Guest Foxy2k Posted October 19, 2004 Report Posted October 19, 2004 To all of you who have had problems using the widcomm bluetooth drivers I urge you to upgrade to Service Pack 2 as the inbuilt (native) bluetooth control in windows is excellent. Using SP2 I had absolutely no problems pairing my phone with the pc and using activesync, it was a nightmare using the widcomm drivers and activesync was still dodgy on occaisions (synchronisation errors, loosing the pairing etc). Another benefit for developers is that the native bluetooth control is nice and simple to control using the .net framework so you don't even need to mess about with activesync anymore! A good example of this is WinAmp/PowerPoint/Mixer Control available @ http://www.labtech.epitech.net/remotecontrol/ Remember to check if your applications work (or have fixes) under SP2 before you upgrade, the bluetooth support is good but don't blame me if other stuff stops working!
Guest Vector Posted October 20, 2004 Report Posted October 20, 2004 I agree, the native BT support in SP2 truly does rock ^_^
Guest Twain Posted October 20, 2004 Report Posted October 20, 2004 Ive had, well still having quite a bit of trouble with it, i've got the msi bluetooth dongle which i've removed the drivers for to use the sp2 bluetooth drivers, i can pair both my c500 or xda2 with my pc but it wont seem to sync. I've tried all the com ports in connection settings on activesync, and when i use the activesync bt setup on the phones it says i need to bond with something that supports serial port or activesync profile. which my pc does. Any ideas? thanks in advance
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted October 21, 2004 Report Posted October 21, 2004 Same issues here - i'm stumped!
Guest Dr Who Posted October 23, 2004 Report Posted October 23, 2004 Ignore the message about it being needed to be bonded - it isn't a warning it is just information!!! If you have bonded with the PC then go to activesync on the phone and just connect via BT. It should then work. Unless you are me. I upgraded to sp2 using the downloaded full install which overwrote my widcomm drivers. I then had 2 bluetooth icons in my system tray - the MS one which worked and my disabled widcomm one. Because I kept getting the message you mention I thought the BT support on the MS stack wasn't working and spent about 10 hours (!) trying to reinstall my widcomm drivers. Which I managed, but in doing so my BT com ports changed from being com4 and above to com9 and above and activesync only uses ports up to 9. I now will never be able to use activesync via BT because I don't have ports available on the port numbers that activesync needs. Bunch of MS time wasting arse.
Guest Twain Posted October 23, 2004 Report Posted October 23, 2004 Ive now gone back to the widcomm drivers, and have my c500 paired and is at com port 6, ive got this set in activesync and i still cant get them to sync. I know the bluetooth is working cos i've even set my pc as the headset and had the sound come out of my pc. Its just not woking with the serial port profile. So now neither the original drivers or sp2's native drivers work!
Guest Dr Who Posted October 23, 2004 Report Posted October 23, 2004 Haven't got the firewall on have you? If so try disabling it. If you find a way of sorting this out please post it. I no longer care enough to try and get it to work (WMP10 doesn't work and the transfer rates are slower, so hey why do I care) but as a matter of principle it would be nice if it did!
Guest Twain Posted October 23, 2004 Report Posted October 23, 2004 Excellent! cheers, just tried it with the firewall off and it seems to be working, is there anyway i can make this an exception?
Guest Dr Who Posted October 24, 2004 Report Posted October 24, 2004 You can add the applications WCESCOMM.exe and WCESMGR.exe to the firewall but I am not sure how you add the BT port - I seem to have them enabled but I can't get activesync to work. Hey-ho.
Guest Confucious Posted October 31, 2004 Report Posted October 31, 2004 I have finally bitten the bullet and applied SP2 (after downlaoading a patch from my PC maker to stop it going into a reboot loop). Anyway, my Activesync which worked flawlessy over BT before now doesn't want to play ball. I've enabled the BT ports on the PC and C500 and got top the point where I can connect from my phone to the PC but the connection drops straight away. BPhone shows connecting then connected as does the PC but as soon as it connects the connection drops. it works fine on USB. Any ideas? Thanks :-k
Guest Dr Who Posted November 1, 2004 Report Posted November 1, 2004 Try deleting the partnership in activesync and recreating it.
Guest lenraphaelcpa Posted December 7, 2004 Report Posted December 7, 2004 after installing sp2 have you tried using a bluetooth headset w the laptop? spent some time w dell tech and logitech on that today. there's also a post on that topic: sp2 bt stack doesnt support audio is general conclusion. but for all other devices, sp2 bt seems very stable.
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