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February 19, 2016
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Desktop App: Bluetooth headset not connecting

  • February 19, 2016
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Several different types of bluetooth headsets will not answer or end a call with RingCentral Win 7.5.2. I have tried on several different Win7 laptops. The headsets are high-end - Jabra, Creative, and Klipsch. On each machine the bluetooth connection was established, Win7 reports all BT headset, handsfree etc services running properly. All BT headsets worked properly in audio sink mode with iTunes . The headsets, with 7.5.2, cannot answer or end a call, although my voice carried thru the headset mic to the caller. I could NOT hear the caller. I tried with audio settings pointing directly to the correct device and then with them pointing to 'Same as system' (which was pointing to same device). HELP! I was told that RingCentral supports bluetooth headsets before I committed. In this day and age you would expect RingCentral to work with MOST BTs, not the just the few that are listed. I prefer to believe there is just a setting or version wrong somewhere because otherwise it's a show stopper for what has been an excellent solution to date. Thanks for any info you can provide.

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Participating Frequently
June 12, 2019
USA-based acct | 2287 Users | 3800 DID lines | 28 sites | all Polycom VVX500 phone handsets

We have tracked the bluetooth headset issues since they occurred with an upgrade to RC apps back around version 9  

http://ringcentraladminusersgroup.org/faq/headsets.html








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New Participant
November 20, 2019
I'm having issues with the Plantronics Focus Voyager which is an approved Blue tooth - and every time I use the USB it crashes my computer - wont even allow Windows to boot up - I have a ticket in but wonder if it's related to this thread?  It has now occurred on two of our computers and with 3 of the headsets - 
New Participant
December 2, 2019
I am a consultant and use Bluetooth-capable hearing aids.  I have no Bluetooth problems with Zoom, Webex, BlueJeans, or MS Teams.  Only RingCentral refuses to connect.  What is the problem here?  Thanks!
New Participant
June 20, 2020
Hello, Has the Bluetooth situation with RC been resolved? My team is looking into Bluetooth headsets and wanted to check before we purchased. Thanks, Lauri
Participating Frequently
July 30, 2020
Hi @ rod miller - To Clarify: this is still not working on our headsets properly either - we need full functionality on all  Bluetooth v 4 + headsets to work with all the apps from RingCentral.    They need to hire a specialist - i.e. bluetooth integration expert and just fix it.