How many people have actually got their bluetooth enables TR to communicate with anything? Ok it talks to links, or in bluetooth speak “pairs†with a device, like a Nokia mobile phone. Has anyone any experiences? I have had the TR for 8 months and no luck yet. Ok perhaps it can work, but it’s not plug and play.
I received my TR2B 4 days ago and the bluetooth works with my Sony T610. But there’s still a problem which I’m trying to solve, which I think others are encountering too. That is I can send files from my TR to the handphone, but not the other way round (yet??).
I haven’t had problems pairing any of my devices to my TR with Sony BT dongle. Nothing exotic, just a pair of phones and a PDA. gr00vy seems to have just about every BT-enabled product on earth paired to his, so it seems pretty capable. How are you going about pairing?
Sleep: I’ve got a T616 and file push works perfectly from the phone to the TR every time. The T616 is just a T610 that supports 850 MHz instead of 900 MHz. It’s essentially the same phone.
Drachen does the Sony adapter do audio gateway? ie: let you use the TR speakers/mic as a cell phone? My TDK lets me do this and it is quite cool. Alas, the card sticks out the side way too much.
Perhaps I am a little confused here…. but I believe the supported profiles in MOST BT implementations is software driven rather than hardware dependent. Support of headset, audio gateway or HID profiles will be related to your BT stack and not necessarily to your BT dongle.
For example, I early adopted a belkin F8T003 dongle (the original version) which shipped with Belkin’s 1.2 stack (actually made by Widcomm). No headset, audio gateway or HID profiles… In fact, the stack used to crash at every opportunity in my previous Sony Vaio.
At a later stage, I upgraded the stack to Widcomm 1.4.2 (you have to tweak installation as it is supposed to be hardware specific, widcomm allows hardware OEMs to brand their installations and belkin decided that I need to buy a new dongle…. ie no software upgrades for my old one). The result? Voilá... BT profiles for Audio, headset, HID, etc…
Now I am able to use my JABRA BT headset with my TR2AP3 for videoconferencing… use a BT mouse, talk to my palm T3 and my T68i phone. All works like a charm and using the original dongle that *supposedly* does not support these functions.
mfabre: You’re right, most BT dongles on the market use the same CSR BT chipset with different manufacturer IDs. Mac OSX has drivers for that chipset built-in and can use them natively. It would be nice to see MS do the same thing.
SpineDOc: Use the laptop as a phone? Sounds like a Sprint commercial:
Me (leaning over my TR, yelling): “Ship the Enron documents to the feds.”
[Annoying Sprint PCS Guy walks in holding a cell phone]
Sprint Guy: “But she heard ‘Rip the Enron documents to shreds’. Turns out it was just a case of bad cellular. Get a real phone.”
[quote author=“Drachen”] It would be nice to see MS do the same thing.
MS claims to have a native BT stack in the works for WinXP SP2…. we’ll see… I only wish I could get a non-demo version of the BlueSoleil stack. Nice interface!
well I am using the sony bluetooth, as come with the UK TR1MP, now as I said it pairs great, but doing things from then on is not so easy, perhaps its down to the software of the phone suppliers, but bluetooth is not an easy box of tricks. I have no problems from bluetooth phone to plantronics headset, works a treat. I am awaiting a Sony Erickson pP900, as a replacement for my Nokia 6310i, I hope with it having the Sony logo on, it my talk easier to my TR!
mfabre: The Wireless Link control panel is a pre-SP2 hotfix for SP1. I have a feeling whatever MS comes up with in SP2 will be just as basic.
Phil: The 6310i, among other older BT-enabled Nokia phones, has been known to have a crappy BT implementation. Ericsson (and SE) has always had a good rep for BT.
Phil: Well I have a Sony TR3 from Japan with Bluetooth (It will be the same internal bluetooth module) with a Sony P900 in the UK and it works just fine. I can pair, copy files to and from the phone, sync, etc with no problems.
I’ve got the latest version of Bluespace NE installed, didn’t try it with the earlier version as I updated that straight away but I’m sure it will work with the slightly older ones.
All you need to do is install the Sony P900 Sync Suite, turn on your Bluetooth. Pair your laptop with your phone. Click on the serial link to the phone. Finally on the PC Suite Link Properties turn it on to listen to the bluetooth COM port which was COM4 on my machine.
Bingo, it’ll connect. All you then need to do in the future to connect is to click the serial link on and off in Bluespace.
Have fun when you get your P900, it’s an amazing Smart Phone.
I’ve had a TR-1 (Japanese model from Dynamism) since last Sep and have never been able to get it to BT sync with my Clie though file push works fine. Always get “port in use by another device” error message…. been round and round with Sony (US) support with no luck. OBTW, if I load a BT dongle it works fine which makes me think it’s a problem with the VCOMM4 emulation (as opposed to the serial ports created with the dongle) Of course, external dongle defeats purpose of the internal BT device which attracted me to the TR1 to begin with.
i have the same problem, it’s been driving me crazy. scouring the web for answers and can’t find anything that works 100%. palm only has push and vcard services, which work fine. t68i has file push, serial, vcard, and DUN, which work fine. just can’t hotsync the palm. i’ve tried all the different ways with local hotsync on comm 4, but like you said, “BUSY”. tried setting up modem hotsync with Mocha PPP, no luck. tried to accept incomming connections with network connections, no luck. i heard people talking about using the widcomm stack and having success, but i couldn’t tell if that meant a palm hotsync success or audio gateway success, the only 2 things i’m missing that i’d like to get working with the internal btooth upgrade….
skiman, with the widcomm stack, both palm hot sync and audio gateway will work with the internal sony bluetooth module. if you do a search in the forum, there is direction for removing the bluespace and installing the widcomm stack.
