' transfers thereby making more money for the network.
Address Book needs to have explicit support for specific models for the dialling and SMS functions to work. There is no support in Address Book for ANY LG phone.
If Mac connectivity is so important, I would seriously suggest avoiding LG phones and switch to Sony Ericsson or Nokia, which both support industry standards and work great with Macs.
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