Connecting a Bluetooth device to the Samsung D900

Ian Murphy

Adding Bluetooth devices to the Samsung D900 is easy

Creating Bluetooth connections with devices such as Headsets and PDAs to the Samsumg D900 takes less than a minute.

Once you have enabled Bluetooth and configured the security, you can add a device such as a headset or a PDA. The SGH-D900 supports several Bluetooth services and a full list of these can be found by going to the Bluetooth menu and taking option 6. Among the choices are headset, hands free, stereo headset, file transfer, printing and dial-up networking. The help menu will explain what each of these services does.

Not every device you will attach to your SGH-D900 will use or require all of these services. Additionally, some devices may not behave as you expect. For example, the main use of Bluetooth headsets is to provide a complete hands free service. With the current driving laws in the UK, this has become a must for anyone who owns a car. While the SGH-D900 allows you to take calls on your headset, it does not support hands free or voice dialling unless you purchase a separate car kit from Samsung.

Connecting devices is relatively simple; start by going to the Applications icon and clicking on Bluetooth to open the Bluetooth menu. Now select option 2, My Devices. This will show you what devices are currently connected to your phone and allow you to activate, remove and see what services each device supports.

Before trying to locate or pair with your Bluetooth device, you need to ensure that the device is turned on and in pairing mode. Each Bluetooth device manufacturer has their own way of doing this so you will need to refer to the device handbook.

Once the Bluetooth device is ready, select Search New device. The SGH-D900 will begin to look for any devices to which it can pair. Some devices can only be paired with by having a PIN number while others can be connected to without any additional information. After a few seconds, the SGH-D900 will show you the first device that it has found. If this is not the device you want, you can ask it to do a more comprehensive search and give you a list of any devices in range that you could connect to.

When you see the device you want to connect to, you press Select and the phone will ask you for a PIN number. This is the number that the device needs to create the connection. Depending on the type of device, this might be a manufacturer set number (0000 for headsets) or something that you have already set on a device such as a PDA.

The phone will then verify the PIN number with the remote device and ask it for a list of services that it supports. If it can find common services between the device and the phone, it will then create a connection.

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Creating Bluetooth connections with devices such as Headsets and PDAs to the Samsumg D900 takes less than a minute.

Figure 1
The Bluetooth menu is the fourth option under the Applications menu
Figure 2
This lists the services that the D900 can support over Bluetooth. Unless your device supports one or more of the services on this list then you cannot use it with the D900.
Figure 3
To see the Bluetooth devices attached to your D900 or to add a new device, select option 2 from the Bluetooth menu - My Devices.

Figure 4
Search for New Device will scan the immediate area for any Bluetooth devices that are advertising themselves. Most Bluetooth devices require to be put into a "Pairing" mode before they can be found so only do this after setting the device into Pairing mode.
Figure 5
The D900 will display the first Bluetoth device it finds. If this is not the right device then you need to select "More Devices" and the D900 will continue searching, listing each device as it finds it.
Figure 6
Once the D900 has found the device you want to connect to, highlight the device and choose Select.

Figure 7
Once you select the device to connect to, the D900 will ask you for its PIN number. This is to stop people connecting to any Bluetooth device they find. For most headsets, the PIN is 0000. Other devices may require you to create a PIN before connecting to the D900 and then use that PIN to validate the connection.
Figure 8
Once you have entered the PIN, the D900 will try and validate it with the device you are trying to connect with.
Figure 9
Once the D900 has established a connection to the device, it will get a list of services that device supports. For devices such as headsets that will be things such as Headset and Hands Free. For a PDA it might include File Transfer, Dial-Up Networking and Serial Port.