while my 3GS can see my powerbook and work with it using the Bluetooth connection, cannot do the same with my 3G. they simply do not see each other even staying very close each other. Both are Bluetooth enabled, of course.
Any suggestion?
from my point of view, the FTP through BT is half the problem.
if i understand correctly, what is still to be understood is why powerbook and macbook do not see the 3G iPhone while they do see the 3GS, not just in BT but even in the wifi mode.
Again, I'm not clear what you mean by "see the 3G..in WiFi mode." Are you referring to a particular app on your laptops that access the iPhone via network? Is that app set up on the 3G (it has to be at both ends.)
i simply would mean that when i connect 2 BT or wifi machines, they usually appear on each other screens. maybe cannot work together, but on one screen i can see the other.
in my case is not that way. and actually it happen between 3GS, powerbook and macbook, while do not happen for th the 3G.
hope i'm better explained now.
The only way to "see" the screen of the other device is to have a VNC app installed and operating on both the iPhone and the computer. Perhaps there is one running on your 3GS but not the 3G.
🙂 i realize it is a complicated situation to explain myself in another language. i don't want to see the screen of another instrument, just to see on my screen the presence of another instrument emitting BT or wifi waves.
Not all devices will see the Iphone, cause it depends on the services available in each device. I gave example of 2 phones connected. paired and cannot communicate any further. However, my daughter's Nokia and hubby's LG models will not see the Iphone at all with BT. This is not a problem, cause (my conclusion) the Iphone is not meant/neither has the services to offer the other phone. So, I think the other device rejects the connection. Maybe MAC people here will confirm if they can pair Iphone with their Macs. I can pair with my PC (using Belkin BT dongle) but that is far as it goes.
For Wifi, you cannot see the other device (apart from special programs like VNC as mentioned before), cause you are not connected to the other device. you are connected to the WiFi AP (your router, unless your pc is also Wifi AP router as well). if you want to know if you can communicate with the Iphone connected to the same WiFi AP as other machines/device, you can use something simple like "PING" utility. Again check your MAC to see if you have it (I think it does). Hope this explains it. Just ping the Iphone and if all is well you should see a reply on the machine that you pinged from like so:
C:\Users\>ping 192.168.1.101 <--- this is Iphone IP address, which yo can get from General/settings/wifi/<your ssid> touch the blue arrow to see the details of the Iphone connection.
Pinging 192.168.1.101 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.101: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=64 <--- replies from Iphone
Reply from 192.168.1.101: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.101: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.101: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=64
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.101:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 4ms, Maximum = 10ms, Average = 5ms
so jamalaya you're saying, if i understand correctly, that in BT as well as in wifi it may be that 1 iphone may not be able to detect another iphone though very close? it may depends on the settings, i suppose.
do not use any ping like utility yet, i'll download it. thanks for the suggestion.
if one of the devices does not have services, it may not connect. Some phones connect (pair and password) but you cannot do anything, there are no compatible services to connect to.
