No Bluetooth Supported Services

[ronbo613]

I installed a Sabrent USB Bluetooth adapter on my Win7 64 bit computer to connect with my LG430G cell phone. The adapter installed fine, the computer identifies the phone, but there are no services, like file sharing, that show up in the phone's bluetooth properties.
Any ideas what is going on?

 

[ericloewe]

Bluetooth support varies. My old N97 had a lot of options (tethering, hands-free, sync and more) when connected to an Asus EEEPC 1000HE, none when connected to an HP laptop (both running Windows 7 - Home Premium x86 on the Asus, Ultimate x64 on the HP, integrated bluetooth, and both using the latest drivers from their respective manufacturers).

My N9 and Sony Vaio show a couple of options, but nothing as advanced - file transfers (basically useless), open phone memory as a folder, and maybe something else.

 

[JackMDS]

Blue-tooth is Not a replacement to Ethernet Networking.


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[ronbo613]

Blue-tooth is Not a replacement to Ethernet Networking.

True, but my $15 cell phone has neither an ethernet port or Wi-Fi capability, but it has bluetooth, so that's what I'm working with.
All I want to do is set it up to transfer photos from the phone to the computer. Maybe the Bluetooth USB adapter is not compatible with the phone? It seems to work with Windows 7 OK, unless it's another one of those 64 bit quirks.

 

[imagoon]

On my Android phone, the file xfer stuff is in the apps not the phone properties. About the only thing that shows up by default is media control and "speaker phone."

 

[ronbo613]

I installed OBEX Commander and now the cell phone and computer can communicate, but only through the OBEX program.
The OBEX Commander assigned the phone a four digit passcode, the Windows passcode was longer, I'm thinking the phone can only handle a four digit passcode, that's why it doesn't work with Windows.