Missing Bluetooth Settings - Serial Ports

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:
Can we have them back??

Hi,
I am having the same problem, could you find a solution?
Do you know if there is way to do the same thing from terminal?
Since I am pretty new to this advanced configuration, do you think this software could be useful for our case:
http://freeware.the-meiers.org
Thank you
Raf

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