TWIST: Strange Bluetooth Problem

This doesn't make sense to me. When the system is started from a completely powered off state, the bluetooth radio doesn't turn on and no devices will pair. The bluetooth icon in the taskbar is missing. I tried to manually turn it on but Windows won't let me (in the Wireless section of "Change PC Settings", the Bluetooth option is grayed out).
If I restart the system (from the powered on state), the radio turns on and everything works fine.The bluetooth icon in the task bar is visible and my devices will pair.
My wireless radio always works regardless of how I start the system. It has never failed through all of this wierdness.
I have the Intel Centrino version of the twist (i5, 128GB SSD) with the latest driver and the latest bios version. I tried re-installing the bluetooth drivers but I get the same results.
HISTORY: From day one, I never had any bluetooth or wireless problems. Last week the system was crashing with the error DRIVER POWER STATE FAILURE. After a few of those I checked for updates and installed everything available to me (a bios update and a few other things but no actual drivers). After the updates, the bluetooth problem occurred. However, it's been a few days and I haven't had the Power State Failure crash.
I ran Lenovo's hardware scan and there are no problems with any devices.
Anyone have ideas what could be wrong?

I have been on the phone to Lenovo support. They say it has to do with power management, not all services restoring when PC is turned on. They asked me to,click the start button, run, enter compmgmt.msc, This opens a window to Computer Management. Now open device manager, expand Bluetooth, right click Broardcom Bluetooth 4.0, properties, power management tab, uncheck 'allow the computer to turn off this device to save power". I did all this and it made no difference on my PC. He then went on to say there is another way but it will add 10 seconds to the startup time of my PC which I am not willing to do. So things remain the same until I find a better solution. Has any one else had any luck with this annoying problem? Now I never shutdown my laptop, I just close the lid. Bluetooth starts again when the lid is opened.

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Very Strange Bluetooth Problem

Hi There
My mac seems to have developed a very strange bluetooth problem. When i try to connect my mighty mouse, it 'connects' then a couple seconds later disconnects, then connects and disconnects etc. during the time that it is apparently connected, the LED on the bottom of the mouse keeps flashing in the way it does when it's searching for a connection, which tells me it ain't connected at all.
Thinking this was just a mighty mouse problem i try connect my iPhone, same problem. This time I do it with the bluetooth preferences open i notice that the status of the iPhone connection has gone funny (like it has not connected on top of the word connected in the status, one atop the other) this weirdness happens irrespective of what you connect, and only to the iPhone status, even if it's bluetooth is off.
This weird status thing has happened before, when i was messing about with bluetooth tethering on my iPhone. So, naturally, i assume the iPhone's buggered up the system somehow. I remove it from the list of paired things and try the mouse again, no luck. I try to re add the mouse, but the pairing process doesn't complete itself before the mouse drops signal again. I can't re-pair my iPhone either for the same reason.
how can i fix this?
Cheers, Joe

Hey there,
Navigate to HD > Users > Your Account > Library > Preferences.
Locate, and move to the Trash, this file com.apple.Bluetooth.plist.
If still no luck, try zapping the PRAM to see if that helps. Instructions on how to do that can be found [HERE|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379].
B-rock

I have got a strange bluetooth problem: Sometimes it's 4.0 LE, sometimes not

Sorry for my bad english, I will try my best.
In our house there are my MacBook Pro Mid 2012 and an iMac early 2008. Both with the actual OS X. There are no problems with the iMac.
I have got problems with bluetooth since updating to yosemite on the MacBook, just like other people here. Nothing helped, no resetting, no deleting any DUN or PAN. I am using now may old usb-keyboard and a trackball mouse with usb cable. The other devices (external bluetooth keyboard from apple and the apple external trackpad) won't connect safely and constantly via bluetooth. The external bluetooth speakers had the same problem. Just every bluetooth thing, iphone 6 plus too.
I am looking for solutions, but nothing helped me. So I resigned.
Two days ago I wanted to install the app "near lock" on my iphone. This will unlock the MacBook pro, when I come near it. For this I had to install an app on the mac too, but the app said, that my Macbook aren't have Bluetooth LE - so the app won't installed.
After 24h later I've tried it again (don't know why...hmmm), and on that day I was able to install it. Everything fine. Suddenly the Macbook had Bluetooth LE.
Yeah strange enough. Today it happened again. I made two screenshots, from the same MacBook. Only minutes between the shots.
No Bluetooth LE.
Surprise.
I am no technical Pro, so I do not understand this.
There is a point to state: At the time of the first screenshot my macbook was closed and stood in the twelve book stand with an external monitor. The second screenshot was taken with an open MacBook using the internal keyboard.
Does this make any sense?
I would be happy for some help.
Thanks
Thomas

Couple of days ago, this also happened to me, I'm using MacID though. (attached is the dropdown menu for bluetooth on my mac). I'm using a MacBook as well, so obviously the chip is available, I visit to booting in safe mode and restarting solved the problem, hasn't happened again...yet. And, no, bluetooth is supposed to work in clamshell mode. Just so you(and everyone else) know, you're not the only one.

Strange bluetooth problem dell inspiron 1545 laptop

Hello friends, I've got a full working install of arch on my dell inspiron 1545 laptop. At first, bluetooth was working with the blueman-applet. After an upgrade to bluez(i suppose), it suddenly stopped working. The laptop bluetooth is on, the device is discoverable, it even successfully recognizes the phone I'm trying to pair. But earlier, it was showing the phones name but now it only shows the mac address in blueman and in "hcitool scan" output, it shows:
hcitool scan
Scanning ...
00:1B:EE:16:63:5E n/a
I've got the following bluetooth services running:
bluetoothd hidd rfcomm
Here my /etc/rc.d/bluetooth file:
#!/bin/bash
# Start/stop the Bluetooth daemons
. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions
DAEMON_NAME="bluetoothd"
HIDD_NAME="hidd"
RFCOMM_NAME="rfcomm"
PAND_NAME="pand"
DUND_NAME="dund"
DAEMON_EXEC="/usr/sbin/bluetoothd"
HIDD_EXEC="/usr/bin/hidd"
RFCOMM_EXEC="/usr/bin/rfcomm"
PAND_EXEC="/usr/bin/pand"
DUND_EXEC="/usr/bin/dund"
DAEMON_ENABLE="true"
HIDD_ENABLE="false"
RFCOMM_ENABLE="false"
DUND_ENABLE="false"
PAND_ENABLE="false"
RFCOMM_CONFIG="/etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf"
HIDD_OPTIONS=""
DUND_OPTIONS=""
PAND_OPTIONS=""
[ -f /etc/conf.d/bluetooth ] && . /etc/conf.d/bluetooth
case "$1" in
start)
stat_busy "Starting bluetooth subsystem:"
if [ "$DAEMON_ENABLE" = "true" -a -x "$DAEMON_EXEC" ] ; then
stat_append " $DAEMON_NAME"
$DAEMON_EXEC
sleep 1
fi
if [ "$SDPD_ENABLE" = "true" -a -x "$SDPD_EXEC" ] ; then
stat_append " $SDPD_NAME"
$SDPD_EXEC
fi
if [ "$HIDD_ENABLE" = "true" -a -x "$HIDD_EXEC" ]; then
stat_append " $HIDD_NAME"
$HIDD_EXEC $HIDD_OPTIONS --server
fi
if [ "$RFCOMM_ENABLE" = "true" -a -x "$RFCOMM_EXEC" -a -f "$RFCOMM_CONFIG" ]; then
stat_append " $RFCOMM_NAME"
$RFCOMM_EXEC -f $RFCOMM_CONFIG bind all
fi
if [ "$DUND_ENABLE" = "true" -a -x "$DUND_EXEC" -a -n "$DUND_OPTIONS" ]; then
stat_append " $DUND_NAME"
$DUND_EXEC $DUND_OPTIONS
fi
if [ "$PAND_ENABLE" = "true" -a -x "$PAND_EXEC" -a -n "$PAND_OPTIONS" ]; then
stat_append " $PAND_NAME"
$PAND_EXEC $PAND_OPTIONS
fi
add_daemon bluetooth
stat_done
stop)
stat_busy "Stopping bluetooth subsystem:"
stat_append " $PAND_NAME"
killall $PAND_NAME >/dev/null 2>&1
stat_append " $DUND_NAME"
killall $DUND_NAME >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ -x "$RFCOMM_EXEC" ]; then
stat_append " $RFCOMM_NAME"
$RFCOMM_EXEC release all >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
stat_append " $HIDD_NAME"
killall $HIDD_NAME >/dev/null 2>&1
stat_append " $SDPD_NAME"
killall $SDPD_NAME >/dev/null 2>&1
stat_append " $DAEMON_NAME"
killall $DAEMON_NAME >/dev/null 2>&1
rm_daemon bluetooth
stat_done
restart)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
esac
exit 0
Here goes the /etc/conf.d/bluetooth file
# Bluetooth configuraton file
# Bluetooth services (allowed values are "true" and "false")
# Run the bluetoothd daemon (default: true)
#DAEMON_ENABLE="false"
# Run the sdp daemon (default: false)
# If this is disabled, hcid's internal sdp daemon will be used
#SDPD_ENABLE="true"
# Run the bluetooth HID daemon (default: false)
HIDD_ENABLE="true"
# Activate rfcomm ports (default: false)
RFCOMM_ENABLE="true"
# Run bluetooth dial-up networking daemon (default: false)
DUND_ENABLE="true"
# Run bluetooth PAN daemon (default: false)
PAND_ENABLE="true"
# rfcomm configuration file (default: /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf)
#RFCOMM_CONFIG="/etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf"
# Options for hidd, dund and pand (default: none)
#HIDD_OPTIONS=""
#DUND_OPTIONS=""
#PAND_OPTIONS=""
DAEMON_ENABLE="true"
HID2HCI_ENABLE="true"
The output of lsusb | grep -i bluetooth
Bus 003 Device 014: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)
Output of dmesg | grep -i bluetooth
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.15
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.14
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6
Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.6
any help regarding the problem is highly appreciated.
[Edit] I tried doing /lib/udev/hid2hci(weird location i guess), but its asking me to enter sys device path which I've absolutely no idea of.
Last edited by pratik_narain (2010-07-23 03:54:49)

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Strange Bluetooth problem

Hi All,
I have recentlty tried to turn bluetooth on onmy iPhone 3G, having never used it before. the odd thing is that i dont have the bluetooth icon in the top left corner and neither can i get it to appear. I go through the usual process of, settings > general> Bluetooth > toggle on, and i just get a spinning icon in place of the toggle button. No bluetooth icon (either grey or blue) appears and the it does not switch into discoverable mode.
I have tried resetting my phone and i have also tried restoring it but to no avail.
Any suggestions to conquer this annoying bug woudl be gratefully recieved.
thanks Scott
Message was edited by: Scott Lefley

i have seen a another blog ehich details the problem and reckons you can fix it with a bit of toggling of the airplane mode...
http://www.abouthere.co.uk/blog/how-to-fix-iphone-bluetooth-not-enabling-spinnin g-wheel/
does seem like a hardware issue...;-(

Very strange Bluetooth problem on my 6680

If someone would have told me that my phone was a living sentient device I would have laughed at them... until now...
My partner has a N70 which she uses with a Sony Ericsson HBH-300 headset. To say the two are incompatible is an understatement but thats a separate issue. In order to eliminate her phone as the cause of her problems I paired the HBH-300 with my 6680. The problems she was having I now had.. so all well and good.. its the headset thats the issue.. so I deleted the HBH-300 device from my phone.. or so I though.. now ,when we are together,she tries to connect her HBH-300 to her phone but it tried to connect itself to mine! Its not on my device list.... anyone else come across anything like this ?

It may be that the phone/wife has renamed the Bluetooth connection for your phone to that of the Headset.
Suggestion:
1. Tell wife to delete all bluetooth paired devices from phone.
2. Disable bluetooth on your phone
3. Power up headset and get wife to connect and set as authorised when paired
Hopefully that should sort the problem out.
Gadget
Remember to mark all correctly answered questions as Solved. A forum is only as great as the sum of its parts, together we will prevail.

Bluetooth problems all around - Modem in the first row.

Hi there,
I've got a really annoying problem with the Bluetooth Setup of my Mac. Like you can see in my system description, I use Mac OS X 10.5.6. For a long time I used my old mobile via Bluetooth and GPRS as a Modem. Now it was time for a change. I bought a new mobile which supports 3G (Nokia 5800 Xpress Music).
I used the Bluetooth Wizard and told him to use all possible bluetooth functions of my device. I looked in the internet for the right configuration (APN, CID,...) and choosed to use the Nokia GPRS/3G Modem script which is preinstalled in Mac OS X (I also tried another one from www.taniwha.org.uk, it didn't work either).
The very strange thing is, the first connection worked without any problem, but after disconnecting and reconnecting it didn't work anymore. Instead I've got a message that the RFCOMM-Channel can't be opened.
I tried to fix the problem myself by searching wrong settings in some plists, but although I restored the original settings after recognizing that my changes didn't work, I've got a new problem.
Now the status symbol of the bluetooth modem always shows up that no modem configuration could be found, although I can still try to connect via Network -> Bluetooth. Of course it doesn't work this way too.
Sometimes the bluetooth modem works once after a reboot ( not after every reboot ). But only once!
File Transfer always works! The Nokia Multimedia Transfer also always works.
I definitely need advice of some of you, experts.
I'd love to hear from you!

Hi,
sorry, but the problem isn't solved yet. I tried different things but nothing helped:
I backuped and deleted the following Files:
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/Preferences.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist
/Users/benutzername/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.BluetoothHASH.plist
But it didn't help. In fact it made things worse. Therefore I restored the backuped files.
I deleted all bluetooth devices and installed just my new phone a bunch of times. - No change at all.
I used FSEventer to control the Filesystem Access. That leaded me only to the files mentioned above.
In the log-file:
/private/var/log/ppp.log
is the following error message logged:
Failed to open /dev/cu.Bluetooth-Modem: Resource busy
Up until now, I don't understand why this resource is busy.
I figured out, that the modem works using a USB-connection. That isn't a satisfying solution but it works for now.
Nevertheless I am still really interested in resolving the Bluetooth problem.

Bluetooth problem after update to lollipop

Hi,I've recently updated my 6503 to Lollipop.Everything went smoothly and is working fine, except 2 issues - one solved, second NOT. FIRST (solved) - phone after update waked up and logged to 2G network, with no data transmission (despite it was turned ON). What was strange - my operator's network appeared in 'available network list' as separate 3 NETWORKS ( 2g, 3g and LTE) Switching manually to LTE solved it - now phone is switching between technologies automatically, data transmission is working fine. SECOND AND NOT SOLVED: I'm using the hands-free system built in my car ( mitsubishi lancer, 2008 ) . After update, phone failed to establish connection with it, even hands-free system remained as 'associated device'. OK ... I erased hands-free system from phone, as well as phone from car's memory. Paired devices again - starting procedure from car's side. Nothing better. Erased and paired starting from phone side. Nothing better.What I've observed more: phone after try to establish connection , phone in eye blink looses it. On list of available services of hands-free system (in phone menu ofc) , only 'phone sound' appears, while -as I remember but i'm not sure- before update more (2 or 3) services were detected . PLEASE HEEELP !

Re: Bluetooth problem after update to lollipop As above post, I am also experiencing problems with bluetooth on my Z2:- Phone connection is OK if Bluetooth is turned on the phone for " car is ready". Then I can make and receive calls.
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Strange wifi problem on a brand-new MacBook Pro

Hey there, I'm new here. Desperation has got the better of me, and I hope I can get some advice.
So, last sunday I bought a brand new 13" MacBookPro with 2.8g i7 processor and 10.7.2 OS (I can't update to 10.7.4 because System Update tells me the download has been tampered with or corrupted after I waited 2 hours for it to finish, but I'm trying a direct download from the website). Here's the exact product: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-MD314LL-13-3-Inch-VERSION/dp/B005CWIZ4O/ref= sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1340301247&sr=8-5&keywords=macbook+pro+13
Everything is all perfect except for a strange wifi problem. Note that the wifi does not turn-on or off, it doesn't disconnect after 'sleep', it doesn't get less speed, it doesn't constantly leave a preferred connection (once I chose my home wifi it always connects to it no problem). The wifi bar is always full. What is wrong is that the internet is kinda 'glitchy'. The best metaphor I can think of is that it's like a car that has to be pushed down the road before the engine can start. Please, bear with me because this is kinda hard to explain and I'm not good at tech lingos.
One of the symptoms is browsing can get really slow and inconsistent, almost as if the wifi gets turned off in the middle of browsing. For example: if I look something up on Google and then open 5 new tabs, probably only 2 or 3 of those tabs will eventually load while the other two will not get past the long 'http:.......google.....etc etc' address and will eventually show one of those 'error loading page because there's no Internet connection' notice. This happens a lot. Sometimes I have to refresh/retry loading a page a couple of times before it finally loads, then usually everything will get back to normal and I will be able to open multiple tabs with no problem, but in a couple of minutes I would try to open another site and the problem will start again.
So I tried to see how it does with downloading using iGetter. Fortunately I also have a Macbook (white-plastic casing one) and my brother has an old 2006 MacbookPro so I can compare. With those two older Apples iGetter starts receiving data in less than 8 seconds after I click Start, while my brand-new Macbook Pro can take up to 15-20 seconds, sometimes it doesn't even start at all and I have to re-click the start button. But once the download actually starts (on my new MacBook Pro), it downloads like normal, it doesn't stop and the speed is also as good as I can get. Strange huh? Hence, like a car that has to be pushed before the engine starts.
I also tried 'speed testing' from a website with all 3 laptops. On my old MacBook and my brother's MacBook pro, once I click 'begin test' it takes only a couple of seconds of 'ping' before the download/upload speed measurements start, but with my new MacBook Pro (just like with iGetter) it takes up to almost a minute before the measurements start, sometimes it won't start at all and I have to re-start the test.
Well, thanks for reading. And hope you can help me shed some light into this. Because it is really preventing me from really enjoying my new MacBook Pro. And if this is most likely a hardware problem, I'd better get back to the store and try to get it replace or something while it's only been 5 days. *cheers*

Hey guys.. Thanks for the replies. Unfortunately, I bought the MacBook in Indonesia where there are no such thing as an AppleCare. The only option is to leave the Apple product to one of the 'Authorized Apple care centre' and have whoever do whatever to it without guarantee of success. As for returning it and getting a brand new one, I also don't know if there is such a deal here, but that's actually a good idea, will try to go to the store tomorrow. Although, I'm worried that the problem might be with OSX Lion or something and getting a new one won't help.
mark75090, I've tried resetting the router when I first noticed te problem, didn't work though. I've checked my new MacBook's wi-fi (option+click wifi bar) and it says 'PHY Mode: 802.11g', so does my MacBook and the old MacBook Pro. I don't know what those mean though, and I don't know whether or not my router is an N., can you tell me more please.. I have tried with the other two turned off, and only the new MacBook using the wi-fi but the problem persists. I have also tried connecting directly to the router, but as I described, the problem is too subtle for me to notice the difference.
Also, if I create a brand new Wi-Fi connection in network preferences and connect to my router through the new Wi-Fi profile, the problem seems to be gone for an hour or so, then it always comes back though. I have also just finally installed 10.7.4, but it doesn't help either.

Bluetooth is no longer working on iPhone 4s. It used to work very well. Not any more. Have tried reset network settings and all settings, no joy. Never had bluetooth problems before. Have tried connecting to other peripherics nothing works. Can you hel

Bluetooth is no longer working on iPhone 4s. It used to work very well. Not any more. Have tried reset network settings and all settings, no joy. Never had bluetooth problems before. Have tried connecting to other peripherics nothing works. Can you help? Thank you.

Bluetooth is no longer working on iPhone 4s. It used to work very well. Not any more. Have tried reset network settings and all settings, no joy. Never had bluetooth problems before. Have tried connecting to other peripherics nothing works. Can you help? Thank you.

How to Solve Wi-Fi or Bluetooth Problems on your iOS Device?

Do you have any problem with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on your iOS Device? Please read these steps carefully and follow it!
These Steps that I am sharing are TESTED by 10 iOS users what had problems with Wi-Fi or Bluetooth or both and was successful
- Please note that Resetting/Factory Resetting/Hard Resetting or Recovering or un-jailbreaking your device will not work at all -
To Solve Wi-Fi Problems Follow these steps (But before doing anything please restart your iOS Device and see if you still have network problems):
Step 1 Go to Settings > General > Reset > Rest Network Settings and Reset your Network Settings and wait until your device re-boots
Step 2 Go to Settings > Wi-Fi and see if you can connect to your Wi-Fi If you can't then go to next step
Step 3 Go to Settings > Airplane Mode and turn on Airplane Mode and shut down your device. Go to your network provider and ask to restart the Modem or do it your self (Just unplug power cord and plug it back in) You have to wait 30 seconds.
Step 4 Boot your device and go to Settings > Airplane Mode and this time turn if off and go to Wi-Fi and see if you can connect it again. If you can't then go to next step - Note: If you are going on to Step 5 it means that your device is experiencing Critical System Error that cannot be fixed easily -
Step 5 Go your laptop/desktop and open your browser then type this on the webpage search bar 192.168.0.1 and click enter. If it doesn't work then go and ask your network provider for an address for your modem/internet settings.
Step 6 Change your modem/internet settings to no password and make it "available/visible for everyone" and go to your iOS device and got to Settings > Wi-Fi and see if it works this time. If it still doesn't work go to next step - Note: If you are going on to the next step it means you are experiencing Critical System Error that had been cause by glitch/bug -
Step 7 Connect your iOS Device to iTunes on your laptop/desktop and update your iOS version -Note: this process if basically re-installing your operating system- If you can't update if because the new update if not available you have to wait for next update unfortunately
Step 8 After updating your iOS Device Go to Settings > Wi-Fi and see if it connects to your Wi-Fi. It normally fixes the problem but if it still doesn't, it means your device is experiencing hardware problem. Visit your local Apple Retail Store or reseller and ask them for complimentary/device-exchange/warranty help or go to Apple website for online support: www.apple.com/support/ for better support.
To Solve Bluetooth Problem all you need to do is resetting (not factory resetting) your device and see if it works, if it doesn't you will need to update your iOS or Google for more technical troubleshooting because it could be your pairing device's problem. Visit www.apple.com/support/ for better support.
If anyone of you had these experiences and was successful troubleshooting please do share your experience. I will also be avaliable to answer your questions if you have one! Please do share your openions about my post if you have one

If you don't mind, would you do that for me please?

Very Strange Internet Problems

I own a MacBook Pro 15.4 Inch that I purchased about a year and a half ago. I recently upgraded to Leopard and have all the latest updates. I am from the US, and when I am home my internet works fine. However, I am on travel to Seoul, South Korea right now and am having a very strange internet problem.
As far as I can tell, the URLs that I type in to my browser are, sparodially, not translated correctly into the webpages that they are supposed to represent. This problem is probably effective 75% of the time, and the rest of the time my internet works roughly correctly. For instance, when I enter http://www.google.com, instead of being taken to the Google homepage, I am taking to the homepage of Jammin Beats DJ Service, an obscure website about a company in northern Pennsylvania. The actual URL of this website is http://www.jamminbeats.com, but when my internet is malfunctioning, 'jamminbeats' is for all intensive purposes replaced by 'google' (that is, it applies not only to the main page, but to sub pages, so "http://www.google.com/weddings" takes you to "http://www.jamminbeats.com/weddings" and etc). For most other webpages, one of two things happens. Either I am taken to the correct page but it is displayed without any images or frames (just the html text and links), or I am taken to a blank page with the header "Under Construction", which I assume is the default for a page that doesn't exist. This is why it seems as though the URLs are simply being interpretted erroneously.
This problem occurs when connecting both to the wireless and the wired internet at my hotel, and it occurs on both Safari and Firefox, so it is not a connection-specific or browser-specific problem. It may be a problem with the hotel's internet, and as of yet I have not had a chance to test the computer at another location. However, a colleague using an IBM computer has had no problems, and I am currently on a Samsung machine in the business center of the hotel and it is working correctly as well. I have searched extensively online for a similar problem but have come up empty handed, and more than anything, I am confused about what might be causing this problem. The strangest thing is that a fraction of the time, the internet functions normally, but it is usually roughly 15 minutes out of every hour, and eventually I am inevitably taken back to Jammin Beats.
I am a computer science graduate but I still have no idea what would cause this problem. At first I thought it might be a hacker, but if it is, he or she has been at it consistently for 3 days now, and only seems to be targeting my computer. Any ideas or solutions would be greatly appreciated, as I have been forced to resort to the hotel's business center for checking email, doing work, etc. Thanks in advance.

I did consider that, as I was in Beijing last week and there are a number of censored sites. However, in Korea I have had problems with very basic sites like facebook, wall street journal, google, yahoo, Korean google, my hotel's webpage, etc. Further, I have successfully gotten all of these sites to load seemingly at random, and can access them without problems on other computers. The only disconnect seems to be between my MBP and the internet, not between Korean internet and the web. I have toyed around with the network settings, and although sometimes after switching from "Automatic" to a fixed connection I get some sites to work, it usually only lasts a short time and eventually the same sites stop working. I reset my cache regularly to make sure I'm not getting sent to cached sites, but this also doesn't help. Further, my Apple Mail, Skype and AIM accounts jump between being connected and disconnected randomly as well. Again, this is isolated to my own computer, which is why I'm so confused.

Bluetooth problem Yosemite

I bought a new iMac 21,5 with wireless keyboard and the Magic Mouse.
I've been using it for about two weeks now and everything was working fine, until i installed the new OSX Yosemite when it released.
Now, about 10x an hour the computer loses the bluetooth connection with the keyboard.
This is very annoying, since i use it for 3D drawing, and everytime it loses connection, i have to fill in the numbers again.
I've read on the internet that a lot of people share these problems.
Is Apple coming with a solution or update? Or can i fix this myself?
Read something about resetting RAM etc as well. But since my computer is new, I dont think that'll do it.
Thank you very much.

I had the bluetooth problem where my MacBook Pro wouldn't reconnect to my external bluetooth keyboard after the initial connect when I upgraded to Yosemite. I found the solution in another thread from nashntk: "everything were solved by resetting SMC Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)."
So far, the SMC reset fixed all of my bluetooth issues after the Yosemite upgrade. And it seems to be an ongoing solution as one reset has allowed me to disconnect and reconnect again multiple times.

Airport & Bluetooth problems after 10.4.7 update

(Note: I posted this in the Tiger forums and after no response, thought I'd try here.)
Greetings,
After updating to 10.4.7, my iMac G5 20" iSight exhibits occasional loss of signal strength in the Airport and poor or lost Bluetooth connections with the wireless keyboard and mouse.
The Airport and Bluetooth problems happen together at the same time. I can see the Airport signal strength drop and seconds later the mouse starts becoming slow and I usually lose connectivity with my keyboard. After about 10 minutes, signal strength returns on both.
The system is well isolated from interference, the cordless phone is a 5 ghz unit, and all cellphones have been removed from the room, but the symptoms continue. The wireless G router is only 3 meters away in the same room.
I reapplied the combo 10.4.7 updater, repaired permissions, cleaned caches using Applejack, zapped the PRAM and reset the SMU but the problem still happens.
Any suggestions? It is driving me crazy.
Thanks in advance for any help.

I'll add a "here, here". I have a 20" iMac G5 (1.8 GHZ). Since applying 10.4.7 I have had Bluetooth disappear twice. Disappear as in: keyboard and mouse no longer function and the bluetooth icon in the menu bar disappears. Power cycle works to recover the system. A far from elegant workaround.

Strange email problem; it started only loading unread emails, but from 3 months ago. It is now loading new emails too, but no emails in the past month, read or unread. It's gmail, set up through the phone, I've restarted restored

Strange email problem; it started only loading unread emails, but from 3 months ago. It is now loading new emails too, but no emails in the past month, read or unread. It's gmail, set up through the phone, I've restarted restored and updated firmware, deleted the account, anything I could think of, but it's just not accurately downloading the most recent emails.

The answer is very simple: You were not the original owner of the phone. Target sold you a phone that had been returned. You can verify the date of the original sale here: Apple - Support - Check Your Service and Support Coverage. I suspect you will find that the warranty expiration date is not one year from the date that you bought it.

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