bluetooth manager browsing

[BoyWonder410]

I've been googling around for a while and have been unable to get to the bottom of this one,
in fact, I'm not sure I've found out where to start... any help would be appreciated

So, I have a palm Centro from Sprint, and bluetooth is working when in nautulus i click "send to", i can send a document from my laptop to my phone, works great.

The connection works well, and, my laptop is considered a "trusted device"
when I try to "browse device" with the gnome bluetooth manager i get message

Couldn't display "obex://[00:1d:fe:1f:e1:6a]".
Check if the service is available

and, configuring wammu doesnt go well, it doesnt find the phone.

openobex is installed, and, i have installed a slew of other packages...

[jtang613]

Does your phone support obex filesystem browsing? Most don't. The browse device feature *does work when connecting to, say, another PC or laptop running the obexftpd daemon.

[BoyWonder410]

honestly, i don't know. i have a centro, i just assumed that there was some way via nautilus to browse the contents of the device.

[A.Serbinski]

Palm likes to keep things closed down pretty tight in order to force you to use THEIR synchronization software. It doesn't support any kind of "browse", unless you can find an FTP client for it. Most data transfers are done using pilot-link.

You're better off configuring bt-dun to network the palm to the pc over bluetooth. Then you run an ftp server on the pc and install an ftp client to the palm for file transfers.

Alternatively, most palm devices have an sd-card... you can just copy files over using the sd.

[BoyWonder410]

i hate it when vendors go out of their way to decrease the usefulness of a product... how does palm even benefit from restricting this function of the centro...