thanks for your detailed post. I am however apprehensive about trying the procedure you outlined simply because I am so unfamiliar with this system and would hate to have something go wrong during the intervention.
Why the heck did it work for this guy? And "out of the box"? http://nokiaexperts.com/nokia-n900-t...ernal-display/
His keyboard does look different than mine, but it's still BT, right? Even the name (ThinkOutside BT Keyboard) is the same as mine, although mine is iGo branded and made of aluminum.
Although uglier, bigger, and plastickier than mine I would consider buying it if I was assured it worked with the N900.
Can anyone shed more light on this? Thank You in advance for your contribution.
If you read the article that you referenced you see that: "There is no support for the number row, other punctuation or symbols, or any other keys that I could find."
That's exactly the problem we experienced and which were solved with Qobi's help.
Sorry, I thought this thread, as per title, dealt with: "Bluetooth keyboard: connection failed " and not with lack of certain character support. My bad.
I wonder the same thing, everytime I search for this solutions I get this guys article AND I do have the same keyboard AND enabled HID in config and it will pair but when I press a key ...nothing.
Please Nokia fix this! It is actually very important. I bet most people who buy the N900 expect that BT Keyboards be supported. The device is afterall being touted as a mobile computer...
I hope someone hacks this functionality into the device sometime soon. I'm dissapointed that Nokia hasn't made it a priority.
And remember you have to start with the earliest version of the firmware (I used the global version) and update over the air, reconnecting the keyboard each time. See this post: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...6&postcount=80
Apple's wireless keyboard uses encryption. I don't know what the BT setup is on the N900, but if you have a hcid.conf, you will need to add 'auth enable; encrypt enable;' to device {}
For anyone interested: I guess this might now be:
Code:
hciconfig hci0 auth
hciconfig hci0 enable
Unfortunately, this didn't help with the Apple Wireless Keyboard. On the contrary, BT audio quality went down the sack after that
