Hello everyone,
I'm asking for some help with my Nexus 6 (64GB Unlocked White, Verizon, running stock 5.1 LMY47E rooted)
I cannot for the life of me get my Nexus to transfer files ( .jpg pictures, .pdf, etc) to my Macbook Pro (late 2011 17") via bluetooth
I've included some screenshots of the errors I'm getting.
I have tried numerous times to get it to work. I've done various Google searches regarding this problem, which hasn't helped at all.
Now here's the weird thing.......
I bought my Nexus 6 last month (April, 2015) and I got bluetooth file transfer to work with my Macbook Pro initially. However, my MBP had its logic board fail (mid April) and I had to send it to Apple to get it replaced. Long story short, after throwing in a brand new Samsung 500GB SSD and doing a fresh install of Mavericks 10.9.5, I cannot get my Nexus to send files to my Macbook Pro. I've tried files other than the various .jpg pictures I want to send, such as .pdf, but they fail as well in the Outgoing Transfers folder in bluetooth.
I CAN get my Macbook to send files TO my Nexus and it accepts them, it's just the sending files from my Nexus to my Macbook that always fails. I use this function ALL the time to transfer photos to my Macbook from my Nexus, I hate having to get a USB cord and manually do it. I grew accustomed to this with my old Galaxy Nexus.
I should mention I was running Mountain Lion 10.8.5 before I had to send my Macbook in for repair. Yet I'm fairly confident this isn't the problem, given I can send files from my Macbook to the Nexus, but not vice versa.
I tried deleting the plist file for bluetooth on my Macbook, then shutting down the laptop, then restarting. This did not fix it.
I've tried clearing the bluetooth cache in apps on my Nexus, then rebooting...... this did not work.
I'm at my wits end here with options.
I do not understand why I can't get files to go through to my Macbook, yet I can get files to go from my Macbook to my Nexus 6.
I get a connection error when I try and send a file from my Nexus to my Macbook, screenshot below.
Any help with this problem would be appreciated.
I don't know what to do..
Thank you-
***UPDATE***
Just found out what was wrong.
There is a setting in System Preferences called "Sharing"
You MUST enable Bluetooth Sharing in order for the Nexus (or any smartphone for that matter) to be able to send files to a Mac via Bluetooth.
I've included this link to help those in the future who have this problem:
http://www.maccomputerlessons.com/how_to_connect_to_transfer_use_files_via_bluetooth_phone_apple_mac.htm
Attached is a screenshot of the item that MUST be checked:
Why not use USB?
MVLJR said:
***UPDATE***
Just found out what was wrong.
There is a setting in System Preferences called "Sharing"
You MUST enable Bluetooth Sharing in order for the Nexus (or any smartphone for that matter) to be able to send files to a Mac via Bluetooth.
I've included this link to help those in the future who have this problem:
http://www.maccomputerlessons.com/h...r_use_files_via_bluetooth_phone_apple_mac.htm
Attached is a screenshot of the item that MUST be checked:
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Do you mean enabling the Bluetooth toggle or a different setting? Did not find sharing yet.
nhizzat said:
Why not use USB?
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I do for big files, such as videos I've taken, but for pictures, bluetooth file transfer is so much easier and quicker.
Android The Greek said:
Do you mean enabling the Bluetooth toggle or a different setting? Did not find sharing yet.
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You have to first pair the Nexus to the Macbook, then go into
System Preferences-Sharing-then check "Bluetooth Sharing"
*Once you do this, you can transfer files from your Nexus to your Macbook
Cool, thanks. Ima try this when I get home. I could never ever get it to work. I have MBP 2014 and never work from or to it. Let's see if it works tonight.
Sent from my Nexus 6
Doesn't seem to work for me. I tried this and I still get the error message but somehow it was connected because a file I sent transfered. But it doesn't say its paired and connected but it went through. I don't use Bluetooth transfer but I would like to have all features working properly on my laptop and or phone. Oh well ?
Sent from my Nexus 6
Try unpairing, then delete the nexus from your MacBook, and vice versa, then restart your computer and phone, then try repairing
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What can I do with bluetooth obex?
Anyone else not able to search xda using the stock g1 browser?
with bluetooth obex you can send and receive files via bluetooth as long as both devices are rooted.
both devices have to be rooted? Perhaps I am reading into that too much but you can't mean we can only share with other android phones right?
I saw it says bluetooth FTP... which made me wonder if I was missing something, like if I could do stuff with my computer remotely. What is the significance of FTP on this apps name *when you open it*.
Sorry, would be nice if you could search on here using the G1s browser.
Bluetooth File Transfer Protocol meaning its a program used to transfer files over the Bluetooth Frequency.
so it is android to android only then?
crizznaig said:
so it is android to android only then?
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Nope, I connected to my iMac. It can share with any other device that has the bluetooth file sharing enabled/available.
crizznaig said:
so it is android to android only then?
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connected to my friends nokia 6265i ... its a regular phone not a smartphone .. was able to view his files and everything ... loving the new bluetooth app
ok so then how do you enable the file sharing etc on android ? I was trying to test with a friend of mine who has an android, and was unable to find the setting any ideas? thanks!
Yeah, my buddy has an iPhuckinsuck, we let our phones become available, we scanned, we paired, but then we could not connect, even after I entered the correct PIN for his phone.
Perhaps I just don't know how to connect, but I have yet to connect with a phone correctly. Same scenario with my wife's BB. Could not connect.
Hi, All,
When I'm browsing my Captivate from my MacBook, I only see directories, no individual files. Any idea why? I'm able to browse my Nokia E71 and see files with no problems.
Thanks,
Bill
Totally thread necromancy here but I have the exact same problem. I can drag new files into the bluetooth file exchange window and they do show up on the phone's storage but the operation completes with no feedback. I cannot get the phone itself to send a file via bluetooth to the Macbook, however. I've tried watching the logs both in ADB and watching the system.log on the Macbook. Nothing really useful shows up.
I'm running stock Froyo on the phone and 10.7 on my new MacBook Air.
Same as the above. Anyone have a solution?
With official AT&T upgrade (2.2), I can connect to the phone from my Macbook Pro via Bluetooth, and browse.
I see all the directories, but no files at all.
Also, the "Send" button is grayed out, so I cant send files to my phone.
Is Bluetooth file transfer broken on this release?
Or am I just doing something wrong?
PhilipPeake said:
With official AT&T upgrade (2.2), I can connect to the phone from my Macbook Pro via Bluetooth, and browse.
I see all the directories, but no files at all.
Also, the "Send" button is grayed out, so I cant send files to my phone.
Is Bluetooth file transfer broken on this release?
Or am I just doing something wrong?
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Get bluetooth file transfer app in market.
I haven't experienced any issues with bluetooth file transfer since the update. Running stock 2.2 Captivate, and a Windows 7 64 bit OS.
I see the same thing on my Mac, has been the same across multiple Captivate ROMs. I presume it's a Mac / Galaxy compatibility issue.
Is it possible to push files from my Bionic to my laptop using Bluetooth, if it is I can not do this. This seems like a very basic operation.
I can push music from my phone to my laptop and it plays on my laptop fine.
I have downloded and used the app called "Bluetooth File Transfer" and it seems to work to some degree but not when I want to push, say, a photo from phone to laptop.
I have paird Bionic with laptop and laptop to phone, that works, I have sent file from laptop to Bionic no problems there. I have browsed phone with laptop using BT.
When I try to send file from Bionic to laptop I always get the same error message "Transfer Failed".
When I look into the Device Manager I find there is a number of drivers the laptop seems to want to download but never finds the right one.
When the Bluetooth File Transfer app runs it tells me I need the OBEXFTP and or Object Push Profile, but I can not seem to find the correct one for my Bionic.
Anyone know what is going on here?
P.S. Seems to me (like I said before) a very basic thing to want to do, I could do it with my old Imagio on the WM OS, why can I not do this on the BT 3.0?
Sqwaller said:
Is it possible to push files from my Bionic to my laptop using Bluetooth, if it is I can not do this. This seems like a very basic operation.
P.S. Seems to me (like I said before) a very basic thing to want to do, I could do it with my old Imagio on the WM OS, why can I not do this on the BT 3.0?
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I use blue tooth file transfer myself without problem. Maybe the problem is your laptop?
Sent from my bionic using my fingers...
Okay seriously!! I have not been able to share photos with anybody at all via BT, WTF? What is the use to have this feature at all? I am however able to receive from other devices but that is it. Like today I was able to receive content from a cheap Cricket Wireless phone but not send to it???? I've tried various phones including a Blackberry and an iPhone (which I know that iPhone blocks this). The only way I can send and receive via BT is from a laptop and that's it!!!! This is worse than the DFT hack version of BT file transfer.
sinister1 said:
Okay seriously!! I have not been able to share photos with anybody at all via BT, WTF? What is the use to have this feature at all? I am however able to receive from other devices but that is it. Like today I was able to receive content from a cheap Cricket Wireless phone but not send to it???? I've tried various phones including a Blackberry and an iPhone (which I know that iPhone blocks this). The only way I can send and receive via BT is from a laptop and that's it!!!! This is worse than the DFT hack version of BT file transfer.
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You can only transfer from WP8 to WP8 and expected to support all other platform free support in future updates.
nitin88g said:
You can only transfer from WP8 to WP8 and expected to support all other platform free support in future updates.
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What the? Are you serious? I don't know anyone else besides myself with a Windows Phone; and I am not just saying that. So who am I supposed to share content with via Bluetooth? OMG, out of the 600 + employees at work I'm the only one with a WP8 device.
Are you kidding ?????
I can send any pictures via bluetooth from my Lumia 820 to any device with bluetooth. You first need to pair your WP8 phone with the device to which you want send file and accept data transmission. Before the moment I checked with the Nokia E52 - works as it should.
I just sent a Picture from my Lumia 920 via Bluetooth to my SGS2 and it worked just fine. I actually don't know what issue you are running into but the OS and Nokia device support this just fine.
What's not working is initiating BT File Transfers using NFC with an Android device. If you use regular Bluetooth for sharing there shouldn't be any issues. Another problem ist the iPhone but that is due to the fact that the iPhone does not support the standard OBEX object push protocol for Bluetooth (which is what basically everyone else is using).
Budniu said:
Are you kidding ?????
I can send any pictures via bluetooth from my Lumia 820 to any device with bluetooth. You first need to pair your WP8 phone with the device to which you want send file and accept data transmission. Before the moment I checked with the Nokia E52 - works as it should.
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Hum, that is strange. I don't get it then. It must be specific to the 822 or something.
StevieBallz said:
I just sent a Picture from my Lumia 920 via Bluetooth to my SGS2 and it worked just fine. I actually don't know what issue you are running into but the OS and Nokia device support this just fine.
What's not working is initiating BT File Transfers using NFC with an Android device. If you use regular Bluetooth for sharing there shouldn't be any issues. Another problem ist the iPhone but that is due to the fact that the iPhone does not support the standard OBEX object push protocol for Bluetooth (which is what basically everyone else is using).
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Yea, on this last phone it tried it on it even had the option to enable OBEX; I paired the phones and everything and the other phone was able to send to my Windows Phone but anytime I tried to send something it would say error, the connection was lost even though they were connected.
I didn't even pair the phones - just set the SGS to be visible via Bluetooth, on the Lumia selected a picture to send via Bluetooth, it found the SGS and I said send. The SGS then asked if I wanted to receive the data which I confirmed and some time later the transfer was done and I was able to open the image without any problems.
What have you been trying to send?
I have also been able to send photos. Have you got bluetooth turned on before trying to send the photo? I've found that if bluetooth is off, then it's not an option to share.
The key for me is to make sure that Bluetooth is enabled before trying to share. Once that's on, then tap and hold the photo, tap share... and then select bluetooth (other options being messaging, mail, facebook onenote, twitter)
It then shows me any discoverable devices weather they are paired or not.
Option for share is "touch and send" for picture this is not NFC but BT.
Touch and Share is NFC. It uses NFC to initiate a Bluetooth Transfer and this currently does not work between an Android device and Windows Phone. Activate Bluetooth in Settings and below Touch & Share you will get the option Bluetooth which works fine.