Bluetooth fail (poll?)
Al Johnson
openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk
Mon Feb 1 11:26:32 CET 2010
On Sunday 24 January 2010, Ian Stephen wrote:
> The jurisdiction where I reside recently implemented a law banning handheld
> devices while driving. I bought a Jabra BT125 because someone reported
> success with it and the Freerunner. I've gone over the SHR manual web
> page and the manually using bluetooth page and everything else Google
> could find with both SHR Unstable and SHR Testing. Finally bought a
> Motorola phone and have set aside the Freerunner for now. :-(
>
> I've never used bluetooth before, but it seems the Freerunner (GTA02) pairs
> with either the Jabra or with my truck's Sync, but does not connect. The
> headset beeps twice and exits its pairing mode, but does not make another
> beep that it does make when I pair it with my Motorola phone. The truck
> saves om-gta02, but does not say it is connected to the phone as it does
> when I pair it with the Motorola. In either case the Freerunner says "New
> device
> (/org/bluez/xxxx/hci0/dev_xx_xx_xx_xx_xx_xx)" (not really x's of course).
>
> I am wondering if only a few people have got bluetooth to work with
> headsets for GSM calls while lots of us lose sleep over it, or have most
> got it going and I'm just missing something?
Under shr-u A2DP works well. Phone calls worked fine last time I tried, but
the process for changing between headset and handset use was cumbersome (edit
config file and restart frameworkd iirc)
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