Bluetooth and Motorola E815

Russell Patterson <[email protected]> wrote in
news[email protected]:

> I have the E815 and three different bluetooth headsets. Each one of
> the combinations lose connection when I am not on a call. It doesn't
> happen all the time but often enough it's a pain in the ass.
>
> I can never tell when it happens until I get an incoming call. Then I
> have to take the headset off and answer the phone manually. I am
> stuck holding the phone throughout the call.
>
> If I try to connect the bluetooth device while it is ringing the
> caller gets disconnected.
>
> Does this happen to other people or phones as well?
>
> I have the $5/month insurance with Verizon and I am considering taking
> it back for this problem, but I would like to know, if they give me
> another E815 or, for that matter, another type of phone, will I still
> have the same issue?
>
> As much as I hate the idea I may have to revert back to wired
> headsets.
>

I'm on Alltel with E815 and two cheap Moto BT headsets a Verizon friend
of mine just handed me. His Verizon E815 did what yours does. They BOTH
work great on my Alltel E815, leading me to infer that the problem is
more with Verizon's hobbleware, the usual Verizon game of deleting
standard features, than it is with the E815, itself.

These headsets sucked awful on his Verizon E815. Works great on mine
under Alltel's firmware, unhobbled. You be the judge.

I'd also like to put in a monkey wrench that happened to another friend.
His BT headsets went CRAZY and he could never get them to work. He asked
me to look at them. He had them BOTH paired to BOTH his phone and his
wife's phone! So, any time he was WITH his wife, and her phone, the poor
headsets were trying to pair with BOTH OF THEM! Radio systems don't like
to share stations, even now! I reset both headsets to start over.
Paired one to HIS PHONE ONLY and the other to HER PHONE ONLY. Problem
went away....permanently. They both work great...er, ah, unless some
idiot picks up the WRONG ONE...his><hers.....hers<>his...(c; Then,
nothing pairs, of course. Check to make SURE yours is ONLY paired with
ONE PHONE!

Larry
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I was also very 'unpleased' when I found out how much of the features
on the E815 were locked out by Verizon. I went on a quest to find a
data cable that would work to give me some of the capabilities that
most cell phone users enjoy. In my search I came across a
cable/software combination that allowed everything on a E815, but only
if you were on Canada's Bell system.

Unfortunately I need to have the phone working for business calls when
I am at home and the only (mediocre at best) coverage I can get at
home is with Verizon. The E815 does seem to get a better signal and
less dropouts at home than previous Verizon phones. does anyone know
of a Verizon phone that gets the good coverage I need, does not lose
connection with Bluetooth, and if possible does not have all it's
features locked out so you have to purchase them piecemeal from
Verizon?

Russ

On Tue, 08 May 2007 00:27:38 +0000, Larry <[email protected]> wrote:

>Russell Patterson <[email protected]> wrote in
>news[email protected]:
>
>> I have the E815 and three different bluetooth headsets. Each one of
>> the combinations lose connection when I am not on a call. It doesn't
>> happen all the time but often enough it's a pain in the ass.
>>
>> I can never tell when it happens until I get an incoming call. Then I
>> have to take the headset off and answer the phone manually. I am
>> stuck holding the phone throughout the call.
>>
>> If I try to connect the bluetooth device while it is ringing the
>> caller gets disconnected.
>>
>> Does this happen to other people or phones as well?
>>
>> I have the $5/month insurance with Verizon and I am considering taking
>> it back for this problem, but I would like to know, if they give me
>> another E815 or, for that matter, another type of phone, will I still
>> have the same issue?
>>
>> As much as I hate the idea I may have to revert back to wired
>> headsets.
>>
>
>I'm on Alltel with E815 and two cheap Moto BT headsets a Verizon friend
>of mine just handed me. His Verizon E815 did what yours does. They BOTH
>work great on my Alltel E815, leading me to infer that the problem is
>more with Verizon's hobbleware, the usual Verizon game of deleting
>standard features, than it is with the E815, itself.
>
>These headsets sucked awful on his Verizon E815. Works great on mine
>under Alltel's firmware, unhobbled. You be the judge.
>
>I'd also like to put in a monkey wrench that happened to another friend.
>His BT headsets went CRAZY and he could never get them to work. He asked
>me to look at them. He had them BOTH paired to BOTH his phone and his
>wife's phone! So, any time he was WITH his wife, and her phone, the poor
>headsets were trying to pair with BOTH OF THEM! Radio systems don't like
>to share stations, even now! I reset both headsets to start over.
>Paired one to HIS PHONE ONLY and the other to HER PHONE ONLY. Problem
>went away....permanently. They both work great...er, ah, unless some
>idiot picks up the WRONG ONE...his><hers.....hers<>his...(c; Then,
>nothing pairs, of course. Check to make SURE yours is ONLY paired with
>ONE PHONE!
>
>Larry