- Aug 21, 2011
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About a month ago I got a Plantronics Backbeat GO 2 headset, and paired it with my S5, with no difficulties of any kind.
Fast forward to earlier today, when I decide I'll try to pair my headset with my (Windows 8.1) PC, and, try as I might, it won't appear as an available Bluetooth device when I scan from my PC. And so I thought I would unpair it from my S5, thinking that might be necessary to pair the headset to another device. (Stupid idea, really, but the documentation sure doesn't say anything to the contrary. Or much of anything about anything, really.)
And after doing that, I still couldn't pair the headset to my computer.
So what happens next? I try to re-pair the headset with my S5, and now it won't appear in the list of available devices. Instead, it only shows "Scott's Kindle". (I think "Scott", a stranger to me, was seated at another table in a coffeeshop, when I stopped there a few days ago. I tried to pair the computer with my Bluetooth headset then, but on the earlier occasion I didn't unpair it with my S5 first.)
It's completely useless now, unless it's possible to fix it. My S5 is rooted stock, however. Is there some fix for this through the editing of an XML file or something? I do have a recent nandroid backup, which helps, but I'd rather not have to resort to that if I can help it. More troubling still is that I'm not sure it is something on my phone at all. What if it's something in the Bluetooth device itself, and I evidently have no way of getting to it?
Until I get this headset working again, or replace it, I've got nothing but the ear buds that came with my Roku.
Fast forward to earlier today, when I decide I'll try to pair my headset with my (Windows 8.1) PC, and, try as I might, it won't appear as an available Bluetooth device when I scan from my PC. And so I thought I would unpair it from my S5, thinking that might be necessary to pair the headset to another device. (Stupid idea, really, but the documentation sure doesn't say anything to the contrary. Or much of anything about anything, really.)
And after doing that, I still couldn't pair the headset to my computer.
So what happens next? I try to re-pair the headset with my S5, and now it won't appear in the list of available devices. Instead, it only shows "Scott's Kindle". (I think "Scott", a stranger to me, was seated at another table in a coffeeshop, when I stopped there a few days ago. I tried to pair the computer with my Bluetooth headset then, but on the earlier occasion I didn't unpair it with my S5 first.)
It's completely useless now, unless it's possible to fix it. My S5 is rooted stock, however. Is there some fix for this through the editing of an XML file or something? I do have a recent nandroid backup, which helps, but I'd rather not have to resort to that if I can help it. More troubling still is that I'm not sure it is something on my phone at all. What if it's something in the Bluetooth device itself, and I evidently have no way of getting to it?
Until I get this headset working again, or replace it, I've got nothing but the ear buds that came with my Roku.
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