Chris Searle

The BT3030 bluetooth headset is a nice headset but with the iphone the minimum volume is too high.

It seems that a firmware update on the jabra can help a bit.

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An update to iPhone 3.0 firmware release and stereo bluetooth - missing AVRCP

It turns out that the iPhone does support AVRCP - that's giving us the play/pause functionality.

But - in this support article:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3647

it says:

iPhone and iPod touch (2nd generation) support pause, play, and stop for AVRCP

So - apple have implemented AVRCP - but just not all of it.

From the support article there is no indication if this is going to get updated - so I guess we'll just have to hope.

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Wildly irritating.

Apple have added A2DP (stereo music) over bluetooth.

Time to grab that bluetooth adapter I stopped using after getting an iPhone from work.

Hang on - the scan/skip buttons (fast forward/rewind/change track) don't work.

I'm astounded that Apple have included support for A2DP without AVRCP (AVRCP is the profile for these skip/scan buttons).

You get a stereo bluetooth adapter to avoid having to have cables and to keep the phone packed away in a pocket or bag. But with this omission you can't really control the phone - just start/stop and volume.

Really hope that it was an omission rather than a concrete descision.

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http://metaquark.de/homezone/

A really cool little app that can do things when you move in/out of range with your bluetooth phone.

It can also trigger based on your IP or airport availability :)

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The n95 from nokia is not directly supported by mac osx. However - there are two additions that will help.

iSync

Nokia themselves provide an iSync plugin that will give you full syncing of iCal and Address Book. More info available from Nokia

Address Book pairing

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The changes from this post about the S700i also work for the P990i (the string is P900).

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The Address Book was showing that the phone was connected - but incoming SMS never reached the mac, outgoing SMS disappeared into thin air and incoming calls always showed as Unknown.

The solution is here:

macosxhints - 10.4: Add Address Book support for SonyEricsson K750i

Read on down - for the S700i - the string to add is S700

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Well - having got the mac mini - time to get bluetooth net access running - just for the fun of it.

To get bluetooth internet access running for my S700i Sony Ericsson I found the following two places useful

For a tutorial:
http://www.crackistan.com/archives/2004/11/19/6/connect-gprs-via-sony-ericsson-k700i-mac-os-x-bluetooth/

For the Sony Ericsson modem scripts
http://www.taniwha.org.uk/

For Telenor - the CID of the downloaded internet connection was 1.

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When using XP SP2 you need to make sure that the bluetooth dongle (this is talking about a F8T003 v2) is using Belkin's driver and not the standard one from Microsoft.

The following document at Belkin discusses the problem:

http://www.belkin.com/support/download/downloaddetails.asp?file_id=1899

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Running a dial-up over bluetooth to a S700i.

Most of this is cargo-culted from the pages listed here - with most of it coming from here.

Installed bluez-hcidump, bluez-pin and bluez-utils.

Used hcidump and sdptool to scan for the device - got the device's id.

bluez-pin worked for me - so I kept that.

Config files.

/etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf - unchanged

/etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf

rfcomm0 {
bind yes;
device device_id;
channel 1;
comment "S700i GPRS";

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