Discovering Bluetooth limitations and lost cell phones
Posted by phoneinfo on November 16, 2007
In this installment of Questions and Answers, we tackle Bluetooth and lost cell phones. Got a question you want answered? Submit your cell phone question here. Got something to add to the answers below? Leave a comment.
My daughter got the first version of the Verizon Chocolate phone. She has her old phones, and friends in which she can Bluetooth ringtones to the phones, but with the new Verizon Chocolate phone, she can’t do this. She can only find a device like a headset or something. The ringtones and things are not locked or anything. It’s like there is an area of the program missing or something. Does anyone know if there is a code to unlock this? She just wants to pair devices via Bluetooth with friends? – Alanna
Unfortunately, you can’t send music via Bluetooth from the Verizon Chocolate cell phone. If she has a MicroSD card, she can try getting stuff from her friends’ cell phones onto her cell phone that way. However, if the music she wants on her cell phone has a Digital Rights Management code, she probably won’t be able to play them on her new cell phone, since it limits the amount of devices that can play the music.
My cell phone was stolen. When I dialed my phone number, I talked to someone. I have since closed my phone number. Can my cell phone be located? – Charles
Having a cell phone stolen is definitely a trying experience. For some, cell phones have become such an essential part of life that losing it can leave them feeling a bit stranded without all their information. Just because cell phones can be located by various methods doesn’t mean they will be. For example, if your cell phone has a GPS chip and it’s still on and you have what is essentially the serial number of your cell phone and know someone who can track it, then in theory, yes, your cell phone can be found. That’s a lot of “but”s, so it’s not likely that you’ll find it.
You did the right thing by shutting down your service so that you don’t have to incur costs of calls made by someone else. If you have cell phone insurance, you can get a replacement model for about $50 to $75. But I’m guessing one of the reasons you want the cell phone back is for everything that’s on it: contacts, pictures, saved messages. Unless you backed up your cell phone using an optional data kit such as the DataPilot Cell Phone Data Transfer Suite, you’ll probably need to start accumulating all that information again.
