Re: [android-developers] Re: How make Bluetooth constantly discoverable

2011-09-15 Thread Kristopher Micinski
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: How does something like Bump work? Based on IP magic and a very good algorithm determining bump times and mapping them to locations, which they can prove gives a probabilistic bound on the number of errors they can make

[android-developers] Re: How make Bluetooth constantly discoverable

2011-09-15 Thread Indicator Veritatis
I gave up on bump a long time ago. It fails too often. There is a limit to how often I can ask the same person to bump again. After the third time, it is embarrassing how much easier it would have been to scan a physical business card. On Sep 14, 11:05 pm, Kristopher Micinski

Re: [android-developers] Re: How make Bluetooth constantly discoverable

2011-09-15 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Still an interesting concept, and P2P across different platforms is something that *should* work, there's just not a good technology available to do it (yet). ..., I guess this is why people are just using the internet as their backend. Like all things (in software?), this is something that

[android-developers] Re: How make Bluetooth constantly discoverable

2011-09-14 Thread darrinps
It's not so much that t is hard, and you can vary the discovery time: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3190623/make-bluetooth-on-android-2-1-discoverable-indefinitely The thing is though, it eats battery so you probably don't want to do it. On Sep 14, 2:45 am, Luitas liuta...@gmail.com wrote:

[android-developers] Re: How make Bluetooth constantly discoverable

2011-09-14 Thread Indicator Veritatis
All other devices? None of mine do. Nor do I want them to. As already pointed out, it is a drain on the battery. Nor is this the only problem. You can't do ANYTHING else with Bluetooth while your device is trying to do discovery. Twenty or thirty seconds should be enough. The user is doing

Re: [android-developers] Re: How make Bluetooth constantly discoverable

2011-09-14 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I wanted to do this once. The answer is: Bluetooth probably isn't intended to be used for that thing you're trying to do. Kris (P.s., the reason people typically cite is that they want to randomly bond with other devices running their app so they can get a truly peer to peer app, but I think

[android-developers] Re: How make Bluetooth constantly discoverable

2011-09-14 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
How does something like Bump work? On Sep 15, 11:25 am, Kristopher Micinski krismicin...@gmail.com wrote: I wanted to do this once. The answer is: Bluetooth probably isn't intended to be used for that thing you're trying to do. Kris (P.s., the reason people typically cite is that they