scanning cell phone with nrf52832

[sinany1]

I am working on a project that I need to scan bluetooth devices. I am using nrf52832 as a central, sdk 15.2 and s132 v6.1.1. when I activate the advertiser tab on nrf connect mobile app, my nrf52832 device can scan my mobile phone, but I need to scan mobile phone when I activated bluetooth(without using any external applicaton).  

is it possible in someway, if it is, how? 

[Amanda Hsieh]

Hi, 

Yes, it is possible to connect an nRF52832 central to an Android phone peripheral. How do you advertise on your phone? 

You need an app that actually tells the smartphone to advertise. Only when the smartphone advertises the central device will be able to discover it. You can do this by using our nRF Connect app. Go to "Advertiser" then add an advertiser with the Nordic UART service. Since the ble_app_uart_c example search for the Nordic UART service, they will automatically connect when discovered. 

Please see this post and this post. 

-Amanda H.

[sinany1]

yes, I mentioned that in post. I can make connection between phone(peripheral) and nrf52832(central) using nrfconnect app. but I don't want to use any app to advertise on my phone. I actually don't need to connect to phone I just want to see address and rssi value(I can do it in software) when I activated bluetooth on phone(without using nrfconnect or any other app!). 

[bbprashanth]

hi sinany1, did you find a way to connect to the phone without any external application?