Bluetooth pairing of blackberry phone

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Bluetooth pairing of blackberry phone

I have had lots of difficulty pairing my Blackberry 8220 with my Mac Book (OS10.6.2).
When I set up in bluetooth preferences (set up assistant), it directs me to enter an 8 digit number into the blackberry. When I do I get the error message that says pairing failed, would you like to use another passcode option. i tried all 4 options. the only one that works is the "no pass code option".
It reports successful with the following message " congratulations, pairing was successful. You may now use your phone to connect to the internet etc..." problem is its not not really paired. when i go to bluetooth preferences it shows as not paired & not connected.
I have 4+ hours invested with Blackberry & Apple tech support with no success.
My ultimate goal is to tether (use my blackberry as a modem) my Phone, but I need to get the simple task of pairing the phone accomplished first.
Please help if you can....

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Jan 30, 2010 4:41 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 27, 2010 5:11 AM in response to pillco

To me this seems like a snow leopard and blackberry issue. I can't get my computer to pair with either of my two blackberry phones (9630 Tour or 9530 Storm). My MacBook can see both phones but I can't get past the unable to pair option. Interestingly, I had the Tour paired to the same MacBook with Leopard before I upgraded. In addition, when I hook up the phone directly using a USB cable and try to run Tether, I get a "failed to load the blackberry interface" message.

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Karrick

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Feb 27, 2010 9:22 PM in response to pillco

I just paired my blackberry curve.

Did you use the ALT key on your blackberry to ensure you were entering numbers? You have to either get in NUM LOCK mode on the black berry, or press ALT before each letter to force it to become a number.

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Answer 3

Feb 28, 2010 5:45 AM in response to Karrick

Actually I have a Storm which doesn't have physical keys so there is no ALT key like my Tour. And with my problem I never got to the stage where I could enter a number, the error came first. I did, however find a solution that worked in my case. I had to uninstall Blackberry Desktop Manager.

Here's what I wrote on Crackberry.com after the fix:

After some searching and tinkering, I've got Tether working on my MacBook running 10.6.2 with my Storm 9530 via bluetooth (very nice). It basically comes down to a conflict with Blackberry Desktop Manager so unfortunately it can't coexist with Tether. But for those of us with Parallels, VMWare or VirtualBox, I'd suggest keeping the Blackberry software on the Windows machine anyway because there are so many more tools available.

So
1. Uninstall the mac Blackberry Desktop Manager. I was using version 1.0.2. You can redownload if necessary to get the uninstaller. Reboot to complete the uninstall
2. Try pairing your device via bluetooth from the mac. This immediately generated the passcode unlike previous attempts with the BBDM installed.
3. Run Tether on the BB and select bluetooth as the connection type
4. Run Tether on the Mac and select bluetooth as well
5. Finally enjoy Tether (hopefully!)

Plus
Move BB backups and software to virtual machine. I had problems with the mac BBDM automounting while I was trying to do things with my BB via the windows VM so I'm anticipating that this will solve that problem too.

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