[Q] android bluetooth paired device origin

mat2332

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I need help finding out where a bluetooth connection originated from. I woke up this morning with a new paired bluetooth connection even though my bluetooth is turned off. Is this even possible?

The name is BLE_nuvi #1234567890 (the numbers are different). After researching the name, I am assuming BLE stands for bluetooth low energy. When I researched nuvi, it looks like its a Garmin model. But I know you can name any bluetooth device whatever you want so this may be irrelevant.

Since I do not have a Garmin, anyone have a theory as to how this pairing was made?

With the exception of me sleepwalking, driving to a store and purchasing a Garmin in the middle of the night, does this mean I got hacked?

I have a Verizon Galaxy S5.
 

mat2332

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Mar 23, 2012
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I need help finding out where a bluetooth connection originated from. I woke up this morning with a new paired bluetooth connection even though my bluetooth is turned off. Is this even possible?

The name is BLE_nuvi #1234567890 (the numbers are different). After researching the name, I am assuming BLE stands for bluetooth low energy. When I researched nuvi, it looks like its a Garmin model. But I know you can name any bluetooth device whatever you want so this may be irrelevant.

Since I do not have a Garmin, anyone have a theory as to how this pairing was made?

With the exception of me sleepwalking, driving to a store and purchasing a Garmin in the middle of the night, does this mean I got hacked?

I have a Verizon Galaxy S5.
After researching a bit more I found out that there is a setting in Developer mode that allows you to turn on "Bluetooth HCI snoop log". Since this wasn't turned on, does anyone else know of any other logs that record when a bluetooth pair was made and/or with what device? I also found out that in order to read these log files, you can use a program called wireshark.