[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fuggy22252:
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I managed to get the keyboard to connect on a regular basis. The problem was with pairing it initially in the Bluetooth settings. With the keyboard paired, nothing I did would get it to actually work with the unit. However, once I unpaired, and then tried to hidd --connect again, it worked! For a little while... But for some reason, after under a minute of use, the keyboard stopped working and I had to do the hidd -connect again.

Any suggestions for keeping it permanently attached? I would try using EasyConnect again, but I don't want my network dropping every time it scans...

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Specs:

ViewSonic G Tablet from Woot

ROM: Vegan-tab 5.1.1

I bought a Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard 6000 to use with my gTab, but I'm having a devil of a time trying to connect it. Hopefully someone has heard of these issues and has a thought or two?

I tried using "Bluetooth Keyboard Easy Connect" from the market. It told me I needed something called "Bluez Tools" and gave me a download button, which I pressed. It told me it successfully downloaded them.

When I pair the keyboard, EasyConnect goes through the motions of connecting. Tells me it is getting super user, tells me it is connecting to the keyboard, and then suddenly tells me the keyboard is disconnected. No amount of rebooting fixes this. At some points, it gives me a message about invalid Bluez Tools.

So I try to do it manually using steps in this post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9993128&postcount=37

Fortunately, he attached the Bluez Tools needed, which I moved over to my device using SSHDroid on the device (from market) and an FTP client (FileZilla). I checked system/xbin and only "hidd" was missing, so I copied that in.

I then ran through the steps in the above mentioned post using Putty to attach as a shell.

# hciconfig

This brought up the config information as in the post, everything looked good. However:

# hcitool scan

At this point I saw the "Scanning..." message and then nothing. Suddenly putty told me the connection dropped. I reconnected and tried again several times, but got the same thing.

Then I looked at my device and noticed that, as soon as I did the scan, my wifi dropped! What? It went into scan mode, found my router, and re-attached, but of course this dropped the connection with Putty.

I tried to connect to the keyboard anyway:

# hidd --connect 00:07:61:4B:D7:CE

(well, I used the actual mac address of the keyboard, that is from the example post above)

Doing this ALSO dropped my wifi connection.

Why is using these tools causing my wifi to drop? Are they causing wifi to scan instead of BT? Is there a setting I am missing? I finally had to uninstall EasyConnect because everytime it polled for a connection it was dropping my wifi.

Regardless, it DID actually manage to connect once and the keyboard worked like a charm! But I rebooted and couldn't get it to work after that.

I also can't get it to work using a local command line client either. I used "Android Terminal Emulator" (from market) and tried the commands there. None of the tools work. When I try to run hidd (as su) I get "Can't get device information: host is down". However, it didn't drop my wifi...

I also tried GScript Lite, but that gives me the same errors the terminal emulator did.

At this point I'm at a loss for what else to do.

Any suggestions?