How To Pair Bluetooth Device – Samsung Galaxy Tab 4

Jun 26, 2014

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Learn how to pair Bluetooth device on your Samsung Galaxy Tab 4. Use the Bluetooth pairing process to establish a trusted connection between your device and another Bluetooth device. When you pair devices, they share a passkey, allowing for fast, secure connections while bypassing the discovery and authentication process.

To pair your device with another Bluetooth device:

Verify your Bluetooth is active.
Touch Scan. Your device will display a list of discovered in-range Bluetooth devices.
Touch a device from the list to initiate pairing.
Enter the passkey or PIN code, if needed, and touch OK.
The external device will then have to also accept the connection and enter your devices PIN code.

Note: Due to different specifications and features of other Bluetooth-compatible devices, display and operations may be different, and functions such as transfer or exchange may not be possible with all Bluetooth compatible devices.

Note: Pairing between two Bluetooth devices is a one-time process. Once a pairing has been created, the devices will continue to recognize their partnership and exchange information without having to re-enter a passcode again.

Rename or Unpair a Paired Device

Unpair a paired device to break the connection between the device and your tablet, but retain the knowledge of the pairing.
At a later point when you want to reconnect the device, there is no need to setup the connection information again.

Note: Disconnections often occur automatically if the paired device goes out of range of your tablet or it is powered off. Upon reconnection, you may be required to re-enter all the previous pairing information.

Verify your Bluetooth is active.
From the Bluetooth settings screen, touch Settings icon next to the previously paired device. This opens the connected devices menu options.
Touch Rename to change the name of the paired device.
Touch Unpair to unpair from the paired device.

Note

This guide will work on all Samsung Galaxy Tabs; including Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0, Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 8.0 and Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 10.1.

Tags:

Android, Bluetooth, Connect, Galaxy, Galaxy Tab 4, Samsung

Amarnath Natarajan

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