Help with bluetooth syncing

[Guest]

Running Vista RC2, the latest windows mobile device center, and a toshiba
branded usb bluetooth adapter.

I am able to sync fine with a usb cable. But I have been unable to
wirelessly sync my dell axim x30 pda with mobile device center through
bluetooth. The pda runs windows mobile 2003.

I have tried doing so with the generic bluetooth drivers windows installed
with the usb adapter and also the beta drivers toshiba has for vista, same
results. I create a partnership first in device center with the usb cable,
and then I disconnect and either used the toshiba bluetooth settings manager
or the control panel to find my pda and connect to it, which it does.
However, when I go through the menus in my pda to create an activesync
bluetooth connection, it also sees my pc, but after connecting with
activesync I always get the same error- service is not running on the pc etc.

I did this successfully on windows xp (I have a dual boot setup) with the
same hardware, using activesync on the pc. However, activesync allows you to
choose an incoming com port during setup that matches your pda's serial port
settings. Is this the stumbling block with mobile device center on vista? I
don't see any similiar option. The help file for setting up a bluetooth
connection with mobile device center makes it all sound so easy. What am I
missing?

My pda uses com ports 7 and 8 for incoming and outgoing, and this can not be
changed it seems.

 

[Guest]

I had the same problem with my iPAQ: USB sync OK but no way to use bluetooth.
I did everything you had done and scrathed my head trying to figure out what
is wrong with my settings. Finally I found a hack that works, at least for me:

There is a setting in the registry which defines the COM port used for
syncing. The value is 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows CE
Services\SerialPort'
When using bluetooth with ActiveSync this is set to the value of the
incoming COM port. In WMDC this has changed so that the value now is
'Bluetooth' which in turn points to other settings in the registry. This does
not seem to work properly yet.

I found out that this value stilll works as it does in ActiveSync. If you
change it from 'Bluetooth' to the name of the incoming COM port, your PDA
should now see the service required for the Bluetooth syncing. (reboot may be
necessary)

Hope this helps,

Jari