Can't get ActiveSync to work over Bluetooth - please help.

[Damian]

I recently got a Bluetooth dongle for my PC but can't get my XDA-II to use any of the services !

When I select ActiveSync and the Sync with Bluetooth I get

'Cannot start communications with the desktop computer. The communications prt is not available. Another program may be using the port, or it may not be valid.

Quit any programs that may be using the port and reconnect. If the problem persists, restart your device using the instructions provided by the manufacturer.'

When I choose Bluetooth settings and select 'Bluetooth ActiveSync Setup'->Start on the XDA II I get 'Please bond with other Bluetooth device which supports serial port or ActiveSync profile as your ActiveSync partner !

The PC has the ActiveSync service enabled and I am now stuck. Please help.

[ant]

Try this utility.

http://bluetooth.i-networx.de/index_e.html

Install it, do a soft reset. Delete previous BT connection and find again.

you should get an option to sync on your XDA II with the specific computer.

:) :D :wink:

[amcell]

Have tried all suggestiosn including http://bluetooth.i-networx.de/index_e.html

Activesync starts to connect an then drops the connection

Have w2k, ActiveSync 3.7.1 and TRoy Windport bluetooth PCMCIA card, XDA II with Latest 6.10.50 upgrade
Only option left is to change/upgrade operating system to XP which I do not want to do.

Anybody got a better idea?

Thanks

Amcell@hotmail.com

[nickpope]

try following this tutorial at geekzone

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=2417

[aperali]

try to turn off infrared communication on ppc.
try to delete all bounded devices both pc and xda.
try to search for a bt device again.

[bobopopo]

You have to follow the above mentioned procedure. After that you start to search the device with ActiveSync.

ActiveSync will start to check all the serial ports, one port before it comes to the port that is used by your BT stack, you should start ActiveSync via BT on your XDAII.

This is the only way (for me) to get that crap working. After the XDAII and the computer have found each other, future syncs via BT are no (or at least not a big) problem. If the XDAII and the computer sometimes dot not find each other, try to sync 2-3 times, it will hopefully work then. Sometimes there seems a kind of timeout error.

I don't use BT anymore 'cause it is really a hard job to get it running. Even when I managed to establish the connection, after some days the connection gets lost again and can only be repaired by re-installing the BT stack or ActiveSync - I am really tired of beta testing all the bluetooth stacks and stopped to use it until the industry established a working standard... :(

[sonadt]

I try a lot of time after install Tobias application for BT, but I can not see the new dialog after pair my XDA II with PC. Someone help me!

[tgduffy]

I had the exact same experience. I have not sorted out my the BT problems yet but suffered also from the interrupted connection using the cradle until I disabled Norton anti-virus and firewall.

[kimmie]

HELP!

No connection possible between my PC and MDA-II.

Bluetooth Devices program in Windows XP SP2 comes up with "incoming port: 17", while ActivSync seraches only ports 1 to 9.

How can I make them listen to the same port?

[Rudegar]

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=3163

this guide solved my sp2 bluetooth problems

[kimmie]

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=3163

this guide solved my sp2 bluetooth problems




Rudegar, I used this website for setup, but that Bluetooth-port problem still exists

[Rudegar]

are you using the vidcomm bluetooth stack or the ms one ?
are you using the bluetooth tools url'd to in this threaD ?

[kimmie]

are you using the vidcomm bluetooth stack or the ms one ?
are you using the bluetooth tools url'd to in this threaD ?


I downloaded de Microsoft SP2 drivers (as mentioned at that Geekzone url).

[Rudegar]

i'm talking on the xda not on the pc

[kimmie]

i'm talking on the xda not on the pc

On MDA-II I didnt change anything. I use the same drivers as provided within ROM 1.72.