Bluetooth tethering and Tomtom
 

Hi there,

I am looking to upgrade to an N900 very soon, but have a requirement that has been causing me trouble for the past couple of years. ideally I'd like to be able to tether my Tomtom Go 720 to my N900 in order to receive live traffic updates. This was a nightmare with an HTC Touch Dual, and has just broken with my currnt Nokia E71.

Not sure whether this is the correct place to post such a question, but any thoughts? I like having a seperate Sat Nav device, but may have to go with a software solution ...

Cheers

(Oh and anyone know when it will be available on Orange?:)

Re: Bluetooth tethering and Tomtom
 

Does the Tomtom Go 720 tether via Bluetooth DUN or PAN? Either one should work, but not out of the box. Depending upon which profile the Go 720 supports, you'll need to at least edit one system configuration file, and you may also need to create and run a small script. Please see "Fremantle Unsupported Bluetooth profiles".

From what I've seen, thus far, tethering to the N900 hasn't been widely tested with a wide range of devices, so there may be other, yet unknown little gotchas requiring work arounds. If you attempt to tether your Go 720 and run into trouble, please post a request for help.

Re: Bluetooth tethering and Tomtom
 

Thanks for this - I thought that it might be the case that I would be a guinea pig in doing this - fingers crossed!

Re: Bluetooth tethering and Tomtom
 

i have a tomtom 730 which does not recognize n900 at all, tomtom does not even see the n900.
but n900 on the other hand see tomtom as a hands free device and it wants to pair.
In a bluetooth menu shows as HFP supported profile

so i would think tomtom does not support n900 as of yet

Re: Bluetooth tethering and Tomtom
 

My TomTom 550 GO won't see the N900 either. Absolutely no sign of it when I do a discovery. Very frustrating as I want to use it for handsfree (I don't need to do any tethering).

I think it is that the TomTom doesn't recognise the N900 as a phone and this is a problem with the N900, not TomTom.:(

Re: Bluetooth tethering and Tomtom
 

Tomtom not recognizing N900 might be related to this issue:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=40092

Re: Bluetooth tethering and Tomtom
 

Yes! it is - i changed the class as described and TomTom recognised it and paired with it. The only problem now is to make it permanent.

I have added a note to the bug report (https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7849).

Re: Bluetooth tethering and Tomtom
 

as of new upgrade nokia shows as a cellphone
also tomtom finds nokia as a phone now before it did not,
not able to connect to internet cause n900 does not support *#99# at the moment

Re: Bluetooth tethering and Tomtom
 

Although the change to the device class doesn't seem to be permanent, even with the new firmware (for me at least) I'm happy to report that TomTom, having paired once with the N900 keeps on connecting when it is range. So that's my problem solved.:)

I haven't tried tethering as my Tomtom is the live version with built in comms. I'm just using the hands free for the rare call I get when in the car.

Rgrds

Peter

Re: Bluetooth tethering and Tomtom
 

Sorry to bug, but does anyone know of a way around this? Got my TomTom Go 520 connected to my N900 as a handsfree just fine, but can't connect to the Internet.

Cheers!