{"id":79,"date":"2009-08-16T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2021-01-14T11:01:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T01:01:02","slug":"howto-pair-your-bluetooth-mobile-phone-with-ubuntu-jaunty-for-file-transfers-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/16\/howto-pair-your-bluetooth-mobile-phone-with-ubuntu-jaunty-for-file-transfers-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"HowTo: Pair your Bluetooth mobile phone with Ubuntu Jaunty for file transfers etc."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Following up my previous article of how to pair your Bluetooth mobile phone with Ubuntu Intrepid<\/a>, I present this updated article for pairing your mobile phone using the updated version of the Bluez Bluetooth stack and the newer and better Blueman applet for Jaunty which greatly simplifies the process of pairing Bluetooth devices and transferring files to your mobile phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First up, you need to follow the first 15 steps of my guide on how to seutp a Nokia N95 mobile phone as a Mobile Broadband Device<\/a> because we need to update the version of the Bluez Bluetooth stack and pair your mobile phone. Once you get to step 15 where it asks about connecting the phone as a dial-up networking device, you can either choose to continue setting that up all the way through to Step 22 (after all, you might find DUN to be of genuine use to you if you\u2019re a Mobile Internet kind of guy), or choose \u201cDon\u2019t connect\u201d instead and just finish at Step 15 and continue on with this article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once you\u2019re Bluetooth stack is updated and your mobile phone is paired, transfrerring files is simplicity itself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Do a left-mouse click on the Bluetooth icon in your system tray. The Bluetooth Devices window will appear showing you your available or previously paired devices. Your mobile phone will be one of them.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    The Bluetooth icon in the system tray<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
    1. Do a right-mouse click on your mobile phone and choose \u201cBrowse\u201d from the menu that appears (or select the mobile phone with the left-mouse button and then click on the \u201cBrowse\u201d button in the toolbar).<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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      Browsing the Bluetooth device<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

      NOTE: If you get a \u201cCould not display \u2018obex:\/\/[xxxxxxx]\/\u2019.\u201d error when trying to browse, it means that the Bluetooth connection has not re-established itself between your PC and your phone after a previous pairing (ie: \u201cHost is down\u201d. To fix this, click on the \u201cSearch\u201d button in the toolbar which will \u201cawaken\u201d your phone\u2019s Bluetooth awareness and then choose \u201cBrowse device\u201d again. You should also set your PC and phone to be \u201ctrusted\u201d or \u201cauthorised\u201d on both sides to prevent timeouts caused by either end asking you for permission to establish the connection.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      1. If your PC is setup as being \u201ctrusted\u201d or \u201cauthorised\u201d on your phone, within a second or so a Nautilus window should appear showing you the content of your mobile phone, or in the case of my Nokia N95, two Windows-like folders named \u201cC:\u201d and \u201cE:\u201d which represent the phone\u2019s internal memory and my 8GB SD card in the phone. You can browse them like any ordinary folders including copying and pasting files. An icon for the phone will also appear on the desktop (I\u2019m using a custom icon here).
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        Nautilus browsing the phone contents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
        1. When you have finished dealing with the files on your phone, you need to cleanly disconnect the phone and end the Bluetooth session. You can do this one of two ways. Either click on the \u201cEject\u201d triangle icon next to your phone\u2019s name in the Places list of the Nautilus window, or in the Bluetooth Devices window, do a right-mouse click and choose \u201cDisconnect Device\u201d from the menu.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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          Disconnecting from the Bluetooth phone<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
          1. That\u2019s it! Happy file transfers!\u00a0\"Smilie:<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Following up my previous article of how to pair your Bluetooth mobile phone with Ubuntu Intrepid, I present this updated article for pairing your mobile phone using the updated version of the Bluez Bluetooth stack and the newer and better Blueman applet for Jaunty which greatly simplifies the process of pairing Bluetooth devices and transferring files […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}