Comment 37 for bug 839157

mode> was specific to sspmode; which was a suggested workaround. If that's not supported, fine. Some devices may not support this.

If you say it's different, fine, but right now I have no way to figure out what might be failing to work on your system. We definitely did fix the largest underlying issues with sending and browsing in Oneiric and Precise now, nothing excludes that some specific hardware can still have other issues.

Would you be able to report your bug to the developers mailing list for bluez (upstream)? See http://www.bluez.org/contact/