How to Find Out What Your Phone's Passkey Is

Some Bluetooth devices require a passkey.

Bluetooth technology utilizes radio signals to wirelessly transmit data between devices. This transmission allows devices to communicate with one another and work together. To establish a Bluetooth connection between your Bluetooth-capable mobile phone and another Bluetooth device, the phone and the Bluetooth device have to pair. The pairing process sometimes includes a prompt to enter a passkey for security purposes. The passkey is a numeric code that connects your mobile phone to a Bluetooth device. The passkey is associated with the other Bluetooth device, not the phone. There are three possible ways to determine what the passkey is.

Instructions

1. Check the user manual that came with your Bluetooth device. If your Bluetooth device is programmed with a predetermined passkey, the code will be clearly noted in the documentation that came with the Bluetooth device. This is the passkey you must enter in your phone to pair it to this particular Bluetooth device. The same passkey may not apply when pairing your phone to another Bluetooth device.

2. Enter "0000," "1111" or "1234." These are common default Bluetooth device passkeys.

3. Invent your own passkey. Some Bluetooth devices are set up to allow users to create their own passkeys. If you are using a Bluetooth device equipped with a display, and it prompts you to enter a passkey during the pairing process, make up your own four-to-five-digit code. Enter the same code on your mobile phone when it prompts you to enter a passkey.

References

• Sprint; Make a Bluetooth Pairing Request to Another Device ... ; September 2010
• Apple: Pairing Your Computer With a Bluetooth-Enabled Phone; January 2009
• Motorola: What is my Bluetooth Passkey?