Cannot receive files using bluetooth

[iamer]

Binary package hint: obex-data-server

Description: Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release: 8.04

obex-data-server:
  Installed: 0.3-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.3-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.3-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I am trying to send files from a mobile phone ( N70 and W960i ) to my laptop using a usb dongle. The phone always complains "Failed to connect".

I remember this used to work when I had Gutsy and when i first upgraded to Hardy. I have all bluetooth related packages installed and updated, and using bluetooth-applet the laptop is discoverable and file receiving is enabled.

Expected :
Sent file should be received.

What happened :

obex-data-server is running and creates its dbus service fine. I can send things from the laptop to the mobile. I have hcidump of the failed connection mobile --> laptop.

HCI sniffer - Bluetooth packet analyzer ver 1.40
device: hci0 snap_len: 1028 filter: 0xffffffffffffffff
> HCI Event: Connect Request (0x04) plen 10
< HCI Command: Accept Connection Request (0x01|0x0009) plen 7
> HCI Event: Command Status (0x0f) plen 4
> HCI Event: Connect Complete (0x03) plen 11
< ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 10
    L2CAP(s): Info req: type 2
< HCI Command: Read Remote Supported Features (0x01|0x001b) plen 2
> HCI Event: Command Status (0x0f) plen 4
< HCI Command: Write Link Policy Settings (0x02|0x000d) plen 4
> HCI Event: Max Slots Change (0x1b) plen 3
> HCI Event: Command Complete (0x0e) plen 6
< HCI Command: Change Connection Packet Type (0x01|0x000f) plen 4
> HCI Event: Number of Completed Packets (0x13) plen 5
> ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 12
    L2CAP(s): Connect req: psm 1 scid 0x0040
> HCI Event: Command Status (0x0f) plen 4
< HCI Command: Remote Name Request (0x01|0x0019) plen 10
< ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 16
    L2CAP(s): Connect rsp: dcid 0x0040 scid 0x0040 result 0 status 0
      Connection successful
> HCI Event: Connection Packet Type Changed (0x1d) plen 5
> HCI Event: Command Status (0x0f) plen 4
> HCI Event: Connection Packet Type Changed (0x1d) plen 5
> ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 16
    L2CAP(s): Info rsp: type 2 result 0
      Extended feature mask 0x0003
> HCI Event: Number of Completed Packets (0x13) plen 5
> HCI Event: Read Remote Supported Features (0x0b) plen 11
> ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 10
    L2CAP(s): Info req: type 2
< ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 16
    L2CAP(s): Info rsp: type 2 result 0
      Extended feature mask 0x0000
> ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 12
    L2CAP(s): Config req: dcid 0x0040 flags 0x00 clen 0
< ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 18
    L2CAP(s): Config rsp: scid 0x0040 flags 0x00 result 0 clen 4
      Success
      MTU 672
< ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 12
    L2CAP(s): Config req: dcid 0x0040 flags 0x00 clen 0
> HCI Event: Number of Completed Packets (0x13) plen 5
> HCI Event: Remote Name Req Complete (0x07) plen 255
> HCI Event: Number of Completed Packets (0x13) plen 5
> HCI Event: Number of Completed Packets (0x13) plen 5
> ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 18
    L2CAP(s): Config rsp: scid 0x0040 flags 0x00 result 0 clen 4
      Success
      MTU 672
> ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 17
    L2CAP(d): cid 0x0040 len 13 [psm 1]
        SDP SS Req: tid 0x1 len 0x8
          pat uuid-16 0x1105 (OBEXObjPush)
          max 65535
          cont 00
< ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 14
    L2CAP(d): cid 0x0040 len 10 [psm 1]
        SDP SS Rsp: tid 0x1 len 0x5
          count 0
          cont 00
> HCI Event: Number of Completed Packets (0x13) plen 5
> ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 12
    L2CAP(s): Disconn req: dcid 0x0040 scid 0x0040
< ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 12
    L2CAP(s): Disconn rsp: dcid 0x0040 scid 0x0040
> HCI Event: Number of Completed Packets (0x13) plen 5
< HCI Command: Disconnect (0x01|0x0006) plen 3
> HCI Event: Command Status (0x0f) plen 4
> HCI Event: Disconn Complete (0x05) plen 4

Proposition for SRU update of the bug in bluez-utils:-

Description of the bug: Some Nokia phones cannot send images to the computer over bluetooth.

This bug has been address in Intrepid by updating to the latest upstream release which includes the fix. A minimal patch (debdiff) is available in Whoopie's comment in this bug report. The fix has been tested by various people both those affected by the bug and those who aren't, all reports are positive that the fix works and doesn't impact the users who aren't affected. The patch itself is also a very minor patch which changes the type of one variable thus the chance for regression should be slim.

TEST CASE: (for affected Nokia phones)

1. Ensure bluetooth is configured and working correctly.
2. Enable "Receive files from remote devices" in the Bluetooth preferences.
3. Attempt to send an image from the phone to the Computer.
4. The (nokia) phone will report "Sending Failed" (or similar).

Expected Result: At step (4) the file will send and be available on the desktop.

[iamer (iamer)]

It seems to be a bug in latest bluez-utils package ... downgrading to bluez-utils_3.24-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb and using gnome-obex-server solves it.

[Alfredo Matas (amatas)]

Same here using nokia e65 and a usb bluetooth stick.

I can send files from the laptop to the phone but I can't send from the phone to the laptop.

[iamer (iamer)]

First I don't understand why bluez-utils was upgraded to such an unstable version, in which most basic functions are not functioning. just search on launchpad for bluetooth related bugs and you will find people complaining about breakage in every possible part of the bluetooth stack.

Second I don't understand why there is no action being taken to fix these breakages when we are so close to a release! I can't imagine a release with such a big regression from the previous one, and bluetooth functionality is no longer an extra, it is a very basic need.

Right now I used aptitude to hold bluez-utils to the previous version I got from the archives ( 3.24-0ubuntu ) and gnome-obex-server to receive files.

So please, if it is an ubuntu breakage can you at least point to where we can try to fix it. I have tried to fix it but failed. If it is an upstream bug, can we try talking to them, and if there is no fix coming soon, downgrade the version.

I am not whining or trying to be rude, but this is really annoying and we are so close to a stable LTS release.

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

iamer, head to #ubuntu-devel in irc.freenode.net to express your concern.

[iamer (iamer)]

I did yesterday, I understand the shortage of time and developers. I will try to help.

[Alessandro Grechi (alexit)]

I confirm this bug.
I cannot send file from nokia 6630 to pc.

Another related bug: I cannot browse memory of the device with Nautilus anymore. (work fine in Gutsy).

Thank you...

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

Alessandro, make sure you have "Receive files from remote devices" enabled in obex-data-server and when you enable it, you see a notification message saying "Receiving of incoming files is enabled". Successfully sent files should appear on your desktop.

Do you get any errors during sending? Does command "hcitool dev" output your bluetooth device?

iamer's problem seems to be bluez-utils or kernel related.

[Alessandro Grechi (alexit)]

>Alessandro, make sure you have "Receive files from remote devices" enabled in obex-data-server and when you >enable it, you see a notification message saying "Receiving of incoming files is enabled".
This option in checked, and I get the notification message. But when I try to send a file from tel to pc, I get an error in telephone "impossible to send file". No errors are displayed in pc-side, neither on terminal:

ale@ubuntu:~$ gnome-obex-server
conn_request: bdaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
conn_complete: status 0x00

Sending from pc to tel, works fine, so the the bluetooth device is fully working...

[iamer (iamer)]

if you install the package "gnome-vfs-obexftp" with the new bluez-utils, you will able to use nautilus to browse the memory of bluetooth devices.
Right click on the bluetooth applet , and choose browse device , you should see an icon on the desktop where the phone is mounted and nautilus comes up showing the URI "obex://xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx"

You can later on unmount the mobile like any storage device.

However you cannot browse available devices using "obex://" in nautilus as this is not ported to new the gvfs backends.

The problem with sending individual files from the phone to the computer is different, it has to with not publishing a push service in the sdp server, so the phone thinks you cannot handle the file transfer.

IMHO , why this happens, is either policykit -- bluez problems , or the new bluez-utils sdp server is messed up.

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

Alessandro, you shouldn't be using gnome-obex-server, but bluez-gnome <--> obex-data-server. Try to uninstall gnome-bluetooth package and kill all gnome-obex-server processes.

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

iamer, in Hardy gnome-vfs-obexftp has no use as nautilus is using gvfs now and it has its own gvfsd-obex backend for obex file transfers. Please uninstall gnome-vfs-obexftp and use bluez-gnome <--> obex-data-server.

[Alessandro Grechi (alexit)]

Ehm.. I'm a litte bit confused :)
What should I install and what don't ?

Which packages are supposed to be presente in Hardy?

@iamer
I did this procedure fine in Gutsy, but now doesn't work.
Pratically, nautilus come up showing the right obex url, but the folder is empty (see attached screeshot)

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

Alessandro, the default desktop install provides both bluez-gnome and obex-data-server, so you don't have to manually install anything.

If you have gnome-bluetooth and/or gnome-vfs-obexftp installed, remove both packages. According to your screenshot, the phone seems to be mounted okay by gvfs (and obex-data-server), but no files are shown. I'm able to successfully mount Nokia 6230i phone and browse its files.

Could you try doing:
$ killall obex-data-server
$ obex-data-server --no-daemon

in a console, then connect to your phone using the bluetooth applet and attach the console output as a file.

[iamer (iamer)]

ok I did as you said , I thought the gvfs backend for obex was provided by that package.

Anyway that doesn't change anything :

obex-data-server --no-daemon
** Message: obex-data-server 0.3.1
** Message: Using Session bus
** Message: server socket created
** Message: Server created by: :1.10
** Message: server socket created
** Message: Server created by: :1.10

** (obex-data-server:10202): WARNING **: Server path: /home/iamer/Desktop
** Message: Default adapter

** (obex-data-server:10202): WARNING **: Server path: /home/iamer
** Message: Default adapter

And still the phone can't see a push service on the computer and can't send files

[Alessandro Grechi (alexit)]

I've remove everything except bluez-gnome and obex-data-server, but the applet is gone. I need also bluez-utils to have it, so I've installed this package manually.
Console output is attached.

[Stealth (g1ann1)]

Same situation as Alessandro, using nokia 6630. Works sending pc to phone, dont works phone to pc and browsing memory

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

Is this specific to Nokia devices? Can anyone try with some other phone, like Sony Ericsson?
Also please try deleting the device from list of paired devices. Recreate the pairing by initiating from device.

[iamer (iamer)]

Mine is a sony ericsson. I deleted the pairing on the computer as well as the phone. Then initiated a send from the phone. It said failed without even trying to pair.
I initiated a pair manually on the phone and bluetooth-applet allowed me to successfully complete the pairing.
In the device properties on the phone I can't see any services advertised by the computer.

[Stealth (g1ann1)]

With my son's sony ericsson all works fine. The phone can send or receive files, and i can mount it and browse it.
At this point......possible there is something wrong with symbian?

[iamer (iamer)]

My sony ericsson is a W960i , which is symbian UIQ based. So maybe it is common between symbian phones.

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

This was just discussed on IRC and it was suggested that the device should be 'visible and connectible for other devices' for obex to work.

[Ahmad Amr (aamr)]

The strange thing is that receiving files worked fine on my laptop (with built-in bluetooth), but showed me the "Sending failed" message when trying to send any file to my PC with a bluetooth dongle, any ideas?

[iamer (iamer)]

If that was the problem then the mobile would have never been able to find the computer in the bluetooth scan. Is anybody looking at the hcidump output :S

[Ahmad Amr (aamr)]

No, the mobile phone actually finds the computer very easily, it just can't send it any files!

[Dmitriy.trt (dmitriy-trt)]

I've got some different situation... If I enable notebook's internal bluetooth (i've got special button for it, i think the button controls power of bluetooth adapter) or plug-in external bluetooth-adapter when linux is started and I logged in, there is no pop-up message about receiving files and it is not working (i've tested from Nokia 6290, Sony Ericsson z310i and from another PC, so this is not sending device problem!). But if you logout and login again with already enabled bluetooth-adapter (internal or external), the pop-up message will appear and receiving files will work. Then, I can disable and enable bluetooth, receiving will work. But if you disable, log out, login again and enable bluetooth-adapter, receiving don't work again. :(

I think, problem is while session applications loading and there is no bluetooth-adapter enabled.

Laptop: Acer Aspire 5920G, Ubuntu 8.04 Beta

Installed: bluez-gnome 0.25-0ubuntu1 and obex-data-server 0.3.1-0ubuntu1
Not installed: gnome-vfs-obexftp

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

Dmitriy, your issue is probably different, see bug #213885.

[Tomasz Dominikowski (dominikowski)]

I have the same issue. I can receive files sent from my computer to my phone, but I can't send files from my phone to my computer. Nokia E51.

However, I can browse my phone from my computer using Nautilus.

This is a pretty big regression nevertheless.

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

@Tomasz,

If you are able to browse the device then the issue is not as severe for you as others, right? You can do just copy paste to transfer files between your phone and your pc.

@everyone else,
Can you verify if the situation is same for you i.e. you can not send the file but browse the device? I am just trying to narrow down the area of problem.

[iamer (iamer)]

It's true that I can browse the device's memory as I described in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/obex-data-server/+bug/211252/comments/9 , but many objects on the phone are not accessible this way. for example contacts , todo , calendar etc..

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 14:09 +0000, Onkar Shinde wrote:
> @Tomasz,
>
> If you are able to browse the device then the issue is not as severe for
> you as others, right? You can do just copy paste to transfer files
> between your phone and your pc.
>
> @everyone else,
> Can you verify if the situation is same for you i.e. you can not send the file but browse the device? I am just trying to narrow down the area of problem.
>
> --
> Cannot recieve files using bluetooth
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211252
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Source Package "bluez-utils" in Ubuntu: New
> Status in Source Package "obex-data-server" in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: obex-data-server
>
> Description: Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
> Release: 8.04
>
> obex-data-server:
> Installed: 0.3-0ubuntu1
> Candidate: 0.3-0ubuntu1
> Version table:
> *** 0.3-0ubuntu1 0
> 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> I am trying to send files from a mobile phone ( N70 and W960i ) to my laptop using a usb dongle. The phone always complains "Failed to connect".
>
> I remember this used to work when I had Gutsy and when i first upgraded to Hardy. I have all bluetooth related packages installed and updated, and using bluetooth-applet the laptop is discoverable and file receiving is enabled.
>
> Expected :
> Sent file should be received.
>
> What happened :
>
> obex-data-server is running and creates its dbus service fine. I can send things from the laptop to the mobile. I have hcidump of the failed connection mobile --> laptop.
>
> HCI sniffer - Bluetooth packet analyzer ver 1.40
> device: hci0 snap_len: 1028 filter: 0xffffffffffffffff
> > HCI Event: Connect Request (0x04) plen 10
> < HCI Command: Accept Connection Request (0x01|0x0009) plen 7
> > HCI Event: Command Status (0x0f) plen 4
> > HCI Event: Connect Complete (0x03) plen 11
> < ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 10
> L2CAP(s): Info req: type 2
> < HCI Command: Read Remote Supported Features (0x01|0x001b) plen 2
> > HCI Event: Command Status (0x0f) plen 4
> < HCI Command: Write Link Policy Settings (0x02|0x000d) plen 4
> > HCI Event: Max Slots Change (0x1b) plen 3
> > HCI Event: Command Complete (0x0e) plen 6
> < HCI Command: Change Connection Packet Type (0x01|0x000f) plen 4
> > HCI Event: Number of Completed Packets (0x13) plen 5
> > ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 12
> L2CAP(s): Connect req: psm 1 scid 0x0040
> > HCI Event: Command Status (0x0f) plen 4
> < HCI Command: Remote Name Request (0x01|0x0019) plen 10
> < ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 16
> L2CAP(s): Connect rsp: dcid 0x0040 scid 0x0040 result 0 status 0
> Connection successful
> > HCI Event: Connection Packet Type Changed (0x1d) plen 5
> > HCI Event: Command Status (0x0f) plen 4
> > HCI Event: Connection Pack...

[iamer (iamer)]

Sorry I replied from evolution by mistake.

[Alessandro Grechi (alexit)]

@Onkar

I have installed latest bluez-utils updates (3.26-0ubuntu6) but it didn't solve the bug: I cannot send file from phone to pc, neither browse my phone (nokia 6630).
Sending from pc to phone works just fine.

Thanks

[Alessio Igor Bogani (abogani)]

Installing bluez-utils from Debian unstable solved here.

[Alessandro Grechi (alexit)]

Nice, so we have to ask MOTU team to upgrade the package from Debian source....

[Alessandro Grechi (alexit)]

Bug confirmed by many users

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

bluez-utils is a package in main, not universe. The package requires a merge as there are some changes on ubuntu side. It is highly unlikely that merge will happen at this point of time (3 days before final release).

As of now the bug seems to be affecting only Symbian phones. I am attaching here a detailed test report by Sami Mäkinen that he put in a comment on bug #146145.

I will also meanwhile provide merged packages in my ppa for detailed testing. I will try to get this bug fixed in hardy updates but I can not promise anything as I am not a developer.

Hope this helps.

[Naveen (naveenkhanna)]

Installing bluez-utils from Debian unstable as mentioned by Alessio Igor Bogani works. I'm able to send files from my symbian based nokia 6600 to Kubuntu Hardy RC (previously didn't work as noted in bug #146145).

[Stealth (g1ann1)]

Sending files (to pc from nokia 6630) works with debian sid package, but device is not mounted and the window is still empty. Services, from bluetooth preferences, are not activables clicking the checkbox. I see checked only the audio service and i can't check others.
With original hardy package all checkbox seems to be workings.

[Andrea Grandi (andreagrandi)]

I confirm this bug too: I cannot send files from my Nokia N73 to my PC anymore after upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04, while with 7.10 it worked fined.

[Daniel James (daniel-netbreeze)]

Same problem here:

* Clean install of ubuntu 8.04
* Removed pairing from my phone - all nice and clean
* Added the pairing successfully
* I can connect to the phone from nautilus and browse/dl/etc
* I can sync my evolution contacts, etc with my phone using opensync/msynctool
* I CANNOT send using obex push from my phone to my computer

More information:

* I do *not* have gnome-bluetooth installed
* I am not running gnome-obex-server
* obex-data-server *is* running
* I have enabled 'receive files from remote devices' and saw the popup when I enabled it.

My phone is a nokia n95. As far as I can tell, my computer is not advertising that it is capable of any bluetooth services - it seems to be working as a client only.

I'm more than happy to help debug if someone wants to give me commands to type..

[Julien (ju+)]

Confirmed here, with a Nokia N70.

I could browse/copy files with Nautilus in 7.10, since Hardy, Nautilus opens an empty window ( obex// address is right)

[Vitious (vitious)]

Confirmed, pairing and mounting are working but there's no file sending and no browsing in nautilus (Nokia N70)

[Tiago Cogumbreiro (cogumbreiro)]

I have a Nokia 6680. Browsing the mobile shows nothing. Sending through the mobile to the laptop now fails. It was working in Ubuntu 7.10. Downgrading to http://packages.debian.org/sid/i386/bluez-utils/download fixed the problem.

[Tiago Cogumbreiro (cogumbreiro)]

With the version from Debian browsing also shows nothing. Since I never tried this feature before I have no idea if this is what is supposed to happen.

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

Browsing issue with nokia phones is probably related to http://bugs.muiline.com/view.php?id=55

[Alessandro Grechi (alexit)]

You are probably right, Matti.
It seems a gnome-data-server bug, already assigned.

[Peter Kerekfy (kerekfyp)]

Confirmed here with Nokia 6120 classic (symbian).
I can send files from PC to phone and also can browse/copy files on phone. But sending from phone to PC fails.

I am willing to help testing and debugging this issue since I own the necessary cell phone device to reproduce the bug.

How can I help? What information is needed to track down and fix this issue?

[vsuarez (vsuarez)]

Confirmed here with Nokia 6820 (old model, not Symbian). Sending files from phone never worked in Gutsy.

[vsuarez (vsuarez)]

Sorry, it IS working with Nokia 6820 (not Symbian): I can browse content and send files to notebook.
It is NOT working with Nokia N70 (Symbian): I can not browse content nor send files to notebook.

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

I can report the initial issue with Symbian 60 based phone (Nokia N-Gage). File sending works from Nokia 6230i (Symbian 40) and N800 (maemo).

I reckon this is somewhere in the more lower level than obex-data-server, as the obex-data-server process running in daemon mode doesn't even get invoked. Maybe in L2CAP kernel module or bluez-utils.

The hcidump during file send from s60 phone to computer contains:
> ACL data: handle 42 flags 0x02 dlen 12
    L2CAP(s): Connect req: psm 1 scid 0x0041
< ACL data: handle 42 flags 0x02 dlen 16
    L2CAP(s): Connect rsp: dcid 0x0040 scid 0x0041 result 0 status 0
      Connection successful
> ACL data: handle 42 flags 0x02 dlen 10
    L2CAP(s): Command rej: reason 0
      Command not understood
...

[gauda (gauda)]

I followed Tiago Cogumbreiros advice and downloaded the bluez-utils package from debian sid.
now I can receive files from my phone

kubuntu 7.10 on compaq nc 6400 with buildin bt
nokia 6630

[Claudio Takahasi (claudio-takahasi)]

Service Search Request problem is fixed: see BlueZ cvs
/cvsroot/bluez/utils/sdpd/request.c@1.23

Basically this problem occurs if MaximumServiceRecordCount field(in the service search request) is > 32767. There was a wrong comparison between short and unsigned short values.

 > ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 17
    L2CAP(d): cid 0x0040 len 13 [psm 1]
        SDP SS Req: tid 0x1 len 0x8
          pat uuid-16 0x1105 (OBEXObjPush)
          max 65535
          cont 00

[Thomas Novin (thomasn80)]

Confirmed again when sending from Sony Ericsson P1i. Works OK to send from PC to phone and installing gnome-vfs-obexftp then bonding works good as a workaround.

When can we expect this to be updated in Hardy?

[revford (revford)]

I have this problem too.

It works fine with my Wife's phone, Nokia 6300.

It fails on my phone, Nokia 6630, with error on the phone "Sending Failed".

[Ahmad Amr (aamr)]

I'm still having the same problem, nothing fixed. I still can't send any files from my Nokia e61 to my Thinkpad T42, but can send ones from the Thinkpad to the phone, any ideas??

[andschuster (andreas-schuster2)]

Bug confirmed using Nokia's new N82 phone and kubuntu 8.04

[Hemanti (henrikmarcel)]

Confirming bug with Hardy and Nokia 7610.

[Lukas Koch (ast0815)]

Confirmed with Xubuntu Hardy and Nokia E61i.

[Ahmad Amr (aamr)]

Now I can't receive files at all sent from my Nokia e61, either to my
Thinkpad T42 laptop or to my PC :'(

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Ast <email address hidden> wrote:

> Confirmed with Xubuntu Hardy and Nokia E61i.
>
> --
> Cannot recieve files using bluetooth
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211252
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Jyrki Muukkonen (jvtm)]

The CVS change mentioned in comment #51 seems to fix the problem for me. Sending files from Nokia E65 to Ubuntu Hardy works now (on amd64, no chance to test it on i386 right now).

http://bluez.cvs.sourceforge.net/bluez/utils/sdpd/request.c?r1=1.22&r2=1.23&view=patch

Patch is included in bluez-utils-3.32 upstream release.

[Toni Ruottu (toni-ruottu)]

Is someone responsible for updating the package?

[Ahmad Amr (aamr)]

How can I use the "Patch is included in bluez-utils-3.32 upstream release"??

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Toni Ruottu <email address hidden> wrote:

> Is someone responsible for updating the package?
>
> --
> Cannot recieve files using bluetooth
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211252
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Ajo Paul (ajopaul01)]

confirming the bug,

upgraded to hardy,
have bluez-utils and obex-data-server
sending of files from phone(nokia 6630) failed.

after replacing the bluez-utils from debian sid, the sending of files from phone is resolved.

but still browsing from nautilus is showing no results, any fix for that?

doing a obexftp --bluetooth 00:11:9F:D9:8C:A7 --list returns nothing, but doing a obexftp --bluetooth 00:11:9F:D9:8C:A7 --channel 12 --list C: and E: folders is returned.

any hints on the vfs end ?

[COLIN Stéphane (bigbob-fun)]

Ok,

Applied the patch Jyrki Muukkonen say at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/obex-data-server/+bug/211252/comments/59 along the current version, and just pushed up the package version up from "3.26-0ubuntu6" to "3.26-0ubuntu7".

Now, I can send from the phone to the computer.

However, this patch fix only the sending from phone to computer.

The browsing of phone from computer always fail even with this patch.

Now, waiting for the second patch to fix the browsing part :-)

I use a Nokia N70.

A++

[Ahmad Amr (aamr)]

Couldn't find the update COLIN was talking about above, but replaced the bluez-utils from debian sid as Ajo said and EVERYTHING WORKED LIKE A CHARM! Now I can do everything using my Nokia e61; sending, receiving and browsing work very well, thanks :)

[COLIN Stéphane (bigbob-fun)]

Ahmad Amr,

I have just applied the patch by myself locally on my box, that's why you can't find the update anywhere.

A++

[Ahmad Amr (aamr)]

Thanks COLIN, I just did as in my latest post and it's working great now :)

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 8:43 PM, COLIN Stéphane <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Ahmad Amr,
>
> I have just applied the patch by myself locally on my box, that's why
> you can't find the update anywhere.
>
> A++
>
> --
> Cannot recieve files using bluetooth
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211252
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Keith Baker (keibak)]

I confirm this bug using a N70.

Installing Debian bluez-utils (3.30-3) from http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/bluez-utils doesn't solve the problem for me.
I still can't browse the phone's file list and received files.

[Marco Di Pauli (dipa86)]

It works neither for me. I'm using a nokia 6630 with d-link dbt-122 BT USB adapter. I stop BT service, I install bluez-utils 3.30-3 from debian, and I cannot start service again, I don't know why. This happens even if I use bluez-utils 3.32-1 form official site and I compile it by myself.

[Mr Jingle (mrjingle)]

Same problem with a Nokia N70, plus the debian Sid Package. Both browsing (nautilus gives an error showing the mobile bluetooth adapter MAC Address ) and receiving are not working.after different tries, the Computer bluetooth adapter silently freezes. )

[Danilo Penna Queiroz (daniloqueiroz)]

I'm using N70 and the following set up works for me (i can send files from phone to pc, but i still can't browse phone's files).

obex-data-server 0.3.1-0ubuntu1
bluez-gnome 0.25-0ubuntu1
bluez-utils 3.30-3 (***from Debian Unstable***)

[ibizatunes (ibizatunes)]

Im using a N95 and i can send to my pc, but not from my pc to my phone

[Ulrik Mikaelsson (rawler)]

Updating bluez-utils to the current intrepid version (this one; https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/amd64/bluez-utils/3.30-3ubuntu2) solved the problem for me.

[Daniel James (daniel-netbreeze)]

Come on guys... When will we get a version in current that works? This is just bad...

[Ahmad Amr (aamr)]

It's really a shame that an OS mainly directed towards Desktops and Laptops has such a major problem related to a major component in laptops (Bluetooth Adapter), this problem is here for months and it wasn't in older versions of Ubuntu, I'm a big fan of Ubuntu, and I can't show its bluetooth support to my friends and colleagues this way! I'm going to report this to Canonical if it's not solved, shame on you bluetooth developers (bluez-utils) :-(

[Langleyo (langleyo)]

Hi, I have been having problems with 3 different Bluetooth dongles, and I found this thread (eventually). I ran Btscanner in a terminal window and it locked up (Caps lock flashing et al) with a Kernel Panic message shown on the following link:

http://ubuntuforums.org/album.php?albumid=257&pictureid=818

My original post was this link:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=822862

Hope this helps debugging - would sure like to know what causes it :)

[Tiago Cogumbreiro (cogumbreiro)]

Isn't this bug fixed upstream?

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Langleyo <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi, I have been having problems with 3 different Bluetooth dongles, and
> I found this thread (eventually). I ran Btscanner in a terminal window
> and it locked up (Caps lock flashing et al) with a Kernel Panic message
> shown on the following link:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/album.php?albumid=257&pictureid=818
>
>
> My original post was this link:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=822862
>
>
> Hope this helps debugging - would sure like to know what causes it :)

[Daniel James (daniel-netbreeze)]

For the people who just commented on this bug - This bug has been fixed upstream for over a month. The problem is we don't have an updated package in the repos.

There are quite a few bugs at the moment that are fixed upstream but not in the repos. I assume it is because the packagers are just too busy with this being a lts release, but glaring bugs like this one need to be fixed faster...

[Toni Ruottu (toni-ruottu)]

I was told that it remains unclear whether updating the package would fix the problem for all users.
Updating a package might also cause regression for some other users.

[Toni Ruottu (toni-ruottu)]

I got it working with N70. I did as follows...

1) download latest Debian package from http://packages.debian.org/lenny/obex-data-server
2) double click on the package to install it
3) open terminal from accessories under applications menu
4) execute command "sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart"
5) disable and re-enable file receiving. This is done from BT preferences (right click on BT icon)

[Daniel James (daniel-netbreeze)]

It may introduce other bugs if a later version of the software is installed, however, the details of why this bug occurs are included below - a direct quote from the maintainer. The diff for version 1.23 of request.c should be easily applied to the version that we have in our package - this package *should* be patched. I assume the changes would amount to one keyword.

-------
Service Search Request problem is fixed: see BlueZ cvs
/cvsroot/bluez/utils/sdpd/request.c@1.23

Basically this problem occurs if MaximumServiceRecordCount field(in the service search request) is > 32767. There was a wrong comparison between short and unsigned short values.

 > ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 17
    L2CAP(d): cid 0x0040 len 13 [psm 1]
        SDP SS Req: tid 0x1 len 0x8
          pat uuid-16 0x1105 (OBEXObjPush)
          max 65535
          cont 00

[Peter Meiser (meiser79)]

Hi,

please find attached a debdiff which includes the upstream patch from http://bluez.cvs.sourceforge.net/bluez/utils/sdpd/request.c?r1=1.22&r2=1.23&view=patch (comment 59).

Best regards,
Whoopie

[Daniel James (daniel-netbreeze)]

Oh excellent! this is exactly what we need. Can we get this patch added to the deb and can we start testing the new deb?

The patch only changes two lines of code, all it does is change the rsp_count variable to unsigned

[paul123 (darkscript-ntlworld)]

Great! A patch!

I have this problem with N70. Will the patch come through on updates?

[CIberjohn (ciberjohn)]

Well...
Sorry for any inconvenience....
But could someone tell us how to apply that patch ?

[newuser (16b)]

Problem solved to send files from my mobile (nokia 6630) to notebook!
I substitute obex-data-server ubuntu bug-file with working debian package on my x86_64 ubuntu gutsy.
Only one problem remain... to browse my mobile with nautilus. When I do right click on Bluetooth Manager -> browse device -> connect, after few seconds a completely white windows appear. I'm unable to see inside my mobile. Why?
I attached a screenshot about that.
Thank you

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

I'm a little confused about this bug, as it seems to describe several issues over some time. I believe that none of the issues are present in Hardy, but would like confirmation from the reporters that I have accurately understood the problem.

The following three issues seem described:
1) Problems receiving files sent to the computer
2) Problems sending files from the computer
3) Problems browsing files on a remote device via bluetooth.

Description of my actions to attempt to repliate the issues from a base ubuntu-desktop install, with no adjustments to the default bluetooth configuration:
A) Initiate bluetooth pairing from the remote device
B) When prompted enter the PIN on the computer
C) Attempt to send a file from the remote device
D) In response to a "Connection Terminated" message, right-click the bluetooth applet, open Prefrences, and select "Receive files from remote devices".
E) Attept to send file from the remote device again
F) Verify successful reception to desktop
G) RIght click a different file on the desktop, select "Send to...", Bluetooth, remote device name, unpacked
H) Verify receipt of sent file on remote device
I) RIght-click the bluetooth applet, open "Browse Device", select the remote device, and see the remote device contents in Nautilus.

    In summary, it seems to work for me. If someone experiencing issues could confirm that the procedure above does not work for them, and specifically where it breaks, it may be that this is a soluable bug. Otherwise, I'm tempted to mark it "Fix Released", based on various updates that have happened to the bluetooth stack, and it working for me in 8.04 (+updates), despite the clear confirmation from many that it was once a problem.

[newuser (16b)]

Dear Emmet, I solved the problem fixing the bug. My problem was unable to send files from smartphone to notebook! I found the fix in launchpad.net! ;)
My system:
notebook: acer travelmate 4230
OS: linux ubuntu 8.04 64bit

Have a nice day
:)

---------- Initial Header -----------

From : <email address hidden>
To : <email address hidden>
Cc :
Date : Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:27:55 -0000
Subject : [Bug 211252] Re: Cannot recieve files using bluetooth

> I'm a little confused about this bug, as it seems to describe several
> issues over some time. I believe that none of the issues are present in
> Hardy, but would like confirmation from the reporters that I have
> accurately understood the problem.
>
> The following three issues seem described:
> 1) Problems receiving files sent to the computer
> 2) Problems sending files from the computer
> 3) Problems browsing files on a remote device via bluetooth.
>
> Description of my actions to attempt to repliate the issues from a base ubuntu-desktop install, with no adjustments to the default bluetooth configuration:
> A) Initiate bluetooth pairing from the remote device
> B) When prompted enter the PIN on the computer
> C) Attempt to send a file from the remote device
> D) In response to a "Connection Terminated" message, right-click the bluetooth applet, open Prefrences, and select "Receive files from remote devices".
> E) Attept to send file from the remote device again
> F) Verify successful reception to desktop
> G) RIght click a different file on the desktop, select "Send to...", Bluetooth, remote device name, unpacked
> H) Verify receipt of sent file on remote device
> I) RIght-click the bluetooth applet, open "Browse Device", select the remote device, and see the remote device contents in Nautilus.
>
> In summary, it seems to work for me. If someone experiencing issues
> could confirm that the procedure above does not work for them, and
> specifically where it breaks, it may be that this is a soluable bug.
> Otherwise, I'm tempted to mark it "Fix Released", based on various
> updates that have happened to the bluetooth stack, and it working for me
> in 8.04 (+updates), despite the clear confirmation from many that it was
> once a problem.
>
> --
> Cannot recieve files using bluetooth
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211252
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in obex-data-server: Fix Released
> Status in "bluez-utils" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in "obex-data-server" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: obex-data-server
>
> Description: Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
> Release: 8.04
>
> obex-data-server:
> Installed: 0.3-0ubuntu1
> Candidate: 0.3-0ubuntu1
> Version table:
> *** 0.3-0ubuntu1 0
> 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> I am trying to send files from a mobile phone ( N70 and W960i ) to my laptop using a usb dongle. The phone always complains "Failed to connect".
>
> I remember this used to work when I had Gutsy and when i first upgraded to Hardy. I have all bl...

[Daniel H. (danielhartmann)]

Ubuntu 8.04 32bit
Notebook Lenevo 3000 N200 and Desktop/other Notebook with mentioned Bluetooth usb adapter.

Nokia 6630

Browsing and serial port still not working

And i think https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez-utils/+bug/227429 is not really a duplicate of this bug!

[newuser (16b)]

Sorry, I want correct my previous post.
I solved problem related to send files from smartphone to notebook!
I have problem trying to browse my phone.
A void white windows open but I can't see my phone memory! :(
I'm waiting for...help!

[Kenny Millington (kmdm)]

Just wanted to quickly say I had this problem with my Nokia N80 on Ubuntu Hardy.

Downloading the bluez-utils source package, applying the above attached .debdiff and installing the resultant package worked just fine for me.

So I can confirm the patch at least works for me!

[Uphaar Agrawalla (uphaar)]

Emmet,

I'd say the bug is not fully resolved yet. 1 and 3 were the issues, haven't had an issue with 2 myself.

For 1, it fails at step F (on my Nokia phone, I get "Sending Failed" message).

For 3, it was failing at step I when I last checked, which was not a long time ago. However, I just tried again and I am able to browse the contents. Don't think there have been any bluetooth-related updates since I last checked, so wonder how it is working now. But good to see atleast some quick way to get the files to my computer from the phone is working now.

So now, only 1 is an unresolved issue for me. Hope others can confirm on that.

[Toni Ruottu (toni-ruottu)]

People have been reporting that they cannot browse their phones in Hardy. Have some of these people been able to browse their phone in some earlier Ubuntu release? I have a N70 and I'm not sure, if this particular phone even supports any sane protocol that would make browsing work. Browsing would be cool, but is the lack of it regression? If it is not, please get the regression fixed and file a feature request for browsing support.

[Ahmad Amr (aamr)]

Confirmed, I only have issue no.1; I get the "Sending Failed" message when
trying to send any files from my Nokia e61 mobile phone.

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Uphaar Agrawalla <email address hidden> wrote:

> Emmet,
>
> I'd say the bug is not fully resolved yet. 1 and 3 were the issues,
> haven't had an issue with 2 myself.
>
> For 1, it fails at step F (on my Nokia phone, I get "Sending Failed"
> message).
>
> For 3, it was failing at step I when I last checked, which was not a
> long time ago. However, I just tried again and I am able to browse the
> contents. Don't think there have been any bluetooth-related updates
> since I last checked, so wonder how it is working now. But good to see
> atleast some quick way to get the files to my computer from the phone is
> working now.
>
> So now, only 1 is an unresolved issue for me. Hope others can confirm on
> that.
>
> --
> Cannot recieve files using bluetooth
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211252
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Sami Mäkinen (sami-makinen-helsinki)]

I have just updated to latest versions of all packages in Kubuntu Hardy. I don't know how to apply the patch mentioned in this bug.

I cannot send a file from my N95 to my desktop, which is my original problem that brought me to this bug, via Onkar's link at another related bug.

Vice versa works as before - I can push an image from desktop to N95.

Browsing also works fine, which can be used as a rather complicated workaround to sending files. I can't say out of memory if browsing worked or didn't work before, but now it works.

So yes, most definitely, this bug is still open, NOT fixed, at least where currently available binary packages are concerned. Perhaps somebody could package the patch as a convenient binary package that I could try to install?

[Sami Mäkinen (sami-makinen-helsinki)]

Emmet, which phone are you using to test, please? From my tests I concluded that the problem I am seeing is limited to Symbian devices.

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

I have tested sending files to my computer from computers running Ubuntu 8.04, Mac OS X 10.4, and a Sharp 922SH running iTron, so if the bu is Symbian-specific, my results would make sense.

Also, this bug is becoming confusing: those with issues with browsing: please open a different bug. Those with issues sending files to the computer from a remote device, please post your remote device OS details to confirm if it is specific to Symbian (or maybe even only specific versions of Symbian).

[Kenny Millington (kmdm)]

For testing purposes only I've uploaded the fix into my PPA if anyone (who owns a Nokia phone) wants to give it a go:-

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kennynet/+archive

Please note once you've installed the new packages you need to make sure obex-data-server gets restarted, personally I pkill'd it and then unticked and reticked the "Receive files from remote devices" option in the Bluetooth preferences. (Make sure you get the the popup indicating Receiving files is enabled.)

Off-Topic:-

I'm afraid this was my first package build using the PPA system so I'm afraid I managed to get one or two things a little wrong - so be gentle... ;-)

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

What was the fix? The SDP patch in the debdiff from Whoopie?

[Kenny Millington (kmdm)]

Yep - the debdiff fixed it fine for me and my Nokia N80. I've also tested it on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

(I edited the changelog for uploading onto my PPA since I needed to sign it... and I probably could have made the changelog entry better but as for the code portion of the patch in sdpd/request.c that's identical.)

[Sami Mäkinen (sami-makinen-helsinki)]

After installing Kenny's AMD64 package bluez-utils I can now push files from mobile to PC without problem. I can test with more phones later, but right now I'd say this bug is fixed. And has been fixed for at least a month now, so let's get this package out to the official repository asap so others can also enjoy the fix.

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

I've refreshed the patch against intrepid, and also tested there. I don't see any change in behaviour, which is best intepreted as a lack of regression, as I didn't see the problem to start. Attached is the debdiff for the intrepid update. If accepted, this bug can then be considered for a stable update to 8.04.

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

The obex-data-server fix appears to be in obex-data-server 0.3.3: if the nominations are approved, this task is Fix Released in intrepid, and Confirmed in hardy.

[Kenny Millington (kmdm)]

Having just built my intrepid partition I can now confirm Emmet's attached debdiff fixes the problem for me on Intrepid. Before the the patch sending files to my laptop over bluetooth failed. After applying the debdiff, building and installing the resultant deb I was able to send files to my laptop over bluetooth (had to make sure obex-data-server got restarted, ofcourse).

[Jean-Philippe Lenain (jeanphilippe-lenain)]

Hello,

Running Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04), testing with a Nokia N70.
I had the same problem: can send files from PC to phone, cannot send files from phone to PC.
I upgraded the package 'bluez-utils' to the Intrepid version, and now sending files from the phone to my PC works great.
But still, browsing the content of my phone through Nautilus still shows an empty window.
Any ideas ?

Thanks a lot

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

The file sending issue is in bluez-utils, and there is a candidate fix available: if adopted, it will be proposed as a possible update for Hardy. The browsing issue is in obex-data-server, and is actually a completely separate bug (although as we've everyone here already, it's not worth splitting the bug now). The fix for browsing is in the intrepid archives, and if the nomination for Hardy is accepted, a patch will be presented for a possible stable update.

(if someone wants to prepare a hardy debdiff for the browsing issue based on the muiline-mantis ticket referenced in the upstream task for general testing while waiting for approval, it may be appreciated. I can't test (no Symbian devices), so I'm not likely to prepare the browsing debdiff unless the task is approved.

[Jean-Philippe Lenain (jeanphilippe-lenain)]

Emmet Hikory,

Thanks a lot for your fast reply !

So as far as the browsing issue is concerned, I just tried out using the obex-data-server package from the Intrepid archives, but this does not help, at least for a Symbian device (Nokia N70). The browsing window is still empty, exactly as for the current Hardy package.

Has anybody else the same browsing problem with a Symbian phone, using the obex-data-server package from Intrepid ?

Thanks a lot for the help

[Kenny Millington (kmdm)]

Ok so here's my first attempt at tracking down the upstream fix and creating a debdiff (for Hardy).

Unfortunately I don't experience this issue with either my Nokia N80 (or my girlfriends N73) so the best I can report is that I don't suffer a regression from using the fixed package.

I've sent this fixed package out to my PPA for testing, if someone who is affected could give it a test that'd be appreciated. I can try on my dad's 6630i once I get home.

My PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kennynet/+archive

(To rollback from the package in my PPA you can do: sudo apt-get install obex-data-server=0.3.1-0ubuntu1)

[Kenny Millington (kmdm)]

Please also make sure that obex-data-server actually gets restarted, I've seen instances where unticking the option in bluetooth preferences doesn't actually kill the process (this could be a separate bug but hey-ho or it could mean I should untick it then upgrade then retick it). :-)

[Peter Meiser (meiser79)]

@Kenny, I think, your patch is not complete. But I also can't test because my symbian (Nokia E90) also doesn't have the browsing issue.

Attached the patch from upstream which (I think) is complete.

[Kenny Millington (kmdm)]

Thanks for that Whoopie, I've updated my test package (and debdiff) to reflect your patch.

The test package is queued in the PPA build system so once it'll be ready for testing as described above.

[Kenny Millington (kmdm)]

I can't reproduce this bug on a Nokia 6630i so someone else will need to test it. (The ~test2 package is built and ready in my PPA now.)

[Jean-Philippe Lenain (jeanphilippe-lenain)]

Hi Kenny,

Thanks a lot for your package (obex-data-server_0.3.1.-0ubuntu2~test2).

I tried it with a Nokia N70. I restarted the bluetooth service and the obex-data-server properly. But the bug is still here: when browsing the memory of the phone, the window is still empty.
Thanks

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package bluez-utils - 3.36-1ubuntu1

---------------
bluez-utils (3.36-1ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable. (LP: #211252)
  * Remaining Ubuntu changes:
    - Leave 002_hcid_conf_defaults delta to debian.
    - Check for upgrades before 3.30 and cleanup old service files
    - Introduce 3 new packages, bluez-network, bluez-serial, bluez-input.
    - Depend on lsb-base >= 3.2-14, providing status_of_proc()
    - Add the 'status' action to bluez-utils's init script.
    - New patch, 010_hciconfig-hciX, add hci interface to command in hciconfig
      manual page.
  * Ubuntu changes dropped:
    - Turn off hidd, dund, and pand to try the plugins again. (LP: #191704)

bluez-utils (3.36-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version
    + Use safe function versions for SDP client handling.
      (since 3.34)
  * Build-dep on libbluetooth >= 3.36
  * Remove obsolete pcmcia-cs dep
  * Remove old cruft:
    - bluez-pan from /etc/default/bluetooth
    - bluez-sdp from postinst
  * Install *-api.txt
  * Update S-V to 3.8.0, no changes needed
  * Call hid2hci in init.d restart action (Closes: #490980)
  * Fix startup/shutdown message for dund (Closes: #490851)
  * Build dfutool (Closes: #489038)
  * Fix lintian-catched errors:
    - change cupsys dep to cups
    - add #debhelper# to bluez-audio.preinst
  * Rephrase README.Debian as suggested in #477335

 -- Steve Kowalik <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:06:07 +1000

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

Now that the Hardy tasks are defined, could someone (who can reliably reproduce the bug) please update/replace the description with a clear summary for the problem and a TEST CASE (as specified in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates). Once complete, the outstanding backported patches against hardy may be submitted for review by the SRU team, and the bug can be completely closed.

[LEVIS Cyril (atlas95)]

For me, on a fresh install, i can send a file from my phone to computer ONLY ONE TIME, and after, i'm not able to send another ... this fails ...

[Ahmad Amr (aamr)]

You know, even though I LOVE Ubuntu! I'm always advertising for it
everywhere and I even bought the T-shirt and keyring to support it,
BUT IT'S A TOTAL FAILURE FOR LAPTOPS, Who can believe this awful
bluetooth support and for this sooooooooooo long time??? It even
didn't exist in older versions. This is the most stupid bug I've ever
seen in any Linux distro.

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:29 PM, LEVIS Cyril <email address hidden> wrote:
> For me, on a fresh install, i can send a file from my phone to computer
> ONLY ONE TIME, and after, i'm not able to send another ... this fails
> ...
>
> --
> Cannot recieve files using bluetooth
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211252
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Kenny Millington (kmdm)]

I've modified the description to hopefully include the required information for the SRU update nomination to Hardy for bluez-utils. I'm unable to modify for the obex-data-server bug since I cannot reproduce it.

[newuser (16b)]

Sorry, I lost myself! :(
I corrected 1st bug: send files from mobile_phone (nokia 6630) to notebook; but I've still 2d bug: browse my mobile (void window appear!)
What can I do? I'd like to help you testing too but I don't know how correct this bug.
Light me the way please ;)

[Sami Mäkinen (sami-makinen-helsinki)]

people with problems with browsing: are you using Ubuntu or Kubuntu?

I am on an unpatched but up to date Kubuntu 8.04 computer, and while it exhibits the "cannot receive file from mobile" bug (because I have not installed the patch on this computer), I can browse the mobile phone contents from the computer just fine:
1) click the bluetooth icon in the Panel
2) Konqueror opens, and start adding locally discovered bluetooth devices to the list. Phone is added to list.
3) Click on phone icon
4) System asks what to do with the link, and proposes to open it with Dolphin.
5) Click Open with 'Dolphin'
6) New Dolphin window is opened. Location starts with "sdp://"
7) Window shows "OBEX File Transfer" and "OBEX Object Push".
8) Click on OBEX file transfer
9) WIndow shows "C:" and "E:" and I can browse normally from here on

Phone is Nokia N95.

Comments?

[newuser (16b)]

I use ubuntu 8.04 64bit and (as I wrote before) mobile_phone nokia 6630.
1 problem corrected with patch: send files from mp to pc. Now ok!
1 problem open: right click on bluetooth icon -> Browse device.. -> I select device and I click connect -> a void window appear after few seconds!
How can I repair this bug?
Thank you

[teimcrr (marco-carrarini)]

On Ubuntu 8.04.1 32bit and SonyEricsson P1i (Symbian UIQ 3):
Send, receive and phone browsing OK with the package by Kenny.
Also file transfer with laptop works now.

Thanks

[Tom Imhof (tomimhof)]

I would like to open this bug again, running regularily updated intrepid.

I can confirm that I was able to copy files from the phone (LG KU990) and to the phone with bluez utils 3.x, however, the recent update to version 4.12 of bluez utils breaks the direction phone to PC.

*With bluez-utils 4.12 my LG KU990 displays the message Failed to send to ... when sending a file to the PC (Asus eeepc 990 as well as HP NC 4010)
*Sending from the PC to the phone works fine
*Opening the phone via Browse device from the Bluetooth applet shows an empty Nautilus window. *Coping files from the PC into this window fails - message: Operation not supported by backend.

I do not want to rain on anybody's parade, but it do not understand the reasoning behind replacing working versions with unstable software at this point in time? I mean, it is not so much time to go until the release of 8.10 LTS, no?

Anyway, should there be a solution, please let me know, also, if you need any debugging information (hcidump etc.), gimmie a shout.
cheers
tom

[Marcos (deflagmator)]

With my Intrepid lastest updates with nokia n70 I can not browse the phone and I cannot send files from the mobilphone to the laptop. In some of the past beta or alpha versions of intrepid I could use send files from the mobil to the laptop.
With 8.04 never worked and with 7.10 always. ( NEVER browse the mobil from the laptop)

[Uphaar Agrawalla (uphaar)]

Certainly the problem is not fixed. Running up-to-date Intrepid and still unable to send files (phone to pc) or browse phone (Nokia N73).

[Max (maxter)]

nokia 6680 with freshly (2008-10-24) updated intrepid
no browsing, no sending no receiving
well..
intrepid is in freeze, so i think we will wait until 09.04 :(

[dav2dev (dav2dev)]

Same as Marcos (3 posts above). By the way, shouldn't we open another bug for intrepid, since it uses a different version of bluez (4.x) from hardy(for wich there was a fix) ?

[Jonathan Ernst (jonathan.ernst)]

Browsing files works here, receiving doesn't work (and in Intrepid there is no more ui in gnome-bluetooth-applet to deceide whether receiving file is permitted or not).

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias)]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Jonathan Ernst
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Browsing files works here, receiving doesn't work (and in Intrepid there
> is no more ui in gnome-bluetooth-applet to deceide whether receiving
> file is permitted or not).

as said before, file reception over bluetooth is *NO MORE* handled by
bluez-gnome, but by gnome-user-share.
Can all the subscribers check they installed gnome-user-share, and
activated bluetooth files reception?

Regards
--
Baptiste Mille-Mathias
Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés

[Uphaar Agrawalla (uphaar)]

gnome-user-share wants to install apache2. Not sure if that is a bug or intentional.

[Jonathan Ernst (jonathan.ernst)]

>as said before, file reception over bluetooth is *NO MORE* handled by
>bluez-gnome, but by gnome-user-share.

I have installed this package but couldn't fiind any way to activate bluetooth files reception. Could you please tell us where to look ?

BTW I find it very odd that users are now required to manually install a package for such basic functionality.

I have installed gnome-bluetooth and after running gnome-obex-server receiving files work.

What was the problem with the way hardy handled everything bluetooth related in bluetooth applet ?

[Jonathan Ernst (jonathan.ernst)]

>gnome-user-share wants to install apache2. Not sure if that is a bug or intentional.

that's because it add webdav file sharing as well... (don't ask me what relation exists between receiving files using bluetooth and sharing files using webdav though)

[Toni Ruottu (toni-ruottu)]

gnome-user-share uses apache2 for sharing files

[Uphaar Agrawalla (uphaar)]

I'm not sure if that is a very good option then - having a web server installed to use bluetooth file receiving seems like a bit of an overkill.

[Matthias Urlichs (smurf)]

Apache isn't required for Bluetooth file sharing, just for WebDAV file sharing.
For Jaunty, this package should be split — different problem, I'll add a bug for it.

[Nuño (niglesi)]

Hello..
I have an updated hardy...and i can confirm the bug.
I can send files from my laptop to the mobile...
I can't receive files from my nokia 6680.
I have ot any other mobile, so i can't test if the problem happens with any other bluetooth device.
Well...this is a looooong bug.

[Toni Ruottu (toni-ruottu)]

I think it would be important to find out why the development process can fail this bad.

[dav2dev (dav2dev)]

Baptiste Mille-Mathias, I installed gnome-user-share, but now I don't know how to enable file receiving, in bluetooth config applet I can't find any option for this.

[Nuño (niglesi)]

Hello again
I have been testing the packages from "Kenny Millington "
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kennynet/+archive

The blueetooth device with I have the issue (sending files to my laptop) seems to be solved:
  I can send files from laptop to the mobile
  I can sennd files from mobile to laptop.

I continue having problems with brosing the mobile from nautilus:
From console if I run:
  obexftp --bluetooth 00:18:8D:xx:xx:xx --list
I receive this:
   Browsing 00:18:8D:xx:xx:xx ...
   Channel: 10
   Connecting...failed: connect
   Still trying to connect
   Connecting...failed: connect
   Still trying to connect
   Connecting...failed: connect
   Still trying to connect

IF I run :
   obexftp --bluetooth 00:18:8D:xx:xx:xx --channel 12 --list
I receive this:
   Browsing 00:18:8D:xx:xx:xx ...
   Channel: 10
   Connecting...done
   Receiving "(null)"... <?xml version="1.0"?>
   <!DOCTYPE folder-listing SYSTEM "obex-folder-listing.dtd"
     [ <!ATTLIST folder mem-type CDATA #IMPLIED>
     <!ATTLIST folder label CDATA #IMPLIED> ]>
     <folder-listing version="1.0">
      <folder name="C:" user-perm="RW" mem-type="DEV" label="Memoria del teléfono"/>
      <folder name="E:" user-perm="RW" mem-type="MMC" label="Tarjeta de memoria"/>
    </folder-listing>done
Disconnecting...done

For nautilus , when browsing my phone i have a clean nautilus windows with this URL
      obex://[00:18:8D:xx:xx:xx]/

Instaled packages:
  bluez-utils 3.26-0ubuntu6.1 Bluetooth tools and daemons
  bluez-gnome 0.25-0ubuntu1 Bluetooth utilities for GNOME
  obex-data-serve 0.3.1-0ubuntu2~ D-Bus service for OBEX client and server side

Well this is what i can tell..

If some body can explain me how to help...
I try.

Thanks...
Let's close this...soon.... :D

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias)]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:50 PM, dav2dev <email address hidden> wrote:
> Baptiste Mille-Mathias, I installed gnome-user-share, but now I don't
> know how to enable file receiving, in bluetooth config applet I can't
> find any option for this.
>

Go in the preferences, this a entry called "Personnal File share" or
something like that.

--
Baptiste Mille-Mathias
Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés

[dav2dev (dav2dev)]

ok, configured "personal file sharing" but the problems remain....now i'm going to try the packages in the ppa linked by nuño

[dav2dev (dav2dev)]

ops, I cannot use that ppa because I'm on Intrepid, which has bluez 4.x, while that ppa is for hardy (bluez 3.x)

[Prakash J Kokkatt (pjkonweb)]

I am on Intrepid and from hardy itself ,I am not able to pair my N73ME with Ubuntu :( .

[newuser (16b)]

I upgraded online from Ubuntu Hardy (32bit) to Intrepid (32bit) and I lost functionality. Now I'm not able to send/receive files from/to mobile (nokia 6630) to/from notebook (acer 4230), before in Hardy it was working. I was unable to browse my mobile in Hardy, now in Intrepid too!
I'd like just to know if the service/repair team working on these bugs.

[John Doe (johndoe32102002)]

I upgraded from Ubuntu Hardy (32-bit) to Ubuntu Intrepid (32-bit) and I lost functionality also on my laptop with all bluetooth devices. Bluetooth for me also worked fine in Ubuntu Hardy. I thought I was upgrading to a stable version of Ubuntu? Please look into fixing the bluez package.

Thanks.

[Nuño (niglesi)]

El Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:00:04 -0000
Max <email address hidden> escribió:

> ** Changed in: obex-data-server (Ubuntu Intrepid)
> Status: Fix Released => Confirmed
>

And what about hardy?

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Nuño Iglesias Gallo
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[newuser (16b)]

Hi Nuño, what means that?

quote
> ** Changed in: obex-data-server (Ubuntu Intrepid)
> Status: Fix Released => Confirmed

For ubuntu intrepid this bug is solved?

[Nuño (niglesi)]

El Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:24:14 -0000
newuser <email address hidden> escribió:

> Hi Nuño, what means that?
>
> quote
> > ** Changed in: obex-data-server (Ubuntu Intrepid)
> > Status: Fix Released => Confirmed
>
> For ubuntu intrepid this bug is solved?

It seems that.
But I'm not using Intrepid.

--

Nuño Iglesias Gallo
<email address hidden>

[Ahmad Amr (aamr)]

No, it's "Confirmed" not "Solved"

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Nuño <email address hidden> wrote:

> El Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:24:14 -0000
> newuser <email address hidden> escribió:
>
> > Hi Nuño, what means that?
> >
> > quote
> > > ** Changed in: obex-data-server (Ubuntu Intrepid)
> > > Status: Fix Released => Confirmed
> >
> > For ubuntu intrepid this bug is solved?
>
> It seems that.
> But I'm not using Intrepid.
>
>
> --
>
>
> Nuño Iglesias Gallo
> <email address hidden>
>
> --
> Cannot receive files using bluetooth
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211252
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[newuser (16b)]

@Ahmad: what's the difference between confirmed and solved?
Someone can tell me why this bug is still unresolved although it exists since many time?
I don't want be polemic, it's just my curiosity! Hard problem? Few time for experts to dedicate this bug? Bluetooth producers doesn't wants give technicals details to help experts to solve the bug? Other?
Thank you
:)

[Daniel James (daniel-netbreeze)]

I think the problem is that the bug is classed as 'Low' priority. I am using packages from someone's ppa that are working perfectly.

So far it appears that this bug isn't being fixed because of really stupid reasons, ie: at the very beginning it wasn't being fixed because that would require an upgrade to a later version of bluez and everyone was scared that an upgrade would introduce more bugs.. meanwhile, a very large portion of the population couldn't even send a file from their phone to their laptop..

[Max (maxter)]

@Daniel:
please, can you tell us what ppa are you using?
some weeks ago i triedobex-data-server from Baptiste's ppa, but it did'nt work for me.
i'll do another test with updated packages, and i will report the results.

@newuser
the bug is unresolved in intrepid
in hardy it seems that there are ppa tha can fix it.
in intrepid, well.... there is a new version of bluez stack, that fix the problem that was present in hardy, but raised new problems.
so, this bug report is referred to different bugs.
i think this bug should be closed, an a new bug report sould be opened for intrepid.

[Daniel James (daniel-netbreeze)]

Hi Max, yeah I'm using Baptiste Mille-Mathias' PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~bmillemathias/+archive

Make sure you install gnome-user-share as well. Make sure you delete the pairing from both the phone and the pc and start again. I've had a lot of success using the packages from that repo with an n95.. Before it was impossible to receive via obex.

[Ahmad Amr (aamr)]

Confirmed means that the bug truly exists and needs to be fixed, solved means that the bug is fixed.

- original message -
Subject: [Bug 211252] Re: Cannot receive files using bluetooth
From: newuser <email address hidden>
Date: 16/12/2008 12:58 pm

@Ahmad: what's the difference between confirmed and solved?
Someone can tell me why this bug is still unresolved although it exists since many time?
I don't want be polemic, it's just my curiosity! Hard problem? Few time for experts to dedicate this bug? Bluetooth producers doesn't wants give technicals details to help experts to solve the bug? Other?
Thank you
:)

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[newuser (16b)]

Thank you very much to all!!
:)

[marco enrico alviar (mvalviar)]

Wow this bug is still alive and kicking.

Well I have the same problem as most of you being. I'm using Nokia 6600 (Symbian) with ubuntu hardy (32 bit). My problems are:

1. Can see mounted phone on nautilus but can't see any object in it.

2. Can't send file to PC even though I can send file from PC to phone. Whenever I try to send a file to PC the phone complains with "Unable to connect."

My work around is to install gnome-bluetooth and downgrade bluez-utils but with this work around I still can't browse my phone. Can anyone tell me how to use the fixes mentioned above? Will I be able to browse, send/receive to/from phone/pc if I apply these fixes?

[newuser (16b)]

@Daniel James:
following your post I also installed bluetooth package from PPA for Baptiste Mille-Mathias!
Thank you very much for your post.
Now I'm able to send files from my mobile (nokia6630) to my laptop but I'm still unable to send files from laptop to pc. It's your situation too or are you able to send files from pc to mobile swell?

[Daniel James (daniel-netbreeze)]

@newuser:
Hmm.. odd. I can send from my pc to my phone as well. I can also browse my phone and copy files from/to using that method.

Just so you know, all I need to do to send a file to my phone is right click on a file and click sendto. Then I select bluetooth and select my phone as the recipient.

[Cyr4x (marcinwlo)]

I cannot! My PC cannot connect to the phone when I'm trying to send a file or browse files. When I'm adding a new device in Ubuntu, my Phone is being reckognised, but PC cannot pair with it. When I'm adding it in an opposite way - a PC in the phone's thrusted devices - it pairs with PC, but i still cannot send files from PC to phone and browse phone files. On hardy everything worked "out of the box" perfectly. On intrepid i can do nothing!

[Toni Ruottu (toni-ruottu)]

Just tested with Jaunty. Still doesn't work.

To lighten up the moment a little, I have attached a joke.
 Q: "How can you tell, if one is using Ubuntu?"
 A: "He doesn't respond to your SMS messages as his phones memory is full."

[Slothie (ian-rolfe)]

Well I just "upgraded" my laptop to Xubuntu Intrepid, and was dismayed to find out that I couldn't send pictures from my phone to the pc. I've had the same results as everyone here; I could send to the phone (an LG KU990 "Viewty") but not from the phone to the PC.

My workaround (which is better than attacking the PC with a hammer :) ) after a lot of experimenting was to use Synaptic to install the gnome-bluetooth package and that made the "Applications->Accessories->Bluetooth File Sharing" thingie appear on the menu. This seems to work for file reception. Of course now I don't have the handy "Send this file" but I can fire up the bluetooth-applet for that.

The "browse" function still doesn't work, but then I never had that on Dapper so I can live without it.

A bit clunky, but at least I can transfer files. Hopefully this will get fixed sometime.

[Max (maxter)]

it seems that a new release of obex-data-server fix the browsing problem

http://tadas.dailyda.com/blog/2009/02/08/obex-data-server-043/

i hope that someone will create a ppa for this release of ods

[Kenny Millington (kmdm)]

@Max...

Tested before upgrading to obex-data-server 0.4.3 - failed.

Tested after upgrading to obex-data-server 0.4.3 - SUCCESS.

I've built a package for obex-data-server 0.4.3 in my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kennynet/+archive/ppa

The installation process is as follows...

1. Add my PPA (and key) to your apt/software sources and update (e.g. sudo apt-get update).

2. Navigate to: System -> Preferences -> Personal File Sharing

Untick "Receive files in Downloads folder over Bluetooth"

(Leave the dialog open.)

2. Fire up a console, to make sure obex-data-server has been killed:-
$ kill `pidof obex-data-server`

(for some reason pkill didn't do the job)

3. Install the package
$ sudo apt-get install obex-data-server

4. Retick the "Receive files in Downloads folder over Bluetooth" option.

5. Attempt to send a file over bluetooth to your computer.

Hope this helps and thanks for the heads up!

[Alessandro Grechi (alexit)]

Great Kenny !! This solution works like a charm ;)

Finally... after MONTHS, this problem seems resolved.

Thank you very much!

[teimcrr (marco-carrarini)]

A question for Kenny:
what about Hardy ? I still am with version obex-data-server - 0.3.1-0ubuntu2~test2
as in your repo.
Can I install obex-data-server - 0.4.3~ppa1 or it is only for Intrepid ?

Thanks

[newuser (16b)]

@kenny: how to add to my repositories your? I wrote:
deb https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kennynet/+archive/ppa intrepid
in my /etc/apt/sources.list but I've problem. Please can you explain the steps?
Thank you

[Fionn (fbe)]

The underlying bug in bluez-utils is now known for almost a year.
A fix is known for more than six months. Why the hell hasnt it been released yet?

Does LOW (as in priority) mean "let others wait" ?

[Max (maxter)]

@Fionn
the bug in bluez-utils is fixed from intrepid release.
the problem was in obex-data-server
and it was fixed only with version 0.4.3 of ODS

it is not a responsibility of ubuntu team, that can't fix all the bugs of all opensource applications.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

can someone please write a summary which patch is supposed to get review/sponsorship here? If there are multiple patches involved, please reference them in your message.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

also as the normal target is already "fix released", is this bug about getting those patches into intrepid/hardy as an SRU?

[Kenny Millington (kmdm)]

@Alexander:

With obex-data-server 0.4.3 being accepted into jaunty I believe this bug can be satisfied by backporting that version to intrepid, ideally as a SRU but even having it in intrepid-backports would help).

(A backport to hardy is alot more invasive due to bluez library version requirements for the 0.4.x obex-data-server versions.)

I've tried to cover what I know of the SRU requirements below, unfortunately I'm not totally familiar with both obex-data-server 0.3.x and 0.4.x.

IMPACT:

Users of certain affected Nokia phones are unable to send (/receive?) files between their PCs and phones.

DEVELOPMENT BRANCH (jaunty):

This has been addressed in jaunty by upgrading obex-data-server to 0.4.3 in which it was fixed upstream.

TEST CASE:

A simple test case with an affected Nokia phone, assumes bluetooth is setup on both the computer and phone etc...

1. Attempt to send a photo (or similar) to the computer.
2. Phone reports failure, no photo available on PC.

EXPECTED RESULT:

1. Attempt to send a photo (or similar) to the computer.
2. Phone reports photo sent successfully, and photo is located on the PC (desktop?).

REGRESSION POTENTIAL:

TODO (I don't know enough about the versions of obex-data-server to comment here, anyone else?)

Hope this helps.

[Wolfgang Siebeck (ws-siam)]

I just tried to send files to my desktop via bluetooth. It works as expected, if I send from my Nokia 6230, but from the N82 I get "Connection failed". Tried both the Nokia UI and YBrowser's BT-Obex. On the Desktop there is Hardy with all updates installed.

Thank you for your attention.

[Sami Mäkinen (sami-makinen-helsinki)]

With up to date Ubuntu Jaunty, as installed by default without any manual additions, I cannot send files from N95 to computer. It does work the other way around.

after installing gnome-bluetooth I can send files from phone to PC

Why is gnome-bluetooth not installed and started by default, if bluetooth is enabled and visible? How on earth can users realize that they have an incomplete bluetooth setup, unless they manually select a package whose name or description does not even mention receiving files?

[Kenny Millington (kmdm)]

@Sami:

My Jaunty install is able to receive files fine from my N80 (and my N80 was a victim of this bug). I do not have the gnome-bluetooth package installed.

Did you have gnome-user-share and obex-data-server installed?

[Daniel James (daniel-netbreeze)]

Just confirming here that my n95 *can* send files to my Jaunty install. Just enabled bluetooth receiving via the gnome-user-share dialog. Very impressed with Jaunty!

[Fabio (imgfabio)]

for me it's the same,
with N70 all works...and with blueman it's perfect!!!
great job!!

[newuser (16b)]

I upgraded ubuntu 8.10 -> 9.04 32bit hoping in a solution but...same problem.
:..(

I can't send/receive/browse nokia 6630 <-> my pc
Am I alone?

[Toni Ruottu (toni-ruottu)]

With Jaunty I am able to send files to pc from my Nokia N70 mobile phone, iff I 1) am running gnome-obex-server, or 2) have gnome-user-share configured to receive bluetooth files.

regarding gnome-obex-server: Are users supposed to know they need to install this? Are they also supposed to understand they have to start it from a menu everytime they want to receive files?

regarding gnome-user-share: Are users supposed to know they need to install this? After they have installed it, are they supposed to understand that they have to go to System -> Preferences -> Personal File Sharing to turn the bluetooth receiving on? After it is enabled, it does not immediately work because first bluetooth transfer starts the service, but it does not get up in time to answer to receive the file. When the user gets this error is he supposed to understand he should retry? Once the file transfer succeeds an ugly looking icon remains in the notification-area, and there is no way to interact with that icon, and even more importantly you simply cannot get rid of the icon, no matter what you do.

In previous Ubuntu releases I understood that the actual bluetooth application that sits in my notification area should have been able to handle all this. The only problem was it didn't work. No the thing might have gone worse. We have a working solution that is really hard to understand.

[newuser (16b)]

After last upgrades, now finally I'm able to send/receive files from/to nokia 6630 to/from pc.
I'm still unable to browse my phone!

[newuser (16b)]

@Toni Ruottu: great job!
I understand the hard work...and I'm happy because now it works for me! So good hard work did it!!!
Sincerely I'd like to give my help too, but I don't have a great programming skill! :((
As I wrote before, now I can send/receive files from/to 6630<->notebook and I can browse my phone too!
Just a (small) bug: I can't able to copy a file from phone to pc by "browsing" way (the copy function by browse way works well only from pc to phone!) When I try to do that a small window "file operation" open on my screen without works and if I click on close button the window closes after time. But as I wrote before, doesn't matter, I can use with success the send command (or the copy function by browse if I need to transfer files from pc to phone). Just I would inform you about that.
I want give 2 advices:
1) if someone has again problems after bluetooth updates.. maybe your bluetooth receiver is broken. (It's happened to me!). So, in this case...change it!
2) if you've all bluetooth packages updated and your bluetooth receiver isn't broken, try with this command:
$ sudo hciconfig hci0 reset (and after did it wait some seconds..)
:)

[maximi89 (maximi89)]

First, the device works?
you have bluetooth-applet running?

that is from gnome-bluetooth or bluez-gnome? what version?

now, what bluetooth device? lsusb

"lsof|grep obex-data" for locate the ID of the running server,
obex-data 30028 maximi89 mem REG 8,7 14264 150278 /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0.2000.3
obex-data 30028 maximi89 mem REG 8,7 744268 150275 /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2000.3
obex-data 30028 maximi89 mem REG 8,7 249392 150277 /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2000.3
obex-data 30028 maximi89 mem REG 8,7 117348 438349 /lib/ld-2.9.so
obex-data 30028 maximi89 0u CHR 136,1 0t0 4 /dev/pts/1
obex-data 30028 maximi89 1u CHR 136,1 0t0 4 /dev/pts/1
obex-data 30028 maximi89 2u CHR 136,1 0t0 4 /dev/pts/1
obex-data 30028 maximi89 3u unix 0xf5adf980 0t0 125884 socket

"kill 30028" kill the application, now start the server ODS (obex-data-server)
"obex-data-server --no-daemon" now you can monitor ODS (this send only, with some calls of DBUS this can receive files)

You need download the sources from www.bluez.org, you open the folder in terminal, where you put the folder...
what happen if you try this?
"maximi89@Maximiliano:~/obex-data-server-0.4.4$ python test/ods-server-test.py opp /tmp"
you can receive files, that means ODS are ok, the problem is bluetooth-applet, because it only can send files, for receiv needs gnome-user-share, but this are not working yet...

i have installed, gnome-bluetooth 2.27.5-1

i think bluetooth-applet needs to receive files using same ODS, and open any folder using command lines... because all use differents desktop, if you have a old machine, but you use bluetooth, why have installed nautilus? when you use thunar, pcmanfm or any other file manager?...

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531525
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530491
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584582
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531275
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530492
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530826

How you can see, the problem is from bluetooth-applet, because ODS itself can receive and send files, but for receive needs a program for open a session for receive... like we do with "python test/ods-server-test.py opp /tmp" but this is maded from DBUS calls...
Now, the gnome-bluetooth 0.9 have a program gnome-obex-server who are been replaced be bluetooth-applet in version 2.27

Any one questions?

[maximi89 (maximi89)]

The most important bug, of ODS project:
http://bugs.muiline.com/view.php?id=162

[maximi89 (maximi89)]

I was test with newer version of Gnome-bluetooth, 2.27.5-1 and this fails too on Debian... i believe this is a bug of bluetooth-applet it self.

[maximi89 (maximi89)]

ODS works fine, bluetooth-applet don't make the appropiate call to DBUS for start session for receive files using ODS

[John McCabe-Dansted (gmatht)]

Still occurs in latest Karmic 64bit (and Jaunty) with Nokia N95.

[PomCompot (pomme-compote-launchpad)]

I can confirm that installing and setting up properly gnome-user-share make the deal. I have a Nokia 6630 and I can send files from it to my laptop now.

There's the problem of the notification of gnome-user-share that stays here after the transfer and which is completely useless because you cannot interact with it.

I will make an update of the documentation page on the French Ubuntu community documentation.

Would be great if gnome-user-share was properly installed and configured along side all the OBEX things.

[Toni Ruottu (toni-ruottu)]

Some times the blue icon thingie doesn't appear on first run, which makes the transfer fail on first time. Thus I find the icon useful because it tells me the transfers are to succeed, but ofcourse it could go away afterwards. And, if the system was working properly we would not need it at all.

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias)]

Since lucid, gnome-user-share is installed which permit file reception using bluetooth

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Intrepid Ibex reached end-of-life on 30 April 2010 so I am closing the report. The bug has been fixed in newer releases of Ubuntu.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

No remaining debdiff waiting for a sponsor. Therefore I unsubscribe ubuntu-sponsors.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Hardy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the Hardy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".