Unable to connect to Motorola DC800 with Dell Inspiron E1505

I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 with the OEM Dell Wireless 355 Module. It works great with my Jabra BT620s headphones and my Sprint HTC Mogul. I just picked up a Motorola DC800 Home Stereo Adapter. It's supposed to act as a two way Bluetooth gateway. You can connect it to your stereo or TV and listen to it with Bluetooth headphones. Or you can connect it to your stereo so you can play music from a computer or phone through the stereo. I'm trying to play music from my laptop through my home theater system. I'm able to see the device and pair with it. However when I try to connect, it connects for a second then disconnects right away. When I pair with my phone it works fine and plays with no problem. This leads me to believe the issue is related specifically to the relationship between the adapter and my laptop. Motorola doesn't offer much support and my Google Fu is failing me big time. Has anyone had experience with this device or something similar?

 

I've had the same issue - I have an e1505, just bought the DC800 and added it as a bluetooth device. I can't seem to figure out how to stream the music now. There's no option to 'connect' to the device (that I can find) so that when I play music, it streams through the DC800 instead of the internal speakers. Anyone have any ideas? This is driving me crazy trying to figure it out!!!

 

I just purchased one today, I paired it using the directions for pairing it to a phone. Once I did this, I noticed that in my bluetooth area on my computer it showed one item, the DC800, but under the audio tab it showed two, one was the DC800 and the second was a set of headphones, trying to connect the DC did nothing, it would connect then disconnect right away, but if I connected the headphones (which is actually the DC800, it just thinks its headphones) it worked fine. Now my issue is how to stop the pair and get my system to play out of my laptop sometimes. Anyone know how to do this? Let me know if this helps you. I am running Vista, but XP should be fairly similar in the pairing and the bluetooth area. So try that.

 

After pairing with my laptop, I only see the DC800 once and it's called an Audio Device. I have other devices paired, my Jabra BT620s headphones and my HTC Mogul. I can only see those three, not an extra pair of headphones now.

As for getting audio to go through the speakers again, closing and reopening the media player works for me when using headphones. I use Winamp so I just disconnect the headphones, then close and open Winamp and it plays through the speakers again.

 

try removing your Jabra headphones from the list and the DC800, see if you can re pair and see if it shows a set of headphones. That;s about all I can think to try at this point.

 

I have had the exact same problem with an iogear bluetooth adapter, I can pair it it recognizes the DC800 but it will not connect. Anyone have any solutions?

 

did you guys with dells figure this out? I just got a delll xps m1530 and i was thinking about getting the dc800.

 

I have a Dell XPS M1330 and bought the DC800 and it worked great for me . . . until I applied the Vista SP1. Before SP1 my laptop would recognize the DC800 as soon as I plugged in my BT dongle and make it the default playback device. Now, it won't. It shows a connection to the DC800 in general, but will not connect to the DC800 player. I've put in a service request with Motorola but have received no response. Wish I could find a way to fix this because when it worked it was great.