With so many individual solutions to pairing, I wonder what's really going on.

One says to flash and pair before restoring saved data. Another says to use the keyboard pairing option in Control Panel. Yet another says he's had no trouble at all.

It all makes me think there may be differences in the machines themselves apart from the OS, that may be either in hardware or buried in the system BIOS by changes during the N800's manufacturing run.

As for me, I'm going to wait until OS2008 V1.1 comes out before I try it again.

Its probably the median age of the members...:-) did you see that poll... ha ha
your right though!

Below bug report has workaround posted that worked for me.

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2640

Apple BT keyboard doesnt work for me either

It works ok with PS3 anyway.

When I try add keyboard to N800 it does find Apple keyboard and then show me code number, buy after this when it try to connect N800 and keyboard it says that connection between those did fail.

Hey!! I got it working.. Here is what I did when I still can remember it clear.

I did connect Apple BT with Control panel - Bluetooth keyboard. It does find Apple BT keyboard then show you code and other settings.. Then it starts to connect..

I did enter code, (even it looks that nothing happends at N800 screen.. Just pairing-connecting at upcorner) and did press Enter at BT keyboard many times after entering code.. Suddenly it did just accept it and connect keyboard.

Now what I am thinking.. Maybe there should be window where enter code, but it just doesnt show it.. For some reason pressing enter many times after entering code with keyboard.. It did work..

Please someone who had problem pairing, try this.

Re-flashing with 2008 then pairing before restore worked for me too. :-)

Then restoring 'settings' removed the pairing and doesn't work again . . . so seems like whatever the problem is it can be backed up to flash (and thus avoided by not restoring 'settings').

I know this is a BT keyboard thread, but R-R raised this issue here (maybe it is somewhere else too?).

Anyway, I am experiencing similar problems with a Moto H350 headset. It worked for a day or so when I first got it, but now is exhibiting similar behaviour to above. The only additional info that I have noticed is that the headset seems to think that it always has a call in progress. In addition, if I really do have a Skype call in progress with the N800 speakers and microphone handling the call then I can hang up the call using the headset button. After that the headset still flashes to show a call in progress.

THANK YOU! ...the enter key was the answer....BTW, I also have a N82 and the sis drivers will not install...sorry to ask as this is a Nxxx forum...still waiting for my N810 from Dell...

I had the pairing problem with the iGo Stowaway UltraSlim and the aluminum Apple BT keyboard. The only solution I found that works is to downgrade to the OS2008 beta and all seems to be well...

I've had the same pairing-after-a-restore problem that other people here have described, specifically the immediate "pairing failed" error you get trying to pair a BT keyboard. It's fixable without downgrading or reflashing, but you've got to get root access and be comfortable using vi (or any other in-terminal text editor) to do it.

So: install the X terminal, ssh client and server. It will ask you to change your password to something non-default, so do that.

ssh root@localhost, and login.

key in "cd /var/lib/blue" and then hit tab twice, tab-completion gets you into /var/lib/bluetooth/-your bt mac address-/

then do an ls, and that will show you a list of your bluetooth configuration files. so, flip over your keyboard and make a note of its mac address.

Then, open each of the files in that directory in turn, and delete any line that references that mac address and, if they're there, any empty blank lines at the beginning of the file.

Log out, power down and restart the n800. Now the pairing process should work as advertised.

Good luck.