First, do you have the personal hotspot feature enabled through your cell phone carrier. This generally involves paying for more than just the general data plan, as it adds the personal hotspot feature, formerly known as internet tethering, to your plan. If you do indeed have this enabled, then you should be able to connect via WiFi using your iPhone 4S and your Apex. I haven't, though, heard of anyone connecting this way via bluetooth.
Before we begin, if you just used the default name for your iPhone, you might want to change it, especially if you try to pair it with the Apex and the Apex shows strange characters in the name where the apostrophe would normally show up. You can do this by double tapping on settings, then doing a three finger swipe up toward the top of the screen to bring up the second screen of the settings, and then double tapping on general near the top of the screen. Then, on the screen that comes up, double tap on the about button near the top of the screen. Then, on the next screen that comes up, you will see the word name and the name of your iPhone, and you can double tap on the button that is right there to edit the name if necessary. You can then just keep double tapping the back button near the upper left corner of the screen to get back out of those settings when finished. First, although I didn't do this myself and was prompted to do so at a later point, I'm thinking you could just go ahead and turn on WiFi on your iPhone. From the home screen, you would double tap settings, then double tap the WiFi off button to bring up the WiFi screen, and then double tap that button again to toggle WiFi on. Then, you can double tap the back button up near the left hand corner of the screen to back out of the WiFi screen. Next, do a three finger swipe up toward the top of the screen to bring up the second page of settings. Then find the general button near the top of the screen and double tap it. Then go mid way down that screen to the network button and double tap it. On the screen that then comes up, go down past the middle and find the personal hotspot button and double tap it. On the screen that next comes up, you will see a button to double tap to turn on personal hotspot, and you will then see information below that button telling you how to connect using the various options. Included in this information will be a default WiFi password, one that you may change if you wish by double tapping on the button where it gives that password. Also, once you have turned on the personal hotspot feature in the network menu, it then shows up right at the beginning of the settings menu, right below the WiFi option. For the moment, though, you could just use the default password, as you will need it for the Apex, and just double tap the button near the top of the screen to turn on personal hotspot. Next, on your Apex, go to the options menu, then to connectivity, then to wireless ethernet and say yes to turn on the WiFi. Then go to scan for wireless networks and you should see the name of your iPhone listed as one of the devices. Press enter on the name of your iPhone, then go down to where it says WPA 2 pre shared key and enter the password given on the iPhone earlier and then do the escape I believe it is, meaning the space with E, and say yes to adding the record. Then, go to keyweb and see if a website, such as Google will open for you. Note that you only have about 90 seconds or so from when you turn on the personal hotspot feature on the iPhone to get it connected to the Apex. Thus, if you don't have success on the first try, you can toggle the hotspot on the iPhone off and back on again, and then go through the process of setting up the WiFi connection again on the Apex. ----- Original Message ----- From: Vaughan Roles <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, Oct 29, 2011 08:28:06 AM Subject: [Braillenote] connecting braille note apex to iphone 4s > > > Hi list, > > I know some people have connected using wifi and bluetooth to the iphone. > > I want to be able to use the iphone to access the internet using keyweb. > > can someone tell me how to connect using bluetooth or wifi? I am a new > user so could you please give the instructions clearly so I can follow > them step by step. > > Thank you very much. > > -- > Vaughan Roles > Ph: 0425211038 > > ___ > Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. > If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a > copy to the list as well. > > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [email protected] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
