I was disappointed to find out that the iPhone bluetooth is Not working as expected. This is the first phone with bluetooth which I owned that is not connecting with my PC. I have used Nokia and Sony Ericsson bluetooth to connect my PC and backup my phones. With iPhone, the only way is to use the USB cable to connect to your PC.
The iPhone crippled bluetooth can use bluetooth earpiece or bluetooth headset.
iPhone does not support:
- Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP)
- Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP)
- Basic Imaging Profile (BIP)
- Basic Printing Profile (BPP)
- Cordless Telephony Profile (CTP)
- Device ID Profile (DID)
- Dial-up Networking Profile (DUN)
- Fax Profile (FAX)
- File Transfer Profile (FTP)
- General Audio/Video Distribution Profile (GAVDP)
- Generic Access Profile (GAP)
- Generic Object Exchange Profile (GOEP)
- Human Interface Device Profile (HID)
- Intercom Profile (ICP)
- Object Push Profile (OPP)
- Personal Area Networking Profile (PAN)
- Phone Book Access Profile (PBAP)
- Serial Port Profile (SPP)
- Service Discovery Application Profile (SDAP)
- SIM Access Profile (SAP,SIM)
- Synchronisation Profile (synch)
- Video Distribution Profile (vdp)
- Wireless Application Protocol Bearer (WAPB)
Source: iPhone’s Bluetooth is dumb, purposely crippled or both?
iPhone 3GS Bluetooth with Windows Vista
As for the new iPhone 3GS, Windows Vista may the the culprit that prevent proper communication over bluetooth. My Vista kept asking to look for “Bluetooth Peripheral Device”?! Apparently, Vista does not have a driver to support iPhone 3GS bluetooth profiles.
If you manage to connect using bluetooth for Internet tethering, leave a comment below.
[Update 18 Aug 2009] iPhone 3GS Bluetooth Internet Tethering
Managed to connect my MacBook Pro via bluetooth to iPhone internet tethering after performing latest software updates including the latest version of iTune 8.2.1 (6).
[Update 28 Jan 2010] Steve Jobs announced the Apple iPad yesterday. Will the iPad be another crippled device?
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i cant find bluetooth in my iphone 3gs in cydia. i want to download it. can any one help me ?
This Work for me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv3tfbv9P6w
I just connect my iphone with my pc.
iphone 3gs… alienware M15X windows 7 Home Premium
From Chile with Rock
I had learned a lot about i phone. Got a 3Gs, was happy and excited to have one but all my excitement went into the wall when i came to know that apple has joked with it’s customers on the name of iphone.
Basic features which are common in very cheap phone are not there in 3GS.
What a fun?
I really rate it as a stupid device having no customer friendlyness.
No blue tooth connectivity with other phones are windows
No photo editing
No Business card support
Even many other common features are not found.
Apple i hate u for that joke
Hay!! Any one know Bluetooth app. For jailbreak iPhone 3GS????
i have downloaded celeste worked for a while no i can only send cant recieve whats the way farward
i can’t expect from Apple company that iphone mobiles fail in blue tooth pairing with other mobiles devices, which is very common and cheaper technology now adays.i try my 3gs with Nokia but bluetooth fail in pairing.very DISGRACEFUL
are there any free packages. CELESTE is expensive
are there any free packages
Its for all dose who r finding problem with the sharing of files via bluetooth…u can download ‘celeste’ from cydia and can activate it from sb by just slinding left or right on the taskbar… Once it get activated..u can easily send or receive file with any phone ..
Try it.. It works in my iphone 3gs
Enjoy..
can we install jailbreak into iphone 3gs with any version
Nothing Works…..have tried all of the above mentioned ideas, still nothing. I love the phone but it may end up in my daughter’s pocket as she does not need bluetooth. I have a beautiful car that I love and I can’t even pair up the phone to it. It’s the only device I want to pair up and it won’t. My opinion of iphones has changed dramatically in the last two hours.
What a piece of shit…how hard can it be to get bluetooth right when everyone else seems to get it.
I got my iPhone 3GS yesterday after ordering it over the Internet can anybody tell me if I take my phone to my local store will they change it for me?
just bought the iphone 3g last week won,t pair with my 2011 sonata hands free bluetooth my 50 doller lg pairs just fine this i phone should be called a dump phone not smart phone vic bochicchio
I bought the iPhone 3GS in march and this … don’t want to send or receive any files but will connect just will say it’s not supported. It’s just a scheme. Apple is bullshiters I had piece of shit phones that had Bluetooth work.
Win 7 and iPhone 3GS, bluetooth internet sharing… no problem, works good.
http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/33457-bluetooth-peripheral-device-driver-solution-windows-7-a.html
Well as you can see from all the unhappy folks out here, the iPhone (3Gs,4.x) will apparently:
1) NEVER connect via Bluetooth to the PC,
2) will NEVER sync with Outlook,
3) will NEVER allow Tethering w/o whacking the thing in the head (jailbreaking) or some hidden flashlight sync app… that was pulled from the apple store.
—> Hey, If that isn’t a blatant “nana, nana, boo-boo you can’t have this aaaapp” in your face from Apple, I don’t know what is!
—> Let’s face it, we all have been suckered and i believe it’s by design. One of the two doesn’t want to play nice with the other guy (company) under the hood.
Apple or Microsoft… I’m leaning 99% toward Apple being the piss’e one here (consider Flash as another biggie too)!
Come’on guys fix the thing! How hard can this be to get Bluetooth to sync correctly with PC?
Now, just one other thought set to music.
How long has this been goin’ on?
How long has this been goin’ on?
Well, your friends with their fancy persuasions
Don’t admit that it’s part of a scheme,
But I can’t help but have my suspicions
‘Cause I ain’t quite as dumb as I seem.
And you said you were never intendin’
To break up our scene in this way,
But there ain’t any use in pretendin’,
It could happen to us any day.
How long has this been goin’ on?
How long has this been goin’ on?
How long?
(how long has this been going on ambrosia)
Unhappy iPhone owner
VZW’s iPhone4 won’t pair reliably with my ’09 Infinity G37s. Other phones do. Takes 3 to 5 tries to get the pairing to take, but within an hour the car and iPhone can’t connect to each other. Verizon and Infinity just point their finger at the other guy. Not too user friendly in my book.
my ipnone3gs is not working blutooth whenever i on blutooth it is showing now discoverable and nothing is coming on the sreen
I am amazed that the iphone cant even send files across bluetooth to my nokia 5800, it doesn’t even pair. seriiously i have tons of bluetooth devices and it doesn’t recognize any of them.
Quite disappointed with iPhone. As with most pple the bluetooth function doesn’t work. All the hype and not enough substance. Scandal after scandal with the iphone. is it ever gonna end
in my iphone 3gs bluetooth is not working what is the reason?
i want to store pdf files, from my pc(windows7) to iphone 3gs using data cable.
please tell me the process.
my email id: regs1631@yahoo.co.in
Ive just got an iphone 3GS and having trouble with my bluetooth. I cant seem to pick up other phones and when they search they can pick me up but when they try to send to me nothing happens!!!!! very frustrating :0( can anyone help with why this happens or how to sort it out, any suggestions or help is appreciated.
This iPhone is totally fucked, don’t have basic functions, it’s frustrating. Can’t recommend to friends nor buy one again
I manage to tether my iphone’s 3Gs bluetooth for both Mac and PC to share my internet connect from my iphone and i managed to tether 1 Mac and 2 PCs at the same time via Bluetooth.
i really don’t understand i need help.i can send files from my i phone but can’t receive any.it keeps saying written fill failed
same problem here. im using vista, i can not connect my iphone 3gs through bluetooth. i need the data cable whenever i want to use my data plan for tethering.
Hello people could someone help me ? My iPhone Bluetooth ant working I am trying to connect with another phone so I can send a pictures to them but it’s not having it . I can pick the other phone up when I search for them so that’s working plz help me someone
Still looking for a bluetooth peripheral device driver, any help with that?
Can I know if I can still listen to Radio Channel if I connect my IPhone to a Blue Tooth Ear Piece ?
I have LG GW 300? When I an trying to connect it with my Sony Vaio (Vista) its asking for Bluetooth peripheral device driver. Please suggest where I can find the drivers.
Talked with a mate who’s had Apple stuff since back when it was genuinely advanced compare to Msoft (so that’s about 20 years ago) and even he was despairing about the iPhone.
It’s going back. I’m not paying that sort of money for half a phone. I can’t imagine what a crap experience the onanists who bought an iPad must be having right now with that triumph of design over function!
Overpriced under-specced toss. Apple = Crapple.
Never ever again.
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