Yeah, Verizon has disabled that on most of its dumb phones, but enabled it
on some feature phones (my Voyager and Dare come to mind)

"Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message
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> Nelson <noreply@vapor.edu> wrote in
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>> Can bluetooth be used, with or without other
>> siftware, to transfer files
>
> The procedure to use Bluetooth is quite simple...IF ALLOWED. You don't
> need any kind of expensive special software, whatsoever. The file manager
> on both the phone and the computer, in my case the Linux tablet, simply
> adds more directories and drives to its tree.
>
> Pair the phone to the Bluetooth in the computer. Set the phone to VISIBLE
> so the computer can find it. Pair from the computer. The phone says the
> computer is trying to pair with it and asks for your permission. Give it
> permission and check "Trusted" if offered to you. Set the pairing to
> AUTOMATIC to stop it from asking you every time the connection is made.
>
> Open the computer's file manager with BT paired and the phone should show
> up on the file manager's drive/directory list just as if it had another
> USB
> drive plugged into it. The file manager can now control the phone's files
> just like it could any external drive plugged into it. Copy and move
> files
> just like you would an external hard drive.
>
> My Nokia N800 Linux Tablet is paired to my Alltel/Motorola Z6m phone. The
> Linux tablet's file manager has full access and control just like the
> above
> and we move files on and off the phone's internal memory or microSD card
> directly from file manager using Bluetooth's FTP protocol.
>
> When connected, the phone and computer share DUN (phone modem), OPP, FTP,
> and OBEX protocols. The phone simultaneously provides EVDO internet data
> service to the tablet, even while moving files on and off various drives
> and memory cards in the phone and tablet. Works great...IF VERIZON HASN'T
> DISABLED IT to sell you your own pictures in some damned file moving
> through sellphone scheme.....
>
> Good luck.
>
> (We also pair between tablets and swap files while eating lunch in a
> diner.)
>