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I had to hunt around for this piece of information, so I’m posting it here for posterity. I have a Motorola V361 cellphone and the accompanying Motorola H350 Bluetooth Headset. But no manuals. Never having used any Bluetooth device in my life, let alone this Borg-like implant, I just couldn’t get anything to work.

Here are some lessons learned:

• Make sure you enable Bluetooth in your cellphone first. It defaults to off. The Motorola V361 Manual proved quite helpful in this regard. Main Menu > Bluetooth Link > Setup > Power > On.
• Next you must set your headset in Bluetooth Pairing Mode. For the Motorola H350 / H500, you make sure it’s turned off, and then press and hold the “Phone” button on the front of the device. Hold the button down (for about 10 seconds) until the blue light around the Motorola icon (also on the front of the device) remains lit, solid blue (not flashing). Now you are in “pairing” mode, which enables this to “bond” with other devices.
• Now, on the cellphone, go to the Bluetooth configuration screen. Main Menu > Bluetooth Link > Handsfree > Detect. This will take about 3 seconds and it will detect your earpiece. Interestingly, it detected it as an H500. Hey who knows, maybe I have an H500 instead. At any rate, now the whole kit and kaboodle works fine.

So there you have it. Setting up your Motorola Bluetooth Headset for the first time.