Cannot browse files on HTC P3650 (Windows Mobile) cell phone via Bluetooth

[Till Kamppeter]

Binary package hint: gnome-bluetooth

I am on a completely updated Karmic.

I have the cell phone mentioned in the subject and I have paired it successfully using gnome-bluetooth. I click on the Bluetooth icon in the tray and choose "HTC_P3650" and in the submenu "Browse files ...". Then a Nautilus window pops ub with the directory of the cell phone's file system. I can navigate through the subdirectories, but I cannot open a file (I tried with a JPG picture which I have shot with the phone). eog opens and says "Could not load image 'IMAG0004.jpg'. Error in stream protocol: End of stream." In addition, the Nautilus window does not show thumbnails of the pictures.

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias)]

gnome-vfs-obexftp is nor more used for years no.

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias)]

Till,

Do you still experience the problem? (Are you using lucid now?)
Could you test again ? and once obexd 0.22 has land, could you test another time (or you can use my ppa to have it.)

Thanks

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias)]

Till ?

Could you provide more information about errors in log ?
I can't help you more.

Thanks

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias)]

Re-open the bug in case you have some feedback.

thanks

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

I have tested again with

till@till:~/ubuntu/ghostscript/tmp/ghostscript-8.71.dfsg.1$ dpkg -l | grep obex
ii libopenobex1 1.5-2build1 OBEX protocol library
ii obex-data-server 0.4.5-1 D-Bus service for OBEX client and server side functionality
ii obexd-client 0.22-0ubuntu1 D-Bus OBEX client
till@till:~/ubuntu/ghostscript/tmp/ghostscript-8.71.dfsg.1$

and still the same problems as I described initially.

Please tell me which logs you need.

Sorry for the late answer, I have switched to another cell phone now.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

In /var log/syslog I get:

May 7 11:05:03 till obex-data-server: sdp_extract_seqtype: Unexpected end of packet
May 7 11:05:04 till bluetoothd[5784]: link_key_request (sba=0C:60:76:86:59:ED, dba=00:17:83:88:09:03)

Are there other log files to look into?

[svaens (svaens)]

I'm going to take a risk here and gamble that you don't want a bug report for every type of phone that a bluetooth problem exists for.
If I am wrong, please let me know, and i'll create my own bug report.

I have a samsung phone. Samsung SGH-L700.

Sending files, either way (computer to phone, or phone to computer) works fine.
As soon as I try to browse the device, there is a problem.

When I choose this option in Ubuntu, my phone asks "Permit to get your file?"

I choose 'Yes'.

Invariably, I will see (on my ubuntu screen) a new window flash and disappear so quick I am still not even sure that is what it is. My phone's bluetooth symbol returns from red to blue, and the process is aborted.

Sometimes, when I am really lucky, Ubuntu gets to see the root contents of the phone.
If I then try to dig deeper, by double clicking on a child folder, it will hang for a few seconds, and then the nautilus frame will disappear, and again, the whole process will be halted.

Not sure what I can give you to help for this.....
Please give me any advice ... what I can provide to help.

regards,

sean

[W3ird_N3rd (w3ird-n3rd)]

svaens, I have the same problem. Using a Samsung SGH-X700N. I'm not sure if I have solved it before, if I have, I forgot the solution. :-( System is Ubuntu Lucid. Installed obexftp.

Anyone?

[Chris Olin (chris.olin)]

Having same issue with a rooted HTC Hero (CDMA). As soon as I try browsing my phone with Nautilus, the connection drops.

[Chris Olin (chris.olin)]

Ubuntu Maverick 10.10

Linux chrisnet-netbook 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 01:41:57 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

[Sumitraja (sumitraja)]

Same problem:

obex-data-server: sdp_extract_seqtype: Unexpected end of packet

Linux 2.6.38-020638rc4-generic SMP Tue Feb 8 10:12:40 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Krishna (krishnab)]

I am using Ubuntu 11.04.. I did not experience the problem on the previous versions...

Now I can only send files and cannot browse my mobile device.. :-(

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

When I was investigating this, it seems like the issue was rather in gvfs than in the bluetooth/obex components. Basically, the device does get seen as a gvfs filesystem via obex://(mac), but then gvfs and nautilus don't sucessfully manage to speak to each other via dbus. Reassigning to gvfs for lack of a better idea :)