Add HFP Support about btstack HOT 13 CLOSED

It is possible as it only depends on software. however, HSP is rather tough, 
with real-time audio streams.

is it true that iPod touch users cannotuse any kind ok BT for music listening?

would you want to use it for iPod style use?

I support snakse's request. On iPhone 3GS v3.1.2 Apples handsfree-support seems 
to be
defective for many types of headsets. The microphone-sound is chopped and 
muffling.
Tried four headsets without a result. I'd love to test a alternative 
BT-solution ..

Please see 
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1804116&start=0&tstart=0

greetings 

No. I think that only the first generation iPod Touch can't use 
any kind of music listening by Bluetooth. On the other model, 
it's possible but with stereo headphone (by using A2DP I 
think?) instead of hands free devices (Using HSP most of the 
time). 

What do you mean by "iPod style use"? To use it to look 
cool? 

(Thanks for the answer)

datapirates: that's tough. I don't think I can compete with Apple's engineers in
terms of quality. I can provide features where Apple does not provide them for
whatever reasons, but improving Hands-Free BT call is a bit too ambitious.

snakes: I meant using it to listen to music with e.g. the iPod app. I guess the 
audio
quality over HFP isn't that great anyway. Don't BTstack is open. If someone 
starts
implemting this, I'll surely help out.

Add HPF support simply for the fact that ipod/ipad does not have it built in. 
With
HPF support you could then use sip based phones to talk.

iTouch 2gen and iTouch 3gen can use A2DP headsets. Would be nice on 3g's to be 
able to use my bluetooth headset for things like voice control while im driving 
without having to use those wired headphones. 

I know this issue has been closed already as Won't Fix but it seems like my 
reasoning for wanting the HFP support was not really given.  I'd like to be 
able to use my iPod Touch 2G via WiFi for VOIP calls.  There are multiple VOIP 
apps out now, like Skype or Bria that support VOIP on the iPhone that install 
perfectly fine on the iPod but since the iPod can't support bluetooth headsets 
it completely useless.  I travel internationally quite often and I use VOIP 
extremely often for all my calls back to the US.  Would be great to use my ipod 
for wifi rather than needing to boot my notebook up to make calls.

@adam thanks for describing your scenario. I'm still busy with other stuff, the 
most prominent BTstack-based will be full OBEX support for iPhone. BTstack is 
open and I'll try to help anyone that looks into implementing HFP or other 
protocols.

Damn.... I should have checked this before purchasing a headset for my touch =\ 
..... *returns to radioshack*

lol same here... *returns to walmart*

Same here. For me, this is the only reason to jailbreak my ipod touch. I have 
an asterisk in my house and 2 ipod touch. I'd like to use them to make calls 
but I can't. I'm a php web developer and I think that I dont have all the 
skills to develop this.
Is there any way to put original iphone's BTstack on ipods touch?
Thank you

Is there any update on this?

There seems to be demand for HFP support. 

The scenario I look into is iOS as HSP/HFP receiver. So one can use iDevice as 
a headset for all sort of game consoles and mobile phones as well as computers.

What would it take to implement one and how difficult the task is said to be?

Thanks,
Gregory

HSP/HFP does the control via RFCOMM (that should be easy to implement), the 
actual audio data is sent via synchronous packets, which are not supported by 
BTstack. They are not much different from the regular ACL packets, it's just 
not handled. Then, it might be that audio isn't even received by BTstack but 
routed directly to the sound mixer. Asides, I think people created commercial 
solutions that allow to use a feature phone with an iPod touch so that should 
be possible.