[DEV] Bluetooth Experience

[khaytsus]

For bluetooth GPS download Bluetooth GPS Provider from market. Android doesn't support bluetooth gps directly.

 

[34Ford]

I have yet to find the requirements needed and a set of instructions on how to enable the BT.

I have a Holux GPSlim 236 I would like to try.

 

[anonim1]

Instructions are scattered throughout the forums. I also have a GPSlim 236. Bluetooth GPS Provider from the Android Market can talk to your receiver. After enabling the "mock" feature, you can use other software (I use Copilot) for GPS Navigation with your Holux.

 

[quinxy]

Instructions are scattered throughout the forums. I also have a GPSlim 236. Bluetooth GPS Provider from the Android Market can talk to your receiver. After enabling the "mock" feature, you can use other software (I use Copilot) for GPS Navigation with your Holux.

If anyone needs it, I put together a walkthrough that should help even the greenest newbie get a working copy of the latest CyanogenMod 7 OS installed safely on an SD card; for those who don't know, it's a version of Android's cutting, but not bleeding, edge OS, Gingerbread 2.3.3. The instructions include getting Bluetooth enabled. From there anonnim1's advice needs to be taken, you'll need an app to sit in between your BT GPS device and your navigation software (technically the OS).

Walkthrough of installing CyanogenMod 7 w/ Bluetooth on your Nook Color.

^ Quinxy

 

[jinp6301]

So is it just me or are others having problems with typing on a bluetooth keyboard?

There is significant lag which causes the nook color to think that I am holding down on keys and pops the symbols up for that letter. I was ok once in a while but its very frustrating trying to type on a keyboard if I have to stop every 5 words.

Just in case someone asks, the keyboard was right next to the nook, so no range problems.

 

[quinxy]

So is it just me or are others having problems with typing on a bluetooth keyboard?

There is significant lag which causes the nook color to think that I am holding down on keys and pops the symbols up for that letter. I was ok once in a while but its very frustrating trying to type on a keyboard if I have to stop every 5 words.

Just in case someone asks, the keyboard was right next to the nook, so no range problems.

Things are mostly good with my iGo Stowaway keyboard, but I have seen what you describe on a few occasions. Not every five words, more like once a paragraph or two. Are you overclocked? Obviously that might help if it's a CPU busy-ness related problem.

My greater annoyances are:
- in landscape the keyboard arrows work like it's in portrait, so up is right, etc. i'm still teaching my brain to go against the normal rules for this
- the virtual keyboard keeps popping up, i'll close it, type a bit on the real keyboard, but it invariably shows up again. not a huge deal, but wastes real estate i rather like having.
- related to the problem you describe, possibly, sometimes I'll hit shift and it seems to miss the following key up event, and thinks shift was still on. i have to hit shift again to clear it (this isn't a shift lock issue)

 

[chisleu]

So is it just me or are others having problems with typing on a bluetooth keyboard?

There is significant lag which causes the nook color to think that I am holding down on keys and pops the symbols up for that letter. I was ok once in a while but its very frustrating trying to type on a keyboard if I have to stop every 5 words.

Just in case someone asks, the keyboard was right next to the nook, so no range problems.

Yep. It's the wifi and bluetooth interfering most likely.

Try turning off wifi and see if the problem mostly goes away.

DSP distracted everyone from bluetooth. I think attention will be back on bluetooth soon though.

 

[jinp6301]

Yep. It's the wifi and bluetooth interfering most likely.

Try turning off wifi and see if the problem mostly goes away.

DSP distracted everyone from bluetooth. I think attention will be back on bluetooth soon though.

turning off wifi fixed it. thanks a lot

 

[quinxy]

So is it just me or are others having problems with typing on a bluetooth keyboard?

I found the solution! Buy and install the Null Keyboard! The problem you described was happening to me more so I thought surely there must be a null keyboard which might trap the events... and there was! It stops the virtual keyboard from popping up and stops the capturing of keypresses that seem to trigger the multiselect char boxes. And it lags less, since it isn't doing predictive!

^ Quinxy

 

[34Ford]

Thank you gentleman. When I get brave I will try this out. Looking forward to playing around with the gps.

 

[herbert1]

Ah, ok, much appreciated. A few years ago I had an external GPS device and it just talked via USB via general COM port, so I wasn't sure. I'll go off searching elsewhere then.

^ Q

You can look here (several different applications have been tested): http://androgeoid.com/2010/09/android-external-bluetooth-gps-apps-bluetooth-gps-for-android/
and here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=833094

 

[psiphi]

So is it just me or are others having problems with typing on a bluetooth keyboard?

There is significant lag which causes the nook color to think that I am holding down on keys and pops the symbols up for that letter. I was ok once in a while but its very frustrating trying to type on a keyboard if I have to stop every 5 words.

Just in case someone asks, the keyboard was right next to the nook, so no range problems.

I found that having a charger plugged into the nook while using it can also cause problems... No sure if it interferes with BT antenna, but I know it changes the calibration of the screen as long as its plugged in...

 

[jinp6301]

So has there been any improvements on using a bt keyboard when having wifi/bluetooth on at the same time?

Its a pita to switch between using the keyboard and googling something

EDIT: oh missed the null keyboard suggestion. will try that out

 

[trypt]

What's up with wifi calling over BT headset. I paired my headset and my call went through but we couldn't hear each other.

I'm using cm7 stable built in voip, sipgate, Google voice. OC 1.1ghz

 

[sinanju]

it's a certain protocol standard. it's not like a BT comm port although it does pass data much like a comm port. The app you run on the nook provides aa mock GPS location it gets from the bluetooth connection following that weird protocol.

It is actually a standard BT rfcomm port that is established, though you don't see it, and NMEA 0183 is spoken over that just like in the old days when there was a physical serial cable

 

[ndinfla]

Gps problems

Looking for some advice . I have set the nook up with bluetooth gps and i am running a globsat-368 device. I can see my location on google mapsfor a short time then no sat info. It seems that when i turn on the wifi to get the map going it boots me out of the bluetooth. When i check my connection it is scanning. It almost seems like it is scanning every 3 mins or so.

Any suggestions or work arounds?

 

[sinanju]

Looking for some advice . I have set the nook up with bluetooth gps and i am running a globsat-368 device. I can see my location on google mapsfor a short time then no sat info. It seems that when i turn on the wifi to get the map going it boots me out of the bluetooth. When i check my connection it is scanning. It almost seems like it is scanning every 3 mins or so.

Any suggestions or work arounds?

Right now, WiFi and Bluetooth simply don't get along.

 

[chisleu]

I found the solution! Buy and install the Null Keyboard! The problem you described was happening to me more so I thought surely there must be a null keyboard which might trap the events... and there was! It stops the virtual keyboard from popping up and stops the capturing of keypresses that seem to trigger the multiselect char boxes. And it lags less, since it isn't doing predictive!

^ Quinxy

Is there an config for it? I still get long press popups.

Sent from my NookColor using Tapatalk

 

[quinxy]

My experience seems to depend on CPU loading. If I'm using a light editor and the Nook Color is doing very little I have fewer problems. And if I have the Nook Color oriented vertically I get fewer problems (not sure where the antenna is). I've written this entire post and not had the thing pop up once, but a few minutes ago when I was in Gmail and before that in Quick Office it happened quite a few times (all while using Null Keyboard v2). Correction, it. Just happened once. I can hit "Esc" to get rid of the pop up but it is annoying. I adjusted the long press setting in Keyboards - Android (shouldn't matter since I'm using the null keyboard but since it is popping up, something must control it). See if changing the longpress time helps you.

Quinxy

 

[chisleu]

My experience seems to depend on CPU loading. If I'm using a light editor and the Nook Color is doing very little I have fewer problems. And if I have the Nook Color oriented vertically I get fewer problems (not sure where the antenna is). I've written this entire post and not had the thing pop up once, but a few minutes ago when I was in Gmail and before that in Quick Office it happened quite a few times (all while using Null Keyboard v2). Correction, it. Just happened once. I can hit "Esc" to get rid of the pop up but it is annoying. I adjusted the long press setting in Keyboards - Android (shouldn't matter since I'm using the null keyboard but since it is popping up, something must control it). See if changing the longpress time helps you.

Quinxy

I have found it is strictly related to wifi activity. If I start a download it becomes very fruity. Turn off wifi and it's fine, but turn on wifi and while it's negotiating the connection it freaks the BT the F!@# out.

I go on break and vactation in ~3 weeks and if it's not addressed by then I'm going to spend a ****load of time figuring it out. I might not fix it, but by god I'm going to try. haha