How to pair a Motorola HS850 bluetooth headset

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Jay

How to place a Motorola HS 850 bluetooth headset into paring mode:

Close the boom to turn the unit off.
Hold down the call button until the blue light comes on.
While holding down the call button, swing the boom open.
(Now you can let go of the call button.)

The headset is now in pairing mode, and you can search for it using your phone. When it asks for a PIN, use 0000.

270 thoughts on “How to pair a Motorola HS850 bluetooth headset”

Lionel on March 30, 2007 at 7:24 pm said:

Jay,
Great info; I’ve been trying to pair this for sometime now.

Thanks,

Lionel

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Yingthai on April 26, 2007 at 11:44 pm said:

Thanks so much for the info. on paring the HS850, Jay. Your instructions worked great!

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Harrison on April 27, 2007 at 10:29 pm said:

Thanks a lot man I’ve been looking through motorola sites all night trying to figure that out , thats exactly what I needed. Appreciate it.

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sathish on May 10, 2007 at 8:29 am said:

Exactly this is the information i was looking for… This is available in HS850 manual but though your information save me a lot of time searching for the manual and then searching for the procedure….Great…

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lv on June 19, 2007 at 12:21 pm said:

Thanx this was great!! I’ve been trying for days..

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dh on July 3, 2007 at 7:02 am said:

Jay, the directions were great. I misplaced by instruction book over 2 months ago and was unable to locate a site that gave the correct instructions. Thanks a bunch!!!

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Dennis A Truckenmill on July 4, 2007 at 10:32 am said:

Thanks,forgot my ins. in Az.You became a life saver.

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L.C. on July 9, 2007 at 6:20 pm said:

Great heads up. been trying a long time to figure out the pairing of the hs850 and you broke it down since i don’t have the manual.

Thanks

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Bam on July 12, 2007 at 2:04 am said:

Thx, you save my life.

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Remi on August 19, 2007 at 6:26 pm said:

I just bought this bluetooth on EBay and could not figure out for the life of me how to put it into pairing mode. Thanks to your directions, I’m in business! Thanks Jay!

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Christina on September 9, 2007 at 7:49 am said:

It was getting so frustrated holding down the middle button trying to figure out why why why it was not working, or turning purple or something…once i figured out what model bluetooth i had i came to you website and before you know it i had to working…people don’t keep their manuals, thanks for knowing Jay!

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CESAR on September 20, 2007 at 12:32 am said:

Jay, thank you very much I appriciat your help.
Cesar

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darius on September 29, 2007 at 3:38 am said:

same here got it to work at 4 37 am in a hotel! Darius

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Ric on October 3, 2007 at 9:28 pm said:

Thanks! I haven’t had to pair in a long time, got a new phone and didn’t know how to pair…. thanks for taking the time.

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wantales on October 20, 2007 at 8:22 am said:

Yeah it works for me too. And I thank y’all so very much.

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ngyuen on October 20, 2007 at 5:14 pm said:

Very helpful.apreciate it!!!

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Ali on October 30, 2007 at 3:42 pm said:

Thank you so much, this was EXACTLY what I was looking for. Saved me so much time and effort looking for the manual.

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SUBAS on January 2, 2008 at 6:24 am said:

Thanks for the info..you made my day!

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barry jones on January 7, 2008 at 10:15 pm said:

thank you thankyou thank you

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Dave on January 16, 2008 at 12:37 am said:

Thanks – upgraded my Treo to WM6 and didn’t know it would wipe out the pairing. I am traveling and didn’t remember how to pair the headset.

Thanks again!

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Anand on January 21, 2008 at 9:23 am said:

You are the man!
I didn’t get the instructions with it and was trying to pair like the other headsets without the boom for 2 days now. Great man.

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JD on January 24, 2008 at 9:03 am said:

Thanks man….was a hand me down extra. Works great thanks to you.

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Jamie on January 24, 2008 at 9:25 am said:

Thanks for the simple instructions. I recently had to take over my wife’s headset, she didn’t use it, when my Plantronics unit died. Thanks again.

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RICHARD WETTERSTROM on February 13, 2008 at 2:31 pm said:

Thank You, Its the simple stuff that can be the biggest pain. Glad I came across your site.
-Rick-

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darryl on March 1, 2008 at 9:24 am said:

Thanks lots of help…motorola website didnt have info.

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Martin T T on March 9, 2008 at 10:56 am said:

Hey I Lost my instruction or maybe misplace it but I cam to your web site and made my HR850 work again on my new phone. Thanks

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Nick Magriplis on March 24, 2008 at 4:14 am said:

thanks Jay, quick, simple instructions have gotten me up and running.

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T YO on March 24, 2008 at 9:57 am said:

I have just become a pairing expert. In fact, I am so proud of how I pair, I will do it while people are looking at me. Thanks for the help brotha.

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Sydni Larson on March 25, 2008 at 1:55 pm said:

Thanks Jay! You rock! I was about to pitch this thing over my balcony and into the great blue Pacific!

Sydni

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webmuse on March 28, 2008 at 7:14 pm said:

Hey thanks… I got a new phone and forgot how to pair w/ the headset and have gone through about 20 sites until I found your very simple directions. I’m going to save them. Thanks for putting the info up.

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AmethystSkye on March 31, 2008 at 12:17 am said:

Thanks so much! Just what I needed. 🙂

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user on April 2, 2008 at 9:38 am said:

Good info indeed! Just to add another important step

How to place a Motorola HS 850 bluetooth headset into paring mode:

1.Close the boom to turn the unit off.
2.Hold down the call button until the blue light comes on.

2a. The Blue light comes on solid and stays on for a few seconds)3-4 sec. Make sure you do step 3 immediately b4 the blue light turns off again…if not repeat step 1 again.

3.While holding down the call button, swing the boom open.
4.The headset is now in pairing mode, and you can search for it using your phone. When it asks for a PIN, use 0000.

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Yvonne on April 6, 2008 at 3:23 pm said:

Indeed great instructions. Wasn’t able to do it until I read your instructions. THANK YOU!!

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Tanya on April 18, 2008 at 7:26 am said:

Finally, instructions that are easy to follow and that work. Great job Jay. Thanks a million.
Tanya

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Troy Kendrick on May 7, 2008 at 9:40 pm said:

i can pair my phine with my head set but everytime I close the boom i have to connect again, and it wont work, i try to make a call either by typing in the phone number on my phone or using the voice dialing and its like it wont send it to my headset, only the phone will work, like if I want to make a call by voice you open the boom and press the call button and then you say the name of the person you want to call after the beep, i have to voice tag done on the phone only instead of the headset beeping at me to tell me to say the name the phone does instead.

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Jay on May 8, 2008 at 9:08 am said:

Troy:

Closing the boom will turn the headset off, disconnecting from the phone.

However, opening the boom should turn it back on, and it SHOULD try to re-connect with the last phone it was paired with at that time.

The other behavior sounds very funny, and could be the result of a bad headset (or accidentally pushing the call button twice). Try to re-pair your phone with your headset and see if that helps.

Jay

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Dan on May 14, 2008 at 2:02 am said:

This is my 1st blue tooth headset.. I came here and BAM got it working.. Thanks a ton Jay..

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Donald on May 25, 2008 at 4:20 pm said:

Wow 2 hours into trying with your advice 3 minutes.Thank You!

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michelle on May 29, 2008 at 2:28 pm said:

Jay – took me all of 5 seconds to do this – lost my manual – GREAT! Thanks for the info!

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Wasim on June 1, 2008 at 8:45 am said:

So Shweeeeeeeeet jay it works well thanx so much

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Scott on June 2, 2008 at 8:27 pm said:

Dude, thanks. This thing has been p!$$!ng me off for weeks.

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wahidi on June 7, 2008 at 9:51 pm said:

your a legend Jay! i was about to break the blue tooth, now u saved me $$$. thanks.

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Seba on June 9, 2008 at 7:01 am said:

Thanks a lot! I buried my manual somewhere and got stuck with that one. I remembered it had sth to do with opening and closing the boom, but was not sure how exactly. Greetings from Warsaw, Poland.

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Carl on June 14, 2008 at 2:16 am said:

Thx, I have not seen instructions so simple. I almost threw it into the trash along with Motorolas manual.

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alexander on June 15, 2008 at 1:12 pm said:

thank you very much.you web-site was very helpful!

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Merk on June 22, 2008 at 3:03 am said:

No one ever says that you need to swing the boom open to get it to stay in pairing mode, nice work on the detailed instructions.

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NARUTO on June 22, 2008 at 8:39 pm said:

OH THANKS FOR THE INFO, I WAS SEEKING IT A LONG TIME AGO!! THANKS!!

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MIKE on June 23, 2008 at 10:20 am said:

Lost directions, thanks

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MIKE on June 23, 2008 at 10:22 am said:

thanks

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adam on June 24, 2008 at 10:33 pm said:

THANK YOU! motorola websites dont help at all! thanks alot!

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