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AS 4.5 won't connect using bluetooth Wowbagger 05-22-2008
Posted by Wowbagger on May 22, 2008, 5:40 pm
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 On an Dell desktop running XP Pro I have installed a Kensington micro
bluetooth adapter and the latest Toshiba stack. I can get the PC and the
phone to pair, and each is detecting the other, but AS simply refuses to
acknowledge that there is a connection. Is there a trick to making AS work
across the BT pairing?



Posted by Todd Allcock on May 23, 2008, 12:30 am
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 At 22 May 2008 17:40:40 -0400 Wowbagger wrote:
> On an Dell desktop running XP Pro I have installed a Kensington micro
> bluetooth adapter and the latest Toshiba stack. I can get the PC and the
> phone to pair, and each is detecting the other, but AS simply refuses to
> acknowledge that there is a connection. Is there a trick to making AS
work
> across the BT pairing?

Have you "told" AS you want to use BT? AS supports USB and one user-
selected serial port, whether cabled, IR or BT. On the PC, go to AS' file
menu, select Connections (oris it connection settings? I forget. It's NOT
"Get Connected") You'll see a dialog open up. Check the box to allow
connection with a serial port, and select your BT's virtual serial port in
the drop down list (mine, for example, is COM4.)





Posted by Wowbagger on May 23, 2008, 9:15 am
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> Have you "told" AS you want to use BT? AS supports USB and one user-
> selected serial port, whether cabled, IR or BT. On the PC, go to AS' file
> menu, select Connections (oris it connection settings? I forget. It's
> NOT
> "Get Connected") You'll see a dialog open up. Check the box to allow
> connection with a serial port, and select your BT's virtual serial port in
> the drop down list (mine, for example, is COM4.)

Yes - I told it to use the virtual COM7 port but it wouldn't connect.



Posted by Todd Allcock on May 23, 2008, 10:10 am
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At 23 May 2008 09:15:34 -0400 Wowbagger wrote:
> > Check the box to allow
> > connection with a serial port, and select your BT's virtual serial port
in
> > the drop down list (mine, for example, is COM4.)
>
> Yes - I told it to use the virtual COM7 port but it wouldn't connect.

It's been awhile since I set mine up, so I'm remembering it a bit hazy, but
I think I had to set up the pairing and discover the Activesync service on
the PC from the _device_, not the PC. When I first tried from the PC it
didn't work (it paired and I could transfer files, but couldn't sync.)

Try deleting the pairing and start again from the device- (you'll need to
set the PC to be "visible" to be discovered, but find the PC with the device,
then discover the AS service and try syncing that way...)



Posted by Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] on May 23, 2008, 11:39 am
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Yes, that's true. You have to do the pairing from the device and select the
ActiveSync service when it shows up as one of the services provided by the
PC.

Paul T.

> At 23 May 2008 09:15:34 -0400 Wowbagger wrote:
>> > Check the box to allow
>> > connection with a serial port, and select your BT's virtual serial port
> in
>> > the drop down list (mine, for example, is COM4.)
>>
>> Yes - I told it to use the virtual COM7 port but it wouldn't connect.
>
> It's been awhile since I set mine up, so I'm remembering it a bit hazy,
> but
> I think I had to set up the pairing and discover the Activesync service on
> the PC from the _device_, not the PC. When I first tried from the PC it
> didn't work (it paired and I could transfer files, but couldn't sync.)
>
> Try deleting the pairing and start again from the device- (you'll need to
> set the PC to be "visible" to be discovered, but find the PC with the
> device,
> then discover the AS service and try syncing that way...)
>
>



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