BlueTooth Show Stopper No 1

[AndyP]

I am programming serial comm's between an iPAQ and a PC using the
BlueTooth virtual COM ports.

If I establish the BlueTooth connection from the PC end (using the
standard GUI), I can communicate successfully in both directions using
COM5: on the iPAQ. However, if the BlueTooth connection drops out
(e.g. out of range) or if I try to communicate without first
establishing the BT connection, then as soon as I try to send data
from the iPAQ [i.e. WriteFile(hPort,...);], the iPAQ locks up and can
only be recovered with a soft reset.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Does anyone know how to work
around it?

I get the same behaviour on an iPAQ 2210 and 3970. Also the third
party mToken terminal emulator program seems to suffer the same
problem, which makes me think that it is not a simple bug in my s/w.

 

[Tom Krueger [MSFT]]

Hi Andy,

If you post some code I will see what I can find out for you.



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