Thanks for sharing your findings. I'm curious if this is an OBEX issue and not specific to Mint. Have you had a similar experience with other distributions? Have you tried setting up Linux as a Samba server and letting your Windows phone connect to it as a network share? I suggest this because Bluetooth is a really slow data transfer medium. If you wanted to move over bulk files it would take ages and you'd probably experience some transfer failures over time.
On Sat, Dec 24, 2016, 04:03 <[email protected]> wrote: I would like to share my experience on Linux Mint and Microsoft/Nokia-130 mobile phone BT communication. The phone itself is one of the cheapest on the market and yet having dual SIM and micro-SD memory slots. This make Nokia 130 the valuable USB/Bluetooth memory tool. The USB communications run without any problems. The BT channel can be used to send files to Nokia using standard GUI without any problems. However getting files from Nokia-130 to Linux Mint PC is quite a task. I tried without any success: obexftp, obex-data-server, obexfs, obex_test, obexpushd, wammu, gammu, etc. All those tools are grate but did not help me to get files from Nokia. This could be related to specific BT Microsoft Slam software. Without getting into real reason for making it so hard by manufacture I realized that Nokia will never act as BT server. This mean that the only way to get files from Nokia is to make it from Nokia menu. This limit the ability of sending to files with certain extensions MP3 and MP4. Keep in minds that MS recognize the file from its extension while Linux from its header. This way you can cover up the real file type by making phony extension (examples change 123.jpg to 123jpg.mp3). When you push the file to Nokia with MP3 extension it is automatically stored in SD card in “Received Songs” catalog under its own name BTRec00.mp3. When you send mp4 it is stored in SD card in “Videos/Received videos” catalog. Any files with other extension are placed in “Received” catalog that can be accessed only via USB. To make the given file movable via BT you have to change file extension. And now the real discovery, the only tool that worked for me as BT server daemon form Linux Mint accessible by Nokia was bt-obex. Run: bt-obex -s ~/test1 then go into video or music player on the Nokia and select file to be sent. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Linux Users Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Jeremiah Bess -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Linux Users Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
