[$$$] Bluetooth HID Drivers for Verizon GT - Galaxy Tab General

I will pay for the development if someone can get bluetooth HID drivers working for the Verizon version of the GT. I have an Apple Bluetooth Keyboard I desperately need to work with the Tab. This can be my lightweight emergency station to handle different servers if I had a keyboard to type with.
Thanks!

TekSoft (BlueInput) has been talking about adding a fuller Bluetooth stack to thier keyboard driver to help all of the android devices that don't include the full HID (Droid incredible, VZW Samsung Galaxy Tab). It sounds like they are trying to have something in February. teksoftco.com
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Great! Though I still need something a bit more definite and sooner.
Any reason why taking the drivers from a Tmo one and putting them on a Verizon one wouldnt work?
Do they use different bluetooth chipsets?

I saw a tear down of a tab somewhere online I need to find again but a lot of wireless chipsets these days are integrated. Cdma wifi gps and bluetooth are often found in the same piece of hardware. This means we may have very different hardware from our gsm friends. This is to handle issues such as TDMA between bluetooth and wifi and other interferences.
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Dang. No coders up for this challenge?
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I believe on Tab in Samsung's ROM the Bluetooth keyboard support is in IME app.
For my CM6 build i had to enable BT HID in the kernel. Maybe if someone is building VZW tab kernels+initram fs they can try enabling BT HID in the kernel.

I'll check it out if I have some time this week. It *shouldn't* be hard to enable. No promises or anything though.

Boushh said:
I'll check it out if I have some time this week. It *shouldn't* be hard to enable. No promises or anything though.
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Thanks man. This is a big deal to making this device a great laptop replacement while traveling light.
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I'm willing to donate to get HID working on the VZW tab.
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kingharrison said:
Thanks man. This is a big deal to making this device a great laptop replacement while traveling light.
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For sure. I would much ratherhave my options on BT keyboards over the silly Samsung dock.

there is a keyboard that works with the Tab but it's not BT. I picked it up from the Verizon store and love it. Can even hook up speakers if I want.

I compiled the kernel with bluetooth HID included, no idea how to installbit though and am afraid to make a brick.
Any suggestions.
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robinsmy1 said:
I compiled the kernel with bluetooth HID included, no idea how to installbit though and am afraid to make a brick.
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You can't brick it by just replacing the kernel. Worst case scenario you'd need to reflash the rom.

I am still running stock.
How would I go about replacing the kernel?
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Did anybody get anywhere with this? I am still willing to donate to get these to work!

I still have the compile kernel, but no Idea how to flash it, I have not found anything on how to flash just a kernel to only the boot partition. I do not want to touch the recovery partition just in case it does not work.
I have no problem with programming stuff, I am just very new to the rom area and want to be safe

It needs to be a zImage, then flash it through Heimdall

I have a zimage....can you give me a little tutorial on Heimdall....never used it. If you will, i will try my kernal....otherwise, I would be happy to upload the kernel here and let someone who knows how try it on thiers
Also, what about signing....does the zimage need signing or do I need some change to allow it to run unsigned?

Amazing to see that people are working on this HORRIFIC issue. I am also willing to donate a bit of cash to get this one working

Thanks for working on this guys! This is HUGE for us wanting to replace their laptop with the Verizon GT.

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Navigation mount with EB13

Does the audio out on the mount work with this official update now?
I just tested it, and no it does not.
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Can anyone else verify that th audio outisnot working on the gps mount?
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won't be able to till tomorrow
I've actually seen a few posts on this, neither the car dock nor the desktop dock have audio out with eb13
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Sh0wNuF said:
I've actually seen a few posts on this, neither the car dock nor the desktop dock have audio out with eb13
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I know profanity is frowned upon, but my brain is screaming a verb (or 'doing' word) directed towards samsung...
Patch from the fascinate
See this from the XDA portal this morning. It might put you on a path to fixing this issue.
Gersonian said:
See this from the XDA portal this morning. It might put you on a path to fixing this issue.
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Damn you beat me to it.
Going to try it out when I leave for school this afternoon, but if this is indeed true, I will be beyond furious. The navigation mount's BOX says that when FroYo is released for the Epic, the audio jack will become functional. WTF
Gersonian said:
See this from the XDA portal this morning. It might put you on a path to fixing this issue.
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I just tried the car_cradle_patch.zip on my phone using CWM, and it put the phone into super slow motion mode when I restarted. I can't do anything, it takes MINUTES for anything to respond. Looks like I'll have to be wiping my phone again.
tw_car_dock.zip added a "car cradle" application, but the music player didn't play out of the line out on the car or desktop docks.
It was built for the Fascinate. Someone would probably have to mod their mod to get it working correctly on the Epic. Try putting a request out there and see if any devs bite. Might take a few days for someone to get to it because I am sure they are working on updating ROMs, etc.
I pulled apart the original and the modded version that were posted and there is literally one line different between the two (assuming I did it right, and I think I did). If it isn't working properly on our phones it's likely something to do with difference between our phone and the Fascinate/standard Galaxy S. Might help if we can get a logcat dump from the phone while the app is doing it's thing.
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I pulled apart the original and the modded version that were posted and there is literally one line different between the two (assuming I did it right, and I think I did). If it isn't working properly on our phones it's likely something to do with difference between our phone and the Fascinate/standard Galaxy S. Might help if we can get a logcat dump from the phone while the app is doing it's thing.
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Sound like it is as simple as changing the audio channel its using. Maybe there is one not listed in the UI that is the usb audio out?
Audio is working with the fascinate mod.
I used cwm earlier today.Just make sure to place the zip in the root of your micro sd card and boot into cwm then select and flash.It is working perfectly with no force quits or lag after a reboot. Are you using the aosp music player patch or samsung music player patch? He has 2 different versions up. The aosp music player patch is the one i was able to use with no errors or lag.If you are using the samsung music player patch that will not work.
So I bought two docks home and car that said it would work with 2.2
Big surprise.......it doesn't. Awesome samsung.
I just spent 2 days dishwasher shopping. spent 800 bucks. guess who was off my list before I even LOOKED at them! That's right, samsung, you didn't even get on the list to start for reasons exactly like this.
Bump for y'all to see rpro95's post.
@ J3ff, if you have nothing constructive to say just hold off on posting as it looks like there are a couple of people in here who are willing to try and get this working or help the Epic users get it working/troubleshoot. I think most people in here are tired of the anti-samsung semantics.
I do not have the dock, but I am just trying to be helpful in this thread by tossing ideas out there. It seems like this is something that, in time, the community should be able to get working.
car dock AOSP audio out fix for music only.
This might work on the home dock as well.test it. I don't have a home dock.I know it works for my car dock.
If you need to have your tunes playing from your car dock do this.It will not work for third party apps.Only for the AOSP music player.You will get a prompt when you dock.Just select and you will get screen showing your dock icons for
phone:Music:Maps and voice search.
1. Need to have cwm to flash this.
2.download the patch from here on xda developers Adrynaylyne mod thread for the fascinate. http://adrynalyne.us/files/patches/car_cradle_patch.zip
3. Put on your SD card. I put mine in root.This worked for me.
4.Boot into cwm. Select zip and enjoy music on your epic through your cars speakers.This might work on the home dock as well.test it. I don't have a home dock.
Here is the solution: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=966588
There is a version of the car home up on the market specifically for epic now.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.samsung.spr.carhome&feature=search_result
Geekybiker said:
There is a version of the car home up on the market specifically for epic now.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.samsung.spr.carhome&feature=search_result
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That's the version that was out months ago that got pulled from the market. Doesn't really do anything
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Hey Verizon/Sprint Tab users

Since we are kinda the minority here we really need to stick together. We should start putting a thread together of our wish lists for developers. I feel like we are kinda behind the curve compared to the GSM folks and hope we can get more people involved in CDMa stuff.
Your thoughts.......
Good idea. . . . Just not enough dev in the sgt anyways. I bought my verizon sgt 2 weeks ago in hopes of something fun to flash like a hc port or CM7. I am dissapoint.
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100 views and only 1 person is with me
Others are with you. They just needed to get home from work.
Im not concerned with Honeycomb. Waiting for an HID hack for my VZW tab and maybe a few other small things.
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HID drivers first.
I would love to see Honeycomb, but would settle for Gingerbread right away.
Im in too.
Not a dev, but willing to help
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I am in as well
I am new to this and willing to learn, and will support with beer funds. I am assuming that the vzw efforts will carry over to Sprint since both are cdma devices. I have my galaxy tablet rooted but have not gone any further as I have not fully understood so many of the posts in regards to which are the better rom to use, the best method of flashing based on the rom, so to avoid any of the big issues..aka not booting etc. I am looking for a really good guide to get started. One that says first and foremost fo this before you start so you can recover you device if you really bugger it up.
I was in the same situation as you up until last weekend, notice I avoided using the "same Boat"
for now the first thing you need to get is Heidmall, dl the stock image and warez for your specific unit. If you need help I have aol and Gmail chat, Pm me for that info.
AHHH Another squid friendly hacker....
I don't mind the references to my Squidly Heritage, proudly served!!!!
I can be found on Gtalk at [email protected]
Have not been this syched about anything since my first deployment! Make sure you upload a donate button can't send bear funds with out it.
BTW Thanks!!!
HID or SPP Verizon Galaxy
I may have found a solution for the bluetooth keyboard issue. "keypro" on the market will drive certain SPP keyboards (not HID) it is a little more to work with than the single verizon samsung option for keyboard use. I am waiting for my freedom universal standard keyboard and keypro is supposed to support it. You can download the program free and see what keyboards it supports. I will let you know when my keyboard comes in. Sorry if I am in the wrong posting area I just signed up so I could share this.
Thumbs up dude!
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I'm with you
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Im in man we definetly need to stick together. And while I do really want Honeycomb, I NEEEEEEED HID drivers before anything else! Yay for dev's
I dont profess to be any coding expert, and All I really know anything about is the VZW tab at this point. Sprint files are totally different but loading is the same.
VZW people should be on the look out for a new Kernel from Boushh, Im running it now for 24 hours and its a screamer and totally stable. Latest benchmark was 2221.
It should be out tonight or soon after.
Trying to learn basics of coding and all in the upcoming weeks. Hopefully ill be able to contribute down the road. I bought min early January and am very happy so far.. even with a gingerbread/wp7 hd2 on hand..my tablet is used much more. I have heavily layer into the honeycomblayout/theme and just the changeover to khasmeks work and honeycomb density and layout...I've started using much more. Like I said,I'm really pumped to start deving as I know alot of cdma users will benefit from more work coming to the table..when I start getting confident and have things down pat..even then I can't promise it will be as good as what Boushh has done,but at least it will be an attempt at getting more dev for cdma
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I just want to be able to do voices calls (and Gtalk video chat)

[Q] NetTalk app

I recently ran across the NetTalk app in the market. It seems like it could be a useful app (especially with our BT capabilities), but every time I attempt to make a call, the app force closes on me. It actually compleats the call to my cell, and then immediate FC.
Has anyone else been able to successfully use this app? Or is there something I could try to get the app not to FC?
I'm running CM7 nightly 39 with Dalingrin's OC kernal.
Thanks in advance and thank you to the CyanogenMod Encore Dev team.
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So, has anyone had any luck??
the nook does not currently support voice/mic so the app is useless at the moment
klaiii said:
Bump.
So, has anyone had any luck??
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i tried this out and it does indeed make a call! It seems like this could become very useful to us. It works now on the motorola xoom according to droid-life.com so perhaps it might work with the nook on honeycomb once AOSP is out? we can always hope! but it does seem to be rather important to get calls working over wifi!
As I said currently no mic on the nook so regardless of the app working you can't talk
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Not sure about the nook but I have been using this app on my win mo 6.5 , iphone and android and it works brilliant.
Sometimes it does have connectivity issues like all apps, but close and reopen and all is good. Hey a little bit of trouble is worth when it's completely free.
The fact that it actually made a call is what got me excited to begin with, but after some research and reading around the xda nook color forums, I realized that it didn't have mic/voice input drivers as animatechnica pointed out...
Do we know if/when that might be a possibility?
Can we not pair to a bt headset and make calls that way?
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Although a by headset will pair, without a mic/voice input driver, it will only play audio out of it. Same with any other computer. If one of the awesome devs on here were able to create one, this little "tablet" of ours wouldn't be lacking much of anything...

Mirroring on streak

Hey guys, I'm new to the streak and mine should be arriving either today or tomorrow. I ordered the official home dock for it as well and was wondering if it supports full mirroring via the hdmi out port on the dock or if there is anyway to enable this feature through an app or custom ROM? I'm no newbie to flashing roms and such, but havent really found any clear answers on whether the streak can mirror displays on 2.2 or what eactly it can display through the dock and hdmi output.
Thanks for the responses!
hdmi out only mirrors certian apps, i think it's media players and music players.
Most things arnt mirrored by default.
This is an (intentional) software limitation, it could be removed but noone's gone and done that yet (afaik)
you can try apps that fixes this for other phones, but i dont know if it'll work on the streak
TheManii said:
hdmi out only mirrors certian apps, i think it's media players and music players.
Most things arnt mirrored by default.
This is an (intentional) software limitation, it could be removed but noone's gone and done that yet (afaik)
you can try apps that fixes this for other phones, but i dont know if it'll work on the streak
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thanks for the information! I'll look into it and see if maybe I can figure out how to remove the limitation, I have a decent amount of experience in this kind of stuff and maybe I'll be the one to make a breakthrough
If you can figure out the technical aspects of making it work i'm sure steve wouldnt mind including it in the next streakdroid (if/when/whatever that is)
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If you can figure out the technical aspects of making it work i'm sure steve wouldnt mind including it in the next streakdroid (if/when/whatever that is)
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well, as soon as I get my hands on the streak I'll try taking a look at things. I've hacked/messed around with the original iphone 2g, HTC Touch Pro2 I generally ran android on, Motorola Cliq and most recently I own / mess around with my Xperia X10 and Viewsonic G-tablet
I have a background in programming as well and also was very active in development for the original sony psp so maybe I'll be able to help with things
the streak only has 1 real developer which is dj_steve (i'm not counting theme developers or app developers, only rom developers)
pretty much anything you can bring to the table would likely be helpful, if you think you wanna try your hand at the streak you should talk to steve on #dellstreak
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the streak only has 1 real developer which is dj_steve (i'm not counting theme developers or app developers, only rom developers)
pretty much anything you can bring to the table would likely be helpful, if you think you wanna try your hand at the streak you should talk to steve on #dellstreak
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I definitely will, I'm not promising anything but I'll definitely take a look at things and try talking to him.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988852 basic mirroring apk may be of use. I'm very keen on this
Fazziebear said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988852 basic mirroring apk may be of use. I'm very keen on this
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has anyone tried using this apk as is with the home dock? i should have mt streak shortly and after i root and such ill give it a shot if it hasnt been tried yet
Not yet. Don't have dock yet. Ordered from amazon and they sent me a car dock by mistake......doh.
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Tried this.....
Didn't work. Says not working error due to either lack of super user permissions (which it has) or enabling hdmi mirror in the build.prop file.
Checked the build.prop file and there was no entry. I added the entry manually and still nothing.
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BLUETOOTH connectivity

Hey guys just wondering if anyone is working on activating the Bluetooth on the nook?
For example. Connecting it to some headsets for music.
No excepting much but please comment
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Sorry buddy, definately no Bluetooth built in. The chip was at first mistaken as the same from the color but actually it's a chip derrived from the same as the Nook but it's had FM and Bluetooth removed to save money :/ Bummer.
The only way would be to develop a USB host mode like the Samsun galaxy and with that you have to be careful not to fry chips. mmm... chippies
thanks for the quick reply
to bad what a bumper would have been nice to have it
I have the same feeling. I was hoping that I could get audio out from BT.
Himalayas said:
I have the same feeling. I was hoping that I could get audio out from BT.
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Hint: USB Host mode
The NST is in fact able to do this, it even loads the USB in OTG mode, but our kernel doesn't have all the bells and whistles required for it to work.
There are patches for 2.6.29 afaik (CM), so you go recruit some kernel hackers and you'll have BT adapter support in no time
I've been reading something about this here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=960633
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Maybe we could even port it when the time comes.
eded333 said:
Maybe we could even port it when the time comes.
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It could be ported tonight if we had the right people around
Sadly, but understandably, the NST community is not as big as the phone community, and thus we lack the serious kernel hackers.
True
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Any progress?? I want to Bluetooth tether to cell via USB Bluetooth.
i think it is not possible yet ^_^

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