maemo.org Bugzilla – Bug 10000
Overwriting of devices in PAIRED DEVICES LIST
Last modified: 2010-04-22 09:54:30 UTC
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SOFTWARE VERSION: (Settings > General > About product) 3.2010.02-8.002 EXACT STEPS LEADING TO PROBLEM: (Explain in detail what you do (e.g. tap on OK) and what you see (e.g. message Connection Failed appears)) 1. Plug BT dongle #1 into PC 2. Establish connection to PC using BT dongle #1 3. Disconnect connection 4. Remove dongle #1 from PC 5. Plug BT dongle #2 into PC 6. Establish connection to PC using BT dongle #2 7. Close and reopen BlueMaemo 8. Remove dongle #2 from PC 9. Plug back BT dongle #1 into PC 10. Press "Reconnect" Note: BT dongle #1 and #2 addresses are unique (different). BT device NAME as transmitted by the PC is the same (since it represents the PC not the dongle). EXPECTED OUTCOME: List of paired devices contains 2 entries (for both dongle #1 and dongle #2) ACTUAL OUTCOME: Since entries in the list of paired devices are the names of the respective BT devices - as are transmitted by the PC, the list contains only one entry (since there is only one name). This entry corresponds to dongle #2 address (STEP 6 overwrites STEP's 2 outcome in its effects on paired devices list) REPRODUCIBILITY: always [Exception: if the name of the BT dongle device transmitted by the PC is extremely long (>32 chars). But then another bug presents itself where the entry corresponding for BT dongle #2 is the full name (as transmitted by the PC). While the entry corresponding for BT dongle #1 is the full name truncated to 32 chars. This second bug eliminates the first one.] EXTRA SOFTWARE INSTALLED: OTHER COMMENTS: Obviously this is not the common use case. But it's necessary if you have a bunch of BT dongles (with different addresses!!) to use with a desktop computer, and you randomly pick one each time. Because the OS (in the case of Windows 7 at least) doesn't seem to remember different names for the different dongles. So each time I plug in a dongle it has the same name, unless I manually change it upon every plugin. The Maemo 5 BT menu doesn't have this issue, since it allows to change the NAME of the paired device. Interestingly, this is also the name seen, in the ESTABLISH CONNECION menu of BlueMaemo. A solution might be to associate every entry in the PAIRED DEVICES LIST with the device's address instead of its transmitted name and/or allowing to edit entry names in the list. Great application!!! Thanks a lot! User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2)