Thread: N900 bluetooth device type is detected as “Other” and never more as “Phone” by other bluetooth devices
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Alan_Peery is offline Alan_Peery
2010-01-13 , 11:03
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#19
Originally Posted by Soap77 View Post
ikerrg
I have the EXACT same problem,
My N900 show up as a computer in win7 devices.

Your trick helped med to connect to PC suite,
thank you SO much,

if the solution isn´t persistent, I can live with it untill this bug is fixed.
Will write a shellscript that makes the changes.
The fact that the N900 failed to identify itself as a "phone" isn't the problem, as its capabilities exceed that of a phone. I *like* my N900 showing up as a "computer" in Windows 7. The problem lies in PC Suite, and it expecting the device on the other end to always name itself as a "phone", rather than supporting a collection of bluetooth functions.

What are you using PC Suite to do? If you're only using PC Suite to make a connection the Internet via 3G, you might want to consider bluetooth-dun instead...