Using ICS Bluetooth tethering on a gingerbread device.

[Guest JMS74]

I want to be able to set a Bluetooth tethering connection between a ICS phone and a gingerbread portable media player.

Using wifi drains the battery on the ICS phone to quickly because 3g plus wifi hotspot is battery overkill.

Using Bluetooth uses like half the battery so I need to set this one up.. On ICS there's a option on the Bluetooth device menu that if you click on it it starts the connection without need for anything else.

But the client side needs to be a ics or up device for it to work, using a gingerbread device as a client it doesn't work,, even in the server side there isn't any tethering service started.

There's any app that allows the ics native ICS Bluetooth tethering to work on gingerbread?

I've tried almost all the pre ics apps that theoretically allow to Bluetooth tethering on gingerbread but all failed to work.. :-( just the wifi tethering works and that's a good way to end the day early due to battery drain.

If you know how to solve this please help. Thanks

Edited April 7, 2013 by JMS74