"Dial via bluetooth" handoff to headset

[DVallot]

I am currently outfitted with a HX4705, a BT250 Jabra headset, and a Sony Ericsson T610 from T-Mobile that I use for bluetooth dial up networking. One feature I have come to know and love is the "Dial via Bluetooth" for contacts. I can effortlessly select a contact on my pda to dial, and as soon as my phone starts dialing my headset kicks in and I am ready to talk.

I *thought* this was pretty standard fare with Bluetooth phones, but I have recently been playing with a Verizon-branded Motorola V710 and while it *does* now support the DUN profile and dialing a contact from the phone book, it does *not* seem to hand off the connection to my headset so I may begin talking. It seems to only want to work with one or the other, ie to use DUN profile, I must have my headset off, and vice versa. It seems to support the profiles necessary for this kinda stuff, can anyone enlighten me as to why this phone is different?

[DVallot]

I am currently outfitted with a HX4705, a BT250 Jabra headset, and a Sony Ericsson T610 from T-Mobile that I use for bluetooth dial up networking. One feature I have come to know and love is the "Dial via Bluetooth" for contacts. I can effortlessly select a contact on my pda to dial, and as soon as my phone starts dialing my headset kicks in and I am ready to talk.

I *thought* this was pretty standard fare with Bluetooth phones, but I have recently been playing with a Verizon-branded Motorola V710 and while it *does* now support the DUN profile and dialing a contact from the phone book, it does *not* seem to hand off the connection to my headset so I may begin talking. It seems to only want to work with one or the other, ie to use DUN profile, I must have my headset off, and vice versa. It seems to support the profiles necessary for this kinda stuff, can anyone enlighten me as to why this phone is different?

[waterboy]

I, too, purchased the V710, through Alltel, after I was told that the Bluetooth implementation was not crippled in any way. However, what I found out later by trial & error, and then confirmed with Motorola's web site, is that the only profiles supported, at this time, by the V710 Bluetooth implementation are:

Headset Profile
Hands-Free Profile (HFP) version 1.0
Dial-Up Networking Profile (DUN)

And, the Dial-up Networking automatically connects to the v710 modem, so there can be no handoff to your headset, or even to the voice portion of your phone.

[Menneisyys]

Yeah, the v710 indeed has tons of problems. Have you visited the following forums?

http://www.v710.org/forums/
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1007961.html

They contain a lot of info, PPC-wise too.