How to Send Files to My Computer via Bluetooth?

Search for "Personal file sharing". Then activate "Receive files over Bluetooth". That is it, worked for me.

I would like to share one method on how to send files from any Android smartphone to Ubuntu. I successfully tested it myself on Ubuntu 12.10 laptop with built-in bluetooth adapter and SGS4 smartphone.

Your smartphone and Ubuntu computer should be paired.

Open a terminal application (Ctrl+Alt+T) and install obexftp and obexpushd packages from OpenOBEX project using the following command:

sudo apt-get install obexftp obexpushd

Set your computer's bluetooth adapter into discoverable mode executing the following command:

sudo hciconfig hci0 piscan

Run obexpushd command and listen to the incoming bluetooth connection:

obexpushd -B

Now it is possible to send any file from the smartphone to Ubuntu computer. The files will be stored in your /home/username or /home/username/Downloads directory.

I tested the method by sharing a file through bluetooth from ASTRO File Manager on Android smartphone.

The main credit for this method goes to the blog post.