v8kid
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| posted on 17/5/12 at 11:22 AM |
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OBD Bluetooth compatable with iPhone3?
Has anyone used a OBD bluetooth with an iPhone 3 (notS)?
Infuriatingly my tintop does not have water temp gauges or ammeters and I also fancy the other data OBD gives but I've found my iPhone 3 to be
bluetooth resistant to some stuff (it won't connect)
Cheers!
You'd be surprised how quickly the sales people at B&Q try and assist you after ignoring you for the past 15 minutes when you try and start a
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roadrunner
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| posted on 17/5/12 at 11:44 AM |
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I use mine, but with a HTC DESIRE HD, and it works fine. I cant see there being any differences on how they work with different smartphones.
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blakep82
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| posted on 17/5/12 at 11:51 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by roadrunner
I use mine, but with a HTC DESIRE HD, and it works fine. I cant see there being any differences on how they work with different smartphones.
phone shop told me iphone's bluetooth ONLY* works with bluetooth headsets, and can't transfer pictures and stuff, so i think its unlikely
to work, so for that reason, i left there with a HTC desire HD too...
*i suspect it would work if you jailbreak your phone, but i don't know.
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scudderfish
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| posted on 17/5/12 at 11:52 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by roadrunner
I use mine, but with a HTC DESIRE HD, and it works fine. I cant see there being any differences on how they work with different smartphones.
iPhones have a very poor implementation of bluetooth. It can be used for headphones/car kits, but not data transfer.
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Greenie
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| posted on 17/5/12 at 01:28 PM |
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My only works with the my bluetooth in my car, wont entertain anything else, I think Apple have to allow them to talk to the hands-free devices ...
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roadrunner
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| posted on 17/5/12 at 02:26 PM |
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And I thought i phones where supposed to be the dogs dangleys, I guess thats why I never had one.
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v8kid
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| posted on 17/5/12 at 04:10 PM |
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ta Guys on the bay then for a cheapo android phone just for this.
BTW still love iPhone as a phone 
You'd be surprised how quickly the sales people at B&Q try and assist you after ignoring you for the past 15 minutes when you try and start a
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britishtrident
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| posted on 17/5/12 at 04:20 PM |
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You can get wifi OBD dongles that work with iPhones at a higher price than the bt ones and the elm chip in the ebay ones is still the fake
type.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 17/5/12 at 04:32 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by v8kid
ta Guys on the bay then for a cheapo android phone just for this.
BTW still love iPhone as a phone
if you want to go that route then an Orange San Francisco II from the Orange Online shop and debrand it, see
http://sanfranciscoandroid.co.uk/
However if you don't need it as phone then a hand held scanner that has live data will be better.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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v8kid
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| posted on 18/5/12 at 11:22 AM |
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Thanks BT I looked at the wifi OBD but all the ones I could find were quite bulky and had remote wifi modules. I really just want something that is
attached to the port all the time in my tintop so i can see water temp, amps etc.
I think I'll go for a secondhand android phone off ebay and hope it will work.
Cheers!
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