BT Active Sync help required

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Jerry

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#760 28-Nov-2003 06:03

I have followed teh guides to the letter and all goes well until on my Ipaq 5550 the 'connectting to host' box appears at this point it just gets stuck and i have to manually close it. Is there anything I can do to get it working, have tried changing the serial port number from 4 to 5 both on the tdk adapter and on the as set up screen, still no joy.

Thanks for any help

Jerry

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#2276 28-Nov-2003 07:34

Do you have any personal firewall running on your computer?

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#2277 28-Nov-2003 10:29

Yes outpost 2 even when thats disabled still the same problem havetried soft ressiting the ipaq just the same. I seemt o have no luck with BT at all lol

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#2278 28-Nov-2003 10:53

Jerry some personal firewalls are still active even while disabled. For instance with Symantec Desktop (not NIS), if you hit the Disable button it'll still prevent Bluetooth establishing a network connection. If you uncheck the Start with Windows box and reboot then it'll allow connections. Simple as it seems, these software are really making a mess of some environments.

Do you want to give a try without loading the software at all during boot?

Also, make sure there are no other programs competing for the same COM ports, and if possible make sure you have only one COM port Local Service defined.

Other than that can't think of anything else.

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#2279 28-Nov-2003 12:45

Hey Mauricio

You r a genius that was it booted without the firewall and all was well, what had really confused me was I had allowed all activity for Active sync and it still did not want to know. So now I have my firewall running and am able to sync via BT and even surf and collect email from downstairs.

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#2280 28-Nov-2003 12:53

Hey Jerry, so after rebooting without the firewall, doing the ActiveSync and all, you have re-enabled it? And after this it's working right?

Just trying to figure out if there's a pattern. With Symantec Dekstop you can't have it at all.

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#2283 28-Nov-2003 22:41

Hi Mauricio,

After you mentioned the firewall, the first thing I did was allow full access for WCESCOMM.EXE, when this did not workk I turned Outpost off completely, still no joy.

I then followed ur message to reboot with out Outpost starting up at all. This worked, I then rebooted and allowed full access to WCESCOMM.EXE and its all working fine and dandy now.

Thanks a bunch

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#2787 15-Jan-2004 14:52

mines also freezes on the connecting to host box but i can't figure out on how to get it working.

I have no firewall or anything that can probably stop it from connecting. i have followed about 40 different types of guides and all end up with the same result that connecting to host box BAH

I NEED HELP PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

i want to be able to walk around my house listening to my inet radio stations and also syncing when i need to.

thanks in advance

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#2792 15-Jan-2004 15:37

bklyn, please post another thread explaining your configuration - posting on this thread will send notifications to the original poster.