Disable bluetooth signal PS3 (slim)

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I think I'll bye this console when GT-5 comes out.

The only problem is that I don't want radio signals in my room (cordless, wireless and bluetooth) for health issues.

Do you know if there is a way to turn off the bluetooth/wireless connetions on this model?
I could use the USB wheel (DFP) to control the game, so I don't need a wireless controller.

thanks...
 
There is no real option to turn bluetooth off since it's a feature of the PS3. Though you should be able to use your wheel as a controller if you wanted to. There should be a way to turn wireless off in a menu if I remember right. The manual that comes with the PS3 should have information on this.
 
this day and age is so bathed in radio signal turning off bluetooth on your ps3 is the equivalent to staying dry in a full bathtub by scooping one cupful of water out.
 
There is no real option to turn bluetooth off since it's a feature of the PS3. Though you should be able to use your wheel as a controller if you wanted to. There should be a way to turn wireless off in a menu if I remember right. The manual that comes with the PS3 should have information on this.

My worry is that it's like cordless phones that transmit non-stop... even when you don't use them.

this day and age is so bathed in radio signal turning off bluetooth on your ps3 is the equivalent to staying dry in a full bathtub by scooping one cupful of water out.

Even if it's one drop less, I'll be happy.
 
I think I'll bye this console when GT-5 comes out.

The only problem is that I don't want radio signals in my room (cordless, wireless and bluetooth) for health issues.

Do you know if there is a way to turn off the bluetooth/wireless connetions on this model?
I could use the USB wheel (DFP) to control the game, so I don't need a wireless controller.

thanks...
Don't go there, it's not worth it.

I got in a very severe clinical depression (in 2006 and relapsed in 2009) worrying about EM radiation/fields and electrical fields. My health was comprimised by worrying too much and not by the EM radiation/fields.
You are making it very hard on yourself thinking/living like that.

I use to have a standard keyboard. Now, since a month or so, I use a cordless keyboard (I have to because the standard keyboard is partly broken) and I don't mind anymore.

You do know that the natural radiation of the earth and the sun is sometimes much more powerful than some of the man made EM radiations.
Some types of EM frequencies are more harmful for the human body than others. The more powerful the energy, the more harmful these type of radiations are. Some of them can be blocked by a sheet of paper. Some of them by clothes. The further away from the source of the radiation, the less powerful and the less harmful they are.
E.g.: an electric kettle gives a lot of EM. But I you are about 2 and a half meters away from the kettle, the EM has dimished to zero.

How far do you sit from your PC? You do know that electrical (household) appliances give of EM (Electromagnetic radiation spectrum) radiation? So does your computer. If you have a desktop, you have to sit further than 2 meters from you PC for being outside the EM field created by you computer.

Don't go outside because natural daylight is radiation!
Every man made light source gives of radiation except the good old light bulb.
There is a direct correlation between ampère and radiation. An electric razor gives of a hugh amount of radiation, so don't shave or use a good old fashion razor blade.
Don't drive a car because you bath in electral fields or EM radiation

You do know that the PS3 itself gives of EM radiation. It's not only the bluetooth.

Like said before in this thread, every one is bathing in radiation every single day.

I can give you some advice. Use two-pole switches to switch off every electrical device in your house if you don't use it. It will also save you a lot on your electric bill.

Don't use electrical applainces in your bedroom. Don't use a cell phone too often.

Relax because you are doing more harm living/thinking like that.

Very important advice: go and see a doctor (professional help, psychiatrist) because you surely have a fobia. This is maybe hard to read and it is in no way intended as a pun or insult. I'm just trying to help.

To make you head spin even more. There are more danger to your health than radiation. If you don't eat organic food, you're are getting more poison inside your body than radiation. If you live in a city, you breathe in poison instead of clean air. If you use petro chemical products in your house your health is in danger due to the chemicals in these products.

Paint, glue, MDF, OSB, some platics, electronics, isolation, your bed matras, etc... all are contaminated with formaldehyde and other poisonous chemicals, which can/could cause lung and other cancers. Ask Famine, he'll know.


Stop thinking and living like that because you can't control everything and you will ruin your life.


The amount of time you will spend behind you PS3 is in no way a problem for you health!

Go buy a PS3 and enjoy it and your life.

I rest my case ;)

BTW, I live only 4 km from a nuclear power plant and a facility where they store radioactive materials from Europe. I should be worried but I'm not. I use to play only half a kilometer from these nuclear reactors (we have 3) and I still pass these reactors and storage facilities within 100 meters almost every day.

This is where I live: http://www.sckcen.be/en/ I should be worried not you. But I'm not. And I live between 2 Cell phone antennas, one in the east and one in the west. I don't mind, any more! Nor should you!
 
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OK.
Go have a bath in the radioactive materials of that nuclear power plant and have fun.

Haven't you read his post?

He's just saying he had the same problems and comes with good arguments why you don't have to be worried of the radio signals of your PS3, if you buy one.

All you say is that he can take a bath in radio active materials. Not very mature, I think.

Why don't you come with counter arguments insteed? Why you don't want them in your house. Health issues is one, but have you got them?

On what base are you concluding that wireless signals harm you?
 
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Excellent Kikie 👍

I hope everyone was paying attention to Kikie because you've just witnessed the most sensible post on GTP this year.


Also, for the record, I work in the mobile telecommunications infrastructure industry and have read a fair amount on the possible health risks due to radio waves and every credible source has concluded there is no connection between radio waves and increased health risks.
 
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OK.
Go have a bath in the radioactive materials of that nuclear power plant and have fun.

Paranoid much? Do you own a cellphone by any chance? A microwave? I think you should move up into the remote north, and disconnect yourself from the world if you're that concerned, otherwise you're being stupidly ignorant.
 
I knew this wasn't the right place to ask this.
anyway...

Excellent Kikie 👍
[...]
and every credible source has concluded there is no connection between radio waves and increased health risks.
Doctors in the 50s also said that cigarettes were healthy.
With the "re$earchers" in your hand, you can come out with whatever conclusions you want.

Paranoid much? Do you own a cellphone by any chance? A microwave? I think you should move up into the remote north, and disconnect yourself from the world if you're that concerned, otherwise you're being stupidly ignorant.

I know it's hard to believe, but of course I don't use a cellphone, microwave, cordless etc.
And sure I eat only organic. Yeah, I know... I'm crazy.
I'm crazy to give my money to a farmer that don't poison my food. I'm crazy not to use a cellphone. Everyone does! Why not use it?

In an abnormal world, normal is abnormal.
 
Excellent Kikie 👍

I hope everyone was paying attention to Kikie because you've just witnessed the most sensible post on GTP this year.


Also, for the record, I work in the mobile telecommunications infrastructure industry and have read a fair amount on the possible health risks due to radio waves and every credible source has concluded there is no connection between radio waves and increased health risks.

Second.. Kikie FTW on this one!...
 
@cELica

I don't know for sure but the PS3 might turn the Bluetooth transmitter off when the controller is plugged into the USB. If you really are worried you could either put the console in another room and lead the wires through a wall to reduce the signal strength or you could open up the PS3 and pull out the bluetooth / wifi card (I know its removable on the fat PS3's but I dont know about slims). The console should still work.

I think worrying about EM radiation etc should be something people consider but just don't become obsessed with it. Its ok to make a conscious effort to reduce the effects if you can but in todays wireless world you just have to accept that its part of life and people will have done their best to ensure there products are safe. As Kikie said, don't live your life around it.

I have a wired router because I don't want wifi constantly on in my house. Thats the only thing I have done.

Robin.
 
So you didn't even read his post. Sad.

After:
Very important advice: go and see a doctor (professional help, psychiatrist) because you surely have a fobia. This is maybe hard to read and it is in no way intended as a pun or insult. I'm just trying to help.

...he was lucky to get only that answer from me.
 
And sure I eat only organic. Yeah, I know... I'm crazy.
I'm crazy to give my money to a farmer that don't poison my food.

Poison it with things that will keep it disease free and fresh for longer? Why does everyone think that Organic = better for you? It really doesn't.


After:
Very important advice: go and see a doctor (professional help, psychiatrist) because you surely have a fobia. This is maybe hard to read and it is in no way intended as a pun or insult. I'm just trying to help.

...he was lucky to get only that answer from me.

It was just a bit of advice but the way you're banging on about it, I think he may be on to something.
 
kikie 👍

cElica, no way to run, nowhere to hide, no advice is good for you. And, btw, since your life will end with your death, try to have fun while you're here.

to all others: stop posting, cElica gets a load more of radiations each time he uses his computer to read this thread.

oh wait ...
 
OK.
Go have a bath in the radioactive materials of that nuclear power plant and have fun.
Is that what I get for trying to help? The truth hurts, doesn't it? You seem to be in a state of denial. I read some of your other posts while writing this post so I have to say (wrote this when I was finished with this post) that you definitely have psychological problems, fobia. It's all too clear now.

Ok, go ahead and ruin your life. Or you can do something about, and I think I'm right about your fobia, before it does you!

Too much radiation is very unhealthy but when is too much? Worrying about it is even worse.
Also, if you worry that much, check what kind of plaster you have in your house (to finish your walls). You do know that most of the plasters are radioactive, which can be more harmful than the bluetooth signals from a PS3. And if you use a two pin power plug or you pull the power cord of the PS3 out of the socket every time you're finished playing, the bluetooth signals stop. So your concern to be exposed to bluetooth signals from a PS3 is unfounded.

I'm going to buy a PS3 (I already had 3 PS3, 60GB before) and I never worried about the bluetooth. I can assure you that it was very special to me as I had a very severe radiation fobia (and other fobia that had to do with e.g. sicknessess and cancer) and still I didn't mind at all. If it is possible to switch off the PS3 bluetooth, by all means, do it. If it is possible, I will do the same but I'm definitely going to buy a PS3, bluetooth or not.
I'm undergoing special EMDR therapy for more than a year, for my ex fobia and a very deep rooted trauma (which is the cause of all my ex psychological problems and the basic cause of my depressions). The radiation fobia I had was the trigger that made me go into depressions.
You should, if you have what I think you have, consult professional help before it is too late. I'm only trying to help.

Do you live very close to a high-voltage cable, power (transmission) line? If you live closer than 100 yards or under one, you should have to worry but not for some bluetooth signals from a PS3 which you can turn off at any time by unplugging the PS3.

I had a professional from http://www.vito.be/VITO/EN/HomepageAdmin/Home/Homepage here at my house in 2006 to measure the EM radiation from all sources in and outside my house. They have the most advanced materials, specially calibrated in Germany to measure radiation. The highest radiation at that moment was 0.04µT, which is nothing and I live between two cell phone antennas which creates micro waves much more powerful than a PS3 bluetooth signal. About 860 meters to the east and another one but less powerfull, about 700 meters to the west. I was in such a bad shape psychologically back in 2006 that I had an anxiety attack when I saw the results of the test. It should have had the opposite effect (me being happy with the results) but no, I went downhill. The funny thing is that the natural EM radiation from the earth was higher than the man made EM radiation (here in the yard of my house).

And you worry about a bluetooth signal from a PS3? DON'T!
I'm trying to shock you, trying to open your eyes before it's too late. But I do understand where you're coming from because I had the same problems. I can't help you directly that's why you need professional help, if I'm right ofcourse. If I'm not, than I apologise.

Like I said, buy a PS3 and enjoy it instead of worrying about the bluetooth. Worrying like that will only compromise your immune systems, creates stress and free radicals which can cause cancer in the long run. And the bluetooth will NOT be the cause but your psychological problems (and I think you have them, I recognise the signals) will. The problem with EM radiation is AC. If everything was DC, there wouldn't be so much radiation smog. AC is needed to transport electricity from A to B. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Bluethooth is a micro wave frequency which is dangerous (because the frequency is high enough to penetrate flesh to the cellular level. But can it damage your DNA and cause cancer, maybe, maybe not?). Maybe when the energy is of the Class 1 bluetooth devices and put against your body for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The problem is when manufacturers are going to make communication device based on very high energy micro waves.

From wikipedia:
the maximum for a Class 1 is 100 mW for Bluetooth but 250 mW for UMTS W-CDMA, 1 W for GSM1800/1900 and 2 W for GSM850/900 for instance.
==> mW = milliWatt! The PS3 bluetooth is probably a class 2 or 3 device which is even less than a Class 1.
The PS3 bluetooth is contructed to operate within a few meters. So if you place your PS3 2 or 3 meters from your body when you play, health issues will be reduced to almost zero, I think. And don't play more than 1 hour, rest for 15 - 30 minutes, let your body recuperate from the micro wave radiation and start enjoying your PS3, again. Don't overdo it. Too much of anything is hazardous for your health.


BTW, about organic food, I agree with you. It is better. Perfect example. I know someone whom has to get his blood checked out every three months. This person started to eat organic food and after a while, the doctor, whom didn't know that this person switched to organic food, said that his blood (patient) had become much better and healthier. And this was due to eating organic food, not proven but no coincidence either if you ask me. No or less chemicals in your food is always better.

And no, it was no mistake to post your question here. And I don't think you can switch off the bluetooth. Maybe, and I don't know, if you connect the controllers into the PS3, the bluetooth is disconnected automatically? Let's hope it does.

This is from my bedroom in 2006. I switched on the TV, which was in my bedroom untill the end of 2009 (used a two pin power plug). There is not much radiation and if there was, it didn't even reach my bed which was about 3 à 4 meters from my bed.



This one is from another bedroom which I use to use a my 'playroom' when I still had PS3's and a gaming pc.

Not much EM radiation as well. You can see a higher radiation in one corner and that's where the tv was running in the other room.



Kitchen with the electrical stove switched off.




Kitchen with electricl stove switched on.

 
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Everyone is O.T.
I didn't came here, in a videogame forum, to ask your OPINION on "is bt dangerous or not"
I already know the answer to that.
I only asked HOW (if possible) one can turn it off while playing.
You don't know the answer? Don't post. I don't want your opinions
 
Everyone is O.T.
I didn't came here, in a videogame forum, to ask your OPINION on "is bt dangerous or not"
I already know the answer to that.
I only asked HOW (if possible) one can turn it off while playing.
You don't know the answer? Don't post. I don't want your opinions
No you came here to ask if you can turn off bluetooth or not because YOU WORRY about bluetooth and that is the main reason for you to ask if this is possible. You wouldn't worry if your psychological state of mind is healthy. It clearly isn't. Your question is beside the point, your problem is the main issue.

Bluetooth is probably dangerous but I think not the weak bluetooth signals from a PS3.

It sounds logical that bluetooth will be switched off when you plug in the USB cord of a controller. I googled and I couldn't find any aswers if it is possible to switch it off or not. Unplugging the PS3 when you are not using it is the second best thing.
 
I had to put "health issues" otherwise everyone might have answer "yes, but how can you play if you turn it off"?

And then again O.T. (a very elegant insult, indeed)
You wouldn't worry if your psychological state of mind is healthy

And then again opinions:
·Bluetooth is probably dangerous but I think[...]
·It sounds logical [...]

And then this very useful tip:
Unplugging the PS3 when you are not using it is the second best thing.

I'm learning a lot of things today!
 
Everyone is O.T.
I didn't came here, in a videogame forum, to ask your OPINION on "is bt dangerous or not"
I already know the answer to that.
I only asked HOW (if possible) one can turn it off while playing.
You don't know the answer? Don't post. I don't want your opinions

If you don't want peoples opinion they why post of a forum? If you only wanted the answer to a straightforward technical question without opinion then Google it or contact the manufacturer.

Kikie has first hand personal experience of your fears and has written 2 lengthy and very detailed replies to try and help you when he didn't need to but he still took the time to do it. A better response may have been "thanks for your time and input but I only want to know about the product question" or at the very least just "thanks"!
 
Problem solved.

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I just had a very close friend die of pancreatic cancer last Monday. He had two options when the doctor diagnosed him as terminal. One was to try to fight the cancer with Chemotherapy that would buy him maybe a few more months of life or just enjoy what was left without treatment. Guess what he chose, he chose to just enjoy what was left of his life rather than spend most of his time at the hospital fighting for something he knew he couldn't win and would just suffer from the radiation treatment.

Point of the lesson is we are all going to die of something sooner or later. Are we going to hide in a box to stay safe for the rest of our lives or are we going to savor what we are offered or given in our life time. You could probably get killed pluging in your PS3 from electric shock by some freak accident or you could just enjoy the moment and play Grand Turismo before you go out the door and get hit by a bus crossing the intersection in your real car. At least one thing is for certain you can't get killed driving in the ultimate driving simulator and you can thank Kaz for that.
 
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I wouldn't be so sure, ask Roo what happens to him when he tries to play GT on a G25 wheel.

I'm quite sure if PS3's gave off harmful Bluetooth radiation, that Sony would market them and try to put them into everyone's homes all over the world.
Because that's just cooooool.

:irked:👍
 
And then again O.T. (a very elegant insult, indeed)
You wouldn't worry if your psychological state of mind is healthy
You can also see it as constructive criticism not as an insult.

And then again opinions:
·Bluetooth is probably dangerous but I think[...]
·It sounds logical [...]

And then this very useful tip:
Unplugging the PS3 when you are not using it is the second best thing.
You say that everybody is posting off topic and you don't get answers. I try to give you solutions and still it isn't good enough or the answer you seek.
Remember this, you posted it:
My worry is that it's like cordless phones that transmit non-stop... even when you don't use them.
UNPLUG THE PS3 AND YOU WON'T HAVE A NON-STOP TRANSMITTION OF BLUETOOTH. This is a solution as good as any but you don't seem to agree.

If you are somewhat like I was, and I'm not saying you are, than you will only be pleased if someone one this thread says that it is possible to switch of bluetooth, eventhough this person is lying. That is the only answer you want to hear.

I'm learning a lot of things today!
Why the sarcasme?
If plugging in the controller turns off the bluetooth signals, then that is a good thing. That's what you wanted to hear and still you mock the answers giving to you. You clearly asked if you can turn off bluetooth. You didn't ask if this is possible in the settings.

Unplugging the PS3 is also a possible solution but this solution isn't good enough. Put the PS3 2 to 3 meters away from you when you play and the signals is probably diminished to nothing. Which is almost the same thing as turning off the bluetooth. Again this seems to be not good enough for you either.

The only problem is that I don't want radio signals in my room (cordless, wireless and bluetooth) for health issues.


thanks...
Your welcome!

You do realise that your room is flooded with EM radiation coming from outside?! Do you want to switch off the world as well?
If you want sarcasme, you get sarcasme. ;)

Some smart people, and I'm not thinking solely of Famine as there are other very smart people on GTP, will probably think; what is he on about (I'm talking about me)? I'm probably wrong about many things I said. I just wanted to make clear that you better not get obsessed with radiation. Obessions and fobia will ruin your life. And that's the message I want to give eventhough I'm probably wrong with most to the things I said about radiation, bluetooth, sickness etc... .


I think this thread will be closed soon. Not that it has to, it's just a feeling and probably for the best.
 
Well said Kikie

@Celica,
I don't know where you live, but products with too much radiation, even Earth Radiation, may not be sold here in Europe. As a matter of fact it will not even pass the border of Europe. My girlfriends dad works at the douane in Rotterdam and recently they stopped a container with clothes of a famous brand. Al because the buttons off the dresses transmitted to much radiation. It wasn't their fault it even turned out to be earth radiation from the NATURAL product of the buttons. It still didn't pass the douane. All I want to say is that you don't have to worry about lethal radiations and that everything is checked, at least in Europe it is.

So live your life and enjoy the good things of it, there are worse things than the stuff you worry about.
 

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