bluetooth keyboard woes

[zapstrap]

I have a touchpad with dual-boot webOS/cm9-20130114-nightly. I also have a cheap bluetooth keyboard, all it says on the back is MODEL:BK3001BA, and a little fcc verbage. I have tried this keyboard with a desktop pc running windows xp, an ipad, an ipod touch, and the touchpad itself when booted into webOS. All of these worked.

If I boot the touchpad into android, I can see the keyboard, pair with the keyboard, connect to the keyboard, but cannot use the keyboard. I tried installing Bluetooth Keyboard Easyconnect, and it says Current Device = Bluetooth Keyboard, Service Status = ON, Bluetooth Status = ON; and, the bluetooth icon in the lower right corner is blue rather than greyed out. When I open the status window for bluetooth, the list of paired devices has Bluetooth Keyboard, with the word "Connected" under it. Why doesn't this work? Is there a missing piece I need to configure?

 

[zapstrap]

update

Tried most of the bluetooth helper apps I could find from the google app store. None of them worked except for Bluekeyboard JP. Though it does work, it's really flakey; laggy, frequent missed characters or double-hits, and every few minutes requesting the keyboard be put back into pairing mode. The lag, missed characters, showing two or three characters for one keypress, does not happen on the ipod, ipad, or pc. I'd really love a better solution than this, if anybody has any suggestions...

 

[Nomad1600]

Have you tried any other Android ROM with your BT keyboard? I have been able to use my HP branded BT (the one intended for the TP) keyboard with SGA Fat N Creamy and with my current ROM, Oat Light N Tasty JB (Jelly Bean) ROM without a hitch. May be worth flashing a new ROM to see if it works. (of course, after making a Nandroid).

 

[zapstrap]

Have you tried any other Android ROM with your BT keyboard? I have been able to use my HP branded BT (the one intended for the TP) keyboard with SGA Fat N Creamy and with my current ROM, Oat Light N Tasty JB (Jelly Bean) ROM without a hitch. May be worth flashing a new ROM to see if it works. (of course, after making a Nandroid).

I started with a nightly build just after Christmas. Since I was having trouble I moved to the nightly from January 14, 2013. How far back do I need to go?

Pointless rant (hear me screaming wah wah wah between each sentence): What I don't get is, I can pair and connect the keyboard, so why doesn't it just show up in the list of user inputs? The other applications I tried all saw the keyboard, but none (except 1) of them would actually do anything with it. Even more bizarre, when pairing, I get a pop-up window saying type in this 4-digit code and hit enter on the bluetooth keyboard, and it works; the keyboard exits pairing mode, and the keyboard immediately shows "connected" under the device. Soooo, the android device successfully communicated with the keyboard ... wtf? I give up, just give me a terminal window and a text editor so I can hack up the config files myself. You know what would really help with that? A keyboard ... yeah... This is making me nuts. Ok, I feel a little better, despite being no farther ahead.

 

[Nomad1600]

I started with a nightly build just after Christmas. Since I was having trouble I moved to the nightly from January 14, 2013. How far back do I need to go?

Well, neither SGA's Fat 'N Creamy nor OaT's Light 'N Tasty JB are "nightlies". And OaT's is a Jelly Bean (CM10) ROMs. Neither would be "going back IMO.

You will find info about the ROM and the actual ROM downloads (you can get SGA from Goo Manager too) in the HP TouchPad > Development topic.

 

[zapstrap]

Well, neither SGA's Fat 'N Creamy nor OaT's Light 'N Tasty JB are "nightlies". And OaT's is a Jelly Bean (CM10) ROMs. Neither would be "going back IMO.

You will find info about the ROM and the actual ROM downloads (you can get SGA from Goo Manager too) in the HP TouchPad > Development topic.

I gave up & bought the factory HP Touchpad keyboard; it works out of the box, no issues at all, and no extra software from the google play store required. The bk3001ba keyboard looks a lot like an apple keyboard, but is all plastic, and most importantly doesn't work with the tablet. Works everywhere else though.