Bluetooth connection reliability

[Guest v0rtex]

Recently bought a Bluetooth dongle (Generic Taiwanese eBay job), and it seems to work for basic stuff like web browsing and ActiveSync, but after a few hours or when transferring large files the connection dies.

Restarting it with "Connect via Bluetooth" from the ActiveSync menu works sometimes (although I have had strange reports of "Port not available, check no other applications are using the connection" which required a soft reset of the phone), but the file transfer has to be started again - very annoying with large MP3 or movie files.

Anyone seen anything similar?

Reckon it's the BT dongle, the phone, or the WIDCOMM software? If it's the dongle I can return it...

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

Activsync has a habit of timing out but if you want to put large files on the storage card you would be better off buying a card reader as it would be more reliabe and also a lot faster.

[Guest v0rtex]

Activsync has a habit of timing out but if you want to put large files on the storage card you would be better off buying a card reader as it would be more reliabe and also a lot faster.

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Considered that, but removing the battery and resetting the phone every time I want to copy a file would get tedious very quickly.

Problem seems to be fixed with an upgrade to XP SP2, meaning I can drop the WIDCOMM Bluetooth stack that came with the dongle and use the native Microsoft drivers.

[Guest v0rtex]

Considered that, but removing the battery and resetting the phone every time I want to copy a file would get tedious very quickly.

Problem seems to be fixed with an upgrade to XP SP2, meaning I can drop the WIDCOMM Bluetooth stack that came with the dongle and use the native Microsoft drivers.

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Just to close this issue, the problem was with the useless WIDCOMM drivers that came with the card, been running it using the standard XP drivers for a few weeks now with no problems.

Solution was to upgrade to SP2, with built in bluetooth.