Hi All

I had a little fiddle a few weeks ago with trying to get bluetooth phone to interact with KDE.

I could not find one application that did it all , backup phone contacts, interact with phone, make calls send messages.

But I did manage to make it work using multiple applications:

Sending messages Using gnome-phone-manager

First by running kbluetooth4 and initialising bluetooth connection between phone and PC I could use phone-manager to send texts to people using KDE desktop.


> Backing up phone contacts : using wammu

apt-get install wammu

use the phone wizard and it will require device ID.

You can find device ID in many ways you could use blueproximity or by running

hcitool scan

to find device ID and copy and paste ID.

This allowed me to backup contacts.



one of the applications required a mapping to comm port which I did using (but failed to work)

hci toolscan

then add the address of your phone in /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf

rfcomm0{
device some-bluetooth-address
channel 1;
}
then run:
sudo rfcomm bind rfcomm0

if my case, the bluetooth is in /dev/rfcomm0

If anyone knows of better ways please discuss.

Excellent post, I have a Nokia e63, I can now use the gnome-phone-manager to send text messages over bluetooth, but can't get wammo to connect to my phone, so time for a Google, or go buy a cable (phone didn't come with one)

Wammu suggested using gnapplet, but it will not install on my S60 device.

But your post has given me a bit of hope, until I read it all I could do was transfer files to the laptop (but not the other way round).

Cheers

Steve

unsure if this helps

sudo hcitool scan|grep 00
00:23:45:5B:77:A? W910i
cat .gammurc
[gammu]
port=00:23:45:5B:77:A?
connection=blueobex
name=Sony Ericsson W910i
[gammu1]
port=00:23:45:5B:77:A?
connection=blueobex
name=Sony Ericsson W910i
model=

Once you have wammu open you need to select phone and connect

None of the options on the left hand side worked

but if you goto Retrieve contacts phone it will download the list to the screen

Hope it helps

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root@localhost steve]# hcitool scan\grep 00
Scanning ...
        00:23:B4:6E:AD:B8       e63
[root@localhost steve]#


Thats all I get I am afraid, have tried all bluetooth options in manual settings and nothing.

first ensure you have obex packages:

sudo apt-get install libopenobex1 obex-data-server



then make a backup of current .gammurc
cp .gammurc .gammurc.old
vi .gammurc or gedit or kate .gammurc [what ever you use] [it has your bluetooth id in the port below ]

edit the file
ensure its setup as it follows:

[gammu]
port= 00:23:B4:6E:AD:B8
connection=blueobex
name=Nokia e63
[gammu1]
port 00:23:B4:6E:AD:B8
connection=blueobex
name=Nokia e63
model=

save it and then re-open gammu and try the above method to get contacts.

No joy, already had everything installed, must be a nokia thing.

ok you can try gnokii which probably will work with a nokia better here is howto:


sudo apt-get install gnokii

vi .gnokiirc

[global]
port = 00:23:B4:6E:AD:B8
#Gnokii doesn't know about my phone yet.
model = e63
initlength = default
connection = bluetooth
#It's recommended to set this to 'yes', but it doesn't work for me
use_locking = no
serial_baudrate = 19200
rfcomm_channel = 1
smsc_timeout = 10


Save it and try launching :
xgnokii

and see if it worked

xgnokii runs and hangs, so I have given up

Ok not that I have much faith but have you tried kmobiletools?
This supports generic Nokia phones.

The trick to this would be to use the rfcomm trick above from the first post

hci toolscan

then add the address of your phone in /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf

rfcomm0{
device 00:23:B4:6E:AD:B8
channel 1;
}
then run:
sudo rfcomm bind rfcomm0


then in the config of kmobiletools the device would be:

/dev/rfcomm0