I've been looking around for the usual - browsing the net on your phone using your PC's connection, running Control Freak or Remote S60 and basically doing anything with bluetooth and your phone that doesn't involve basic syncing. I have a 6630 and a IVT Bluesoleil bluetooth adaptor.
PC Suite works fine for syncing but i've never been able to get m-Router to detect anything no matter how hard I try. My bluetooth driver software seems to think that PC Suite uses com5 when it syncs (i.e. when PC Suite syncs a message pops up saying com5 was opened), but the driver software won't let me do anything to set the 'serial service' port and when m-Router is set to com5 nothing happens. Also my bluetooth driver doesn't think my phone has many services apart from Object Push, File Transfer and DUN.
Remote S60 has a range of errors from general comx failure to port already in use and the option to connect to PC Suite doesn't work. This is really pissing me off, i've heard lots of rumours about things being crippled by Nokia, WTF is their problem and why are they doing this, and more to the point is there any way to get around it and do anything useful with my 6630 via bluetooth. At this point I don't even care what it is, if I could see the camera on my PC, browse the net, control winamp, use FTP, use my phone as an audio device, anything would be amazing! whats the bottom line?
I'm on Win2k, Nokia PC Suite 6.6.16, BlueSoleil 1.6.2.1, and no idea how to find the symbian version but my phone is a month old.
Bottom line is that you cannot do that with the latest Nokia Symbian phones. No way to use the bluetooth connection to reduce your phone bill. Nokia is selling phone to network operators and phones must not do things that network operators don't like. This is one of them.... there are more....
As I wrote in a post in the N70/N90/N91 forum I am afraid they will cripple the WiFi connection in the N91 so that you can just move music files from pc to phone and viceversa but you can't browse or send email via the WiFi connection. I really hope I am wrong... let's see when the N91 comes out...
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Utenteanonimo64 wrote:Bottom line is that you cannot do that with the latest Nokia Symbian phones. No way to use the bluetooth connection to reduce your phone bill. Nokia is selling phone to network operators and phones must not do things that network operators don't like. This is one of them.... there are more....
As I wrote in a post in the N70/N90/N91 forum I am afraid they will cripple the WiFi connection in the N91 so that you can just move music files from pc to phone and viceversa but you can't browse or send email via the WiFi connection. I really hope I am wrong... let's see when the N91 comes out...UA
OK at least that makes sense (I still hate them). But what about Nokias connection program and what about external devices like head-sets etc? Not to mention the bluetooth services it does support (I tried) - File Transfer, Object Push and DUN? Is there any way we can hack something together that runs off one of theses services, or manage to make a serial bluetooth connection - I know the phone can do serial bluetooth because it appears when it syncs, what are Nokia doing to close this and how can it be broken? What about a Symbian or firmware upgrade/downgrade? Any pissed off Nokia engineers want to post some code/tips anon?
Im not even trying to save money here, my mobile provider doesn't do net access because they sell content on their own site.
I have browsed this forum for months looking for a post with a link to a nice S60 application that could enable the BT serial profile on my 6630. I have lost hope now.
UA
The magical program is bluStreamer for symbian (tested on my 6630) and bluViewer for PC. You can see your phones camera on your PC (like a wireless web-cam) which i've tested with all the hardware above. You can also view the camera on another phone with the same program but I havn't tested that yet. This is definately two way as you can also send text back and forth in the programs. This prooves that it can work, heres how I did it:
- Installed the two programs above, m-Router not needed.
- Ran the phone client and hit the transmit icon, selected my PC from the bluetooth list
- My PC's bluetooth driver (IVT Bluesoleil) then asked for permission to allow my phone to use the SERIAL service on com7 😉
- Ran the PC bluViewer program and set the com port, then with a bit of fiddling (I think you have to hit start on the PC viewer then on the phone quit and re-enter the app)
- Video works, abit slow but works, you can set the res and compression and send messages to eachother from the programs.
If anyone wants screenshots, info, help etc just ask, I got the apps from a warez site I don't know what the rules are here but .sis is a hint. The symbian app seems to initiate the connection to the PC
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This is all very nice but the thing I'm really missing is web browsing via bluetooth/adsl connection at home.
UA
Utenteanonimo64 wrote:This is all very nice but the thing I'm really missing is web browsing via bluetooth/adsl connection at home.UA
But this prooves that the connection can be made, there must be a way to turn that into net access.
some basic missing libraries on ur phone make sure that the existing softwares won't work.. wait for someone to write their way through the missing libraries.... :S
