Wammu : Getting Bluetooth to Work

Wammu will not work until you have set up Ubuntu Bluetooth device first, so this is a two part solution.

Check List

• You have Ubuntu (The instructions has been made with version9.04 and hopefully work for older).
  
• Your mobile bluetooh is visible and shows name.
• You have a bluetooth USB dongle or your computer has it's bluetooth feature on.
  

1st Setup Ubuntu
1) First install your bluetooth USB dongle into the back of your machine or whereever.
2) System -> Preferences -> Bluetooth
3) Change Friendly Name to something nice :) I did "BURD.BURDEN"
4) Click "+" button and then click "forward" button after
5) Select your device and then make sure you have fixed.

7) Do the test with your phone
6) Hopefully it should be successful.

2nd Setup Wammu

1) Get your bluetooh phone address by running an ubuntu terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal)

hcitool scan

Mine is "00:16:B8:22:89:48" which also has an additional "w810i" description on the end.
Remember this value for later :)

2) Start "Wammu"

3) Click Wammu->Phone Wizard

4) Click "next" and then select "Guided Configuration" then next again.

5) Select "Bluetooth" then click "next"
6) Select your phone mobile (Mine is Sony Ericsson phone) then click "next"
7) Select "AT based" then click "next" (Yet your phone may be different for other)
8)Select "AT over bluetooth" then click next
9)Type in "00:16:B8:22:89:48" (see step1 of this 2nd part) then click next

Give it a a moment to test and it should say something like this.

10)Leave it as it's default name it suggests or change it then click "Finish".

FINALLY : Try it out
You should now be able to connect to the phone via "Bluetooth" on Wammu
Just click "Phone->Connect"

Thew

WOOOO YAAA!
Enjoy
"Wammu Usage Notes" can be found at the bottom of this.

Ubuntu Upgrade : 8.10 to 9.04

Please bare in mind I have upgraded from 8.04 to 8.10, and after years of waiting for 9.04 to mature, I Forced open the" distribution update button" to allow the major upgrade from 8 to 9.

I believe ideally you should have a clean install between major version releases. Well I thought I'd just keep pressing that nice "Distribution Update" button and see how things go. Here is my findings :)

Oh the Issues also include things after reseting my user account to have fresh configs

During the Upgrade
I allowed it to remove all the software it requested and upgraded all configs.

Issues I had
Kate (KDE Text Editor) - Got uninstalled
Konqueror Settings - Go changed
Apache2 - Got uninstalled
PHP5 and PHP5 modules - Was uninstalled.
CheckGmail - Got uninstalled
VLC - Turned wierd on me (It had an alpha version or something)
Bluetooth - Stopped working (Fresh new account issue)

Resolutions
Using "Synaptic Pacakge Manager" I did the following:

First I had install the missing software.

To get bluetooth working properly again, I re-installed "bluetooth" and "bluez" packages.

Free Up Space
Thanks to a new feature of Ubuntu 9.04, "Computer Janitor" is a cool program which I can gambled everything and saved up 1gig of space :)

VLC
Had to start using "ppa" system. Instructions and updating is here.
Still have problems with it (Hopefully they will get fixed again)
For now I have Installed Totem Movie Player (powered by xine).

Konqueror
I had to update the extension handling for ".html" to have "kate" as the primary application.
Verified and corrected my Konqueror settings.

Apache2
To get PHP5 working yet again, I had to run in a terminal

sudo a2enmod php5