• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

Help Droid-Bluetooth file transfer??? Paired but not connected?

remodini said:
I have never used a Voyoger, but I'm sure the snag has to with the way you are trying to send it from that phone. My Droid seamlessly accepts whatever type of crazy files I send from my Omnia, and automatically stores it in "Downloads", and "Bluetooth" on the SD card.
Click to expand...

I have Bluetooth file transfer working between my computer and DROID as well.

Any apk or small file that download of the forums.....that's how I get it into the phone.

See something as I browse the forum on my laptop....download it onto my laptop. Then transfer it over Bluetooth for installation on droid.

THIS WILL NOT WORK WITHOUT THE PROGRAM BLUETOOTH FILE TRANSFER.

Like somebody mentioned, the droids bluetooth capabilities are natively very limited.

I also remember having a LOT of problems when I set it up.

There's just one way to do it. Tell me if you follow the steps below and still don't get it.

1) Update your laptop bluetooth drivers.
NOTE: Sometimes you'll have try different ones. I had a IBM-T43 that just would NOT pair with an other smartphone I had. Then I deleted the IBM-T43 bluetooth drivers and installed the microsoft bluetooth drivers. Right now, I have an HP and the droid seems to play well with it.

2) Install 'Bluetooth File Transfer' from the market.

From some reason, even with Bluetooth file transfer....I cannot initiate a connection from the phone. It will pair......but it will not connect.

3) Go to your laptop....'My bluetooth places' or its equivalent. There should be an option on the left side to 'add bluetooth device'

4) Pair the two and connect from there. You should also see or be allowed to choose a list of available services. One of them for me was DROID OBEX FTP and DROID OBEX OBJECT PUSH. I think objects are for contacts, ringtones etc....while FTP is for regular files from the SD card.

5) I'd create a shortcut for both these in my bluetooth places

6) You are done!

NOW.....the ONLY way that this has worked for me when you want to transfer a file is

On your laptop......go to the shortcut...Droid FTP that you created and click on it with
1) BLUETOOTH ON
2) BLUETOOTH FILE TRANSFER running on the droid.

It will connect and in a Windows explorer window, bring up the contents of the SD card. Now you can move files in windows.

I've never been successful initiating the connection from the DROID.


Hope this helps.

Disclaimer: This is what I did on my HP6910. Even though most systems run windows...some of these settings may be in slightly different places for you. Search around and try to accomplish the same things as I mentioned.
 
If at all possible I use email or mms to transfer data first. Bt is great for printer though.
Phone to phone it is so much quicker to email or mms.
 
File transfers from the DROID to my laptop work, but when I try and send files from the laptop to the DROID it "no services found" in windows 7 even with the phone connected.
 
I have found that I can only transfer to certain devices from my Droid. BB is a no go I cannot BT n e thing to my husbands BB. I can to other motorola drvices, Samsung Delve no prob. LG ENV 3 no go . I use BLUETOOTH FILE TRANSFER by MIDEVAL as well. I get the paired not connected alert from all BB's I try to send things to, and that is after the password is entered. Hope this helps
 
I finally got this working. You need to have the bluetooth file transfer app installed as it provides the bluetooth FTP service. Also in windows, under bluetooth devices, right-click on your device and select properties. There should be a tab for services and make sure file transfer is checked. It wasn't automatically checked when I paired my DROID to my laptop.

After taking these steps, I was able to transfer any kind of file to/from my laptop to the DROID, regardless of which device the transfer was initiated on.
 
mdidonato said:
I finally got this working. You need to have the bluetooth file transfer app installed as it provides the bluetooth FTP service. Also in windows, under bluetooth devices, right-click on your device and select properties. There should be a tab for services and make sure file transfer is checked. It wasn't automatically checked when I paired my DROID to my laptop.

After taking these steps, I was able to transfer any kind of file to/from my laptop to the DROID, regardless of which device the transfer was initiated on.
Click to expand...

I don't see this listed under services. In fact nothing is listed. Can't send a pic via bt to pc. Paired but not connected? Any help would be great. Thanks
 
I am also paired but not connected. I went into phones properties on my computer BT devices and I have no hardware and device functions for my droid. I have the latest BT drivers on my computer because my BT mouse works flawlessly so I'm confused as to why there are no hardware drivers for the droid under properties. Anyone have this.

From above i should have "DROID OBEX FTP and DROID OBEX OBJECT PUSH" in there somewhere under hardware of device properties?
 
I was able to use a Bluetooth app *Can't remember the name of it off the top of my head* and was able to Bluetooth MP3's over to another phone. It was a bitch and didn't work often, but it worked that one time. VZ has made it REALLY hard.
 
I had a LG Rythm and I got by pics to transfer through bluetooth, but everytime I try my contacts it says transfer failed. Any ideas?
 
I had the same problem but downloaded Bluetooth File transfer which is a free app. Go to the apps store and search "OBEX"
 
Saiyan_Prince said:
Why does the phone say PAIRED BUT NOT CONNECTED??? How do i connect it to the other phone. To be more specific the other phone is the ERIS. So is it even possible to send songs, pics, etc to other phones from the DROID? And can the ERIS even accept bluetooth file transfers?
Click to expand...


The phones are paired, the Droid 2 is wanting permission to connect and download the file. Slide the status bar down and click to give permission to accept file.
 
Saiyan_Prince said:
Why does the phone say PAIRED BUT NOT CONNECTED??? How do i connect it to the other phone. To be more specific the other phone is the ERIS. So is it even possible to send songs, pics, etc to other phones from the DROID? And can the ERIS even accept bluetooth file transfers?
Click to expand...



One way to do transfer pictures, video, music, etc... (Media) between phones is to use DNLA.
 
Try repairing the two devices that should work in most cases. I don't know why but for some reason they forget that they are paired and how to talk with one another.
 
Fadelight said:
File transfers as in what?

There have been a few discussions about this in recent days. Let me see if I can correctly sum it up. (Someone else will jump in if I missed.)

Bluetooth only supports ad2p profiles for headsets, music, and sharing of contacts and pictures. This is limited by VZ. Until the phone is rooted, there is absolutely no way around this. You cannot send files other than contacts and pictures via bluetooth.

It sucks... I know. I am in the same boat. I am [im]patiently waiting for the droid to be rooted so I can use bluetooth to share files between two droids.
Click to expand...

Paired but not connected is actually connected!!! If you long click on file you want to transfer you will get option to share click on bluetooth option to transfer to device done hope this helps
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom