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Enabling Bluetooth on Your Android Smartphone

Follow these steps to turn on (enable) Bluetooth on your Android smartphone.

Enabling Bluetooth is an important step before connecting your health monitoring device to your phone.

1. From the home screen of your phone, go to the Settings icon. Click the icon.

Settings Icon on Android

2. From the Settings menu, select Connections.

Bluetooth section on Android

3. Under Connections, scroll down and select the Bluetooth section.

Bluetooth Button on Android

4. Turn Bluetooth on by sliding the button (toggle) to the right. The toggle turns blue when Bluetooth is enabled.

Bluetooth Enabled on Android

5. You have successfully enabled Bluetooth on your phone. You can now go back to the home screen.



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