iPhone5 bluetooth not working

Bluetooth in iPhone 5 is not working. It is not recognizing the bluetooth devices even though its turned on.

iPhone 5, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 21, 2012 7:04 PM

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Jan 28, 2013 8:26 PM in response to praveenkay

Here's a real kick in the pants, too: My iphone 5 won't connect with my MacBook Pro!


My Macbook will tell me that my iphone is an "unsupported device."


***?


All bluetooth devices worked fine with my iphone 4. Nothing works with the 5.


My MacBook Pro specs are:

Model Identifier: MacBookPro8,2

Processor Name: Intel Core i7

Processor Speed: 2 GHz

Number of Processors: 1

Total Number of Cores: 4

L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

L3 Cache: 6 MB

Memory: 4 GB

Jan 29, 2013 5:23 AM in response to praveenkay

I've just bought a bluetooth CSR 4.0 dongle and I'm using Windows XP to try to connect to my Iphone 5 via bluetooth. My PC can see my Iphone but when I try to pair it, the Iphone just says that it can't be done.. I can connect my PC to a bluetooth loudspeaker I have but not to the Iphone 5. I've tried on my notebook too (64 bit Windows 7) but it didn't work there either..

I have no idea of what's going on..

Any clues??

Thanks!

Jan 29, 2013 6:22 AM in response to bose901

Well 6.1 is worse, my bluetooth connection on my Nissan Pathfinder used to need pairing almost every time I got in the vehicle,and it still does, however it's now dropping the connection when driving which it did not do before.

This is a step backwards for me, if only I had kept my 4 and not even botherd with a 5.

Apple will start to lose customers this year as the other phones offer more reliability.

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