Hi guys,
I'm testing Ubuntu Touch on a Nexus 4.
I think a bluetooth mouse and keyboard are necessary to get a full advantage from Ubuntu Converngence.
So, please help to build a list of working / not working accessories.
Compatibile accessories:
- No feedback at the moment.
Not compatible accessories:
- Microsoft Designer Mouse - OTA 10 (thank to me)
Thanks guys, hope you will help US!
Maxximo88 said:
Hi guys,
I'm testing Ubuntu Touch on a Nexus 4.
I think a bluetooth mouse and keyboard are necessary to get a full advantage from Ubuntu Converngence.
So, please help to build a list of working / not working accessories.
Compatibile accessories:
- No feedback at the moment.
Not compatible accessories:
- Microsoft Designer Mouse - OTA 10 (thank to me)
Thanks guys, hope you will help US!
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The Designer Mouse can be paired, but it requires some commands in bluetoothctl and doesn't always create the virtual hci ports for the mouse to send events to. It also doesn't help that the mouse seems to change it's BT MAC every single time it starts up for some reason. Scanning for it in bluetoothctl while just turning it on and off shows that it seems to send a new MAC to clients, not sure why.
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Using hidd, a bluetooth keyboard can be connected to the nexus one, and it works quite well. How about a mouse? My bluetooth mouse connected. But all i can do is kinda of move the mouse to scroll around. So im starting this thread to try to make this happen.
Why it may be possible possible:
The folks at android x86 have made a mouse patch to enable the cursor. They are also open source.
Why it may not be possible:
Their code is probably for a built in pointer device, not bluetooth. Also, they are using android 1.6 at the moment.
hidd connect how to: http://i-miss-erin.blogspot.com/2009/09/connect-bluetooth-keyboard-in-android.html
android x86: http://www.androidx86.org/
(screenshots and source)
interesting reads:
http://groups.google.com/group/android-x86/browse_thread/thread/f8c34f6ef9b3c24d?pli=1
Oh yeah, um, why we want better mouse support? to play quake 3 of course...
Hi, I'm the developer of android-x86.
Yes, of course it is possible to apply our mouse patch to N1. It's cool!
And we already have the patch for eclair (check eclair-x86 branch).
I'll begin to work on Froyo soon.
BTW, you may take a look at the 0xdroid project.
They just implemented the Bluetooth HID profile.
(it means, you can connect bt keyboard & mouse via GUI setting)
Regards,
Chih-Wei
I've seen a mouse cursor when you select text, looks nice
Hi, I'm a recent owner of the Archos Gen 8 and have also bought a bluetooth keyboard and mouse for the device.
The keyboard is working ok, but the mouse itself seems not native to the android os. For example, double-clicks equal to a touch in the screen, and I cannot select texts in documents-to-go, and so on. My question is whether it is possible that anyone can port the mouse-driver to the android so the mouse could work better?
Just my two-cent question since I know nothing about programming nor linux, but my work requires typing and editing documents on-the-go a lot. Anyone shares any opinions?
Thanks and best regs,
halfheartbreak said:
Hi, I'm a recent owner of the Archos Gen 8 and have also bought a bluetooth keyboard and mouse for the device.
The keyboard is working ok, but the mouse itself seems not native to the android os. For example, double-clicks equal to a touch in the screen, and I cannot select texts in documents-to-go, and so on. My question is whether it is possible that anyone can port the mouse-driver to the android so the mouse could work better?
Just my two-cent question since I know nothing about programming nor linux, but my work requires typing and editing documents on-the-go a lot. Anyone shares any opinions?
Thanks and best regs,
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Moved to general as not android development
I have found this same problem on ARCHOS 101 Android 2.x.x. Bluetooth Mouse or USB Mouse could not use single click. Someone told me this problem relate to Android OS not ARCHOS device. But on my 7" Chiness Tablet Android 1.6 no problem with Mouse.
I don't know to to fix this bug on ARCHOS device.
Hello,
I have an HTC Inspire 4g running Mustaavalkosta's unofficial Cyanogenmod 10.1 ROM. Everything works great, except my Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 5000, which is an HID Bluetooth keyboard (no SPP). I get a proper PIN exchange and it pairs with my phone successfully, but I can't actually type anything with the keyboard, and it does not appear in the Languages and Input section of the Settings app. The keyboard itself is good because I can use it with my laptop and an iPad.
I've tried apps like BlueInput, MyBlueCon, and Bluetooth keyboard easyconnect, but all fail to make a connection with my keyboard. In the case of BlueInput, I get a message that "this Android does not support Bluetooth HID."
Any other workarounds I could try? Or am I missing something really, really obvious?
(I have a feeling this is a ROM problem and I should be posting in its development thread, but I do not have the permissions.)
I just installed Cyanogenmod 7 stable, and the keyboard does work with this ROM. So does Cyanogenmod 10 just not have HID Bluetooth support? That would be a shame...
Evil_ryan said:
I just installed Cyanogenmod 7 stable, and the keyboard does work with this ROM. So does Cyanogenmod 10 just not have HID Bluetooth support? That would be a shame...
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Bump! Running CM 10.1 (the TeamCanjica mod) on a Galaxy Ace 2. Phone can seemingly pair with the HID devices which worked in stock rom, but no luck in connecting to them. It just says connecting and never gets connected.
This rom, in contrast to the stock rom, is really fast, stable and nice. But the possible abscence of BT HID is a bummer. Is it often an intended omission from the CM development team and if so does anyone know why? Does anyone know of possible workarounds? On an older device with Android 2.x, I think I installed some third-party app which worked rather nice.
Pairing keyboard Oreo, same problem
SouthernPacific said:
Hello,
I have an HTC Inspire 4g running Mustaavalkosta's unofficial Cyanogenmod 10.1 ROM. Everything works great, except my Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 5000, which is an HID Bluetooth keyboard (no SPP). I get a proper PIN exchange and it pairs with my phone successfully, but I can't actually type anything with the keyboard, and it does not appear in the Languages and Input section of the Settings app. The keyboard itself is good because I can use it with my laptop and an iPad.
I've tried apps like BlueInput, MyBlueCon, and Bluetooth keyboard easyconnect, but all fail to make a connection with my keyboard. In the case of BlueInput, I get a message that "this Android does not support Bluetooth HID."
Any other workarounds I could try? Or am I missing something really, really obvious?
(I have a feeling this is a ROM problem and I should be posting in its development thread, but I do not have the permissions.)
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I have used a Logitec dinovo mini for years on Android without using the dongle, but now under Android 8 Oreo, it seems to connect asking for pin and registers, but it does not do anything, and the connect light on the device goes on blinking. If I connect via USB C- OTG - dongle, it works fine, but that is useless as I need the USB C port for HDMI to TV to display the fantastic Linux like desktop (Huawei Mate 10 Pro).
Could someone tell me why its impossible to find a universal Bluetooth patch for EXTERNAL usb Bluetooth dongles? One that will add the full Bluetooth feature to the devices "born" without build-in Bluetooth.
We are so many that bought these Android tablets thinking that we could just plug in a Bluetooth usb dongle - for why would that feature be missing in Android, bluetooth has been around for so many years even before anyone thought of android.
So why is this left out of the kernel, it should be as basic as Wi-Fi?
Come on XDA developers - make a universal driver, then get people to test it and add their devices to the list of working.
Doesn't bluetooth work in linux? And isn't Android based on linux?
So why is it so hard to make the driver/patch?
Or is it simply that most developers think that bluetooth is obsolete - So never mind?
With kind regards
JBJ
Dear XDA members,
I am opening this thread in hope that the collective knowledge of XDA will help find a solution for a problem me and some other users are having with the GT1 and possibly other S912 tv boxes.
It seems that there is a problem on some devices, if not all, that when you connect a bluetooth keyboard or mouse to it, it appears as connected, but no input from the keyboard/mouse is seen.
The steps i tried so far are:
- usb mouse and keyboard are working
- tested on different official firmwares, custom ones and even ones from other manufacturers with same hardware (T95z,)
- tested with 3 different keyboards : RII i8+ (bt version), apple keyboard, tablet cover bt keyboard, and 2 mice: RII i8+ and apple mouse
- cat /dev/proc/bus/input/devices does not show the bt devices
- created keyboard layout for the specific vendor and product ID, but it seems that they are not loaded as the device corresponding to those vendor and product is not detected
- installed ubuntu using linux deploy, and keyboard is not working in there also,
The most anoying thing is that the company i bought it from is stating that the box does not support bluetooth keyboard input as it lacks "associated configuration file", whatever that means.
If anyone has experienced similar problem and found a solution, or if anyone has any suggestion as to what else to test, i would appreciate it.
Thank you,
Catalin.
Hi I own a similar device - Videostrong´s YokaTV KB2. It has the same issue you mentioned. I tried similar steps you mentioned, but unfortunately I were not able to fix it yet. I believe there might be issue with the code provided by Amlogic, because this issue is quite prevalent among S912 devices. I already tried to contact Amlogic support by e-mail, so far I am waiting for the reply.
This one works
Sorry to hear of your problem guys but I have a keyboard which works straight out of the box! It's the Mini Bluetooth, IS11-BT05 with internal batt & USB charging. Got it from Ebay <£20. Hope this helps.