<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thank you Paul: I am afraid it is not. If not connected to any device, or if connected to a cellular phone, the headset stays on for as long as I could wait. Thanks again, S.<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 15, 2005, at 11:50 PM, Paul Frye wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <FONT face="Verdana"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px">I would guess it is definitely hardware failure with the headset. Sounds like a bad capacitor or something like that from the fact that it will last a minute or so before it shuts down. See if you can get it to work on another machine.<BR> <BR>On 7/15/05 9:46 AM, "Stefano Baroni" <<A href="mailto:baroni@sissa.it">baroni@sissa.it</A>> wrote:<BR> <BR> </SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT face="Verdana"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px">Hi! I have been using a "</SPAN></FONT><FONT size="4"><FONT face="Helvetica"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0px">Logitech Mobile Bluetooth Headset" on my Mac PB G4 for a while now, first with various 10.3.X versions of Mac OS X, now with 10.4.2, mainly with SKYPE<BR> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Verdana"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px"><BR> All of the sudden, the headset started to behave very strangely. It does no longer appear in the SKYPE "preferences>audio" pane, nor it does in the "system preferences>sound" pane. When I switch it on, it connects with the mac (as seen on the "system preferences>bluetooth>devices" pane), but: i) it disconnects ~1 min after, and ii) even while it stays connected it does not show in the audio/sound panes, as descrobed above.</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">---</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Stefano Baroni - SISSA<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>&<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">[+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype)</FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>