Getting this to work with android 2.3 was easy enough. During pairing just hold the power switch for 6 seconds. You hear a cute little tone and off you go.
To get this to work in slackware 13.37 required a little bit more work, but not much.
The steps to make it work were:
1) charge up the headphones until the light turns blue
2) in linux, start bluetoothd:
#/usr/sbin/bluetoothd
3) run blueman-manager
$ blueman-manager
4) make sure the device is on then hit search, if everything is configured okay then the headset device should appear
5) start the pairing process and hold the power switch for 6 seconds
6) after it has successfully paired it may still not be connected, so hit the trust button to trust the device
7) then run the 'Setup' on the device and choose A2DP Sink (Send Audio)
8) right click on the device and the option for 'audio sink' should appear. click on that to enable sending audio to the device. now leave blueman-manager open for the next step...
9) now, as root, edit /etc/asound.conf by adding the lines below. Make sure to substitute the XX:XX.. numbers with the address of the device which is visible in the blueman-manager window.
you may also replace pcm.btheadset with pcm.!default if you wish to make it the default device. alsa will need to be restarted with # /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa restart or similar
# /etc/asound.conf
pcm.btheadset {
type plug
slave {
pcm {
type bluetooth
device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
profile "auto"
}
}
hint {
show on
description "BT Headset"
}
}
ctl.btheadset {
type bluetooth
}
10) Save the file then type $ aplay -L to check the btheadset device is recognized
11) run mplayer or player of your choice with the device set to btheadset..
$ mplayer -ao alsa:device=btheadset ~/miku-hatsune-i-wanna-be-your-world.mp3
You might be wondering how do they sound? To be honest they sound a lot better than what I was expecting.
References:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth_Headset#Headset_and_Alsa_Devices
