Hidden Bluetooth settings in 10.9 for serial

The new OS 10.9 Maverick hides the Bluetooth settings, I am no longer able to add new serial ports for my Bluetooth devices in order to connect to them via the screen command (screen /dev/tty.Bluetooth...).
I'm interfacing my phone with my computer and need a serial port to communication, this needs to be set up in the Bluetooth settings. As of the new OS it has been dumbed-down so much that these settings do not exist anymore. Funny thing is when you search for "serial" in the system preferences window it will only highlight the Bluetooth settings:
Please give back these settings, I'm no longer able to work with my computer because of this.

I'm hoping the original poster has found some way to remedy this situation since this is an old topic. I do wonder how far you are all getting into the process, from what I can tell once you pair a device & connect to it you get new entries under /dev. One for a tty and one for a call up device (cu…). You may have others depending on the device capabilities.
ls /dev
/dev/cu.DeviceName-SerialPort
/dev/tty.DeviceName-SerialPort
Are they not the connections you are looking for? I'm not sure that you need to see the serial ports in the GUI to be able to use them via Terminal.
Please tell me what I'm missing.

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