Anyone using the direct connect with the minis blue tooth successfully?
I have no problem with the cell phone. But the direct connect doesn't function.

 

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Redneck Connect you mean? lol... sorry... that may be a NE Florida joke...

I seriously doubt bluetooth headsets even support the DC Function of sprint/nextel...

Considering that the direct connect button must be held down to continue transmission... bluetooth doesn't work as such... on most headsets, even WITH a sprint/nextel direct connect enabled phone, if you hold the button down, you're likely going to

1. redial the last number
2. hang up on that call in the same sequence
3. and enable pairing mode for that headset.

Now you MAY be able to find a way to hardwire the phone button on the steering wheel, into the sprint/nextel car kits that have a dedicated direct connect button and use that...

but I'd have NO clue how to begin to decipher the wiring for that.

 

It works perfectly in my Dodge Ram. I guess I am a red neck. It also worked in the MCS before I converted to a blackberry.

 

Before you converted to a blackberry (presumable nextel/sprint) and when you used it in the MCS and Dodge Ram... what nextel phone did you have?

 

Motorola I870

 

Hey

I did some digging, specifically with the people who mandate and dignify the bluetooth profiles. There is a draft Push-to-talk over bluetooth profile, and from what I can see, it has not been made standard

here is a site

Push-to-Talk over Bluetooth
Ronnholm, V.
System Sciences, 2006. HICSS apos;06. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Volume 9, Issue , 04-07 Jan. 2006 Page(s): 232c - 232c
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/HICSS.2006.404
Summary: Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) is an emerging service enabling a walkie-talkie-like service over GPRS. An open standard for PoC has been specified by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) [1]. OMA PoC is based on an IP/UDP/RTP protocol stack and a client-server based architecture. Group management, floor control1 etc are administered by PoC servers. The systems exploits the SIP signalling capabilities of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) [2]. The objective of this paper is to propose an outline for a Push-to-Talk (PTT) system that utilizes a Bluetooth scatternet and the Personal Area Networking (PAN) profile for data communications [3], [4]. The proposed system is thus fully independent of cellular networks. A reasonable range of several hundred meters can be obtained with multihop communications between Bluetooth class 1 devices, whose range is up to 100 m. The proposed outline for Push-to-Talk over Bluetooth (PoB) comprises e.g. methods for group formation, network formation, communication, and floor control. The network formation method, which can be utilized in other applications as well, is based on creating a scatternet among a predefined set of devices and on avoiding loops. This approach enables usage of a simple broadcasting based communication method, in which the devices bridging the piconets into a scatternet act as repeaters.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/lo...768.pdf?temp=x

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Chrylser products, eg, chrysler, dodge, jeep, use uconnect for their bluetooth system. MINI, I'm sure is much different... Which may be why it's a bit tricky. There are phones, which one would think, because they support the HFP (hands free profile) would work, in BMWs and MINIs, but they don't.

Blackberries in general, are also very strange when it comes to bluetooth, due to their corporate appearance.

I have no answer for you, other than the fact it is a different phone from the i870. Which does support a few more profiles than the blackberries from nextel.

 

Thanks for trying.