Verizon routinely disables all bluetooth functionality other than for a bluetooth earpiece. So, unless you go through their network to transfer files, pics, videos, etc... you're out of luck.

You can also use Image Capture. (!) Choose "Browse Devices…" in the Devices menu and if your phone is paired or in your Bluetooth favourites, it should appear in the list. Double-click it and you can download pictures.

An even BETTER use of this technology is to get a friend to let you sync with his phone while he's over. Just tell him it's cool and you want to show him how it works. If he's a guy, that's probably all the explination he'll need.

Then, once you're linked up, you can spend the rest of the evening copying photos TO his phone while he watches TV across the room. The more, uhm, "interesting" the photos are, the more fun it is when he finds them later...sometimes days later.

If you're a Photoshop wiz you can take a photo FROM his phone, alter it in some way, and then put it BACK. You can really make that party he was at last week look a LOT more fun than it really was.

Not that I have, ahem, done any of these things.

I tried this with my Razr and it worked great! I sent a couple of pics using Cingular's e-mail option and it cost way more than the pics were worth to me. My wife has a bunch of pics on her Razr that she would love to print and she was tickled that I can pull them off her phone.
I loved the comment on messing with your friends' pics while they are withinn range, I'll do that to my son while he watches Sports Center! Add a mustashe to his girl firend! He'll never know. Oh yeah, he has my old phone that is still paired w/ my PowerBook, so I can get them.

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BanjoBanker wrote:
I tried this with my Razr and it worked great! I sent a couple of pics using Cingular's e-mail option and it cost way more than the pics were worth to me. My wife has a bunch of pics on her Razr that she would love to print and she was tickled that I can pull them off her phone.
I loved the comment on messing with your friends' pics while they are withinn range, I'll do that to my son while he watches Sports Center! Add a mustashe to his girl firend! He'll never know. Oh yeah, he has my old phone that is still paired w/ my PowerBook, so I can get them.

If your carrier has disabled BlueTooth media transfer, there is still a simple way to get the pictures off your phone and onto the computer.

1. Open iChat.
2. Show video preview.
3. Find the picture you want on your phone.
4. Place your phone close to the iSight.
5. Choose "Copy" from the "Edit" menu.
6. Paste the image into iPhoto.

Repeat until you have transfered all images from your camera.

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Verizon routinely disables all bluetooth functionality other than for a bluetooth earpiece. So, unless you go through their network to transfer files, pics, videos, etc... you're out of luck.

Actually they would be, in their eyes.

With the data transfer disabled, you are forced to transfer over their network, which they charge for.

Same is true for RIM Blackberrys. They have disabled the data capability of bluetooth (audio transfer only available). That is why Salling Clicker won't work on it. Nor can PocketMac for Blackberry sync over bluetooth.

Alas, I was an early adopter, and have a v710 through Verizon. Although it is annoying that they disable certain functionality to "encourage" you to use their paid service, there are ways around this. There was a recent settlement where it was agreed they misrepresented the v710, and customers must be reimbursed via credit, phone swap, etc.

I found that adding a TransFlash memory card, plus a USB adapter, allows me to transfer sounds, movies and pictures between the phone and my Macs. Synching with iSync can be done with a USB cable. The phone does allow a BlueTooth conncetion to use it as a high-speed radio modem; I've gotten DSL-like speeds, which is pretty good for a cellphone.

Misrepresenting is right. I bought my S-E Z520 (or somesuch - stupid bloody name - why not something snappy like iPhone?) and its predecessor simply because it had Bluetooth, which I use regularly with Salling Clicker.

Fortunately our two carriers Vodafone and Telecom New Zealand would be in big trouble with the Commerce Commision if they tried something like that on. Sometimes an interfering government department can be just what you want when these bastards do this.

Works beautifully on Cingular. Now the picture quality....

The only way to get photos from my LG Verizon phone is to transfer them via a Mini-SD card reader. So although my phone and PowerBook can be paired, there's nothing they can do together.

"All dressed up and nowhere to go."

:^P

I use a Audiovox PPC-6700 PocketPC/phone combo on SprintPCS. Fortuantely, the Bluetooth is not disabled in any way on this phone and I get the full benefit of being able to tether it as a EVDO modem (when necessary), and do data transfer between my phone and my MacBook. I have found though that there are several resource sites out there that will allow you to tap in to the "hive mind" of the cell-phone subculture. There are some people out there who have learned how to hack the various functions of their phones and restore full useability to their bluetooth. You may have to look for the specific model pf phone you have (and find the corresponding user group), but here are a couple of sites I use:

www.pdaphonehome.com

www.sprintusers.com

www.smartphonethoughts.com

I've been struggling with Bluetooth and various POP nonsense for literally hours trying to get my photos onto my Mac, then I found this tutorial. So easy. You are a god, and I appreciate this soooo much. BTW, I have Cingular--worked like a charm.

Can you send stuff via Bluetooth from 021 to 027?

I assume that you're referring to Telecom New Zealand and Vodafone phones? Yes you can - I have done. The service providers here don't provide any restrictions that I am aware of (in that area).

Well I have to say, this was very helpful. I had recently gone to six flags and I had forgotten my camera so I had used my phone. Trouble was, I didn't know how to get them off. Thanks

Now I have a challenge maybe some of you would be interested in. Do you have any idea of how to take a regular mp3 song and change it into a ringtone then download it onto a bluetooth capable cellie?

Clip it to an appropriate length, set to 32-64kbps mono and transfer the file.

okay So I did this once and it worked, I got my photos and even transferred over some new ringtones over, but then I had to disconnect the pair. I tried connecting them again and I now can't 'brows' my phone. The Bluetooth sign in the upper righthand of my computer has a dotted line slashed though it and I get a message saying that my phone was busy. It wasn't. some help would be greatly appriciated

I have a Motorola E815. Verizon disables the file portion of bluetooth (instructions posted on this site are great, though). I called Verizon, and they told me the "only" way they know to move photos is by sending them to their Pix-Place (for a charge per photo, of course). I read on this forum that others used flash cards. We found the card slot in the top that takes a microSD flash card. I went and bought a 1G card for $17 USD and moved 175 photos to the card, and easily uploaded them to iPhoto on my iMac. Took me all of 20 minutes. The Geek Squad guys at Best Buy helped me with the details I have yet to try the iChat method also posted here.