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Posted by Chris De Herrera on August 18, 2005, 9:18 am
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Hi,
Hibernation can break ActiveSync because ActiveSync does not expect the
drivers are not available after resuming. I do not know of a fix or a
workaround for it.
BTW an easier way to end wcescomm.exe is to use Killsync from
www.pocketpcfaq.com/applications/
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Chris De Herrera
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> From a cold boot or restart, syncing my SMT 5600 with my Toshiba M200 TPC
> over Bluetooth works just fine. However, coming out of hibernation, it no
> longer works; both devices report the COM Port is no longer available.
>
> Returning from hibernation and looking at the Device Manager, it reports
> that Network adapters > Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network) is not
> working propertly because "Windows cannot load the drivers required for
> this
> device. (Code 31)". Disabling and re-enabling the BT radio has no
> effect--the same status is reported. One may think this could simply be a
> fault of the Toshiba BT Monitor, or just the native MS BT stack. However,
> if
> I follow this process:
>
> 1) Kill wcescomm.exe
> 2) Disable BT radio
> 3) Enable BT radio
>
> At this point, the BT Dev (PAN) loads correctly. If I then
>
> 4) start ActiveSync,
>
> it will sync properly. At no point before this will ActiveSync work
> properly; it will always report a non-available COM port (and annoyingly
> launch into the new partnership wizard! Augh! Is this by design?!).
>
> Anyway, this sequence of events leads me to believe that the only
> malefactor
> here is ActiveSync, but I've been wrong before.
>
> I'm not even hoping for a fix at this point--I just want to know that
> there
> is at least one other person out there who has had this problem, or make
> MS
> aware that at least one person is having it. Going in and out of
> hibernation
> often is important for keeping the Tablet PC useful to me.
>
> For the record:
> Toshiba M200 Tablet PC
> Toshiba Integrated Bluetooth
>
> native Microsoft BT Stack
> Toshiba Bluetooth Monitor (specifically "Toshiba Integrated Bluetooth 2")
> ActiveSync 3.8.0 (Build 5004)
>
> Thanks so much for any help.
>
> (P.S. - Also, while I'm at it, I just want to complain that WMP10 *does*
> see
> my SMT 5600 as a portable device, which is handy...just so long as I use
> USB,
> and not Bluetooth. Sigh.)
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