2010 w/Nav Bluetooth and Android

[several]

Oh cool thanks, I'll try it. so, how did you prevent the bluetooth connection from being broken when you started the transfer as you described in post #5 above? was just the presence of obex_test on the phone enough to stop that problem or was there some other magic you found? (i haven't tried it yet but plan to this weekend.)

I just tried the regular way before I saw that last post of yours about obex_test. I had the same experience as you described above. Starting the transfer attempt disconnects the phone from the nav.

I noticed in the nav manual that it says the music player bluetooth connection will be closed while the contacts are transferring. But the music player and the phone have the same address, which seems to be the cause of the problem. The nav thinks it is just disconnecting the music player but it is disconnecting the phone too. I tried unregistering the music player in the nav and tried turning off the music player connection in the android bluetooth settings but to no avail. same problem.

[kennyaustin]

Originally Posted by several

Oh cool thanks, I'll try it. so, how did you prevent the bluetooth connection from being broken when you started the transfer

I think that's suppose to happen, I just didn't know it at the time as I'd never seen a successful transfer. It's the reason that the windows laptop method (or sending from another phone) works.


The problem I'm having now is that I started with an unrooted phone, the phone worked just no contacts. I went to JFv1.51 in the process of trying to get the contacts to sync, once I was done and went to make a call the next day my phone audio wouldn't come out the car speakers.. same problem with a bluetooth headset I use at work. So then I went back to the unrooted version, figured a way to copy obex_test to the phone so I could execute it (dd ..of=/data/data/com.android.term/obext_text, etc) and found that I couldn't run sdptool or obex_test as non-root on it even though I could on JFv1.51. Maybe I could find an different rooted image or tweak the bluez configs in JFv1.51 but after three nights of screwing with this, I think I'm going to use laptop and be done with it.

[several]

Weird, I'm having no problems with the phone audio with JFv1.51. You installed the radio firmware update with it, yes? (Available here: HTC - Support - Flashing your Android Dev Phone with a Factory System Image)

As for the bluetooth connection being broken, it is supposed to disconnect the music player bluetooth, but not the phone. You can't transfer data via bluetooth if there is no bluetooth connection present. That's the bug we're being bitten by methinks. The nav is disconnecting the music player connection and the phone connection when it should be disconnecting only the music player but leaving the phone connection intact.

I may post at the xda android dream forums this weekend asking if anyone knows a work-around for that issue.

[kennyaustin]

Originally Posted by several

You installed the radio firmware update with it, yes?

Yes, although I don't remember the version.. whatever was listed in the rooting guide I followed. I just went back to unrooted and used my laptop for the sync.

Originally Posted by several

As for the bluetooth connection being broken, it is supposed to disconnect the music player bluetooth, but not the phone. You can't transfer data via bluetooth if there is no bluetooth connection present. That's the bug we're being bitten by methinks.

I think the disconnect once you start the address book transfer is normal, it's just the prius switching modes from handsfree to opush. I saw the same thing on my wife's Krzr which was then able to send contacts just fine (although one at a time). I also had it with the rooted g1 that was able to send via obex_test. Maybe someone with a fully supported phone can chime in on this...

If you have a rooted phone, get to the contact sync screen, open a terminal and type:
sdptool search OPUSH

If it comes back listing the service you should be able to follow the links in my previous post to download and install obex_test and send the .vcf over. If you need help with obex_test, let me know.

Kenny

[several]

Yeah my wife's Motozine worked fine too.

Before I saw your post above I found an app on the market called "Bluex" aka "Bluetooth Fileshare" and tried to send my .vcf with it. It saw the Prius but then claimed that OPP wasn't an available service, which is odd since OPP is there.

I'll try with obex_test later. Thanks again.

[jwhite.pc]

Dammit! Not a solved problem yet?

[daveelt]

Originally Posted by jwhite.pc

Dammit! Not a solved problem yet?

I was able to do this with a vcf file and Bluetooth file transfer from the Market. (it is free)

Just create your vcf (I did it form gmail and transfered it, but you can use the app on the phone too I am sure) and then when you get tot the "operate phone" instruction on the prius, use Bluetooth file transfer to send the file. done it seconds.