BT PAN Tytn II & Vista Laptop

[Guest wonderstoat]

Hi

I'm hoping someone here can help me. I used to have an Orange SPV M3100, which wouldn't recognise my Vista laptop as a BT PAN device when I tried to connect to it using Bluetooth through Internet Sharing. The solution was to upgrade the rom to WM6. Hey presto, all of a sudden when I followed the procedure for Internet Sharing, the M3100 showed up in the BT PAN compatible devices list, and I could connect. Once it was working, it worked in seconds, all the time, everytime.

Now I've bought a (non-orange) HTC TyTn II. I love it, etc ,etc. but once again I'm back to the Tytn II not showing up in the BT PAN devices list when I try to connect. I tried it again at the airport today and my laptop was finding all sorts of Erriksons, Nokias etc to connect to for BT PAN, but my Tytn was absent. All the while a lovely 'H' symbol was mocking me on my Tytn homescreen.

Can anyone help me with this? How to get Vista to recognise my Tytn 2? I don't want to use the USB cable (I carry enough cables on the road) and I don't see how something that was working in a cooked WM6 can't be made to work in a factory installed supplier ROM, with no 3rd party/operator crap on it.

Any help, as always, much appreciated ...

Wonderstoat

[Guest Nick Le Lievre]

Hi

I'm hoping someone here can help me. I used to have an Orange SPV M3100, which wouldn't recognise my Vista laptop as a BT PAN device when I tried to connect to it using Bluetooth through Internet Sharing. The solution was to upgrade the rom to WM6. Hey presto, all of a sudden when I followed the procedure for Internet Sharing, the M3100 showed up in the BT PAN compatible devices list, and I could connect. Once it was working, it worked in seconds, all the time, everytime.

Now I've bought a (non-orange) HTC TyTn II. I love it, etc ,etc. but once again I'm back to the Tytn II not showing up in the BT PAN devices list when I try to connect. I tried it again at the airport today and my laptop was finding all sorts of Erriksons, Nokias etc to connect to for BT PAN, but my Tytn was absent. All the while a lovely 'H' symbol was mocking me on my Tytn homescreen.

Can anyone help me with this? How to get Vista to recognise my Tytn 2? I don't want to use the USB cable (I carry enough cables on the road) and I don't see how something that was working in a cooked WM6 can't be made to work in a factory installed supplier ROM, with no 3rd party/operator crap on it.

Any help, as always, much appreciated ...

Wonderstoat

I am using my non-branded Tytn II connected to a Vista 64bit computer via bluetooth PAN right now. It works fine. My bluetooth adapter is about 3 years old and I just use the drivers that install automatically. When I right click on the Bluetooth icon in the system tray and choose join PAN the Tytn II shows up in the list of devices and I can connect. Once connected I can browse websites as long as I enter the proxy addresses in Internet Explorers connection options as I only have a FREE unlimited WAP only connection on my Tytn II.

but still to be able to browse websites while on the move using the FREE WAP connection on the Tytn II is great... I didn't think it would work as my telco provider said its a WAP only connection... but I can access non WAP sites as well.

[Guest wonderstoat]

I am using my non-branded Tytn II connected to a Vista 64bit computer via bluetooth PAN right now. It works fine. My bluetooth adapter is about 3 years old and I just use the drivers that install automatically. When I right click on the Bluetooth icon in the system tray and choose join PAN the Tytn II shows up in the list of devices and I can connect. Once connected I can browse websites as long as I enter the proxy addresses in Internet Explorers connection options as I only have a FREE unlimited WAP only connection on my Tytn II.

but still to be able to browse websites while on the move using the FREE WAP connection on the Tytn II is great... I didn't think it would work as my telco provider said its a WAP only connection... but I can access non WAP sites as well.

I understand the concept, and used it easily with me old SPV M3100. But nothing seems to make my Tytn II show up as a BT PAN device. I'm using a Vista 32bit Home Premium laptop (less than a year old).

My question for anyone can help is: What are the reasons why this could be happening? Should I update my BT stack? Can I even do that on Vista? When it didn't work with my SPV M3100 it had nothing to do with this laptop, but it needed a WM6 ROM. As soon as I flashed it to WM6, it worked flawlessly.

Have HTC issued any new ROM updates? Has anyone else this issue? Do any of the 'old hands' have any pointers on what they would do to get this working?

[Guest jimbouk]

Lets just check you are doing it right.

1) On device select ICS

2) Select Bluetooth and click connect

3) Click YEs to accept BT going discoverable

4) On laptop, click "connect to"

5) Select make a new connection

6) scroll down to BT PAn

7) wait a few seconds.

8) Doesn't your HTC device appear in the list?

[Guest wonderstoat]

Lets just check you are doing it right.

1) On device select ICS

2) Select Bluetooth and click connect

3) Click YEs to accept BT going discoverable

4) On laptop, click "connect to"

5) Select make a new connection

6) scroll down to BT PAn

7) wait a few seconds.

8) Doesn't your HTC device appear in the list?

Hi Jimbouk, thanks for this, these are the steps I've already been doing. But the Tytn II never appears in the BT PAN compatiable devices list. As I said, at the airport Vista was picking up just about every other BT PAN device in Hertfordshire, but not my Tytn II. The fact that it worked perfectly on my SPV M3100 after I flashed the ROM must be some sort of a clue. Any ideas?

[Guest Nick Le Lievre]

Hi Jimbouk, thanks for this, these are the steps I've already been doing. But the Tytn II never appears in the BT PAN compatiable devices list. As I said, at the airport Vista was picking up just about every other BT PAN device in Hertfordshire, but not my Tytn II. The fact that it worked perfectly on my SPV M3100 after I flashed the ROM must be some sort of a clue. Any ideas?

I just took my bluetooth adapter round to my mates house where my vista 32bit laptop is, and tried to setup the bluetooth PAN connection again. At first I too couldn't get the Tytn II to show up as a PAN device where before on my vista 64bit machine I could. What I had to do was delete the previous pairing with the vista 64bit machine from the Tytn II and recreate the pairing using a passkey, its crucial that you get it paired right on both sides. After that the bluetooth PAN option magically appeared.