Active Sync quit

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pkley

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#2059 17-Aug-2004 13:49

Was using BT at home to sync and surf, mainly because I thought it would take care of my issue with it (1945) deciding to do a hard reset every now and then (pretty well cured after latest ROM update...). Anyway, gave up on that idea after it did it with just the power cable plugged in.
Took my BT dongle to work today, after a little struggle (could't get it to sync there, but was magically able to get internet to work great!) got it working.
Brought it home, plugged it into the cable and now it won't sync.
Pops up a display on the IPAQ that states the com port is in use. Rebooted, same. Uninstalled, reinstalled active sync, same... Device Manager, deleted BT network adapter and USB BT, no change...
Any suggestions?

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#7809 17-Aug-2004 22:37

When you use a Bluetooth dongle on a computer and establish a pairing, it'll take more than just the pairing in account. The process will generate a key, unique for that pairing, but not unique to this dongle. When you establish a pairing at work, your Pocket PC will store another key, and even thought the dongle is the same, the key will no longer match the one stored on your home PC.

You should not move the dongle from and to work. Try deleting all pairing from both devices, and then start the process again.

pkley

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#7819 18-Aug-2004 12:01

That actually wasn't the issue, I opened activesync on the PDA and it was trying to sync via BT... Changed that and it worked great...
P.S. I'm not trying to move the dongle back and forth, I'd just forget it...