[Ketsugi]

On my new iPaq 2750, I often get this error after turning on my unit, sometimes even right after a soft reset: Could not activate Bluetooth radio due to insufficient memory for Bluetooth driver (not verbatim).

What on earth could be causing this?

Edit: here's the exact error given (the dialog title is BTTrayCE)

"The Bluetooth Radio failed to turn ON due to insufficient driver memory available. You must perform a normal reset before you can turn ON the Bluetooth Radio."

[Ketsugi]

On my new iPaq 2750, I often get this error after turning on my unit, sometimes even right after a soft reset: Could not activate Bluetooth radio due to insufficient memory for Bluetooth driver (not verbatim).

What on earth could be causing this?

Edit: here's the exact error given (the dialog title is BTTrayCE)

"The Bluetooth Radio failed to turn ON due to insufficient driver memory available. You must perform a normal reset before you can turn ON the Bluetooth Radio."

[Janak Parekh]

This is a problem that's existed with most Bluetooth stacks since the ancient iPAQ 3870. :| It's really annoying that they haven't been able to fix it yet.

A soft-reset should usually cure it, though. How much software do you have installed on the unit?

--janak

[Darius Wey]

Also, check to see that you actually have enough memory available.

[Sven Johannsen]

I find it interesting that I don't recall hearing about this before. Maybe folks mentioned it, and I just blew it off. I never saw it on my 2215, or my or my wife's 4155s, or my X30. Got an X50v and have seen it quite often. I doubt seriously that it actually is a low memory issue. Mine has 128M RAM (upgraded). It never gets all that low. Soft reset pretty much solves it at that moment. It's annoying though.

[Darius Wey]

Originally Posted by Sven

I find it interesting that I don't recall hearing about this before. Maybe folks mentioned it, and I just blew it off. I never saw it on my 2215, or my or my wife's 4155s, or my X30. Got an X50v and have seen it quite often. I doubt seriously that it actually is a low memory issue. Mine has 128M RAM (upgraded). It never gets all that low. Soft reset pretty much solves it at that moment. It's annoying though.

I've had it occur on my h1940 a number of times, but that was before I hard reset it the other day. I had a meagre 4MB of memory left - enough to do absolutely nothing. So the insufficient memory problem was understandable in that respect. :P

[Ketsugi]

It's never an actual memory issue; I usually have about 40mb free program memory when this error occurs; pushing it up to 60mb free doesn't help, either. A soft reset usually fixes it, but the error will pop up after turning on the unit a few times. Sometimes it occurs within a few minutes of a soft-reset. It's getting to be rather irritating.

[dewine]

I'm having this same problem and it's happening several times a day now.
It happens right after a soft reset and there is plenty of memory available. I haven't installed any software recently.

[Pat Logsdon]

I had the same problem with my PDA2k. BT was working fine one day, then I got the error. Installing the new iMate ROM update fixed it for me.

[theipaqlover]

Try going to the BT settings and disable the services. I found I jut turned them all off since activesync does not need any of them. The less the better, problem should stop.

George

[Zidane]

The problem is not available RAM, but available driver memory. The kernel only allocates so much memory to the device drivers and if that memory gets "eaten" up, then you get an error like this. Unfortunately, I don't know if it really is the Bluetooth driver's fault as it occurs on devices from multiple manufacturers that probably use different Bluetooth drivers. It may be that the OS is leaking driver memory, just like it leaks main RAM. That could be why the OEMs can't issue a patch to fix it.