How to connect Nokia N70 and Linux

Through this guide you will be able to up/download files from your Nokia N70 throuth a bluetooth connection. Also we will setup gammu to access more of your phone’s data (i.e. calendar entries).

First of all identify your bluetooth device:

$ hcitool scan
Scanning …
00:17:4B:12:2A:BD Nightcrawler

I’ll use 00:17:4B:12:2A:BD as bluetooth ID through the rest of this post, exchange it for yours.

Now you should be possible to query your phone’s characteristics via “sdptool browse $PHONE“. To transfer files, we will use the OBEX File Transport service which is rep rted as listening on channel 10 – but alas that’s a just another firmware error: rightfully it’s channel 12.

So just enter: “obex://[00:17:4B:12:2A:BD]:12” into your Konqueror address bar and you’ll be able to browse and up/download files on your phone.

Now download the gammu sources (make sure that bluetooth support is enabled) or install your distribution packages. Use konqueror to copy gammu.sis (it’s in the /other/symbian directory of the gammu sources) on your phone. On the phone use the file manager to install it.

Create a gammu configuration file in your home directory (~/.gammurc):

[gammu]
connection = bluerfgnapbus
model = gnap
port = 00:17:4B:12:2A:BD

Exchange my phone’s bluetooth ID (port) with yours. Start gnapplet on your phone and use the gammu command line client to connect to the phone (i.e. gammu –getallcalendar).

From here on, my best experiences where a lot of “Function not supported by phone” but some of the features are already implemented and it should get larger through time.

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