LG

Hi there! I have two LG phones - a GS505 Sentio and an older VX5500. I recently purchased a Bluetooth headset for hands-free operation in the car. I have successfully paired the headset to the GS505 but I would like be able to add a second pairing to the VX5500. Unfortunately when I tell the VX5500 to discover the device, it says "No devices found". I have read articles online which suggest that I can control this by forcing the phones to use the Bluetooth "profile" called "headset". Anyone have any suggestions or experience with this kind of thing?

Posted by jwhite5840 on 13 Aug 2010 09:09 AM:

Hi there! I have two LG phones - a GS505 Sentio and an older VX5500. I recently purchased a Bluetooth headset for hands-free operation in the car. I have successfully paired the headset to the GS505 but I would like be able to add a second pairing to the VX5500. Unfortunately when I tell the VX5500 to discover the device, it says "No devices found". I have read articles online which suggest that I can control this by forcing the phones to use the Bluetooth "profile" called "headset". Anyone have any suggestions or experience with this kind of thing?

I believe the Bluetooth headset has to support being paired with multiple devices. For example LG's HBM570 is listed as "Multi-Connection (2 phones)" capabilities. So if your Headset lists this in the Specs, you should be able to pair to two different phones.

Found that I can pair both phones to the headset. Was actually pretty simple once I figured out how to force the headset back into discovery mode. The mechanism will be different for every headset, but I found a link on Plantronics' website for my Explorer 240 and it worked great.