Android Question Large Data Transfer over Bluetooth SPP

Gavin O'Connor

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We have an application where we need to download a fairly large amount of data (0.5-5MB) via BlueTooth serial (from an embedded device (STM32), via an RN-41 or similar, to the Android app). Using the BlueTooth Chat example as a basis, we are finding that astreams_Error gets called somewhere during the download (with an error "Connection Reset by Peer"), resulting in the connection being dropped.

  • Adding "breathers' (delays / breaks) in the data transmission from the embedded device seems to help, but is not a reliable / consistent method.
  • A request/acknowledgement scheme (where every few bytes of data are acknowledged before further data is transmitted) works, but is painfully slow.

Any tips/ideas for an application architecture to handle this scenario, in order to get the data transferred over both reliably and as quickly as possible, would be appreciated!
 

Erel

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I assume that you are not initializing astreams in prefix mode.

Worth making a test and sending the data between two Android devices. See whether it works better. In the older days of Android there were many devices with unstable Bluetooth. I don't think that this is still the case. My guess is that the problem is in the embedded device.
 
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