Comment 50 for bug 872044

I can confirm that this bug affects me with a phone that has nothing to do with Android. It is a Samsung B2710 with a Samsung proprietary OS. Blutooth used to work perfectly with Ubuntu 11.04, but no more with Ubuntu 11.10.

Things that are still working in Ubuntu 11.10 :
- Exploring files in the "Public" folder of the computer with the phone's file browser
- Downloading a file found in the "Public" folder to the phone (by using the phone's file browser)
- Sending a file from the phone (recieved in the Download folder on the computer)
- If the phone or computer is not associated, association is done automatically (with confirmation) while trying any of these

All of this needs to enable the Blutooth file sharing in the "Personal file sharing" panel, which can only be found in the Dash, not in the general control panel for example.

Things that used to work in Ubuntu 11.04 but not any more in Ubuntu 11.10 :
- Exploring phone files with the Ubuntu Blutooth menu
- Sending files to phone with the Ubuntu Blutooth menu
- Associating phone from Computer with the Ubuntu Blutooth menu

So Blutooth commands from computer are completely broken, the usual error message recieved is "Permission denied", if any at all.

On the other hand, Bluetooth commands from phone are working after Blutooth file sharing is enabled on the computer in the "Personal File sharing panel".

In other words, it's still possible to use Blutooth with Ubuntu 11.10 without using command line or applying source patch, but painful to do since you can only operate from the phone, and files are read only on the Public folder of the computer, and wrote only on the Download folder of the computer.

It would be nice if the computer-side commands for Blutooth could be fixed.