Wolf68k
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I have an iBook G3 dual-USB 12" running 10.3.9 (Panther). Unless I can be assured that I won't see any more slow downs than what I have already I don't see the point to moving to 10.4 (Tiger).
When my dad owned it and then passed it down to my mom everything was fine. I bought a bluetooth-usb dongle and I had no problems parring it with my cellphone, originaly a Motorola v557 and now a Sony Ericsson z520a. I was able to browse the phones sending and recieving files with the iBook. I could only use the "Send a file" with the Sony, but that wasn't fine.
Dad got a new MacBook which he gave mom his 15" iBook which they then gave me to 12" iBook.
I choose to format the drive and start fresh. I had no problems doing that, a few minor glitches with iCal and airport at first but with all of the latest updates inplace those were fixed and things seem to be normal.
I connected the bluetooth dongle recently to get a camera pic off of it, and this is where things went strange.
I did everything to set up like I did before. Then I started to set up a new device. Before when it wanted to confirm the parring where the setup creates the random number and I enter it on the phone...no problem.
Now however the setup wants me to create a number which I then enter it on the phone when asked. That seems to go fine.
The problem now is that I can't get to "Send a file" it acts like it's not really trying. And the "Browse device" tries once and offerents a "reconnect" which when I do that the bluetooth software crashes and wants to send a crash report (which I do).
I grabbed the 15" iBook which I still have an account on and which is running Tiger. The parring set up there does create a random number and I can browse and "send a file" just fine.
My iBook originally came with 10 or 10.1, I forget which, and was upgrade as time went on. It had never had the bluetooth dongle until recently (around the end of June 2006) and the reformat/reinstall happened around the first of August.
Is there some other patch some where I can get that can fix this? Something that's not showing up with the Software Updates.
Like I said before, I think Tiger might put too much of a stress on my weak iBook and slow it down more. However if you/someone can assure me that it won't/shouldn't and that Tiger will 100% fix the bluetooth problem, then I'll try it.
When my dad owned it and then passed it down to my mom everything was fine. I bought a bluetooth-usb dongle and I had no problems parring it with my cellphone, originaly a Motorola v557 and now a Sony Ericsson z520a. I was able to browse the phones sending and recieving files with the iBook. I could only use the "Send a file" with the Sony, but that wasn't fine.
Dad got a new MacBook which he gave mom his 15" iBook which they then gave me to 12" iBook.
I choose to format the drive and start fresh. I had no problems doing that, a few minor glitches with iCal and airport at first but with all of the latest updates inplace those were fixed and things seem to be normal.
I connected the bluetooth dongle recently to get a camera pic off of it, and this is where things went strange.
I did everything to set up like I did before. Then I started to set up a new device. Before when it wanted to confirm the parring where the setup creates the random number and I enter it on the phone...no problem.
Now however the setup wants me to create a number which I then enter it on the phone when asked. That seems to go fine.
The problem now is that I can't get to "Send a file" it acts like it's not really trying. And the "Browse device" tries once and offerents a "reconnect" which when I do that the bluetooth software crashes and wants to send a crash report (which I do).
I grabbed the 15" iBook which I still have an account on and which is running Tiger. The parring set up there does create a random number and I can browse and "send a file" just fine.
My iBook originally came with 10 or 10.1, I forget which, and was upgrade as time went on. It had never had the bluetooth dongle until recently (around the end of June 2006) and the reformat/reinstall happened around the first of August.
Is there some other patch some where I can get that can fix this? Something that's not showing up with the Software Updates.
Like I said before, I think Tiger might put too much of a stress on my weak iBook and slow it down more. However if you/someone can assure me that it won't/shouldn't and that Tiger will 100% fix the bluetooth problem, then I'll try it.