Re: Receiving files via Bluetooth

2021-05-03 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-05-02 at 19:56 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > Even faster is to plug it into a USB port and directly transfer the > files. I had to get into the secret developer mode to make that work on my Samsung phone. -- uname -rsvp Linux 5.11.16-100.fc32.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Apr 21 13:43:38 UTC 2

Re: Receiving files via Bluetooth

2021-05-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/05/2021 10:56, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2021-05-02 2:52 p.m., Ranbir wrote: On Sun, 2021-04-18 at 14:08 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: That could be it. I gave up though and just did it from my Windows 10 laptop. I'll say again that I've found using kdeconnect faster and more reliable than BT. So

Re: Receiving files via Bluetooth

2021-05-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2021-05-02 2:52 p.m., Ranbir wrote: On Sun, 2021-04-18 at 14:08 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: That could be it. I gave up though and just did it from my Windows 10 laptop. I'll say again that I've found using kdeconnect faster and more reliable than BT. So, I either use that or sftp from an appli

Re: Receiving files via Bluetooth

2021-05-02 Thread Ranbir
On Sun, 2021-04-18 at 14:08 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Today I tried transferring files from both a Samsung phone and Google > Pixel phone and > both failed. As I mentioned, it has been awhile since I've tried > this. Then I recalled > I had changed my Bluetooth Dongle. I put the old one back in

Re: Receiving files via Bluetooth

2021-04-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 18/04/2021 14:08, Ed Greshko wrote: Then I recalled I had changed my Bluetooth Dongle. I found that I have 3 BT dongles.  The 2 labeled V4.0 work.  The 1 labeled V5.0 fails. -- Remind me to ignore comments which aren't germane to the thread. ___

Re: Receiving files via Bluetooth

2021-04-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 18/04/2021 07:39, m3fr...@thesandhufamily.ca wrote: On Sun, 2021-04-18 at 06:49 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: What I think you may be missing is the bluez-obexd package being installed. Once you install that and logout/login you should have /usr/libexec/bluetooth/obexd running under your username.

Re: Receiving files via Bluetooth

2021-04-17 Thread m3freak
On Sun, 2021-04-18 at 06:49 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > What I think you may be missing is the bluez-obexd package being > installed. Once you > install that and logout/login you should have > /usr/libexec/bluetooth/obexd running > under your username. I believe that is the the service needed. Tha

Re: Receiving files via Bluetooth

2021-04-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 18/04/2021 04:55, m3fr...@thesandhufamily.ca wrote: Hello, I have an old BlackBerry Z30 successfully paired with my Fedora 32 desktop. I can send files to the phone from Fedora without any problems. But, for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to receive files from the phone. Every time

Receiving files via Bluetooth

2021-04-17 Thread m3freak
Hello, I have an old BlackBerry Z30 successfully paired with my Fedora 32 desktop. I can send files to the phone from Fedora without any problems. But, for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to receive files from the phone. Every time I try to share a file over BlueTooth from the phone to my