Just did a little more testing:

Added a contact to my N900, connected bluetooth to car kit. The new contact doesn't appear.

Made a phone call on my N900 whilst connected to my car kit. After hanging up the contact appeared on my car kit. I did not dial the new contact but an old number, already synced with the car kit.

Added another new contact.....connected via bluetooth to car kit......contact doesn't appear in car kit. Manually synced from car kit buttons and the contact appeared.

For those having trouble getting PBAP to work - after I first followed the steps in post #70 and I selected pressed sync on my car kit, my car kit just flashed up with 'failure'.

It has all appeared to work once I dialled out on my N900 through the car kit earlier on today - the first phone 'activity' I had using my car kit since having installed the files in post #70.

This is sounding more hopeful for me. Before I try and follow these instructions myself, would you, 'neilosleeman1979', would mind testing something for me...

Are you still able to bluetooth photos or similar via bluetooth to other phones/devices as it seems this was an issue previously. If you could let me know I would be grateful.

Cheers.

I'm having trouble connecting to either my ipod touch or the wifes iphone.

The N900 sees both devices but cannot connect. Neither the ipod or the iphone can 'see' the N900.

I have no problem connecting to either my car kit or my OBD connector (I use Carman).

The N900 is 'visible'.

Hmm. That would be annoying to not be able to transfer files anymore. I wonder if you were to downgrade back to the original files whether that this would correct the bluetoothing transfer problems, but also leave the contact information in the car hands-free device.

If the car kit has a recent call list type thing, then downgrading would probably put an end to this feature but if it leaves the contact details on there and they still show and dial then it may be better than nothing.

What do you think?

I think downgrading would remove the PBAP feature. Then when I dialled out through the N900 all contacts would be removed?

Not sure I'll bother downgrading - I've waited ages for PBAP to work and whilst not perfect I'm sure in future openobex version (0.29, 0.3.....) it'll be fixed. I've rarely used bluetooth file transfer on any phone in the last 10 years anyway.

Can any other users verify the same findings as me?

Well that's what I was thinking, downgrading would remove the PBAP and because it didnt have the PBAP connectivity there anymore then the N900 would not be able to tell the car to remove all the contacts and they would hopefully remain there in that state.

That was my thinking behind it anyway.

I'm still undecided whether to have a go at trying this with my Vauxhall bluetooth kit - it may or may not work, but it will probably remove my bluetoothing file transfer ability. I could imagine the comments people would make when I'm asked to send a file via bluetooth, to which respond with, my phone can't send via bluetooth anymore.

I'll have a think. Cheers for letting me know though.

I have the newest obexlibrary and obexd from this thread installed. I have no problems sending files from my phone via bluetooth. (N900 --> Fedora13)

You can always downgrade if file transfer doesn't work. Maybe I'm out of luck only trying it with Apple products - I can send and recieve via bluetooth with my OBD tool.

Thanks for that. Right, I reckon I'm tempted at having a go with them then, but not really knowing what I'm doing doesn't really help.

So, do I follow the instructions 1-4 on post #70 and do something else to get these latest files or do something else instead of #70?

Basically, which steps do I need to follow?

Cheers

Post #70 has been edited and updated several times and it is easily followed.

Download the 3 files to a pc, transfer them to your N900. Install them following step 3 and then reboot. I have no linux experience but I followed it fine.

Like I said, it appeared not to work for me until I made/received a call.