Hi Diana, Rob has already sorted the Hotspot connection for you. This “VW BT 3209” you are concerned about. Do you have a VW (a Volkswagen car)? This looks like when you pair your iPhone - Connect iPhone to VW Bluetooth?
Cheers, Ronni Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > On 29 Mar 2018, at 10:44 am, Diana & Graham Stevens <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thanks Rob > > I had already restarted the iPhone with no effect. This time I turned off > absolutely everything even eMac and G4 tower which don’t appear in FMI. Did > not go as far as disconnecting power. Rebooted modem and Time Capsule. Turned > on iPad, iPhone. Bluetooth shows only the iPhone. Hopefully all hunky dory. > > Still don’t understand why FMI does not show the iPhone. > > Thanks so much, I can have breakfast now and start my day. > > Best wishes from Diana > Sent from my iPad > >> On 29 Mar 2018, at 9:23 am, Rob Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> restart all devices? >> >> Sent from OPPO Mail >> On Diana & Graham Stevens <[email protected]>, 29 Mar 2018 9:14 a.m. >> wrote: >> I have decided I can’t do without WAMUG, I shall pay my dues today. >> >> If this is a bit garbled please bear with me, I am very depressed, any >> fellow sufferers will know this means no ability to concentrate, accident >> prone etc. >> >> Present problem, I needed to use my iPad away from home. Set up Graham’s >> iPhone as hot spot, turned off wifi on iPad to do it. Turned wifi on again. >> Did not need to use the iPad after all, left it at home, this was on Tuesday. >> >> All well until today, iPhone tells me to turn on wifi for better location >> services. Didn’t think I had turned it off. Hit the button, I can’t remember >> what it said but whatever it was I assumed it would turn wifi on. I cursed >> myself for using 4G for lengthy phone calls but it was necessary because our >> landline has had an intermittent fault for over 2 weeks, off 50% of time, >> Telstra technician hasn’t been able to solve it. >> >> Connection unsuccessful. Message make sure “VW BT 3209” is turned on and in >> range. >> >> But it is connected, icons for Telstra and wifi. I have no idea what this >> device is. >> >> Looked in Bluetooth which shows both my iPad and this device as unconnected. >> I get the equivalent message to above. But Find my iPhone on my iPad shows >> my iPad and my old iPad 4 as connected. No mention of foreign device. >> >> Find my iPhone on the iPhone, logged me out for my own protection, logged in >> again, it shows my two iPads, the iPhone doesn’t appear. >> >> At one stage I managed to select the foreign device (I can’t remember how). >> Forget this device was greyed out, I tried to Sync contacts, the only other >> option got the same error message. >> >> On my iPad the only device in Bluetooth is the iPhone. >> >> I turned off Bluetooth on the iPhone, powered down and restarted. Unknown >> device still there. >> >> Should I turn Bluetooth off, if warns me against it? >> >> The only other thing that might be relevant is that I noticed Graham has not >> turned on Two-Factor Authentication. >> >> I haven’t a clue what to do next nor whether this has serious implications. >> Any suggestions? >> >> Regards Diana >> >> Sent from my iPad
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