ActiveSync over Bluetooth not working anymore.

[johncruise]

From the day I setup my Smartphone (last week basically) until
yesterday, I was synching with my PC over AS via BT. Today, I decided
to bring my USB cable so I can charge it also at work. Then, that's
where the problem started.

After plugging my phone to charge, of course it automatically initiated
AS. I was taken a back cause I never intended to sync over USB.
Anyway, after that, I unplug my i-Mate SP3i and try AS over BT. Much
to my dismay, this doesn't work anymore. I tried it a number of times,
sometimes power OFF in between, but that didn't helped.

Things I did that might help people solve this weird problem:

+ after those many futile attempts, I deleted the pairing on both my PC
and my sp3i and restablish pair... didn't help
+ did the same thing above, and establish pair from the PC instead of
the phone... didn't help also
+ went to SP's (smartphone's) AS->Option->Advanced and couldn't find
`Bluetooth there anymore (I swear I saw that there before). Only the
serial bauds + `USB is existing (hopefully somebody can tell me how to
bring it back even if I have to manually edit some file/registry)
+ after doing other combinations of above, I went and "hard reset" the
phone which completely wiped off my data. I tried the same routine I
did before to first setup my phone... never worked. `Bluetooth is
still unavailable.

ALSO:

+ tried suggestions over at geekzone.co.nz
+ tried suggestions from google results
+ tried suggestions from this newsgroup

At this point, I am just connected via USB over AS. Not my ideal
setup. I'd like how I set it up before... AS over BT then roam around
my office with phone secured on it's case over my belt. I don't feel
it safe for my phone to stay in my cube since things gets lost at our
office.

Please, if you have any idea how to restore it back, let me know.
Hopefully this is not an isolated case.

Thanks in advance...

[Mike Temporale]

Someone posted a guide here a while ago, which has got my sync working again when I've had problems. I'm searching for the thread right now. Not having much luck, but I'll let you know once I find it. :)

[Mike Temporale]

Alright, I found it. Now, you might say that you've done everything this document says, but take the time and walk through it. Be sure to follow all the steps, and it will work for you. It has for me, a number of times.

http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7441

Oh, and post back and let us know the results. :)

[johncruise]

Thanks again Mike. I'll go through all those steps 1 by 1.

Best regards,

John

[johncruise]

Well, I've tried to go through what the document says but still didn't work*

In the end, I ended up with another hardware reset AND reinstalling the Widcomm/BT driver from my PC. This has solved the problem.

I never doubted before that my Widcomm driver would be at fault because 1) I can pair up my phone with my PC after deleting the previous pair and 2) I was able to establish a serial port connection from my PC to my phone.

Anyway, I should have done the reinstall yesterday but didn't have my install CD with me. Hopefully, this will help other people to look at that different perspective also (don't just blame the phone) when they encounter the same scenarios. BT anyway has a lot of different services... there's a high possibility that 1 service maybe working and the other one doesn't.

* Thanks for the leads Mike... that is a very informative document.

[Mike Temporale]

I don't know what gets messed up on mine, but every now and again I have to remove the pairing and totally reconfigure the Bluetooth connection between my laptop and my Smartphone.

The Bluetooth on my laptop still connects to the phone and allows me to dial out, but I can't sync. And my phone still connects to the headset without problems. It's just something strange that happens with Sync. :?

oh well, I'm glad to hear you got things working again. :)

[Jerry Raia]

I don't know what gets messed up on mine, but every now and again I have to remove the pairing and totally reconfigure the Bluetooth connection between my laptop and my Smartphone.

I go through this too periodically. It's a BT feature :)

[cortez]

i had this problem with the SMT5600 and WM2003, but after using a "test-SMT5600 w/WM05" for the past 2 months, it's no longer a problem. i use Bluetooth exclusively to sync with 2 different computers on a daily basis. i'm inclined to believe that this is a WM2003/Bluetooth-stack problem.

[Jerry Raia]

but after using a "test-SMT5600 w/WM05" for the past 2 months

EXTREME ENVY :drool:

I think you are right about the stack problem btw.