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Browse your phone files from the 770

Hi all!

Today i found a nice cool feature that i didn't know it existed. I was moving files from my phone 6630 to my 770 by using a cardreader and later by using bluetooth.
When i was looking at the results on the 770, in the File Manager on the 770 i saw the Nokia 770 files, the memory card and the name of my phone with a C: and a E: drive below it.

Turns out you can browse, play, copy and paste all your phone files from the 770.

That made my life a lot easier!!

Ton.

Re: Browse your phone files from the 770

Which phone are you using? Works straight away with my nOkia 6280 but just wondering if there's problems with other bluetooth implementations

Re: Browse your phone files from the 770

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Originally Posted by Toontje (Post 35331)

phone 6630

Hence, Nokia 6630. :)

Ton.

Re: Browse your phone files from the n800

So i changed the 770 to a n800. I can still browse my phone files directly from the n800. Now i want to do the same with my PC, hence browse my PC files from the Nokia. I paired up my PC with the Nokia like i did with the phone, however, the PC's filesystem doesn't show up in the Nokia's File Manager whereas the phones filesystem does.

Do i need to do something at the PC side to enable this?

Ton.

Re: Browse your phone files from the 770

You need something on the PC side - but I don't know exactly what it's supposed to be called. Someone will fill in here, hopefully. Probably some obex-* server thing.

Re: Browse your phone files from the 770

Yeah. I found out that there is something like OBEX PUSH that allows you to send files over BT and OBEX FTP that allows you to browse files. Apparently the phones have both services whereas a PC only has OBEX PUSH. I've been asking Mr. Google if there is a piece of OBEX FTP software for XP, but he says he doesn't know...

Ton.

Re: Browse your phone files from the 770

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toontje (Post 36762)

If you have a Linux box you can try sobexsrv, which works nicely. Here's a post to maemo-users about it, posted by "Bad Dog":

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bad Dog (Post 36762)

I finally figured out this File Manager bluetooth issue.

The goal is to get the Bluetooth virtual file system that is displayed
in the File Manager app on the N800 to connect and show files on a
laptop running kubuntu dapper.

The problem is that kubuntu, at least as it was configured at startup,
does not offer nor advertise the OBEX FTP service, which is different
than the OBEX OPUSH service. The N800 File Manager seems to only want
OBEX FTP.

I couldn't find a kde program that offered this and that did this
properly, but sobexsrv came to the rescue.

You can get it from

http://www.mulliner.org/bluetooth/sobexsrv.php

I grabbed the debian package, which worked fine for me.

After installing it, simply type

sobexsrv -I -l ONPTD -s 3 -S -r /tmp/sobex -c 10 -o

You may need to change some settings, but these worked for me. The
command line switches used are:

-I Use internal mode, which is a stand-alone daemon
-l ONTPD Give lots of information in file browser
-s 3 Require authentication and encryption
( use -s 1 to start out with, then try 2 and 3)
-r /tmp/sobex Use /tmp/sobex as the root directory
(Change this if you feel luck or irrationally
secure)
-c 10 Listen on rfcomm channel 10
(Leave this out to choose the lowest available
port automatically)
-o Don't run an OBEX OPUSH server, just OBEX FTP
(so this won't interfere with kdebluetoothd)

It runs in the background, so to stop it, run

killall sobexsrv

It seems likely that sobexsrv might work as a helper to kdebluetoothd
using the sobexsrv external mode, but the documentation isn't very good
on that part (the scripting section of the manual isn't there yet) so
that will be explored later.

Cheers,
bd

Re: Browse your phone files from the 770

Quote:

Originally Posted by lbattraw (Post 36798)

If you have a Linux box you can try sobexsrv, which works nicely. Here's a post to maemo-users about it, posted by "Bad Dog":

Yeah, i've seen that post, but...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toontje (Post 36798)

OBEX FTP software for XP

Re: Browse your phone files from the 770

Hmm...I just did exactly what Bad Dog posted to do on a Linux box, only I installed it and ran it on the N800 itself. Now I can freely browse the entire device from my Mac.
Excellent. Now to just throw into a script that's run at startup and I'm good.

Re: Browse your phone files from the 770

Yeah, I've done this with my N80. Which surprised me at the time because if the tablets can do this with phones, why not Windows PCs? That's a rhetorical question here...

Re: Browse your phone files from the 770

I browse to my V3xx from my N800 all the time.

Re: Browse your phone files from the 770

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Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 48052)

Yeah, I've done this with my N80. Which surprised me at the time because if the tablets can do this with phones, why not Windows PCs? That's a rhetorical question here...

For some time (over a year) I've used a blue-tooth usb dongle on XP. Dlink.

Two way access to the 770 as well as Sony t670 phones.

Additionally, it came with a sync program that keeps my outlook contacts equal to the phone's book.

Inablilty to contact a phone with the tablet is usually due to the phone carriers' having crippled BT. (Verizon, for example.) They don't include the BT OBEX file service (based on trivial FTP...)

The ability to send files to the phone is well shown in that you don't have to pay for ringtones. This probably is a real reason why the carriers don't want OBEX FT.

P

Re: Browse your phone files from the 770

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Originally Posted by putkowski (Post 48264)

For some time (over a year) I've used a blue-tooth usb dongle on XP. Dlink.

Two way access to the 770 as well as Sony t670 phones.

So you can browse PC files from the 770 over bluetooth???

!

I have a dongle too but can't do that. Tutorial please!

Re: Browse your phone files from the 770

I have been absolutely tearing my hair out trying to get files to my N800 from my Mac (OS X 10.4). I followed the advice of baddog and IT WORKS!!! It's all about the OBEX, baby. :)

So, here's the definitive for getting files FROM a Mac TO your N800 via Bluetooth. (It doesn't work in reverse, but I can cope with that.)

1. Open a browser window on your N800 and go to http://www.mulliner.org/nokia770/ and select the maemo 3.0/bora repository settings install link. (The address is http://www.mulliner.org/nokia770/mul...g_bora.install) This will install Mulliner's software catalog into your N800's Application Manager.

2. In Application Manager, select Browse installable applications. Scroll the list until you find sobexsvr.

3. Install it!

You'll now be able to push files from your Mac to your N800 via Bluetooth (presuming you've set up the N800 as a trusted device on your Mac). I had tried installing sobexsvr before but it just wouldn't do it. This method has worked for me.

Lucky.