Hi everyone. I have an iMac G5 17" 1.8 GHz apple. Just today I arrived home and turned on my mac and to m,y surpirse bluetooth is playing up. I have it shown up the top and I always have it oof (unless using it). If I click in it it has "Bluetooth: on" and "Turn bluetooth of" both are voided so I cann press them. I have tried restarting but to now fix. I have attm,pted to fix it in system prefreneces but with no change. Can anyone help me on this please?
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Bluetooth out?
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are you sure that the bluetooth is off. I havent use a bt enabled imac before, but since they dont relaly have to worry about saving energy i would imagine tht its possible that the bt is always on.
are you sure that the bluetooth is off. I havent use a bt enabled imac before, but since they dont relaly have to worry about saving energy i would imagine tht its possible that the bt is always on.
Myself and a couple of others had this problem recently; my fix was to turn Bluetooth on/off using Bluetooth File Exchange (have a look at this thread).
andy89 said:
What Mac do you have? And how does it have Bluetooth (i.e. internal, USB dongle, etc.)?
wiggy4ever said:
If Bluetooth is set to listen during sleep on a laptop, for example, thieves can use Bluetooth phones and other devices to detect nice laptops/phones to steal from car parks and the like. Also leaving it on and 'discoverable' could make your private data vulnerable.