Cannot get my phone to send its contact info via bluetooth
 

Hi,

I have a Sanyo Katana cellphone and a ubuntu linux computer. I used to be able to send the cellphone's contacts to the computer, but this no longer works for some reason I can't figure out.

The phone is still able to send its contacts when I use windows bluetooth software.

When I use linux, the phone is able to get through the first 5 steps indicated here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bluetooth/TestPlan

...but fails on the 6th one-- that is, when I try to actually send the contact info, the phone says "connection failed, device unavailable".

To be clear: when I do hcitool scan, I can detect my phone:

$ hcitool scan
Scanning ...
08:01:7G:C8:E1:34 sanyo-1
$

I can ping the phone:

$ sudo l2ping 08:01:7G:C8:E1:34
4 bytes from 08:01:7G:C8:E1:34 id 0 time 16.92ms
4 bytes from 08:01:7G:C8:E1:34 id 1 time 17.16ms
4 bytes from 08:01:7G:C8:E1:34 id 2 time 17.43ms
$

I can pair the phone with the computer--when I tell the phone to do so, a window pops up on my computer, I enter the same PIN in the phone & computer, and the phone says "pairing successful".

But when I tell the phone to send the contacts, it fails and says "device unavailable."

This used to work, but no longer does.

I can't figure out why. Does it have to do with how my hcid.conf file is set up? What should the correct setting be?

Does anyone know how I can fix this problem or further troubleshoot it?

P.S. I have all the bluez/obex etc packages installed that I should have, as far as I know.