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Guest osiris8
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I've just connected a bluetooth keyboard to my HTC MTeoR and it works great!

Quite a surprise, but then again - why wouldn't it...

I've also connected a bluetooth mouse. The connection works fine but it doesn't do anything... Is there anyway of tricking the phone into displaying a mouse pointer?

Guest mini_man
Posted

Hmm, im sure its possible as if you look at Raspberrys True Connect then you will see it allows a mouse and keyboard to be connected via Active Sync.

Sam

Guest osiris8
Posted

TrueConnect is pretty cool! It won't handle a BT mouse connected directly to the phone though (checked with Raspberry support)... Someone should make an app that does that!

Guest mikeeey
Posted
TrueConnect is pretty cool! It won't handle a BT mouse connected directly to the phone though (checked with Raspberry support)... Someone should make an app that does that!
i always use true connect, when i get a text and im at my computer il type back really quick. no one has ever asked how i typed back so quick, o well lol.

u could try contacting raspberry software and asking about BT support. they might add the feature in sometime later.

Guest osiris8
Posted
u could try contacting raspberry software and asking about BT support. they might add the feature in sometime later.

I did, they just responded there is no support for it... :-/

Guest cgigate
Posted (edited)
I did, they just responded there is no support for it... :-/

Most smartphone does not support Bluetooth HID profile (human interface device) or not be enabled, it may need to hack the registry to enable it.

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Guest osiris8
Posted
Most smartphone does not support Bluetooth HID profile (human interface device) or not be enabled, it may need to hack the registry to enable it.

OH, it pairs up just fine. The keyboard does exactly what it should, but there's really no corresponding actions for a mouse on a smartphone without touchscreen...

Posted

If anyone recalls the old Toshiba PPC's, they were famous for having USB host capabilites. Loads of developers wrote all sorts of drivers for everything from USB keyboard support to network adaptors to Mass storage devices.

Anyway, I recall someone wrote some drivers for a USB mouse. The mouse would be detected just fine, but due to the nature of PPC's, there was nothing to display/interact with. So, this particular developer went ahead and wrote some code to display a mouse pointer and have it interact.

While I doubt this will magically make a bluetooth mouse work on a modern PPC/Smartphone, its a step in the right direction. If someone could find the sourcecode, perhaps you could figure out how to adapt it.

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