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missing COM ports in Phone Connection Link |
boukismael
Joined: May 09, 2003
Posts: 13
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Did anybody experience following problem:
I am trying to connect a TDK Bluetooth card in my laptop to my P800, but the Phone Connection Link (see the icon in the SysTray with the arrows) does only display the Infrared port and no other port - so I cannot select the appropriate COM port for my BT.
What's going wrong? How can I let the Phone Connection Link display the COM ports?
BTW it manages to display the correct port when plug in the USB docking station. Everything works fine there as well as with the i/r connection, BUT NOT WITH the bluetooth connection.
Any hint?
FYI, I am using Windows XP HE, and I've downloaded all the latest drivers/updates (PC-Suite 1.5.1). I am as well able to pair the devices, to transfer files via BT etc.
Thanks in advance!
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tmlclone
Joined: May 21, 2003
Posts: 43
From: Hong Kong
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go to your MS control panel>Phone monitor (something like this)> then enable back those ports that you think you have a link for your phone.
of course b4 that make sure you have your bluetooth properly installed |
julianmclean
Joined: Mar 11, 2003
Posts: 118
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@boukismael
I'm having the same problem on XP at home. I've installed the BT stuff on my win2k work laptop and it sort of works except that my connection won't stay up for more than a few seconds, but at home I do the same install with the same software and Phone Monitor can't see the COM ports! I have tried enabling and even reserving them but it refuses to see them. Is there any other way I can check if my bluetooth install failed somehow?
Ta
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AsianFlu
Joined: May 27, 2003
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I use XP and the TDK install, it worked ok in the end. During the install process it seems to setup ports. Now my port list from the TDK setup page shows COM3 to COM13 as bluetooth (why? i dont know) although only COM4 connects to the phone. If you disconnect bluetooth at either the XP or the phone end, it seems to not want to reconnect unless you unplug and replug the USB adaptor then fiddle around in that screen.
It seemed a bit hairy, but it worked (under xp). |
mjct6210
Joined: Feb 02, 2003
Posts: 24
From: Cal., Philippines
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i have an msi bluetooth dongle and i'm currently using win2k pro sp3. after i installed the msi driver and software, the mrouter has 11 additional ports for bluetooth devices. meaning it can accomodate 11 bluetooth devices to connect to my pc. when i used the msi bluetooth connection wizard, it paried my p800 to the pc and automatically assigned a virtual com port (5) as default.
perhaps you have not paired your p800 to your pc that's why you cannot see any other ports on your mrouter. |
kaher
Joined: Apr 16, 2003
Posts: 29
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I had the same problem and after disabling my intel 56k fax modem everything works great,so I think you have a hardware conflict and you need to disable 1 of the hardware installeds in your system |
aZooZa
Joined: Mar 23, 2003
Posts: 121
From: UK
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I've had loads of problems like this. If it's any help, you might try and reinstall the BT device software; e.g. TDK dongle, but do NOT have the BT deviced attached to your PC when you install the driver software. Once you install the software, THEN the laptop/PC will recognise it I think.
Maybe the installation software searches for available ports, and if the BT device is present at that time, it screws up.
HTH |
boukismael
Joined: May 09, 2003
Posts: 13
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@Kaher:
many thanks for the hint, I tried it and it worked, I disabled the modem and w/o even restarting my laptop, all new COM ports were recognised by the phone connection link , and the bluetooth connection to the P800 works great.
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Posted: 2003-05-29 00:12
