How Many of You Use Bluetooth Sharing on Windows Phone 8.1?

[salmanahmad]

One of the lesser known features of Windows Phone is it's ability to send files via Bluetooth. Though this feature was also present in Windows Phone 8, I am posting this here because in Windows Phone 8.1 you can truly share anything via the Files app.

Bluetooth sharing is a really great feature as it allows you to send files of any kind, be it music, video or even a Word document!

Lastly the best part about it is that you can even share files to PC or Android.

How many of you use this feature and how many of you just found out about this?

 

[anon(7900571)]

At times I do use this to transfer some songs/images on my notebook via Bluetooth

 

[pluizebol]

I never use it.
I wait for WiFi direct instead.

 

[Melvinizer]

I never use it.
I wait for WiFi direct instead.

You don't have to wait for WiFi direct. It's already available in the store. Go download "Easy Transfer" It's the first WiFi direct Application for wp. And it's pretty cool

 

[anon(123856)]

I use it quite a bit to move files from my phone to my laptop. Would love access to my network though.

 

[salmanahmad]

I use it mostly to send photos and videos as it sends them uncompressed.
Sent from my RM-914_im_mea3_380 using Tapatalk

 

[Mahdi Ghiasi]

I use it, but it's incomplete.
for example, if I receive a zip file, I can't save it. or if I receive a pdf file, it will go to PDF Reader's internal storage, while it should be saved in Downloads folder or somewhere like that.

 

[salmanahmad]

I use it, but it's incomplete.
for example, if I receive a zip file, I can't save it. or if I receive a pdf file, it will go to PDF Reader's internal storage, while it should be saved in Downloads folder or somewhere like that.

What version of Windows Phone are you on?

 

[Mavee Shah]

I do use Bluetooth sharing for music and pictures

 

[James8561]

I think you can combine this with NFC for even faster sharing.
Can anyone confirm that it works with iOS?

 

[salmanahmad]

I think you can combine this with NFC for even faster sharing.
Can anyone confirm that it works with iOS?

Last I checked iOS did not support universal Bluetooth transfer of any kind.

This is why I say, despite iOS asserting dominance over Windows Phone there are a lot of things Windows Phone just simply does a lot better.

 

[Christian Holmstedt]

I use it. Works fine. Nice feature to have even if it is not the fastest.
Great for transferring smaller amounts of pictures.

Whatever is done to WP, keep this feature.

 

[Sree R]

For larger files Bluetooth is not a good option.

 

[emjey]

Never used..! Sharing thru whatsapp

 

[Mahdi Ghiasi]

what version of windows phone are you on?

8.1 dp.

 

[salmanahmad]

8.1 dp.

On Windows Phone 8.1 you can set the default downloads destination.

Go to settings > storage sense > set SD Card as downloads location.

Your PDFs will now be saved to your SD Card.

 

[Guytronic]

How Many of You Use Bluetooth Sharing on Windows Phone 8.1?

I could never get this to work from the phone to the Surface RT :angry:

The Surface talks to my Venue...the Venue talks to the Surface.
My BT headphones or keyboards talk to the RT and the Venue.
The headphones do work with the phone.

Neither of my phones will pair and stay connected to either tablet or each other (521+925.)
I gave up...

Maybe one of the OS updates fixed it...I'll have to mess with it later.

 

[James8561]

^for sharing to work on full Windows 8.1, before you initiate a file transfer on your WP, you have to go to the desktop, then right click the Bluetooth icon in the notification area of the taskbar, select "receive file" then you can start sharing on your phone. this of course assumes that you've already paired your phone and tablet with Bluetooth first.
I'm not sure about RT.

 

[berty6294]

What James said. I've been doing this for a very long time and can confirm it works with RT tablets as well.

 

[kvrbrijith]

Bluetooth sharing in windows phone is better than that of iPhone. But it is not complete. There is no dedicated folder for Bluetooth file sharing. The pictures and videos are saved in "saved picture" gallery, pdf files are saved in the local storage of installed pdf reader app and like that. The problem is, if the app is installed in phone memory, it consumes lot of phone memory-which is not much comfortable for a low memory device(520/620). Next is, the sent file is not appearing in action centre. So, after receiving file, you should have to click the banner notification before it disappears-otherwise the file gets lost. Another one is, if a non recognised file(say-.pdb file) are sent, it can't be saved in the phone.
The app-"easy transfer" is very much helpful for transferring big memory files as it uses Wi-Fi direct method for file sharing-although it is not much users friendly..