I have a Flytouch 2 (10.2") with USB ports all over it (ok, just two).
I plugged-in a USB Bluetooth dongle I had been fooling around with on my iMac.
The Flytouch "recognized" my Apple Magic Mouse within seconds of turning the tablet and mouse on. This was fun and encouraging so I tried for days to get my Flytouch to "see" other devices through this BT dongle. Fail fail fail.
Today it popped into my head to try something new.
Step by step:
- put the BT dongle in your desktop machine.
- use the Bluetooth stuff on the desktop to pair your keyboard and mouse.
- make sure all the paired devices are "connected".
(note: this took some fiddling around, toggling the power for the internal Bluetooth radio on the iMac and what have you.)
- put the dongle back into your MID pad.
- fool around a little with the power switches on the mouse and keyboard.
If this works for you as it does for me, you will have your Bluetooth keyboard and mouse talking to your Android tablet!
There is no reason I can think of that this approach will not work on a Windows machine as well as on a Mac.
Why did I bother to tell the Interwebz about my Earth shattering "discovery"?
I want my Earthmate to "talk" to the GPS enabled applications in Android and so far, all the Bluetooth GPS Toggles, Gadgets, and crap in the Android Market make the assumption that your Bluetooth radio is internal to your tablet/phone and none are "aware" of Bluetooth attached by USB. Why the heck didn't this Flytouch come with a BT radio installed?
Ikearat
I plugged-in a USB Bluetooth dongle I had been fooling around with on my iMac.
The Flytouch "recognized" my Apple Magic Mouse within seconds of turning the tablet and mouse on. This was fun and encouraging so I tried for days to get my Flytouch to "see" other devices through this BT dongle. Fail fail fail.
Today it popped into my head to try something new.
Step by step:
- put the BT dongle in your desktop machine.
- use the Bluetooth stuff on the desktop to pair your keyboard and mouse.
- make sure all the paired devices are "connected".
(note: this took some fiddling around, toggling the power for the internal Bluetooth radio on the iMac and what have you.)
- put the dongle back into your MID pad.
- fool around a little with the power switches on the mouse and keyboard.
If this works for you as it does for me, you will have your Bluetooth keyboard and mouse talking to your Android tablet!
There is no reason I can think of that this approach will not work on a Windows machine as well as on a Mac.
Why did I bother to tell the Interwebz about my Earth shattering "discovery"?
I want my Earthmate to "talk" to the GPS enabled applications in Android and so far, all the Bluetooth GPS Toggles, Gadgets, and crap in the Android Market make the assumption that your Bluetooth radio is internal to your tablet/phone and none are "aware" of Bluetooth attached by USB. Why the heck didn't this Flytouch come with a BT radio installed?
Ikearat