When the N800 boots, the Bluetooth is initially off. Is there a convenient way to turn it on -- other than pulling up the control panel and accessing the properties form there?

Call me lazy...but I'd love some kind of quick key or tap sequence.

-F

Sofar (and hopefully not for very long!) that's the only way that works. Whatever you do, do not install the Bluetooth app from the 770 repositories, because it'll eat your N800!

You can train yourself to memorise the placement of tools>Connection manager and Connection Manger Menu>Tools>BT

just tap tap tap tap (8 in total). haha.

Normally from S60, memorised placements means I have 144 apps in the menu that I can access directly with code.

As reported in another thread on this subject, I've reported the lack of persistance for the Bluetooth On variable as a bug. IMO if you turn it on, the state should be saved between boots.

I don't think many care about the state of BT between reboots. What we want is a persistent dock applet as we had with the 770 BT app. As BT is a notorious battery juice sucker, it makes perfect sense that it should be as easy as possible to turn it on and off.

I like that "bug" then as I personally have no usage for the N800's bt (apart from the odd sending of files/streaming content)

However, I must admit, it did annoy me at first (lol, that was when I couldn't figure out how to turn the BT on) and then it suddenly disappeared.

IMO, the BT icon should stay with the status icons, regardless of whether it's on or not (Like the IM icon)

I too would like the Bluetooth icon and status to persist between reboots. When I am on the go, I want to be able to quickly turn on bluetooth, connect to the internet, do my business and disconnect. Having to dig through menus to turn on bluetooth all the time gets to be quite annoying.

Personally I doubt the first statement. Maybe I should start a poll. "How many enjoy manually turning Bluetooth back on every single time you restart your N800?"

Currently, if the setting is On, the dock applet shows and its additional settings are available. The problem is that the device does not save the value of that particular setting, so that it has to be turned on again after a reboot in order to reappear in the tab. Also the settings shown via that icon don't appear to toggle (or check/uncheck) which is poor design IMO. The icon should persist, and so should whatever settings the user wants to persist. So even if not "many care about the state of BT between reboots", WE should make that decision, not the device.

And to Jose: as I explained to another user, if you don't want the setting to persist, you leave Bluetooth "Off". That's the way it *should* be working, again IMO.

Sorry, it's not that I want bt perpetually off just that on the off chance i forget it's on, a reboot + bug would turn it off.

You're right though, we should decide how it does and doesn't function; I guess I was just lookin for a potential upside...it's not a very reliable bug anyways because it doesn't hapen too often to be reliable j/k

In addition to being simply annoying when turning Bluetooth on, it's almost painful to try to make my keyboard connect. My Think Outside Stowaway does not connect automatically. Instead, you have to open the Bluetooth dialog from the control panel, tap Devices, tap the keyboard entry (they have been paired), tap Edit, then tap Connect. WOW!

Am I just not configuring things right?

-F