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I've been playing with Groove Bluetooth Module (HM-11) and for some reason my computer can see it, but none of my cell phones can.

I've tried two Huawei P7 (BL 4.0 + BLE) as well as some Samsung Galaxy & some older sony with Bluetooth 2.0. None of the cell phones can see the device. Any ideas?

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    If I'm not wrong cellphones need an app to search for BLE devices instead of the regular bluetooth manager of your phone – Handoko Jan 6 '15 at 11:05
  • Are you configuring the module as a slave? A phone will typically act as a master, so it will only see slave devices. – Peter Bloomfield Jan 6 '15 at 11:24
  • I did configure it as master. I'll try with slave. – kubal5003 Jan 6 '15 at 11:52
  • Handoko you are right - in order to discover BLE device you need an application. Usual android search is different from BLE search. – kubal5003 Jan 6 '15 at 22:42
  • One other thing to note, some phones, the iPhone at least, will not show Bluetooth devices that do not advertise profiles supported by the phone. For instance, the HC-05 only provides the SPP profile which the iPhone does not support, so an HC-05 will not show up when scanning for BT devices. – imjosh Jan 22 '15 at 15:54

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