On 23/12/07 7:23 PM, in article eGqbj.2$Wq5.80@weber.videotron.net, "K.M."
<Ken.Medeiros31@videotron.ca> wrote:

> Sorry about the messed up post...

No problem!
My son made the original post, so it will either be he or I that responds.

> Isn't there a way to use the bluetooth connection to dial thru your
> phone?

I have used Bluetooth to sync with my comp and between two phones but I
don't see any settings to enable dial thru ...but I could be wrong.
But as I said in my other post I have been careful not to have Bluetooth
enabled unless I am actually using it.

> In other words someone would pair his phone to yours and dial
> away? In my Nokia e62 i have to option... "Remote SIM Mode" and it's-
> "Select ON to enable another device to use the sim card in your device
> to connect to the network." And I know that the motorola V3 is
> bluetooth enabled cos that was my old phone.
>
> Just an idea.
>
> K.M.
>
>
> Wally wrote:
>> Basically....I bought a pre-paid V3 from Telstra everything went fine
>> for a couple of weeks then I received a letter from Telstra stating
>> that I had been making nuisance calls to a particular #, not just a
>> couple of calls but something like 10-15 per day continuously day after
>> day (these supposed calls did not show up in the recent calls made list
>> of the phone), now just to give an insight into the # that I was
>> supposed to be ringing imagine a # ... ****11** my home phone # is
>> ****44** so it was identical to my home phone except for the double #'s
>> shown.
>>
>> I contacted Telstra insisting that I had not made those calls to that
>> #....they were at a loss for any other explanation other than I had
>> made those calls!
>> I mentioned it to my dad who insisted that just as a precaution we swap
>> phones (handsets) he then put his Telstra sim ($10 plan) in my handset
>> a few days later another letter from Telstra showing that nuisance
>> calls were now being made from his # which was in my handset.
>> So we now had two members of our family recorded as having made
>> nuisance calls to the same # (confirmed as the same # by Telstra) and
>> they all originated from the same handset, my dad phoned Telstra
>> several times trying to make some sense of it all ...one tech said yes
>> the handset can do that regardless of the sim but would not explain
>> how, another said that it could not do that ...and a third was
>> undecided.
>>
>> My dad took the phone to a Telstra shop and asked for the phone to be
>> deleted of all software and reloaded as per original specs...they said
>> that they could not do that but they could sell us another plan, we
>> explained that it was not the plan which was at fault as no matter
>> which sim was put in that handset the unwanted calls would appear on
>> that bill.
>>
>> In desperation we went home and trawled the net for information on how
>> or what could be done ourselves we soon discovered that as a Mac
>> household that was doubly difficult as most of the info is PC
>> orientated...but eventually we did manage to flash the phone with a
>> stock Moto MP.....in the last three weeks according to our latest bill
>> there have been no more calls made other than regular ones!
>>
>> So can anyone offer an explanation how a handset can make such calls
>> regardless as to which sim card is in it, and what could have
>> instigated such behavior.
>>
>> As for Telstra they didn't hesitate in scrubbing all costs associated
>> with the bogus phone calls but were completely at a loss to explain how
>> it could have happened.
>>
>> Just as an aside.... before going the software route to hopefully fix
>> the problem and just for confirmation we locked the phone away in a
>> draw for two days so that there could be no doubt about human
>> intervention and during that two days the phone bill showed 21 calls
>> made to the same # ....from a locked drawer?