Volla Phone 22 / Gigaset GS5 does not recognize Amazfit GTR/GTR2

chris_bavaria

UT 20.04(OTA-4) can pair to BT speakers, but Amazfit GTR/GTR2 cannot be found.
Restarting the clock and phone several times doesn't help.
Could it be that drivers for this phone are incomplete?
Bus: Virtual indicates that the device is virtual, which is unusual for physical Bluetooth hardware?

$ hciconfig -a
hci0:	Type: Primary  Bus: Virtual
	BD Address: 58:9E:C6:49:F6:8E  ACL MTU: 1021:6  SCO MTU: 184:1
	UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN 
	RX bytes:0 acl:201 sco:0 events:151209 errors:0
	TX bytes:92400591 acl:149914 sco:0 commands:1034 errors:0
	Features: 0xbf 0x3e 0x8d 0xfe 0xdb 0xff 0x5b 0x87
	Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3 
	Link policy: RSWITCH SNIFF 
	Link mode: PERIPHERAL ACCEPT 
	Name: 'Volla Phone 22'
	Class: 0x4e020c
	Service Classes: Networking, Rendering, Capturing, Telephony
	Device Class: Phone, Smart phone
	HCI Version: 5.2 (0xb)  Revision: 0x1d3f
	LMP Version: 5.2 (0xb)  Subversion: 0xfff5
	Manufacturer: MediaTek, Inc. (70)

Pairing with Amazfish in UT 20.04(OTA-4) on my GooglePixel 3a works.
Has anyone had the same experiences?

magnargj

@chris_bavaria I have the same problem. I think it might be bluetooth le which is not supported. I tried to bring it up in the volla telegram group, but noone responded...

zintor

Hi there,

I also have the problem, that my Amazfit GTS is not found by bluetooth on my Volla 22 with 20.04 OTA-5.

@magnargj: Do you have any news on this topic?

Is there an issue opened in gitlab to bring it up to the devs, yet? I haven't found one...

I am willing to test and help as much as I can, if needed.

Best regards,
zintor

zintor

Addendum:

I found an issue at github "HelloVolla"
https://github.com/HelloVolla/ubuntu-touch-beta-tests/issues/129
Please also comment or vote for it.

I am asking me, if it is a hardware or software problem?
How can we narrow the problem to help the dev to solve this issue?
Unfortunately I am not a dev, but have no problem to import a fix and play with it to get it fixed.

Best regards,
zintor