892179 - [B2G][User Story] BT PBAP 1.2 Profile

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Bluetooth, defect)

Description

[Sandip Kamat]

[B2G][User Story] BT PBAP 1.0 Profile

Users should be able to exchange Phone Book Objects between devices e.g. between a car kit and a mobile phone to allow the car kit to display the name of the incoming caller, allow the car kit to download the phone book so the user can initiate a call from the car display.

Comment 2

[Carlo Courier]

Hello Bluetooth team, 

is there any option to put more importance on this topic? 

Even as FFOS is currently used for mobile phones at lower budget, but this function is very useful for usage in cars with hands free equipment. The PBAP makes the Phone Book accessible without touching the cell phone, for outgoing calls and to identify incoming calls. The Phone Book Entry is then displayed next the callers ID. 
In some countries this is a security issue. Touching the phone while driving can be punished. 

Using FFOS on my regular cell phone six 8 month, I moved recently to FFOS 2.0. It works very well. The PBAP is the last function I'm really missing. 

Thanks in advance

BR

Carlo

Comment 3

[Ben Tian (inactive)]

Hi Carlo,

This is Ben from bluetooth team. Thanks for inquiry and sorry for the late reply.

We bluetooth team have been already aware of the needs for PBAP and put it into our feature-to-implement list. Our target is to support PBAP in a couple of FxOS releases once we complete our current work on bluetooth low energy (which allows applications to communicate with peripheral devices, e.g., smartwatch or sensors). We'll keep this bug posted once the FxOS version with PBAP support is firmed. 

Really appreciate your great support on FxOS.

Regards,
-Ben

Comment 5

[Ben Tian (inactive)]

Refined requirements from bug 1141953 comment 0:

  Support Bluetooth PBAP profile
  * Phonebook downloading feature
  * Phonebook browsing feature
  * Call history download

  Supporting query SIM1 call history could be optional.

Comment 7

[Ben Tian (inactive)]

Update title since we are implementing based on the latest PBAP 1.2 spec.

Comment 9

[Ben Tian (inactive)]

An intro on current implementation.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TGRxVfiXZAOvXZfMWs9c4NIjjeCgmrswmAb2zKup1eU/

Comment 10

[Wesly Huang (EPM)]

Quick update/summary as partner is querying status these 2 days.

Now except OBEX authentication, PBAP is done and land in 2.2R already, a reference design can also be found in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1200091.

Yet partner is asking for ETA of rest pieces, so ni EPM Wesley for further check and comment.

Comment 13

[Mihai Barbat]

How is this going? Can we expect any working prototype soon?

Comment 14

[Wesley Huang [:wesley_huang] (EPM) (NI me)]

I believe the PBAP functionality (on the gaia side) isn't prioritized at this moment.
It would be great if someone can pick this though.

Comment 15

[Mihai Barbat]

It would be super nice to have this, as this is a major gap in the functionality of the phone right now. My old Nokia had this eons ago! 

Please push this, the users want it! :)

Comment 16

[Wesley Huang [:wesley_huang] (EPM) (NI me)]

The missing piece is the GAIA implementation (bug 1225757). 
Be noted that there is a reference by Sean (Bug 1200091) so maybe it doesn't require the dev to start from scratch.

Comment 17

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on