IainMilford

iTrader: (15)

My othr half got herself an iphone recently, before she swapped sim over etc she bluetoothed a load of pictures to my phone so she didn't lose them and I could then resend to her. Tried and tried but cannot get the iphone to allow me to send the pictures via bluetooth, have just managed to get the iphone to sync to my phone (sony erriccson) but not allow file transfer?

Googled and found a forum with loads of people moaning about this all be it a year ago, just wondering if apple have done a fix or software upgrade to sort this or if it is still an issue? seems pretty stupid to me ........

Clarebabes

Can't you put into itunes and sync up from there?

Markus

There's no fix as it is not a bug. It is apple deciding to disable bt file transfer. One asumes it is to protect the phone from being jailbroken as I cannot see any other logical reason for preventing this

you could download a copy of diskaid and see if that willet you copy them on. When I get hom ei will have a look and see if diskaid will do this

kirkyboy

you cant b/t pics mate.
upload to itunes then put on phone
cheers kirkyboy

Snazy

I can see that they kinda have a legit reason to stop such things, but come on! Cant transfer pics, wtf is that about?

All well and good being able to do it via itunes, but I thought the idea of mobile media devices was to do away with the reliance on PC's etc

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

Bluetooth on the iphone is only for adding a headset and not for transfering files etc

Clarebabes

I got the right answer! Took us long enough to put a few contacts on it via Outlook.

Markus

Back home now.

Connected iPhone to machine via USB, fired up DiskAid and selected "Media Folder" from the available options (Root folder will only be there, or will only be write accessible if you have jailbroken the phone). There should be a folder named DCIM and inside it a 100APPLE folder, inside that folder is where the camera on the phone stores the pictures that appear in the Photos app. Copy a photo into that 100APPLE folder and then go into Photos -> Camera Roll and should find the copied photo(s) displayed. Now, the preview will probably be black though.

Only other way to get photos onto the iPhone is to email or MMS them to yourself

Snazy

Aaah that explains why Apple invented MMS for the 3rd Gen

Sorry I could not resist a snipe

Not a major thing, but still a pain in the ***

Markus

Oh I agree, it is a major pain and BT file sync should have been enabled. As said, think it's just to prevent a vector for jailbreaking, but even still, it's a pretty basic function to expect from a BT enabled phone.

IainMilford

iTrader: (15)

just seems really stupid that my 'cheap' sony erriccson can do it, along with nearly every other mobile phone out there but the iPhone, which is meant to be one of the 'best' and 'most advanced' wont let you bluetooth pictures ................

Snazy

I suppose in one respect hats off to Apple for not giving in to market pressure, even things like MMS were done when THEY wanted to.... On the other hand, it also seems quite dumb to ignore the market voice on what people want/expect.