[gnome-bluetooth] Hi again!!

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 06:32 +0000, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 00:58 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> > (FWIW, gnome-phone-manager's only task is to send and receive SMS
> > messages right now, and it certainly doesn't browse files, sending the
> > command-line output of the program would help better than simply
> > describing the "error" icon).
> 
> I have noted though that I am yet to be able to send an SMS from my
> machine via a bonded phone.
> 
> I know the phone is bonded fine because the correct passkey interaction
> happens when starting phone manager, it correctly reports the phone it
> is bonded to, and looking under "Browse device..." the phone is there.
> Moreover, I can browse the OBEX accessible filestore on the phone, so
> Bluetooth is working as is the OBEX connection.

That just means Bluetooth works, nothing else.

> However whenever I try and send an SMS, I can create a message, get the
> phone number from the Evolution managed "phone book" but pressing send
> simply closes the dialogue, no attempt is made to send an SMS.

How do you know it's not doing anything? You don't mention what type of
mobile phone you're using, or give us any logs from the run of
gnome-phone-manager.

> (Is it correct that the Bluetooth connection is kept up all the time?
> My phone flashes  as thoughn it is -- not a problem except that it means
> I have to plug the phone into the mains !)

Yes. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to know when you receive an SMS.

Cheers