Plantronics paired but intermittent!!!!!

Hi

My Plantronics bluetooth headset is paired with my iPhone BUT.........

Many times when the phone rings it does not show as an option to take the call on the headset, in fact MOST of the time it is not there.

Often when making a call it is not recognised either!

Any ideas to the problem or how to force the iPhone to recognise it?

Cheers.

Robin

MacBook Pro 17inch, Mac OS X (10.5.1), iPhone 1.1.2

Posted on Nov 22, 2007 1:53 AM

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Dec 2, 2007 4:54 PM in response to Robster50

Sorry this isn't an answer for your troubles, but I have the Apple BT Headset, which I feel is otherwise wonderful, but it goes from intermittently being able to send calls to the headset, and temporarily forgetting it's there. Basically, the iPhone will say it's paired with the headset (in Settings > General > Bluetooth) and the blue "B" icon in the top right corner is there (often times white), and sometimes the headset icon (with headset-battery status) will appear and disappear randomly.

Extensive searches around here say it's a matter of RF-interference. 802.11, other BT devices, other devices on the 2.4 frequency… but how do we stay away from those? Sometimes my headset works near these things, and other times, not!

I guess I'm commiserating. But we deserve a little more robust service, especially those of us who bought the Apple headset. The pairing is an awesome improvement, and the headset is otherwise great… but none of these mean jack if I can't make/take a call reliably on it!

Dec 5, 2007 3:03 AM in response to Robster50

I have a Jabbra 250 headset which worked perfectly with my Sony Ericsson phone. The issue I have is that if the phone goes out of range of the headset it loses the connection and won't reconnect (the Sony would just reconnect automatically when it was back in range).
The iPhone doesn't want to reconnect unless I switch off the headset, turn Bluetooth off on the phone, and then turn them both back on again.

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