BluetoothHidDevice profile not exposed on Fairphone 6

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Hi Fairphone team, I am developing an Android app that uses the Android Bluetooth HID Device API (“BluetoothHidDevice”).

On my new fp6, it appears that the HID Device profile is not exposed or enabled.

Observations:

- The app works correctly on a Samsung Galaxy S21 using the same Android API.

- On Fairphone 6, registration as a HID device fails.

- Running:

adb shell dumpsys package com.android.bluetooth | grep -i HidDevice

returns no result, which suggests the HID Device service may not be registered in the Bluetooth stack.

Since Fairphone publishes much of its Android source and uses a relatively open software model, I wanted to ask:

- Is Bluetooth HID Device (“BluetoothHidDevice”) intentionally disabled on Fairphone 6?

- Could it be enabled in a future software update?

This would be valuable for accessibility use cases and peripheral-control apps.

Thank you for your time.

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Hi @jusjusjus you cant reach FP teams here, you would have to use official ways through support.

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Hi, welcome to the forum. This is a user forum and Fairphone employees rarely read what’s happening here. Your best bet is to message support through their email to let them now this is an issue and get any feedback from them on why it might be the case.