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How to pair your Treo 650 with your Motorola H3 Bluetooth Headset

Published by bbt July 28th, 2006 in bernard, runningwithbulls.com, tech

Thanks to generosity on bedlam’s part, I am the proud owner of a Motorola H3 headset. And up until now, I didn’t have a clue how to pair it with my Treo 650.

After poking around Motorola’s horrible website, I came across this gem of information: Connecting the H3 with a Bluetooth-enabled Phone.

Activate Bluetooth®:
1. Starting with the phone, press the “Applications” button.
2. Tap on “Bluetooth.”
3. On the screen, if “Bluetooth is On,” go to step 4. If “Bluetooth is Off,” tap on “On,” and proceed to step 4.
4. Tap on “Setup Devices.”
5. Tap on “Trusted Devices.”

Putting the Headset into Pairing Mode:
6. Put down the phone and pick up the headset. Starting with the headset powered off, hold down the Call button for 6 to 10 seconds until the light stays lit. (Initially, the light will flash a few times before staying lit.) If the light is flashing, or if the light starts flashing anytime during steps 7 through 9, the headset is not in pairing mode, and step 6 needs to be repeated, beginning with the headset powered off.

Select the H3 Headset:
7. Go back to the phone, and tap on “Add Device.” The phone will start searching for nearby Bluetooth enabled devices.
8. Once the phone is finished searching, tap on “Motorola H3,” which will highlight it.
9. With “Motorola H3″ highlighted, tap on “OK.”
10. A screen will appear asking for the “Passkey.” Enter 0000, and tap on “OK.” Since the pairing is complete, the light on the device will be flashing.
11. Lastly, a screen will appear confirming that connecting is complete. Tap on “Done.”

Exactly what I needed!

Thank you bedlam.

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2 Responses to “How to pair your Treo 650 with your Motorola H3 Bluetooth Headset”

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1 Shrike236 Aug 29th, 2006 at 8:01 pm

Your instructions works with the Motorola Model HS810 Bluetooth Headset.

Be aware that there maybe a visual cue difference when using the Motorola headset vs. what you may be used to. I have a Bluetooth car adaptor. When the car kit is paired with the phone, a pair of brackets ( [] ) appears around the Bluetooth symbol on the main telephone screen. the bracketed Bluetooth symbol remains on until I exit the car and/or turn off the cBluetooth car kit.

The bracketed Bluetooth symbol does NOT happen with the headset unless you are actually making a call. This appears to be an intelligent power-saving feature that allows the phone and the headset Bluetooth communications radios to go into STANDBY mode to conserve power.

Voice tone, volume and receiver quality are excellent.

Thanks for posting the instructions — I had the same frustrating experience with Motorola’s website and with Palm/PalmOne — neither has very good support for using “foreign” accessories with their products.
2 bbt Aug 29th, 2006 at 10:09 pm

“The bracketed Bluetooth symbol does NOT happen with the headset unless you are actually making a call. This appears to be an intelligent power-saving feature that allows the phone and the headset Bluetooth communications radios to go into STANDBY mode to conserve power.”

–yes this is true. i have seen the same thing happen with my palm treo 650.

“Voice tone, volume and receiver quality are excellent.”

– the main problem i have is the damn thing falls off when i cycle in a strond wind!

“Thanks for posting the instructions — I had the same frustrating experience with Motorola’s website and with Palm/PalmOne — neither has very good support for using “foreign�? accessories with their products.”

– since the lack of wifi support in the treo 650 or (so it seems) in the new 700 series, I am seriously thinking about moving to a nokia device (when this 650 dies).

Palm have to get a vision back, and also get balls to leave the US mobile operators behind. they are stopping palm from doing alot of new and exciting things. it saddens me.

thanks for stopping by.

bernard