{"id":172,"date":"2007-02-04T20:52:27","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T06:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/04\/use-bluetooth-with-activesync-instead-of-usb\/"},"modified":"2007-02-04T20:52:27","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T06:52:27","slug":"use-bluetooth-with-activesync-instead-of-usb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/04\/use-bluetooth-with-activesync-instead-of-usb\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Bluetooth with ActiveSync instead of USB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft took away ActiveSync over the network (wired and wireless) a few versions ago and did not give it back with Windows Mobile Device Center. But, the sometimes flaky USB connection is not your only alternative.<\/p>\n<p>My K-JAM Pocket PC Phone Edition, for example, syncs on the first attempt over USB. But, it somehow corrupts ActiveSync on the desktop for subsequent syncs unless I reboot my PC (and, yes, I&#8217;ve tried terminating and restarting the ActiveSync service). None of my other Windows Mobile devices causes this problem. Just the K-JAM. My solution has been sync the K-JAM using Bluetooth exclusively. This does not corrupt ActiveSync for subsequent sync sessions. The only downside is that I need to initiate ActiveSync from the K-JAM.<\/p>\n<p>The GeekZone has detailed information on setting this up&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekzone.co.nz\/content.asp?contentid=3163\">Bluetooth ActiveSync Guide for Windows XP Service Pack 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have ActiveSync Bluetooth issues, take a look at this Microsoft Bluetooth FAQ&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/883970#7\">Frequently asked questions about Microsoft Bluetooth-enabled devices<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft took away ActiveSync over the network (wired and wireless) a few versions ago and did not give it back with Windows Mobile Device Center. But, the sometimes flaky USB connection is not your only alternative. My K-JAM Pocket PC Phone Edition, for example, syncs on the first attempt over USB. But, it somehow corrupts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,10,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-devices","category-pocket-pcphone-edition","category-smartphone","category-windows-mobile"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-2M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}