I’d like to know if is there a way to detect my bluetooth automatically after turn on MC 3000 symbol and it detect a printer.

thanks alot

I have gone to the active devices in my blue tooth devices in range in blue tooth places in my PC. Unpaired the earlier pairings and removed the devices from the list.
The same steps I have repeated in my hand set also. Now there is no connection between by PC and Handset.
I have configured my PC bluetooth settings for the following
1) my pc is discoverable and selected allow all the devices to connect my PC under accessibility,
2) Under local services, I have got one more port added as Com6 (Service name : Active sync)
Again I have gone back and serched for devices in range. (before that I have made sure that my blue tooth is on and my device is discoverable). I have found my hand set shortly in the list (in fact the only one in the list)
I have paired the devices by right clicking pairing option. It asked for the pass key and I entered 12345 then clicked next. After that I have seen a pop up message in my hand set whether to accept the connection. I said yes. With in few seconds, my hand set and laptop pc is paired.
Next I have gone to active sync short cut in my hand set and clicked. I have used the option “connect via blue tooth”. In the services options I have seen active sync as one of the options. I checked only that.
Finished…Now I am connected through active sync through blue tooth. In my PC active sync had given a system beep and immediately started synchronizing.
In between I have downloaded .NET Compact Framework 3.5 and installed through my PC before started synchronizing through blue tooth. I dont know whether it is actually required or not.

I am happy if any body get their problem sortedout the above steps.

Murali

Chris,
I didn’t get what you meant by MSI wind ? Are you referring to a bluetooth device installed on your PC?

In Dave’s case, the non ability to pair from the device might also be the reason for activesync issue !

Dave, let us know if you get it fixed by any other method.

About the invalid passcode issue when pairing, it seems that I can only initiate the pairing from the laptop, not the phone, otherwise I get the passcode error…not that it’s a big deal if I can’ iniate from the phone because they do get paired regardless.

I have uninstalled ActiveSync and reinstalled as well.

Enable bluetooth on the device, make it discoverable and initiate a device search from your laptop. This time you should see “ActiveSync”. Also do try opening activesync on the device and select “Connect via bluetooth” option.

Regarding pairing from device, I am not sure what passcode you are entering. For any pairing the passcode has to be entered on both devices, so if you input on the device, you should be prompted to enter the same on the laptop.

Neil,
Did the COM ports change on ActiveSync after restart ? It shouldn’t, if the activesync is not being shown as service, its either because the service is not running or corrupted. You can try reinstalling ActiveSync

Any reason the USB approach did not work in the first place; I guess once its fixed, you should have no problems syncing via bluetooth.

Nice!!

You first need to setup a working bluetooth partnership between your PC and the mobile.
(Try also sending files either way to test the bluetooth connection).

After that if you start ActiveSync you should see it as a service when you refresh on the mobile device..try again and let me know how it goes…

And you have to check this service to enable activesynch over bluetooth.

Gabriel, I am not sure about WM2003, if the activesync on the PC support connection via bluetooth, the above steps should work..

Thanks

this article worked fine with me with the new htc touch cruise. However it only works once. Yesterday night it worked ok, but today is getting the error “Port not available: Cannot communicate with the PC because the port is not available. Another program may be using the the port, or it may not be valid. Close any programs that use the port, restart the device and try again. �. Yesterday morning it also happened. I have to remove all the configurations, I reconfigure it again, and it will work. Can you help?

Thanks. Nuno

I initially had a lot of problems connecting with activesync over USB (let alone bluetooth and when i tried to connect with bluetooth i used to get the message like port is being used by some other program or port not available message). I reinstalled activesync software hundred times but it did not work. The final way i could connect is:

In the settings>connections> USB to PC> i UNCHECKED the box saying ‘enable advanced network functionality’.

I dont know what this feature is for but when i disabled it, everything is straight forward. I first activesynced with my PC using USB and then i followed the steps by carlos..

But my final quest of connecting the using my tilt as a GPS receiver and syncing it with the GPS software (either via bluetooth or usb) installed on my laptop (microsoft streets and trips 2007) is not achieved yet. If anyone knows any forums where a similar topic is being discussed let me know.

Second question – since Wifi sucks up battery power, if I keep my pda connected to my pc via bluetooth, does that mean I can surf the web on my pda via that bluetooth connection?

Thanks again!

Zac

And yes since wifi sucks battery big time, it makes more sense to use bluetooth

Now that I’ve got my pda and computer communicating, will they always communicate, or do I have to reestablish a connection each time I want to sync the two and while connected, is my pda using my computer’s wifi to get email or am I using my carrier’s data service?

I have the HTC s640 and it’s got wifi and I have read that you can use bluetooth to connect the pda to wifi to keep your data costs down.

Any clarification would be appreciated.

Thanks!