Thursday, 3 January 2008
Activesync via Bluetooth using Toshiba bluetooth stack
After spending too much time trying to set this up, here is the recipe (taken from many sources, for example from comments to this article):
- First of all, check (on your PC) from Start -> Control Panel -> Bluetooth Local COM which Com port the "LocalCOM-Server[SerialPort]" is assigned to (in my case COM7)
- Set SerialPort in "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows CE Services" to the assigned COM port you found before (for example, "COM7")
- Make sure in ActiveSync settings on your PC "Allow connections to one of the following" is checked and "COM7" is selected in the dropdown.
- Pair your Windows Mobile device with your PC (I've done it from mobile device).
- While mobile device is discovering services on your PC, you should be able to see ActiveSync activity on the PC as the BT serial port is probed for ActiveSync.
- The Serial Port profile, which was displayed before as available profile type should appear now as ActiveSync.
- Depending on Windows Mobile bluetooth stack, you now should be able to initiate sync by either
- starting ActiveSync on the device and going to Menu->Connect via Bluetooth, or
- if Broadcom stack is installed on the device (all iPAQs go with it AFAIK), going to Bluetooth Manager, finding "ActiveSync with <your PC name>
" shortcut and tapping connect on it. You create this shortcut by going to Bluetooth Connection Wizard and selecting "ActiveSync via Bluetooth".
# posted by Alexey @ 18:02 
