There are COM ports missing within WM2005

[QAN]

With PC2002, WM2003 and WM2003SE I had always the COM5 and COM6 ports for bleutooth. Now within WM2005 there is no longer the COM5 port. This port is nessesary when you want to connect to another device with bleutooth. In both version of WM2005 on this forum COM5 is gone. Does anyone know if this is a bug? Can we get it back or do we need to connect to a bleutooth device in another way?

[patrick_dube]

That's what I did to solve my missing bluetooth port.

settings
Connections
Bluetooth
COM Ports
New Outgoing Port and follor the instructions.

I haven't been able to use The GPS settings in the System Tab... I have not tested fully to be sure that I can't though.

[QAN]

I have paired my BT GPS and checked the box to use a serial port. But which port is used? I looked into the registry and I cannot find anything. Normaly it should use COM5. But this one is no longer available on the device. I think whe should try to copy the registry setting of WM2003SE to WM2005 for the COM5 port.

The new GPS tool should do something like GPSgate. When you select COM0 on the first tab, marks that this port is used. GPSgate tell me that COM0 is not available. When I remove COM0 and select none, the COM0 port is again available for GPSgate. The problem is that COM0 is not defined as a COM port. You cannot select it. This makes the new tool unusable at the moment.

On tab 2 you have to select the COM port of the GPS. Strangely all the COM ports are available. Also COM5. What does that mean.

I have alse defined on the new third tab of the MS bleutooth settings that the outgoing BT trafic should use COM5 for my BT GPS. Nothing works. Does anyone know how to use the new functionality?