Declaration:
Without written permission from origin al manufacturer, reproduction, transfer, distribution or storage of part
or all of the contents in this document in any form is prohibited. The company reserves rights to make any
changes and improvements to the product described in this document without prior notice.
Please make sure your mobile phone supports Bluetooth profiles and network operator supports the functions
described in this manual, otherwise the relative f unctions cannot be realized on this Handsfree device.
Safety
Use the charger that comes with package.
Caution, risk of explosion if battery is replaced by an incorrect type.
Check the laws and regulations on the use of mobile phones and handsfree equipment in the areas where you
drive. Always give full attention to driving and pull off the road and park before making or answering a call if
driving conditions require.
Do not allow children to play with your Bluetooth Handsfree Speaker since it contains small parts that could
become detached and create a choking hazard.
This device contains a Li-polymer battery. Please keep it away from fire anytime (including discarding the device)
or the battery may explode.
The Handsfree Speaker, especially the embedded battery must be properly disposed or may be recycled, contacts
your local recycling centers for disposal methods.
This product has been tested and f o und to comply with Bluetooth BQB requirements, part 15 of FCC rules,
R&TTE Directive(99/5/EC) or CE marked requirements. Users should not make changes or modify the
device in any way. Changes or modifications without expressly approved by the party responsib l e f or
compliance could void the user’s auth orit y to operate the device.
This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two condi t i ons: (1)
This device may not cause harmful interferen ce, and (2) this device must accept any interference received,
including interference that may cause undesired operation.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION INTERFERENCE STATEMENT
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to
part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful
interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency
energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause ha rmful interference to
radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particu l ar
installation. If this equ ipment does cause harmful interference t o rad io or television reception, which can be
determined by turning the eq u i pment off and on, th e user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by
one or more of the following measures:
-Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
-Increase the separation betw een the equipment and receiver.
-Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit dif ferent from that to which the receiver is connect ed.
-Consult the dealer or an experien ced radio/ TV technician for help.
CAUTION:
Any changes or modifications not expressly approved by the grantee of this d evice could void the user's
authority to operate the equipmen t.
RF exposure warning ·
This equipment must be installed and operated in accordance with provided instructions and the anten na(s)
used for this transmit ter must be installed to provide a separation distance of at least 20 cm from all persons
and must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmit t er. End-users and
installers must be provide with anten na installation instructions and transmitter operating conditions for
satisfying RF exposure compliance.
CE mommand:
ETSI EN 301 489-1 V1.6.1(2005-09);
ETSI EN 301 489-17 V1.2.2(2002-08);
ETSI EN 300 328 V1.6.1(2004-11);
IEC 60950-1:2001,EN 60950-1:2001+A11:2004
Bluetooth is an internationally standardized technology supporting short distance wireless communications. Any two
Bluetooth-compatible equipments, such as mobile phone, PDA、PC, headset, mouse, keyboards, printer, etc. can
wirelessly communicate with each other via Bluetooth connection. To ensure worldwide compatibility, Bluetooth
operates on the globally available ISM (Industrial Scientific and Medical) frequency band. Within 2.4 GHz and 2.48
GHz, Bluetooth transmits data up to either 10 meters (CLASS II mode) or 100 meters (CLASS I mode) using 79
frequency hopping channels.
Though line-of-sight is not required, Bluetooth connections could be subject to interferences from obstructions such
as walls, human bodies, and other electronic devices. In addition, due to variations on product implementation, it is
likely that Bluetooth equipments from different manufactures have interoperability issues. In that case, you may
consult with manufactures to check product compatibility.
Note that, there could be some restrictions imposing on using Bluetooth devices in some countries. Please check with
your local authorities.
1.2 Main Features
Bluetooth v 2.0 compliant
Class II, operating range up to 10 meters (33 feet)
An 1.5 inches OLED screen displays phone status, battery capacity, call status, caller’s ID, local phonebook
records and call history records
Designed with touch panel keys, user friendly menu and voice dialing for driving safety and user
convenience
Support A2DP, AVRCP, HS/HF,OBEX and OPP profiles
With local phonebook and call history records, easily visit the records and originate calls
Support software upgrade via USB port
Support store up to 8 handset pairing information
Best-in-class voice quality ensured by cutting-edge noise suppression and echo cancellation techniques
Support Multi-language display
Better portability with internal rechargeable Lithium Polymer battery
Easy-to-mount with angle-adjustable sun-visor clip, can adjust to appropriate angle
1.3 Package Contents
Bluetooth Handsfree Speaker BTHF180
Angle-adjustable Sun-Visor Clip
This device contains a rechargeable Li-Polymer battery. First-time charging time is about 4 hours. Later-on recharging
time is around 3 hours. Detailed charging procedures as follows:
1. Connect the charger cable to the device.
2. Plug the car charger into the cigarette lighter in your car to start charging. Icon indicator “
charging on the screen. Once the icon turns to “
charging. You can charge the battery both startup and shutdown.
Figure 2 Charging the battery
You can also use the USB charging cable for charging the device from your PC, which will take longer to charge as
the power output of the USB port is lower than it is with the car charger.
Once the battery is fully charged, it will provide to 8 hours of talk time and up to 600 hours of standby time.
When the battery is low, the device beeps once every 20 seconds and there is “Low Power” display in the screen,
charge the battery as described above.
Note that, over-charging will reduce battery life. If a fully charged battery is left unused, it will lose power over time.
Extreme temperature (either too hot or too cold) will also affect its ability to charge, capacity, and lifetime.
”, it indicates the battery is fully charged and you can finish
” will blink during
2.2 Mounting the Handsfree
This Handsfree device can be easily mounted inside the car by using the companion sun-visor clip to fix the product
on the sun-visor over the driver’s seat. As shown in Figures 3, there are two magnetic tips on the backside of the
device. You can attach the sun-visor clip to them. For better mounting, please adjust the sun-visor clip to appropriate
angle first (as shown in Figure 4), and clip to the sun-visor before properly attach the device to the sun-visor clip.
Note that, the microphone of the Handsfree must aim at the sound bearing.
A user friendly control menu is provided for assisting the user to use the product. Listed below are menu page
contents and the usage of each menu item:
Pairing, a series of pairing operations
It has three submenu items: Start, Erase and Exit.
Execute ‘Start’ item will let the device enter pairing mode.
Execute ‘Erase’ item will delete all the pairing records stored in the device.
Execute ‘Exit’ item will exit this menu item.
Phonebook, a series of phonebook records operations
It has four submenu items: View, Download, Erase and Exit.
Execute ‘View’ item will display phonebook records.
Execute ‘Download’ item will download phonebook records from the handset. This menu item is displayed on the
screen only if the HF/HS connection between the handset and the handsfree is on. And, it only works with compatible
handsets.
Execute ‘Erase’ item will delete all the phonebook records stored in the device.
Execute ‘Exit’ item will exit this menu item.
Call History, a series of call history records operations
It has three submenu items: View, Erase and Exit.
Execute ‘View’ item will display call history records.
Execute ‘Erase’ item will delete all call history records stored in the device.
Execute ‘Exit’ item will exit this menu item.
Settings, a series of local configuration operations
It has six submenu items: Auto-Reconnect, Brightness, Backlight Time, Languages, SW Version and Exit.
Execute ‘Auto-Reconnect’ item and select Yes or No to decide the device need reconnect or not.
Execute ‘
Brightness
Execute ‘Backlight Time
’ item and select the right brightness that fit to your application environment.
’ item and select the right backlight time that you want. The times of backlight include 10
seconds, 20 seconds, 30 seconds and always on. Note that, shorter backlight time will lead to longer battery life.
Execute ‘Languages’ item and select the desired language. This device supports four languages: English, French,
German and Spanish.
Execute ‘
SW Version
’ item can tell you the last version of this device.
When the device in standby mode, press button to enter the main menu. And then press button again can exit the
main menu.
Press button
or ━ to scroll up or down items of main/sub menu. The highlighted item will be ready for being
selected by the user.
Press button
In submenu, press button
to execute the highlighted menu item or enter a highlighted submenu.
can return to the main menu. If it is already in main menu, press button to exit from the
menu.
2.5 Bluetooth Operations
Pairing Device with Bluetooth Handset
Before connecting with handset and start using, you must pair your handsfree device with your handset.
Detailed operation procedures are as follows:
a) Enter the menu, choose ‘Pairing’ and execute ‘Start’ submenu, you will hear 2 tones and see icon indicator
showed on the screen. This indicates the handsfree device has successfully entered the paring mode.
b) Following your phone user guide to active Bluetooth device search on the phone side, on your phone screen you
will see a list of Bluetooth equipment found by the phone at the end of the searching process.
c) Select this Bluetooth equipment ‘BTHF180’ from the list and initiate pairing following handset’s on-screen
prompts. Then enter passkey “0000”and confirm to pair the device with your handset.
d) After it has paired, the device will automatically connect to the handset, and icon indicator
will be shown on
the screen. Once they have established HF/HS connection successfully, you will hear a connecting tone and see
icon indicator
showed on the screen.
Note that, the handsfree will remain in the pairing mode for about 2 minutes. If paring cannot be finished within 2
minutes, the handsfree will enter into the standby mode and the icon indicator
will disappear. You need to repeat
the above steps to restart the pairing process.
If you want to use the device with another mobile phone, you must repeat the pairing process again. You can also
follow the user guide of the Bluetooth equipment to complete paring operations on the equipment side.
Even though the device can be paired with up to 8 compatible phones, it can only be connected to one phone at a time.
Disconnecting Device with Bluetooth Handset:
When connected, you can press and hold button
for 3 seconds to drop the connection, or you can follow the
handset’s manual to remove connection from the handset side.
When disconnection is completed, you will hear a disconnecting successful tone, and icon indicator
8. For voice communications such as chatting over the Internet, you must disconnect “Bluetooth AV Service”, and
connect “Bluetooth Headset Service”. First, right click “BTHF180”, and choose “Disconnect—>Bluetooth AV
Service”.
9. Then, right click “BTHF180” and choose “Connect—>Bluetooth Headset Service”. Once you hear indicating
tones from the handsfree, press button
to make the connection.
10. After setting up the connection, from the “Control Panel” you start “Volume and Audio Device” and configure
the default device to be “Bluetooth AV/HS Audio”. Now you can use handsfree’s microphone to conduct voice
communications.
Note that, when connecting with “Bluetooth AV Service”, you can use Handsfree’s buttons to control the remote
device, such as “play”,” pause”, select music, and control Volume up and down. But, you can’t use the microphone
at the handsfree side for voice communications. On the other hand, when connecting with “Bluetooth Headset
Service”, you can listen to the music and use handsfree’s microphone. However, you can’t use the handsfree to
control the remote device.
If you use Bluetooth windows driver other than IVT’s BlueSoleil, you may follow software vendor’s user manual to
complete paring and connecting your handsfree with your USB dongle.
Connecting Both AV player and Handset
This product can connect with an AV player and a Bluetooth handset at the same time. This allows you to receive and
make phone calls while listening to music.
Detailed operation procedures are as follows:
1. Pair your handset with the handsfree (see Section 2.5 for details) to ensure that the handsfree has stored the
pairing information of the handset. If the handset has paired with the handsfree, you can skip this process. If the
handset automatically establishes connection with the handsfree at the end of paring, you need press and hold
button
for 3 seconds to drop the connection.
2. Pair and connect the handsfree with your AV player (see Sections 2.5 for details) to enable AV mode functions.
3. Follow handset’s manual to initiate the connection from the handset side (see Section 2.5 for details).
While listening to music, the product will notify the user an incoming call. You can pause the on-playing music to
accept the incoming call or reject following the same button operations specified in Section 2.6. After ending the call,
the music playing will be automatically. If you want to make a phone call while listening music, you can either dial a
number from phonebook or via voice dialing, the handset will also pause playing music accordingly.
Enter the menu, choose ‘Phonebook’ and execute ‘Download’ submenu, the device starts to download phonebook
records from the handset. Icon indicator
downloading process will replace the existing phonebook stored in the handsfree by the new one. If the device does
not have enough space to record all the phonebook records, the downloading process will be terminated after running
out of space and message ‘Phonebook Full!’ will occur on the screen.
If there are handset compatibility issues, the downloading process will be terminated immediately and message ‘Sync
Failed!Unsupported Phone’ will occur on the screen. The old phonebook records will remain in the handsfree.
Note that, you may try to send phonebook records one by one to the handsfree from the handset if you failed to initiate
phonebook downloading from the handsfree side.
Initiate Phonebook Synchronization from Handset:
Referring to your handset’s user manual for details. Note that, you need to ensure that the device is in the standby
mode without Bluetooth connection with the handset before downloading. While downloading, icon indicator ‘
will be displayed on the screen until either finishing downloading all the records or running out of handsfree’s
memory space. If there are compatibility issues, your handset may display error messages (check your handset for
details).
Note that, phonebook downloading/synchronization may be different for different handsets.
will appear on the screen until the end of downloading process. The
’
3.2 Using the Phonebook
Phonebook:
Enter the menu, choose ‘Phonebook’ and execute ‘View’ submenu, or press button
If there is no record, message ‘Phonebook Empty!’ will be displayed. Otherwise, phonebook records will show.
The phonebook record has two levels. The first level is the name which has been stored in phonebook. If you didn’t
enter name associate with the phone number recorded in your handset, you may only see the phone number displayed.
The second level is details of phonebook record. It includes the name and the phone number.
Typically, the call party’s name will be shown on the screen. If you didn’t enter name associate with the phone
number recorded in your handset, you may only see the phone number displayed. However, if there are any characters
(such as the language different from the currently language used) not recognized, symbol “?” or none characters may
appear on the screen (depending on the handset). In addition, depending on whether the phone number is associate
with caller party’s “Work “ , “Home”, and “Mobile” phone number recorded in the phonebook, you may see the
caller party’s name string follows by characters “/w”, “/h”, “/m”, respectively.
Notice that, your handsfree may contain phonebook records downloaded from more than one handset .If the
handsfree is in the standby (without connection) mode, press button
This device supports self software upgrade via USB port. This unique feature allows you to always keep the latest
release software. Such software upgrade may help you to resolve some compatibility issues related to new handset
models entering the market. Our upgrade software may also include product feature and performance improvement
which you may want. Detailed operation procedures are as follows:
1. Download software upgrade tool ‘DFU Wizard’ from our website and install it in your PC.
2. Download the latest version of software for BTHF180 from our website or dealer.
3. Connect the handsfree with PC using the USB cable coming with the package. (In order to update the
software successfully, it is better to unplug other Bluetooth equipment from the PC USB port at the same
time.)
4. Enter the menu, choose ‘Settings’ and execute “SW Version” submenu, then press buttons ╋ , ╋ , ━ , ━ ,
one by one to enter the software upgrade mode. Message “DFU…” will be displayed on the screen. If
and
enter the software upgrade mode by misoperation, you can press button
5. Install the USB driver in your PC, if it is the first time of your PC to update the software for your handsfree.
(The location of the USA Driver is the folder ‘DFU Wizard’ which you have downloaded, and the file name
is CSRBlueCoreUSB.inf. The driver only works on Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating system
currently. If your PC used other operating system, it will be unable to update the software.) Note that, even if
your PC has been installed with other USB driver, you must use the provided USB driver to update.
Otherwise, your PC might be unable to update the software for your handsfree.
6. Continue to update the software by executing tool ‘DFU Wizard’, and carry out sequentially according to the
suggestions.
Warning:
Interrupting the upgrade process, such as lost of power, USB cable disconnection may cause your handsfree
unrecoverable software errors and the device will failure at work. You may have to return the product t o the
vendor for software recovery. Before upgrading your device software, p lease ensure that your device has
enough battery power, the USB cable has b een firmly connected to both your PC and your device, and the
software execution on your PC will not be interrupted.