Sorry, forgot about that one.

Sorry I can't offer any help to the Freedom-ites, but for anyone still deciding which keyboard to buy, I can state that the Stowaway Bluetooth Keyboard has none of these problems.

It works with the N800 native HID driver (configured as Generic 105-key PC), has standard 19mm spacing, action comparable to a good laptop, and trouble free typing: no missed keystrokes, and I simply can't outtype it. In other words, it feels 100% as reliable as a wired keyboard. After the initial (one time) pairing, I can just open it up and start typing. Closing the case shuts it off.

Sometimes I think I might have been happy enough with its Ultra-Slim little brother, but the fifth row (number keys) and ease of touch typing are big plus factors. On the other hand, I'm less likely to carry this one unless I know I'll need it. Maybe I should own both.

Hi All,

I just purchased the Freedom Universal Keyboard for my N800. As expected it does not work in HID mode, so I installed 'kbdd' as described above and elsewhere, and switched to SPP mode. The N800 finds the keyboard, pairs, the 'connected' box is shown on the display and the bluetooth symbol turns a blueish color. The blinking green LED on the keyboard turns off.
That is the good part. The bad part is that my keystrokes are not recognized, only a autorepeating string of gibberish appears. I increased the KEYREPEAT value in btkbdd.conf to 6000 to be sure, but the gibberish seems in no way related to the keys pressed (long sequences of 'lllllll' or '///////////' seem most common).
Setting 'DEBUG' to 'yes' does not show anything in the log.
I am using a fresh set of batteries.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Any ideas how to get the keyboard working?

I tried the keyboard on a WinXP laptop (in HID mode) and it works fine there, so at least it is not completely broken.

Thanks in advance!

Looks like the keyboard type in btkbd.conf is set to different one then you really have, try 'freedom' one. If you tried it, try different one.

Thanks fanoush, you are a champ!

I had KBTYPE=freedom in my btkbd.conf, setting it to 'btfoldable' did the trick, it works like a charm now!

So near but so far, can anyone help me with the last little bit of this puzzle, i'm getting this:

which tool you used to edit the file? From the output it looks like you have some extra garbage on the line. No spaces or other formatting characters allowed, just

At first I used Notes but when I followed your readme I noticed you said not to use it so I changer to Leafpad.

Might need to startover with the file and only use leafpad, will give it a go now.

Connected, thanks so much for this fanoush.

Hi,
the published information to the freedom keyboards help well. I can use the freedom mini keyboard with the N800 really good, everythink works. But it 's not important which param Iuse freedom/btfoldable it missunderstands the SHIFT button and it pushes a option window from maemo into the front. Has anybody an idea, why I have this effekt ?#
With regards flens (Christian)