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- 07-06-2008, 06:07 PM #1LarryGuest
jammiepodger <[email protected]> wrote in news:81266a0e-270b-4825-
[email protected]:
> I can pair my Blackberry 8310 with my N800 using bluetooth, but I
> cannot use the blackberry as a dial up networking modem.
> Is there a good reason for this?
> Am I missing drivers?
> Is this the fault of Nokia or RIM?
>
Fault of neither! This is a system issue from your sellphone carrier.
Who is your phone carrier? Only a few of them will allow BT tethering and
you must pay an extra fee, of course, for them to turn the function on,
even though you have data service on the Blackberry, already. Data service
tethered to the N800 is treated like a laptop tether. The Blackberry can't
use much data, but the tethered links can because the carrier cannot
disable the tablet or laptop (unless you install their hobbling software on
the laptop).
Call 611 on your blackberry and ask the script robot how much tethered data
service over DUN to a portable computer is from the Blackberry. He can
turn it on for you as soon as the price negotiations are over.
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- 07-06-2008, 06:31 PM #2jammiepodgerGuest
Re: N800 DUN over bluetooth with blackberry
On 7 Jul, 01:07, Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
> jammiepodger <[email protected]> wrote in news:81266a0e-270b-4825-
> [email protected]:
>
> > I can pair my Blackberry 8310 with my N800 using bluetooth, but I
> > cannot use the blackberry as a dial up networking modem.
> > Is there a good reason for this?
> > Am I missing drivers?
> > Is this the fault of Nokia or RIM?
>
> Fault of neither! This is a system issue from your sellphone carrier.
>
> Who is your phone carrier? Only a few of them will allow BT tethering and
> you must pay an extra fee, of course, for them to turn the function on,
> even though you have data service on the Blackberry, already. Data service
> tethered to the N800 is treated like a laptop tether. The Blackberry can't
> use much data, but the tethered links can because the carrier cannot
> disable the tablet or laptop (unless you install their hobbling software on
> the laptop).
>
> Call 611 on your blackberry and ask the script robot how much tethered data
> service over DUN to a portable computer is from the Blackberry. He can
> turn it on for you as soon as the price negotiations are over.
When I look in the N800 bluetooth devices the Blackberry is linked but
there are NO supported profiles listed.
Surely this is the fault of one or other manufacturer and is
completely independent of the carrier (vodaphone fwiw).
The way I see it, either RIM is failing to support the DUN bluetooth
profile, or Nokia is failing to support the RIM version of the DUN
profile. As far as I understand it, I have not got far enough to come
up against the 'can I tether' question (which I could with my old
blackberry and laptop with vodaphone).
- 07-07-2008, 05:49 AM #3LarryGuest
Re: N800 DUN over bluetooth with blackberry
jammiepodger <[email protected]> wrote in news:4a31467d-1034-4b85-
[email protected]:
> When I look in the N800 bluetooth devices the Blackberry is linked but
> there are NO supported profiles listed.
> Surely this is the fault of one or other manufacturer and is
> completely independent of the carrier (vodaphone fwiw).
> The way I see it, either RIM is failing to support the DUN bluetooth
> profile, or Nokia is failing to support the RIM version of the DUN
> profile. As far as I understand it, I have not got far enough to come
> up against the 'can I tether' question (which I could with my old
> blackberry and laptop with vodaphone).
>
>
Nope. Fault of the carrier. It's the carrier's sellphone firmware the
Blackberry's running, just like every other sellphone you see. The
carriers typically turn off any feature that costs them money and bandwidth
or features they think naive buyers will be willing to buy back by the
month, paying sellphone companies over and over for what the phone had in
it before the carrier started the firmware trashing.
Case in point....
My ROKR Z6m on Alltel firmware has DUN, OBEX, A2DP, Handsfree, FTP
profiles. The same exact phone on Verizon supports only the headphones.
My ROKR Z6m supports making ringtones out of any MP3 file you can COPY from
the microSD card onto the phone's memory on Alltel. The same exact phone
won't let you copy files from the card to the phone OR make ringtones out
of those files on Verizon. Neither simple feature is on any menu. If you
want to put the pictures on your computer, you're supposed to PAY Verizon
to email them to you. Without a COPY or MOVE command, you're screwed.
There's lots more stuff turned off on Verizon. That's why we're all
terrified they're going to ATTEMPT to take away our Alltel firmware when
these bastards take over Alltel.
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