Nelson <noreply@vapor.edu> wrote in news:6ammq45beacdesauu497f6k8hunj68jva0
@4ax.com:

> Can bluetooth be used, with or without other
> siftware, to transfer files

The procedure to use Bluetooth is quite simple...IF ALLOWED. You don't
need any kind of expensive special software, whatsoever. The file manager
on both the phone and the computer, in my case the Linux tablet, simply
adds more directories and drives to its tree.

Pair the phone to the Bluetooth in the computer. Set the phone to VISIBLE
so the computer can find it. Pair from the computer. The phone says the
computer is trying to pair with it and asks for your permission. Give it
permission and check "Trusted" if offered to you. Set the pairing to
AUTOMATIC to stop it from asking you every time the connection is made.

Open the computer's file manager with BT paired and the phone should show
up on the file manager's drive/directory list just as if it had another USB
drive plugged into it. The file manager can now control the phone's files
just like it could any external drive plugged into it. Copy and move files
just like you would an external hard drive.

My Nokia N800 Linux Tablet is paired to my Alltel/Motorola Z6m phone. The
Linux tablet's file manager has full access and control just like the above
and we move files on and off the phone's internal memory or microSD card
directly from file manager using Bluetooth's FTP protocol.

When connected, the phone and computer share DUN (phone modem), OPP, FTP,
and OBEX protocols. The phone simultaneously provides EVDO internet data
service to the tablet, even while moving files on and off various drives
and memory cards in the phone and tablet. Works great...IF VERIZON HASN'T
DISABLED IT to sell you your own pictures in some damned file moving
through sellphone scheme.....

Good luck.

(We also pair between tablets and swap files while eating lunch in a
diner.)