on the G1′s bluetooth support

Posted on June 19, 2009 by ward

I got a G1 the other day, and have it upgraded to android 1.5 (cupcake). Turns out the bluetooth abilities of this phone are rather … limited, particularly compared to my trusty nokia E70:

G1:

$ sdptool browse 00:22:A5:XX:XX:XX
Browsing 00:22:A5:XX:XX:XX ...
Service Name: Audio Source
Service RecHandle: 0x10000
Service Class ID List:
  "Audio Source" (0x110a)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
    PSM: 25
  "AVDTP" (0x0019)
    uint16: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "Advanced Audio" (0x110d)
    Version: 0x0100

Service Name: AVRCP TG
Service RecHandle: 0x10001
Service Class ID List:
  "AV Remote Target" (0x110c)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
    PSM: 23
  "AVCTP" (0x0017)
    uint16: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "AV Remote" (0x110e)
    Version: 0x0100

Service Name: Voice Gateway
Service RecHandle: 0x10002
Service Class ID List:
  "Headset Audio Gateway" (0x1112)
  "Generic Audio" (0x1203)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 11
Profile Descriptor List:
  "Headset" (0x1108)
    Version: 0x0100

Service Name: Voice Gateway
Service RecHandle: 0x10003
Service Class ID List:
  "Handsfree Audio Gateway" (0x111f)
  "Generic Audio" (0x1203)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 10
Profile Descriptor List:
  "Handsfree" (0x111e)
    Version: 0x0105

Nokia E70:

$ sdptool browse 00:12:D1:XX:XX:XX
Browsing 00:12:D1:XX:XX:XX ...
Service Name: AVRCP Target
Service Description: Audio Video Remote Control
Service Provider: Symbian Software Ltd.
Service RecHandle: 0x10000
Service Class ID List:
  "AV Remote" (0x110e)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
    PSM: 23
  "AVCTP" (0x0017)
    uint16: 0x100
    uint16: 0xf00

Service Name: Hands-Free Audio Gateway
Service RecHandle: 0x10001
Service Class ID List:
  "Handsfree Audio Gateway" (0x111f)
  "Generic Audio" (0x1203)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 28
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x454e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "Handsfree Audio Gateway" (0x111f)
    Version: 0x0101

Service Name: Headset Audio Gateway
Service RecHandle: 0x10002
Service Class ID List:
  "Headset Audio Gateway" (0x1112)
  "Generic Audio" (0x1203)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 29
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x454e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "Headset" (0x1108)
    Version: 0x0100

Service Name: SyncMLClient
Service RecHandle: 0x10003
Service Class ID List:
  UUID 128: 00000002-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000002
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 10
  "OBEX" (0x0008)
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x454e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "" (0x00000002-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000002)
    Version: 0x0100

Service Name: OBEX File Transfer
Service RecHandle: 0x10004
Service Class ID List:
  "OBEX File Transfer" (0x1106)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 11
  "OBEX" (0x0008)
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x454e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "OBEX File Transfer" (0x1106)
    Version: 0x0100

Service Name: Nokia OBEX PC Suite Services
Service RecHandle: 0x10005
Service Class ID List:
  UUID 128: 00005005-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000001
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 12
  "OBEX" (0x0008)
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x454e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "" (0x00005005-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000001)
    Version: 0x0100

Service Name: SyncML DM Client
Service RecHandle: 0x10006
Service Class ID List:
  UUID 128: 00000004-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000002
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 13
  "OBEX" (0x0008)
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x454e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "" (0x00000004-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000002)
    Version: 0x0100

Service Name: Nokia SyncML Server
Service RecHandle: 0x10007
Service Class ID List:
  UUID 128: 00005601-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000001
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 14
  "OBEX" (0x0008)
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x454e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "" (0x00005601-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000001)
    Version: 0x0100

Service Name: SIM Access
Service RecHandle: 0x10008
Service Class ID List:
  "SIM Access" (0x112d)
  "Generic Telephony" (0x1204)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 8
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x454e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "SIM Access" (0x112d)
    Version: 0x0101

Service Name: OBEX Object Push
Service RecHandle: 0x10009
Service Class ID List:
  "OBEX Object Push" (0x1105)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 9
  "OBEX" (0x0008)
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x454e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "OBEX Object Push" (0x1105)
    Version: 0x0100

Service Name: Dial-Up Networking
Service RecHandle: 0x1000a
Service Class ID List:
  "Dialup Networking" (0x1103)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 2
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x454e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "Dialup Networking" (0x1103)
    Version: 0x0100

Service RecHandle: 0x1000b
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 1

Service Name: Imaging
Service RecHandle: 0x1000c
Service Class ID List:
  "Imaging Responder" (0x111b)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 15
  "OBEX" (0x0008)
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x454e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "Imaging" (0x111a)
    Version: 0x0100

What I’m missing in particular is the dialup access. Sometimes I still need to dial into a remote modem for out of band system access… I wonder how hard it would be to add that bluetooth profile.

I like most other things about the G1. Keyboard + 3G data == awesome. Battery life is not going to be nearly as good as the E70, though…

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