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jmackey
post Feb 10 2008, 03:54
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I have a Samsung Jack (Samsung Blackjack II in the US) smartphone and I want
to connect my Vista PC and the smartphone together using a bluetooth serial
port.

Unfortunantly, neither the phone or the PC can detect the serial port
profile on a services query.

What is going on?
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post Feb 10 2008, 18:03
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Device(s): BJII
u try installing microsoft active sync yet?
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post Feb 10 2008, 19:20
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QUOTE(jdm0830 @ Feb 10 2008, 10:03) *
u try installing microsoft active sync yet?
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Well yeah, but the serial port profile being so common, it shouldent matter if activesync is installed or not.
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post Feb 10 2008, 21:37
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QUOTE(jmackey @ Feb 11 2008, 06:20) *
Well yeah, but the serial port profile being so common, it shouldent matter if activesync is installed or not.


There's no activesync for Vista !!!......only the "Windows Mobile Device Centre".....it's avaliable for Vista:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/devicecenter.mspx

I think youll need this if your creating a serial profile for connecting your device....youll need to connect the device properly in order to create connection profiles over bluetooth so
it can work as a USB modem or modem over bluetooth. Youll also need to install the modem driver from your samsung disc in order to connect without the device centre....

There's plenty on the subject using "Google"..

I'd suggest doing a Google search on geting the BJII running with Vista.
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QUOTE(Sed8ed @ Feb 10 2008, 13:37) *
There's no activesync for Vista !!!......only the "Windows Mobile Device Centre".....it's avaliable for Vista:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/devicecenter.mspx

I think youll need this if your creating a serial profile for connecting your device....youll need to connect the device properly in order to create connection profiles over bluetooth so
it can work as a USB modem or modem over bluetooth. Youll also need to install the modem driver from your samsung disc in order to connect without the device centre....

There's plenty on the subject using "Google"..

I'd suggest doing a Google search on geting the BJII running with Vista.


I already have Windows Mobile Device Centre installed and the BFII already syncs just fine, but thats not my problem. The problem is that I dont have any accessable serial port profiles.

Programming a network app for the BFII is much easier using serial ports then trying to use bluetooth sockets.
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I already have Windows Mobile Device Centre installed and the BFII already syncs just fine, but thats not my problem. The problem is that I dont have any accessable serial port profiles.

Programming a network app for the BFII is much easier using serial ports then trying to use bluetooth sockets.


What benefit is the serial port (I'm not being difficult by the way!!!). You can already attach the device as a mass storage unit....do you want to use the phones services over USB? via a direct port? I am not sure I follow what it is your trying to achieve. Even in Vista the device will act as a modem for data etc...what service is it specifically your wanting to use via serial port. If it's for GPS I dont think anyone has been able to send the data to the PC yet but there are some interested parties trying to achieve this on this forum. Could you elaborate on the need for the serial port use....You have mentioned serial device and wanting to create a network app, basically this could be done as it can already tether this way for modem use via bluetooth. What is it specifically that you want to networknetwork app actually be utilised forhe out of the device??

What will the serial port be used for..//(sorry for the 20 questions..just need some clarification.)
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I am a novice developer and part of the reason for me even buying a smartphone in the first place was to make windows mobile programs.
I know C# quite well but I am only starting to learn C++.

I am wanting to make some sort of client/server program set using the smartphone and the windows PC using bluetooth.

Serial port communication is quite easy to use in C# for sending data back and forth hence my want to use the serial port profile. Using bluetooth sockets on the other hand is quite hard and as C# has no support for them, I would have to use C++ or wrap the libraries in C# which I would rather not do.
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