Iphone 5 bluetooth to macbook issue

Hi there. hope all is well. im having trouble with my ip5 bluetooth. its connecting to my Jawbone Jambox wireless speaker but wont connect to my macbook pro (mountain lion) or even find it on the devices, it just says searching. The macbook finds it but says error everytime it tries to connect. It used to work properly when i first bought it i had to change the iphone bec the first one had many issues. what should i do??
P.s. i tried internet sharing from my mac as the router to the phone over wifi to bluetooth pan but it wont find it at all either. HELP!
thank you.

I have an iPhone 5 and a Volvo XC60 with the Sensus Entertainment System. I pair my iPhone to my car for phone calls and A2DP Bluetooth audio. I had an iPhone 4 prior to my iPhone 5.
What I've noticed since switching to iPhone 5 is that my A2DP BT works fine until something (SMS, Alarms, Phone Calls--but *not* email alerts) interrupts the stream. After that interruption A2DP BT skips, fades in and out and is generally garbage until I cycle Bluetooth off and back on again.
I have not confirmed if this happens with my iPhone 4 on IOS6 (as so to determine if this is IOS6, iPhone 5 or both)--but I was running IOS6 prior to my iPhone 5 and do not recall any BT issues at all--I did have to repair my phone, but that's normal since the BT profiles might've changed.
Just thought I'd contibute.

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Short Version:
I am having connectivity issues connecting my new MacBook Pro (MBP) to the Internet thru a Bluetooth PAN on my iPhone4. This has been working fine for a few days and then today it just stopped working responding that my iphone connection is not available, it's off, too far away or whatever. This is not the case. When I try to connect the iPhone to the MBP the iPhone is saying my MBP is not supported. I can pair the devices, but as soon as I try to connect to the Internet thru the iPhone via the MBP the connection fails.
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The iPhone(s) I am using are iPhone 4's with iOS 4.1
On the first day I paired the MBP with both iPhones with ease, it was so easy my grandparents could have done it. So point and click and it just worked....
The iPhones are set up in iTunes with names similar to dave1 and dave2
On the MBP I can select which device I want to connect to the Internet by going to the Bluetooth icon and connecting to whichever iPhone I have handy at the time. Since the plans are limited connectivity, I do load share between the two.
Today, for no apparent reason, I have been unable to connect to my wife's phone just getting a basic "The Bluetooth network is unavailable" message telling me the iphone is out of range, not on, etc etc etc. Not true.
No problem, I just connected to my phone instead. Occasionally I tried her phone again, but it just never worked. I eventually got her to reboot it, still no joy.
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Pairing alone is an event, but here's an example of what's happening:
I go thru the motions, the MBP shows me a number (eg, 451234) and the number is displayed on the iPhone. They see each other. The numbers are the same. Good. I click PAIR on the iPhone and MBP and everything appears good. But then if I go to connect to the iphone on the MBP I get the out of range error.
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Ok, now I do wish I could edit....
I forgot to APPLY the network settings for the USB cable to work. Connected thru USB I can tether.
So, I kept playing, and playing some more...
I had previously unpaired everything, and gone as far as removing network devices HOWEVER...
I didn't remove the Ethernet, Firewire or Airport Network devices.
Now, I have done so. I REMOVED EVERYTHING
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I opened a web page, no go... d4mn, I was close...
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