Bluetooth headsets on Skype with a Dell Axim x51v Pocket PC

[rocket_pc]

Hi, I would like to use a Motorola H700 bluetooth headset to speak on Skype installed on my Dell Axim x51v Pocket PC. I can hear and speak on my Dell PPC just fine without the headsets, but cannot using the Motorola H700 bluetooth headset. I would do without the headset, except that I need the microphone noise cancelling of the headset. Any suggestions on how I can get this headset going? I have followed all of the instructions with both the headset and the PPC.

Thanks.

Don

[rocket_pc]

Hi, I would like to use a Motorola H700 bluetooth headset to speak on Skype installed on my Dell Axim x51v Pocket PC. I can hear and speak on my Dell PPC just fine without the headsets, but cannot using the Motorola H700 bluetooth headset. I would do without the headset, except that I need the microphone noise cancelling of the headset. Any suggestions on how I can get this headset going? I have followed all of the instructions with both the headset and the PPC.

Thanks.

Don

[Sven]

Does the X51 show availability of the headset/handsfree profile in the BT manager? Been a while, but my old X50 with the Broadcom BT stack did support this. I seem to recall when upgrading the unit to WM5, I got the MS stack which did not. My X50 went back to WM3002SE, for many reasons.

Not positive, but I thinkyou will need to cram in a different BT stack to do what you want.

[jadesse]

I would try installing the Widcomm BT Stack. Don't worry about it screwing anything up because it won't. I have installed & removed it numerous times. It doesn't remove the MS BT Stack but rather they just co-exist on you device. If you decide to uninstall it, your device will simply revert back the MS BT Stack.

[rocket_pc]

To sven: Thank you for your reply. My "Motorola H700" is listed in the Settings/Device.

To jadese, Thank you for your reply. I'll google search for the file you mentioned, and try it out. I think I have had pretty good luck with this ppc, minus the headset doesn't function. Very cool to go on Skype in a public wifi with it! Only that the background noise is a problem for the recipient. The headset is the solution for that, if I get it going (Note there is no inline jack for the microphone.)

Thanks.

Don


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[Sven]

Originally Posted by rocket_pc

To sven: Thank you for your reply. My "Motorola H700" is listed in the Settings/Device.

A BT device can be recognized and paired without there being any common profiles to use. When you pair the two devices, does it offer any 'profiles' that they have in common?

I think the addition of the Widcomm stack would likely solve the BT issue.

BTW there is a microphone jack on the X51. The earphone jack is actually a four connection device supporting left/right ear and a mic, so a properly configured headset will work.

http://www.seidioonline.com/index.as...PROD&ProdID=97
Would let you use a regular PC headset with the two plugs

http://www.seidioonline.com/index.as...WPROD&ProdID=9
Is a stereo earphone in-lin mic assembly like a lot of new cell phones have.

[Nurhisham Hussein]

Originally Posted by rocket_pc

I'll google search for the file you mentioned, and try it out.

Check the forums at Aximsite - IIRC, that's where the Widcomm hack for the x51v originated.

[rocket_pc]

Sven,

This is quite exciting to learn of the info here on the subject of microphone input and the hack for the bt headset. I wouldn't have known that the microphone input could also go into the earphone socket. That is very cool! Although I am going to pursue getting the headset to pair with my Dell PPC, I'll get a plug-in cord to keep with me in the event I am concerned about privacy in a public place, or when the headset battery goes out. I tried to connect my Skype microphone/earphone on a Recoton 1/8" Mini Stereo "Y" Adapter, that I had around my apt, but still no luck with the microphone. So, I guess I'll either have to go for ordering the one you mentioned, or see if Best Buy or Radio Shack has it.

Thank you for calling this to my attention!


Don

[rocket_pc]

Nurhisham,

The hack you mentioned was indeed at Aximsite under "Tips and Tricks," http://www.aximsite.com/boards/tips-...set-users.html

I haven't gotton results with this, yet. I don't see the string that he mentioned in my registry. This is the registry explanation mentioned:

"All you need to do is setting the DWORD Registry value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\Widcomm \BtConfig\ SerialTransport\ FlowControl to 0 (from the default 1). (You can, alternatively, import this registry file if you prefer importing pre-made registry files instead of manually editing the Registry.)"

When looking in my Axim registry, I can find: HKEY... LOCAL...MACHINE...SOFTWARE, but no further, because there is no Widcomm in the SOFTWARE folder. Am I supposed to install Widcomm, somehow? He mentions "importing pre made registry files." How is that done?

Don

[Nurhisham Hussein]

My mistake - I shouldn't have used the word hack. What I was actually referring to was the replacement of the default MS bluetooth stack in WM5 with the much more capable Widcomm stack from the x50v (WM2003SE). Only then can you apply the A2DP 'hack' in the article you linked to.

The replacement files are actually linked from the article you saw:

http://www.aximsite.com/boards/x50-x...velopment.html

[Sven]

Originally Posted by rocket_pc

Sven,

This is quite exciting to learn of the info here on the subject of microphone input and the hack for the bt headset. I wouldn't have known that the microphone input could also go into the earphone socket. That is very cool! Although I am going to pursue getting the headset to pair with my Dell PPC, I'll get a plug-in cord to keep with me in the event I am concerned about privacy in a public place, or when the headset battery goes out. I tried to connect my Skype microphone/earphone on a Recoton 1/8" Mini Stereo "Y" Adapter, that I had around my apt, but still no luck with the microphone. So, I guess I'll either have to go for ordering the one you mentioned, or see if Best Buy or Radio Shack has it.

Thank you for calling this to my attention!


Don

You won't find an appropriate adapter at RS. Note that what looks like a Y adapter in the link I sent you has a plug with 4 conductors. There is of course a common, plus left, right, mic. Normal stereo plugs have three, common, left, right. A normal Y adapter just parrallels the commo, left, and right, to two new jacks so you and a friend can listen. If you plug a stereo three conductor into the jack, it just grounds out the mic input. The one I linked actually splits out the common, left, right to one jack and the common & mic to the other so you can use a PC headset (two plug variety). There are others around that convert the 4 conductor common, left, right, mic to a 3 conductor common, L&R, mic, so you can use the usual cell phone headset cords.

Note that the HP 4700 series and the Dell Axim series both have 4 conductor jacks supporting both stereo listening and mic input given the appropriately wired plug. Just mention that since both these devices are no longer in production, but you can still find accessories for them. In the headset space anyway, those would be interchangeable. Dell in fact sold a wired headset for the Axim series, but that doesn't seem available any more.