Using your Bluetooth Device
To establish a Bluetooth connection, you need to find the remote Bluetooth device
first.
Steps:
1. Make the remote device discoverable.
2. Double‐click the My Device icon, namely, the orange ball in the center of the
window.
3. Bluetooth devices will appear around the orbit, if discoverable.
Tips:
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Discoverable: A Bluetooth device always has two statuses, discoverable or non‐discoverable.
It can only be searched in discoverable mode by other devices. The default mode of some
mobile phones, headsets, mice, keyboards is non‐discoverable and you have to manually
switch the mode to discoverable. To learn how to make a device discoverable, check the
information that came with your device.
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If you want to stop searching devices, double‐click the My Device icon, or right‐click it and
select Stop Searching in the popup menu.
Search Remote Device Services
To communicate with a remote device for specified usage, you need obtain
Bluetooth services supported by the device which has been found. To do so, follow
one of the methods below:
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Double‐click the remote device icon.
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Right‐click the device icon and select Search Services in the popup menu.
Bluetooth Security
To protect and prevent data from unauthorized access, a Bluetooth passkey is
required before communication.
Once a remote device is paired with your computer by exchanging passkeys,
passkeys will no longer be required for further connections between your computer
and the device.