You have enabled Bluetooth on a smartphone because you want to pair it with a wireless speaker. However, the speaker's pairing menu does not show the phone. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the phone is not appearing for the speaker to select?
The speaker does not support Bluetooth 5.0 profiles.
The smartphone's Wi-Fi radio is interfering with Bluetooth signals.
Bluetooth must be disabled and re-enabled on the speaker first.
Most mobile operating systems turn on the Bluetooth radio when you enable Bluetooth, but they do not automatically broadcast the device name to others. The user must manually put the phone into discoverable (pairing) mode from the Bluetooth settings screen. Until that step is taken, other devices cannot see the phone, even though Bluetooth is on. Interference, profile mismatches, or restarting the speaker could affect the eventual connection, but they do not prevent the phone from showing up in the discovery list.
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