Help with Bluetooth

[JEME]

I just got the AT&T Wireless SMT5600 - very nice - coming over from a Blackberry - at least for now.

However I cannot get the phone to complete a bluetooth active sync. I am using a dell lapton with a Belkin usb bluetooth sync.

I can get the phone to work with a bluetooth headset and get it discovered on my laptop - I just cannot get it to do an active sync via bluetooth.

Can anyone here give me some advice? Thanks!

[encece]

Have your phone discover and bond with your PC.
Then goto activesync on the phone.
Click on Menu there where you can setup BT Activesync.
It will send you to the BT Settings screen.
Click on devices.
Click to add a new device.
it should search and find your PC.
bond...password...etc.

Now in ActiveSync (on the phone) Connect via Bluetooth to sync the two.

Good Luck!

[JEME]

Thanks. However I have followed those steps and that does not work. I think this has something to do with the Serial Bluetooth connection - but cannot pin down the issue.

[Mike Temporale]

Check the connection settings on Active Sync and your Bluetooth software. The com port should match the same one that your bluetooth device is being mapped to. In my case, it's Com5

[amstreet]

I have followed the same instructions with no luck. I have paried by MPx220 smartphone with my Dell laptop via Belkin USB Bluetooth adaptor. When I look at the services offered by the smartphone the only thing listed is "Dial-up networking". NO serial port connection profile is available! I am at a loss as all the instructions I have seen depend on the smartphone being able to connect as a "virtual com port".

[Mike Temporale]

For the record, I don't have a Bluetooth Smartphone, just a PPC. However, this sounds like a issue on the computer side, and not the device.

I never had to add a virtual com port. My system is setup to use com 4 as a bluetooth serial port, however my PPC connection occurs on Com5. Unfortunately, bluetooth implementations are different from machine to machine, and it's hard to say how yours needs to be setup. On mine, I just checked the properties of the device connection in my bluetooth manager, and say that it was on com 5. Then I set Active Sync to Com5.

[aristoBrat]

NO serial port connection profile is available! I am at a loss as all the instructions I have seen depend on the smartphone being able to connect as a "virtual com port".
On your laptop BlueTooth manager, you need to create an incoming COM port for your phone.

Then you set ActiveSync (on the computer) to use that COM port.

You don't have to do anything on the phone regarding COM ports. :)

The one part that confused me is that you have to run thru "Set BT ActiveSync..." on the phone, and it looks exactly like when you bond the phone/computer. I kept aborting out of that, but you have to run thru it all the way even though it seems redundant.

http://www.blipnet.net/misc-images/bt.JPG

[aristoBrat]

And FWIW, my machine is only running XP SP2 and using a Belkin dongle. No Widcomm drivers or anything...

[Gator5000e]

If I could ask a dumb question (I have had a smartphone for about 1 week now). I already have my Axim X30 paired/set for syncing via bluetooth on my Dell Inspiron (which has the Dell internal BT module) It uses COM Port 6.

After trying all the instructions to get my SMT 5600 to sync via I am coming to believe that Active Sync won't let you have more than one device set up for bluetooth syncing.

If anyone has any thoughts I would appreciate it. Thanks.

[aristoBrat]

You're not trying to have both devices be connected via BT at the same time, are you?

[Gator5000e]

No (but I wondered for a second if I could do that :D . But the settings/port for both the Axim and 5600 seem to be the same to me. Should they change ports depending on the device being synced? (In all likelihood, I really boggered this up - I had to reset the phone after I tried all this and did a XP restore to get those virtual ports off the computer.

Sure seems to me that if the AS profile was in the smartphone as it is in the Axim, it would make things a whole lot easier. I think it is just easier to use the friggin' USB cable.

[aristoBrat]

Sure seems to me that if the AS profile was in the smartphone as it is in the Axim, it would make things a whole lot easier. I think it is just easier to use the friggin' USB cable.
Weird.

All you should have to do is bond the phone with the computer, go into ActiveSync and do the Menu > Setup BT Activesync... once, and you should be good to go. Next time you'd do a Menu > Connect via Bluetooth and that's it. :(

[sn1p3t]

I've heard there can be problems with SP2's firewall. If you have SP2, disable the firewall on the BT connection.