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Help with bluetooth syncing
Running Vista RC2, the latest windows mobile device center, and a toshiba
branded usb bluetooth adapter. I am able to sync fine with a usb cable. But I have been unable to wirelessly sync my dell axim x30 pda with mobile device center through bluetooth. The pda runs windows mobile 2003. I have tried doing so with the generic bluetooth drivers windows installed with the usb adapter and also the beta drivers toshiba has for vista, same results. I create a partnership first in device center with the usb cable, and then I disconnect and either used the toshiba bluetooth settings manager or the control panel to find my pda and connect to it, which it does. However, when I go through the menus in my pda to create an activesync bluetooth connection, it also sees my pc, but after connecting with activesync I always get the same error- service is not running on the pc etc. I did this successfully on windows xp (I have a dual boot setup) with the same hardware, using activesync on the pc. However, activesync allows you to choose an incoming com port during setup that matches your pda's serial port settings. Is this the stumbling block with mobile device center on vista? I don't see any similiar option. The help file for setting up a bluetooth connection with mobile device center makes it all sound so easy. What am I missing? My pda uses com ports 7 and 8 for incoming and outgoing, and this can not be changed it seems. |
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Help with bluetooth syncing
I had the same problem with my iPAQ: USB sync OK but no way to use bluetooth.
I did everything you had done and scrathed my head trying to figure out what is wrong with my settings. Finally I found a hack that works, at least for me: There is a setting in the registry which defines the COM port used for syncing. The value is 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows CE Services\SerialPort' When using bluetooth with ActiveSync this is set to the value of the incoming COM port. In WMDC this has changed so that the value now is 'Bluetooth' which in turn points to other settings in the registry. This does not seem to work properly yet. I found out that this value stilll works as it does in ActiveSync. If you change it from 'Bluetooth' to the name of the incoming COM port, your PDA should now see the service required for the Bluetooth syncing. (reboot may be necessary) Hope this helps, Jari "VistaVick" wrote: Running Vista RC2, the latest windows mobile device center, and a toshiba branded usb bluetooth adapter. I am able to sync fine with a usb cable. But I have been unable to wirelessly sync my dell axim x30 pda with mobile device center through bluetooth. The pda runs windows mobile 2003. I have tried doing so with the generic bluetooth drivers windows installed with the usb adapter and also the beta drivers toshiba has for vista, same results. I create a partnership first in device center with the usb cable, and then I disconnect and either used the toshiba bluetooth settings manager or the control panel to find my pda and connect to it, which it does. However, when I go through the menus in my pda to create an activesync bluetooth connection, it also sees my pc, but after connecting with activesync I always get the same error- service is not running on the pc etc. I did this successfully on windows xp (I have a dual boot setup) with the same hardware, using activesync on the pc. However, activesync allows you to choose an incoming com port during setup that matches your pda's serial port settings. Is this the stumbling block with mobile device center on vista? I don't see any similiar option. The help file for setting up a bluetooth connection with mobile device center makes it all sound so easy. What am I missing? My pda uses com ports 7 and 8 for incoming and outgoing, and this can not be changed it seems. |
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