{"id":858,"date":"2010-01-27T18:22:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T01:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=858"},"modified":"2010-02-03T15:15:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T22:15:53","slug":"bluetooth-time-sync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2010\/01\/bluetooth-time-sync\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth (Time) Sync"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the annoy\u00ading things about mov\u00ading to the 64-bit Win\u00addows 7 is that Palm decided not to sup\u00adport USB<\/span> syn\u00adchron\u00adiz\u00ada\u00adtion<\/a>. Since my phone\/PDA<\/span> is a Treo 680, that\u2019s a nuis\u00adance. In the\u00adory, I can sync via bluetooth. In prac\u00adtice, it\u2019s not as easy as it used to be.<\/p>\n

First off, I had to get a bluetooth-USB dongle to use with my desktop PC<\/span>. I plugged it in, Win\u00addows found it and installed the driver. That much worked. The page linked to above shows the steps to go through to enable the bluetooth syn\u00adchron\u00adiz\u00ada\u00adtion with the Treo; fol\u00adlow\u00ading those steps worked just fine (although s\u2011l-o-w-l\u2011y) the first time. And then it stopped work\u00ading, with an error mes\u00adsage \u201cunable to ini\u00adti\u00adate hot\u00adsync oper\u00ada\u00adtion because the port is in use by anoth\u00ader application\u201d.<\/p>\n

I tried unplug\u00adging the bluetooth device, dis\u00adabling it, noth\u00ading worked. I then fool\u00adishly installed the soft\u00adware that came with the device, which was a bad mis\u00adtake, as it made everything bluetooth-related stop work\u00ading. And even though I tried to unin\u00adstall it after\u00adwards, noth\u00ading worked.<\/p>\n

I used Glary util\u00adit\u00adies<\/a> to clean the registry, it found a lot of entries that CCle\u00adan\u00ader<\/a>, my pre\u00advi\u00adously favour\u00adite registry clean\u00ader did\u00adn\u2019t. Res\u00adult: sup\u00adposedly a clean\u00ader registry, but no joy on the bluetooth device settings.<\/p>\n

Pok\u00ading around on the web uncovered this<\/a>, and since web\u00adsites have a habit of dis\u00adap\u00adpear\u00ading, tak\u00ading their use\u00adful inform\u00ada\u00adtion with them, I\u2019m going to take the liberty of rewrit\u00ading the sali\u00adent points here.<\/p>\n

Unplug the device. Go to the con\u00adtrol pan\u00adel, then search for \u201cser\u00advices\u201d. From the Ser\u00advices win\u00addow, browse the list of ser\u00advices and find the Bluetooth Sup\u00adport Ser\u00advice, and double-click the entry. Select Auto\u00admat\u00adic from the Star\u00adtup type and then click OK<\/span>. Plug the device back in.<\/p>\n

This at least meant that I could access the set\u00adtings on the bluetooth device, which was an advance, even if I still could\u00adn\u2019t hot\u00adsync. In the end, I dis\u00adcovered that if I added anoth\u00ader couple of COM<\/span> ports, that the Treo would hot\u00adsync. Slowly, of course. And the next time I wanted to sync, I had to delete all the COM<\/span> ports that the bluetooth dongle knew about, and add another.<\/p>\n

My next phone\/PDA<\/span> will come from a com\u00adpany that does allow USB<\/span> syn\u00adchron\u00adiz\u00ada\u00adtion. On present form, it looks like it won\u2019t come from Palm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the annoy\u00ading things about mov\u00ading to the 64-bit Win\u00addows 7 is that Palm decided not to sup\u00adport USB<\/span> syn\u00adchron\u00adiz\u00ada\u00adtion. Since my phone\/PDA<\/span> is a Treo 680, that\u2019s a nuis\u00adance. In the\u00adory, I can sync via bluetooth. In prac\u00adtice, it\u2019s not as easy as it used to be. First off, I had to get a \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cBluetooth (Time) Sync\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}