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keratos

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Registered: 2008-04-27

Posts: 138

bluetooth send files okay - but cannot receive

I'm struggling with bluetooth dongle on my PC, and could do with some guidance please.

After much work and time I think I've managed to install the necessary components. These are, I think:

kdebluetooth
obex-data-server
dbus

I then started the daemons:

/etc/rc.d/dbus start
/etc/rc.d/bluetooth start

I started up the kbtobexclient from the KDE menu, then I started up bluetooth on my NOKIA N95 mobile and discovered the bluetooth dongle on my PC. I was able to send files to the mobile phone, from the PC, no problem.

However, how on earth do I receive files??

I read these:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=46075
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=47455
which did not solve anything...

Then I found this:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=45319

So I focused on the receive files bit, and did this:

# sdptool search OPUSH
Inquiring ...
Searching for OPUSH on 00:1E:3A:23:A4:E2 ...
Service Name: OBEX Object Push
Service RecHandle: 0x1001a
Service Class ID List:
  "OBEX Object Push" (0x1105)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 9
  "OBEX" (0x0008)
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x454e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "OBEX Object Push" (0x1105)
    Version: 0x0100

# hcitool scan
Scanning ...
        00:1E:3A:23:A4:E2       Keratos nokia

# obex_test -b 00:1E:3A:23:A4:E2 9
Using Bluetooth RFCOMM transport
OBEX Interactive test client/server.
> c
Connect OK!
Version: 0x10. Flags: 0x00
> s
Timeout while doing OBEX_HandleInput()
> q

When I try to send something on my phone, to the PC, the phone immediately says "Sending Failed!". Yet I can send files from the PC to the phone. The phone and PC are paired and there are no timeout issues.

I have no idea what all the above does or whether I've done something wrong. I've just blindly followed instructions and guides from across several threads. So any useful education would not go amiss - thanks :-)

Any ideas please?

So, I cannot

Last edited by keratos (2008-05-11 09:27:58)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: bluetooth send files okay - but cannot receive

don't know how to do it in console but in gnome there is Bluetooth File Sharing (gnome-obex-server) in Applications->System Tools.

i can receive only when this application is active.

Last edited by wonder (2008-05-11 10:42:08)

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keratos

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Registered: 2008-04-27

Posts: 138

Re: bluetooth send files okay - but cannot receive

thanks anyway,

but console help is required.

sevenfourk

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Registered: 2008-02-21

Posts: 185

Re: bluetooth send files okay - but cannot receive

man obexftp

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sujoy

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From: India

Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 94

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Re: bluetooth send files okay - but cannot receive

in my case, the mobile(Nokia 6600) can't even detect the laptop bluetooth device.
when i try to send something, it says scanning for devices and then says no bluetooth device found, whereas  i already send files from laptop to mobile using obexftp, and in mobile added it as authorised.

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sevenfourk

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Registered: 2008-02-21

Posts: 185

Re: bluetooth send files okay - but cannot receive

in my case, the mobile(Nokia 6600) can't even detect the laptop bluetooth device.
when i try to send something, it says scanning for devices and then says no bluetooth device found, whereas  i already send files from laptop to mobile using obexftp, and in mobile added it as authorised.

my 6151 nokia can't send files to my desky, and doesn't see the bluetooth device, but what the hell, we have obexftp/kbluetooth/...

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keratos

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Registered: 2008-04-27

Posts: 138

Re: bluetooth send files okay - but cannot receive

Bump.

Rather than references to man pages ...

Can someone else with relevant knowledge please provide some useful advice please, on how to receive via bluetooth.

Many thanks in advance for your kind assistance.

MarSoft

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Registered: 2013-02-03

Posts: 9

Re: bluetooth send files okay - but cannot receive

Not exactly a solution, but one can use Blueman for that. It is a GUI program but its dependencies are much smaller than ones for KDE or Gnome tools.
File can be received while blueman-manager is running (but it will ask for confirmation).

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,650

Re: bluetooth send files okay - but cannot receive

I doubt that this was relevant to the same capacity *10* years ago

Please pay attention to the dates and don't necrobump: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

Closing.