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    CF-P2 Bluetooth

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by harveya, Oct 29, 2011.

  1. harveya

    harveya Notebook Consultant

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    So I got one of these and thought it would be a good replacement for my Sonim XP3 Quest, unfortunately I have tried numerous times but I can't get the bluetooth to pair with my Bluetooth car kit or even a headset (had a try with a couple of them. The Bluetooth is switched on, I can search for devices and find the headset / carkit, however it can't find any available services on the headset / car kit. Now both the headset and car kit are V2.1 +EDR so it should be backwards compatible with the bluetooth 1.2 on the CF-P2 however the best response I've ever had out of it (I'm being somewhat creative with the use of the word BEST here) is a malformed packet error.

    Is there a trick to getting these things to pair up. I do like the idea of using it in place of the Sonim, even though it is only GSM /GPRS (so is the Sonim) it does have a decent email capability whereas the Sonim email program (and the data settings too) is frankly rubbish. I'm not bothered about GPS on it as I have an inbuilt GPS in the vehicle plus my CF-07 to go in to it too with Memory Map running nicely on it, but I would need it to work with the car kit to use it - legally and sanity wise. In every way it's a pretty neat piece of kit, I like the size and the fact it has proper illuminated buttons (I hate touch screens on phones - leave them for the tablets), I happen to like WM 2003 as it is easy to use and I have been using it seemingly for ever since way back in the days of the early Ipaqs (OK not WM2003 on those but it worked pretty similar), I'm just getting mightily frustrated with the Bluetooth on it - if I don't get it to work, I might have to buy one of the wired car kits although I'd rather not as I already have a wired car kit for my work phone.

    Cheers
    Andy
     
    harveya, Oct 29, 2011
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    gijoe4us Notebook Consultant

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    Sounds like driver issues, or it is not backward compatible...
     
    gijoe4us, Nov 5, 2011
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  3. harveya

    harveya Notebook Consultant

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    I kind of think it maybe could be the bluetooth manager version however as I have installed the only clean (not Tom Tom crippled) image on it, not sure where to go now - not sure how to get a new or fresh version of the Bluetooth drivers / manager, unfortunately these aren't something you can just download and install like another WM app, they are part of the core image I think.

    Cheers
    Andy
     
    harveya, Nov 7, 2011
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