Hi,
I'm hoping someone can help me. This may be a silly question.
I just purchased an XDA. Can I add a bluetooth application to the XDA, enabling it to have bluetooth capabilities?
Kind Regards
Hi
If any PDA doesn't have bluetooth capabilities, it's because it lacks bluetooth module (hardware).
You can't just add bluetooth by software.
You can, however, add an SDIO card with bluetooth.
Like this one.
It will give you BT, but at cost of occupying your SD slot.
Good luck.
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Hi Guys,
I was wondering if you could answer my questions, I have an XDA II with the latest O2 Rom, i also have a Nokia HS-4W bluetooth headset, i wanted to know if it was possible to be able to listen to mp3 or my tomtom Instructions through my bluetooth headset? I love my XDA II but i would love it even more if this was possible, i am suprised O2 didnt include this in their new ROM.
I would appreciate any advice or any URL's that show you can this can be done,
As always thanks in advanced
Kind Regards
nya
Hi,
I don't want to spoil your XDAII experience, but unfortunatley that is not possible... yet...
Huge steps have been made by several good and experienced users on this regard, but there's still a long way to go...
Please use the Search feature, because there are several places in this excelent forum that discuss this and similar issues... :wink:
Good luck!
Rayan
Its the biggest disappointment with the xda 2, I thought I would be able to use bluetooth headset dialling, music etc but it seems it is beyond the capability of those that write the firmware/software to make this possible. I have no idea why this should be as many phones and pda's have this capability.
Thank you for your reply .... its ashame this is not possible...
with the right bluetooth stack it would be possible not in cd quality because of the speed of bluetooth but pretty good anyway
otherwise you could use something like this
http://www.ppcsg.com/forums/viewtop...t=iphono&sid=6d3d546329a09353b6817f1c28cdca86
do you know where i could get the right Bluetooth Stack from ?
with the headset i linked to you dont need a new bluetooth stack
i dont think the current vidcomm bluetooth stack support A2DP which is required for at least stereo sound
this upcomming stack looks like it will support it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=13061
Thanks for your help Rudegar, much appreciated.
can this be done?
my magician detect the intelli mouse, but can do nothing with it...
cant also use the "stowaway think outside mouse" drivers since they detect only the Stowaway mouse... also couldnt use the IFrog Bluetooth keyboard drivers, even though they support HID detection...
can someone know how to connect between these two?
any news on that... i´m trying to use intellimouse explorer, too... no luck...
someone out there to patch the Thinkoutside drivers ?
I saw somebody saying that the widdcom BT stack supported the mouse...
I dont know if its true, but to find out id have to intstall a new OS (im on 2005) and hack around with BT stacks...
Id rather just hear from somebody running the 2.02/2.06 sin merged rom with the widdcom stack to see if it works. But i guess there isnt anybody with that combination and a BT mouse too.
Magician only...
i ment it to work on the magician.
do you have a magician?
I have a german magician,
neither ms bt mous nor ms bt keyb works!
maybe we should state out that bluetooth firstly only specifies the way how information is being transferred: via radio in a certain frequency - nothing else!
It does NOT determine the way how the transferred information is being interpreted. Lets say when you connect your monitor to the vga connector it is already clear what signals are transferred and how they are read out to compose the picture on the screen.
In other cases (e.g. tracking the mouse movements) we must specify before any exchange of data how is will be interpreted. This is done in so called protocols also known as 'profiles' when you speak of protocols in connection with bluetooth devices.
This means that a bt mouse will be detected (this is standardized) but your device will not know how to interpret the data which is being sent from your mouse unless it supports the matching profile (should be 'HID' - Human Interface Device protocol in this case).
The hardware support of the bt hardware itself plus the additional profiles is called a 'stack'. On Magician you will find the original Microsoft BT stack which lacks of many profiles. It has turned out that other stacks like the one from Toshiba or Widcomm also work (more or less) on Magician. Maybe these ones support your hardware. Let me advise you that there are still many issues with alien stacks so dont install these unless your absolutely sure what youre doing!
Hope that i could make things a little bit clearer for you.
regards,
Quappo
Great!
Could we pin this post within the board so it stays on top or - maybe the better solution - could we publish it in the wiki? I guess that's the best newbie explanation of bluetooth I ever read... 8)
Great post, quapo! 8)
Still no HID driver for PPC
Great Answer!!!! ;-)
OK, i knew all that.
still no answer...:-(
This may sound dumb but I gotta ask. Having just migrated from a Moto v3x I am loving this all-in-one device. However, I keep hitting my head against WM5 / HTC inconsistencies and am looking for some steers in the right
directions...
I have multiple BT devices, from headsets, dongles to in-car handsfree gizmo's. My Moto would tell me which one was currently "active". AFAICT there is no equivalent "standard" indicator with WM5 - am I right? All I can glean is that the BT dialogue tells me what devices have been paired - not which one the audio will be mapped to...? If there is a 3rd party util that does this please let me know.
Off Topic #1: iGo 2006 - sounds like a good replacement / alternative to TT6 but can it be moved off the SD card and onto the micro-drive?
Off Topic #2: Does WM6 support external usb drives better than WM5? I can get usb memory sticks to be seen but can't seem to get my various 2.5" drives recognised. I even repartitioned one to just FAT (which allowed a max 2GB volume) but even this didn't work (and yes I had supplemental power to all devices).
Thanks
//copperwave
Actually, more than one BT device can be active at a time.
there is an reg edit floating around the will tell you what bluetooth devices are connected to the phone on the today screen. i will look for it.
FYI - dont' use the 8gb minidrive anymore than you have to. cause when it breaks its not such an easy fix. i would recommend only using it for movies nothing else put everything else on a 4gb or soon to be 8gb mini sd
hope this helps
Show Wireless Today item
By just adding following keys to the registry will get you a nice 'wireless' today item that show Network name/status, WiFi name/status as well as Bluetooth status. Confirmed to work on AKU2 ROMs
[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Today\Items\"Wireless"]
"DLL"="netui.dll"
"Order"=dword:00000000
"Enabled"=dword:00000001
"Type"=dword:00000004
Cool - I like the cell provider & wifi info but....
what I am really after is something that tells me what BT device/s are "active" - as opposed to just that BT is on or off.
Thanks
//copperwave
Thanks for that reg hack, I had that by default on my Universal and was missing it on the Ameo....
Should it be added to the wiki reg hack section?
sorry i tried
Hi all,
Recently got my company car, a Prius, with the Toyota Touch pro nav system in it. This requires Bluetooth DUN support so I will get updates and search, etc.
Unfortunately, I understand from the specs of my HTC Trophy the DUN profile is not supported. My carrier does support Internet tethering, but that is only offered on my phone via WIFI. I would not mind to install a custom ROM or some additional drivers/apps to enable this. Any suggestions or other people with this problem?
And yes, I know, Bluetooth DUN is quite old, but unfortunately, it seems the car industry lags far behind the technological evolution if it comes to there nav systems. I mean; why not just add an iPad dock ?
Thanks all; great site this!
Can anyone confirm or deny if Android wear can connect to an external Bluetooth GPS receiver and get location from it? On Android it requires mock locations enabled, but I can't find anyone talking about this ability on Android Wear.
Few Android wear devices have GPS and it is a battery killer, so I would prefer to use an external Bluetooth GPS receiver if I were to get an Android Wear device.
I can find my old bluetooth gps and test it. I really doubt it supports external GPS units.
Any luck trying this out?
I tried. Doesn't work (yet?). The BT stack seems not set up to handle serial port profiles which is a requirement for external GPS decoders.
Thanks for trying this out. Much appreciated!
l_deadeye_l said:
Thanks for trying this out. Much appreciated!
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Sorry I completely forgot about this. I couldn't make it work. I don't think watch google maps even designed to work with bluetooth GPS modules. Does it even support it on units that have GPS module installed? I think it takes everything from phone.