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Other Stuff That Has Little To Do With PLA => Techinical Shit => Phreaking, Hacking, Social Engineering, Lock Picking => Topic started by: trevelyn on January 28, 2008, 10:40:23 AM

Title: verizon wireless + bluetooth
Post by: trevelyn on January 28, 2008, 10:40:23 AM
did anyone hear that verizon blocks their bluetooth communications from their handsets? so you have to go to them if you want things via bluetooth - and pay them each time. ?? i dont touch anything that says verizon wireless off the record.. my friend asked me about it.  I thought it was a joke until i googled it.
Title: Re: verizon wireless + bluetooth
Post by: gangals on January 28, 2008, 12:44:03 PM
A bluetooth headset will work fine, they just tend to disable DUN(Dial-Up Networking), ie. using your phone as a modem.

I suggest http://www.howardforums.com for all your cell phone needs
Title: Re: verizon wireless + bluetooth
Post by: trevelyn on January 28, 2008, 04:54:04 PM
well she says she cant recieve stuff via bluetooth like ring tones and themes and such.
she asked the guys in the Verizon store and they said it was locked.  Though, I use an even shittier service than verizon and I can send via bluetooth and receive too, and was also thinking if you can do it that way isnt there emails associated with cell numbers?  so you can send from a phone to an email, and from an email to your phone?  there is with my service provider.. <number>@mms.mycricket.com and sure enough it shows up on my phone.  If this works with veriZon maybe people could use that as a method to by pass the shitty locked down OBEX.
Title: Re: verizon wireless + bluetooth
Post by: Tachyon on January 28, 2008, 07:58:16 PM
I think my friend's phone (telus, a Kanadian telco) is unable to respond when I send a text via email.
Title: Re: verizon wireless + bluetooth
Post by: gangals on January 28, 2008, 10:46:39 PM
Ah, I forgot, they block that too.

Basically any phone feature that Verizon can block, that causes you to utilize one of their payed services, they will.

http://www.notepage.net/smtp.htm
Title: Re: verizon wireless + bluetooth
Post by: trevelyn on January 29, 2008, 07:22:39 AM
Ah, I forgot, they block that too.

Basically any phone feature that Verizon can block, that causes you to utilize one of their payed services, they will.

http://www.notepage.net/smtp.htm
??? ??? ??? what a bunch of profiteering gluttons ??? ??? ??? Fuck VeriZon.
Title: Re: verizon wireless + bluetooth
Post by: Jo Nathen on January 30, 2008, 10:29:43 PM
are we talking headsets in general ..... ???   Or file transfers?
Title: Re: verizon wireless + bluetooth
Post by: trevelyn on January 31, 2008, 05:34:49 AM
JUST file transfers, but contact transferring somehow works ??? maybe we can disguse files as contacts?
Title: Re: verizon wireless + bluetooth
Post by: gangals on January 31, 2008, 07:37:51 AM
I used to just email stuff to my phone or used an SD Micro/Mini card if it supported one.
Title: Re: verizon wireless + bluetooth
Post by: trevelyn on January 31, 2008, 10:17:00 AM
Ah, I forgot, they block that too.

Basically any phone feature that Verizon can block, that causes you to utilize one of their payed services, they will.

http://www.notepage.net/smtp.htm
I used to just email stuff to my phone or used an SD Micro/Mini card if it supported one.

you said they blocked it My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself. okay i will have her try it anyhow. thanks guys. 8) also, if you take the phone into the verizon store and then buy a transfer from them, do they do it with BT or with a wire?  Cos couldnt i just have my macbook in my bookbag with BT packet sniffer running in Ubuntu and catch what they actually do??

just a theory. - thanks again.
Title: Re: verizon wireless + bluetooth
Post by: gangals on January 31, 2008, 08:25:42 PM
Transfer cable with a stand alone unit.