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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx</link><description>EDIT: I made a mistaken in the path below. The key name should be HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows CE Services only. Underneath that key (in the right-hand pane in Regedit) there should be a String called SerialPort. You need to change the value of that</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 (Build: 60809.935)</generator><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#2116</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:08:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:2116</guid><dc:creator>Roberto Marroquin</dc:creator><description>I've tried your suggestion, however, I haven't found the Serial Port entry. I made a clean installation of WIndows Vista and intall the Toshiba BT stack. Can we add manually this entry in the registry? how the string should be?</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#2123</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:05:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:2123</guid><dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Roberto,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Did you install WMDC (Windows Mobile Device Center)? It is the equivalent to ActiveSync but for Vista.&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#2136</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:11:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:2136</guid><dc:creator>Bill </dc:creator><description>Hi Ken,

I'm in the same boat as Roberto in that there's no string for "SerialPort" as described in your posting. I have installed the WMDC update but am still unable to sync via Bluetooth.

Any further suggestions greatly appreciated!

Best,

Bill</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#2147</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:35:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:2147</guid><dc:creator>roberto</dc:creator><description>Hello.
Yes, I have everything in place: Vista, WMDC, Toshiba Bluetoosh stack.  I never had Activesync in this machine because I made a clean install howevert  the SerialPort entry is not in the registry. I just have this entries: AppMgr, AutoStartOnConnect, AutoStartOnDisconnect, ExtendedSerial, Http Server, ProxyPorts, Services, Specialdefaults but no SerialPort.

</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#2154</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:31:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:2154</guid><dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Roberto,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Select Windows CE Services in the left hand pane (of RegEdit). In the right hand pane look for the String value SerialPort. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I mistakenly included that in the path above. The path should be HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows CE Services only.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hope that helps.&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#2181</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:28:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:2181</guid><dc:creator>roberto</dc:creator><description>Hi Ken. Your help is really appreaciated. I was able to find the SerialPort string. As you mentioned, the activesync service is now listed in the mobile device.  However when I load WMDC, I wasn't able to sync.
In the conection setting windows of the WDMC appears now that Infrared connection are allowed(Allow conections to one of the following box=Infrared). I choose to change it to Bluetooth but it doesn't syncronize either.

When I open again the registry, the SerialPort entry is back to "bluetooth" instead of "COM7" as I just put two minuts ago.

Regards.
</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#2190</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:14:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:2190</guid><dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Roberto,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Change the setting to Allow connections to &amp;quot;Bluetooth&amp;quot; in WMDC. Then open Regedit and verify that COM7 (or whatever your incoming BT serial port is) is still listed in the registry (WMDC may have changed it back to Bluetooth). Make sure you have the right COM port! The Toshiba BT stack seems to create a large number of COM ports - but only one works :-)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now restart your machine. To connect over Bluetooth, I use the smartphone rather than WMDC. If you open ActiveSync on the Smartphone, under the Menu key there is an option to &amp;quot;Connect Via Bluetooth&amp;quot;. I use that to initiate the sync.&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#2213</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:57:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:2213</guid><dc:creator>roberto</dc:creator><description>BINGO!... It works when you connect over bluetooth using the smartphone.  Using WMDC, it doesn't work. This solution is enough for me. Thank you very much.</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#2283</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:45:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:2283</guid><dc:creator>khang</dc:creator><description>Thanks Ken, I've been searching all over for something to fix this.  You're a lifesaver!</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#2343</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:33:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:2343</guid><dc:creator>Angela</dc:creator><description>I've followed the instructions provided above, however I do not have "ActiveSync" listed as a service, either on my phone or in the BlueTooth settings.

When setting up the partnership all I get is a "Dial Up Networking" profile (no ActiveSync) in the Toshiba Bluetooth Manager. On the phone the only service is shows is "Serial Port".

Please, can you tell me how to get "ActiveSync" to show up as a service?

I'm on Vista, running WDMC (though ignoring it), have Toshiba v5.0 stack installed, using HTC SDA. Have done the regedit above, reboot, etc. You can see an image here: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=419196932&amp;size=o

I would love it if you could help me fix this. I would just love to no longer have to plug my phone into the USB to sync. </description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#2350</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:48:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:2350</guid><dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Do not setup a partnership using the Toshiba Bluetooth Software. That allows you to see what services the phone can offer to the host machine - not the other way around.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On the phone, when configuring the partnership, you only see &amp;quot;Serial Port&amp;quot; if the above has not been configured correctly. Until you change the registry key to the correct COM and reboot, you will only see Serial Port on the phone.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, in the Toshiba Bluetooth software, verify that you have Incoming Serial Bluetooth Port enabled. Then change the reg key to be that COM port (usually COM7, but it could be something else). Now restart your computer. On the phone rescan the services offered by the host. Instead of Serial Port, you should now have ActiveSync instead.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;HTH&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#2461</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:43:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:2461</guid><dc:creator>Angela</dc:creator><description>I wiped my computer and did a clean install of Vista; Voila! It worked!

The Toshiba drives made it a miserable mess. Everyone should just stick with the MS ones if at all possible.</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#2730</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:04:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:2730</guid><dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Angela,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Microsoft bluetooth stack does not support some profiles (e.g. A2DP). So if you want stereo sound over BT, then you have to use a third party stack (Toshiba, Widcomm etc). But if you don't need that extra functionality, you can use the Microsoft BT stack if you want.&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#2871</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:37:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:2871</guid><dc:creator>Andrew Trueman</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Ken. Fix worked first time. Thanks :-)&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#3413</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:52:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:3413</guid><dc:creator>LDM</dc:creator><description>This fix definitely works and works well and safe. Well done Ken</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#3507</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2007 13:23:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:3507</guid><dc:creator>BVN</dc:creator><description>Thank You the solution! </description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#3719</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:04:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:3719</guid><dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Ben,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I accidently deleted your comment when cleaning up blog spam. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are having problems synching with Exchange over USB (but it works over Bluetooth), then it may be because you have &amp;quot;advanced networking&amp;quot; enabled. This creates an IP network over your USB cable, but without bridging across to your machine's internet connection, you won't be able to reach your Exchange server.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To turn this functionality off - go to Settings -&amp;gt; Connections -&amp;gt; USB to PC -&amp;gt; and uncheck &amp;quot;Enable advanced network functionality.&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#3913</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:36:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:3913</guid><dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Like Angela, my device is not seeing the Activesync service, only Serial Port despite the registry value change. I am using Vista with WMDC installed, and the Toshiba Bluetooth stack v5. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have tried removing WMDC and reinstalling but to no avail.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if anyone has got it to work with the Toshiba stack or not; Angela implies that since reinstalling Vista she is now using the Windows bluetooth drivers?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#3939</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:42:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:3939</guid><dc:creator>Tony Thomas</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Thank You! I was missing the ActiveSync option on my phone after connecting to my phone to the laptop via bluetooth. Changing the registry setting was the fix. :)&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#4225</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:57:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:4225</guid><dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Jonathon,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Did you re-pair your phone with your host machine after changing the reg key and rebooting? You will need to do that to get ActiveSync to show up.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As to your question re: does anyone have it working with Toshiba BT stack: I have it working, and I think there are a number of comments here that indicate others have it working as well.&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#5143</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 01:58:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:5143</guid><dc:creator>Cory Streater</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks so much. I do not have a &amp;nbsp;Toshiba, I have a Belkin. This procedure worked well for this as well.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#5423</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 04:48:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:5423</guid><dc:creator>klfreese</dc:creator><description>I still can not get mine to work. I have a fujitsu t4215 talet pc with built in bluetooth running toshiba blutooth stack. I have a verizon treo 700w. Any help??</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#5443</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 08:18:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:5443</guid><dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi klfreese,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I don't have a Palm Treo, or a Fujitsu tablet, so I can't comment on the specifics of your situation unfortunately.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Firstly:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;a) verify the incoming COM port. The Toshiba BT stack creates a bunch of COM ports. On Toshiba laptops, the default incoming port is COM7 (and the others are outgoing ports), but on your laptop it might be something different&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;b) Make sure you reboot after you make the change in the registry&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;c) If you have already paired the Palm and the Tablet (and you can only see the &amp;quot;Serial Port&amp;quot; rather than &amp;quot;ActiveSync&amp;quot; then make sure you hit &amp;quot;refresh&amp;quot; on the services page when you go to reconfigure the devices (i.e. after setting up an initial partnership, you need to go through the wizard to setup a paired device, and hit &amp;quot;refresh&amp;quot; to get the ActiveSync service to show up)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#5498</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2007 04:50:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:5498</guid><dc:creator>Temi</dc:creator><description>Great post !!! I have the T-Mobile HTC Wizard (MDA) and I'd been trying to figure how to get the "Connect via Bluetooth" option to work with WMDC and this fixed it.

Thanks a lot.</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#5966</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 03:28:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:5966</guid><dc:creator>wladston</dc:creator><description>Thanks! That worked for me!!

Just changed the key, and tried to connect to Active Sync via the bluetooth manager on my device, and it worked just fine!</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#6165</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 06:16:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:6165</guid><dc:creator>vantage</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;fixed! really thanks!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#6181</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 14:30:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:6181</guid><dc:creator>Mat Smith</dc:creator><description>The question has been asked directly quite a few times now, but I shall ask again in a way that can leave no doubt as to the exact question :)

1) I have installed WMDC, Toshiba BT stack 5.10.06, running on Vista.

2) I have followed instructions exactly as above.  So yes, I have found the Serial Port registry entry, and changed it from "Bluetooth" to the COM port that Toshiba assigns to the device.  I have immediately rebooted.

3) After reboot, yes, I have re-paired the device.  And, yes, I initiated the pairing from the Windows Mobile device.  (I am using an imate K-Jam.)  And, yes, I have checked the COM port assigned by Toshiba Bluetooth stack for the re-paired device matches the one I had initially set.

However, when I *do* repair from the K-Jam, the "ActiveSync" service does not show up.  I click 'refresh' on the PDA and only the "Serial port" service shows up again, and not the ActiveSync service.

I'm astonished that something so standard as the combination of a Windows Mobile 2005 device, Windows Vista, and latest Toshiba Bluetooth stack, simply do not work to allow me to synchronise my data wirelessly!

Come on Toshiba, sort it out!  Include support for the ActiveSync service!

If anyone has anything useful that is not covered in the above tutorial, please do say!

(I don't mean to sound snippy, and I do appreciate 'free support' in this manner, but just frustrated with the software itself!)</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#6435</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:05:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:6435</guid><dc:creator>nostromos</dc:creator><description>lets take a look on the problem: 
1.-my ppc (qtek 2020, windows mobile 2004, windows bt stack)) connect with my pc (vista ultimate) over widcomm bt stack. that means no problem on both bt stacks
2.-no connection on wmdc via bt, even configuring it to accept bluetooth connections, but no problem via usb cradle. that means no problem with vista firewall.
so, lets think about: when i connect ppc bt, some services appears on pc bt: activesync, obex, voice gateway... But wmdc works over serial port. Resuming: wmdc needs SERIAL PORT. ppc offers ACTIVESYNC. More problems: activesync software allows to choice com port to connect bt to. wmdc not. 
SOLUTIONS:
1.-as i ve read on the net: modify registry values , so we can tell wmdc which com port must be used to connect bt. this com port must be the same one assigned to activesync service when ppc is connected to pc bt stack. in my case: COM5. So, a bit of regedit, look for HKLM\software\microsoft\windows ce services\serial port, and change value, which is usually bluetooth, writting COM5 instead (or whatever com port you have assigned to your activesync service).
then save, close regedit and reboot pc. reconnect ppc and  let bt stack add new bt devices so we can reconfigure bt ppc services in order to:
2.-this is my finding: once ppc found, go to select which services we want to use onn bt, select activesync and click over configuration. in the new window, you can change the name of the service, that obviously is activesync and put a new name: Serial Port. and voila!!!. open wmdc on pc, open activesync on ppc, click on connect using bluetooth and youll see how wonderfully wmdc connect with your ppc.</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#6475</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:24:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:6475</guid><dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Mat,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I'm at a bit of loss to explain what you are seeing in your setup. I've got this configured on about half a dozen PCs now (a couple of mine, plus several colleagues). As well, it seems that various other people have also been able to get it working.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One thing I did notice - if you open the WMDC connection properties for the device after you have made the change, WMDC changes back to it's previous setting. So don't fiddle with that.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, it should work. The only thing I had to figure out on each PC was (a) was Toshiba stack configured to provide serial port profile, and (b) what was the incoming COM port (out of all the various COM ports that get created)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you do find a solution to your issue, please post it because I'm quite curious to know what needs to be configured for your setup to work!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#6565</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2007 04:26:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:6565</guid><dc:creator>Marios</dc:creator><description>Ken, 
You are the best, the fix works like a charm. I've searching high and low for days for a fix with much aggrevation. 
Thank you</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#6815</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:45:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:6815</guid><dc:creator>AdamBrace</dc:creator><description>Mine is having a different problem.   My Moto Q just sits at the "Checking Services..." screen forever.  It won't seem to connect, and I have the Serial changed to COM7.  Any ideas?</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#8559</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:47:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:8559</guid><dc:creator>Henry</dc:creator><description>OK I feel a bit silly asking this question.  But how do you "verify the incoming com port"?  I cant even get to this bit... I've tried just setting it to COM7 but that doesnt seem to work.

Thanks in advance.</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#12194</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:38:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:12194</guid><dc:creator>Al</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I wound up having to use the Bluetooth Local Com untility in Control Panel to create a COM25 for incoming connections and setting the registry entry to COM25. &amp;nbsp;Once I did this and restarted the PC all I had to do was repair the phone and I had the ActiveSync service available&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#12732</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:37:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:12732</guid><dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hey Ken,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks a lot for the info. It really helped me a lot with the process.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;-Gav-&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#14619</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:48:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:14619</guid><dc:creator>William ***</dc:creator><description>Hi Ken, Thanks for your solution. It works great on my Vista ultimate + WMDC 6 + O2 Atom Life (WM6). :D</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#14740</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:55:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:14740</guid><dc:creator>Yo</dc:creator><description>To check which ports are used by the bt stack go to control panel and choose the "Bluetooth Local COM". There should be one COM port listed as LocalCOM-Server. If there isn't just click on Add to add one. Make sure it is a server, not a client. That COM port is what you need to use at the registry of the WMDC. You can also select it directly from the WDMC (for Vista, v6.1) application under "connection settings".

I did that before, and it worked. However, now I don't see the ActiveSync service anymore from my cellphone (HTC3125), only the serial port service (and wireless stereo service). I am also unable to discover my cellphone from my toshiba laptop.

Any idea why that can happen?

I have no problems when I use my office computer which runs XP (and not Vista). Do you think we can file a class lawsuit against Microsoft for the time loss in using Vista compared to XP? It was not my choice to put Vista - once Vista came out they stopped shipping new laptop with XP, to the request/demand of Microsoft.</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#14797</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:44:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:14797</guid><dc:creator>Yo</dc:creator><description>Removing and reinstalling the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack solved the problem ... for now ...</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#14830</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:34:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:14830</guid><dc:creator>Christopher</dc:creator><description>Thanks for the awesome tip!  FYI I needed to re-pair my laptop from my handheld before activesync would recognize it.  (It showed up as an available service after pressing REFRESH but was not usable).  My hardware is an HTC 6800 from Bell Canada and a Toshiba Portege R400.
</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#14939</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:13:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:14939</guid><dc:creator>Jigar</dc:creator><description>Worked Like a charm. Thanks so much. Spent so many hours on this nonsense before I found this. Every step was perfectly as described.</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#15048</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:50:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:15048</guid><dc:creator>Simon Pearson</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Another very happy &amp;#39;customer&amp;#39;, cheers Ken!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#15069</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:00:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:15069</guid><dc:creator>Wisnu</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Ken&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ve a problem to sync my XDA Atom &amp;amp; WMDC 6.1 using the Bluetooth on my Fujitsu S6410.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Toshiba Bluetooth Stack v.5.10.11 (F) installed in this notebook and I already modify the registry and still not success to get the ActiveSync Service.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I also try with the Windows Bluetooth stack &amp;nbsp;and still not success to sync both of it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I tested to send the file to my Atom using Bluetooth Transfer file utility and it&amp;#39;s success, just to make sure the Bluetooth device is working.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you have any suggestion to me ? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>bluetooth help please - Motorola Q  - Page 2 - Hello Moto Q Forums</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#15329</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:21:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:15329</guid><dc:creator>bluetooth help please - Motorola Q  - Page 2 - Hello Moto Q Forums</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;PingBack from &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.hellomotoq.com/forums/accessories/4233-bluetooth-help-please-2.html#post17818"&gt;http://www.hellomotoq.com/forums/accessories/4233-bluetooth-help-please-2.html#post17818&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Enable PAN Profile for Your Dell D630 With Toshiba's BT Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#15421</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:35:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:15421</guid><dc:creator>The Original .NET Geek</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;When I first upgraded to Windows Vista with a Latitude D630, I was saddened to find out that the default&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#15508</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:13:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:15508</guid><dc:creator>Clay</dc:creator><description>Hi Ken, I followed your process for registry, etc and was successful having "activesync" show up in services for my Treo 750.  However, with WMDC closed and just using device, I select "connect via BT" and still get the msg..."you do not have a partnership created...."  Funny thing, in BT device...I can see the PC in there that was paired.

I'm jealous now that everyone has success but me.  I just bought a new Sony Vaio with Toshiba Bluetooth Stack and downloaded the latest WMDC.  GO FIGURE....

Any help here?  Remember, I have "activesync" for available services, it just want sync via BT???

Thanks,
Clay</description></item><item><title>Notizblog &amp;raquo; Blog Archive  &amp;raquo; Windows Mobile, Vista, Bluetooth, ActiveSync</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#15583</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:16:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:15583</guid><dc:creator>Notizblog » Blog Archive  » Windows Mobile, Vista, Bluetooth, ActiveSync</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;PingBack from &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://markus.renschler.net/2008/01/21/windows-mobile-vista-bluetooth-activesync/"&gt;http://markus.renschler.net/2008/01/21/windows-mobile-vista-bluetooth-activesync/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#15594</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:57:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:15594</guid><dc:creator>Mauro</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks a loooootttt for your help!!! GREAT!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#15680</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:19:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:15680</guid><dc:creator>Yo</dc:creator><description>The "for now..." ended (see my previous post).

I was able to use my phone with the wmdc for a month or so, but after that again it would only show "Serial Port", no "ActiveSync". Tried changing ports, restarting computer and phone, reinstalling bluetooth stack and wmdc - nothing worked.

Then I tried to remove the toshiba bluetooth stack and install the microsoft stack instead ... and finally ... it worked!

How to do it?
1. Uninstall the toshiba bluetooth stack.
2. Download from the toshiba website the "bluetooth monitor" (not the stack), and run it. This will create a directory c:\toshiba\BTmonitor
3. Restart the computer
4. Go to the directoty "c:\toshiba\BTmonitor" and execute the executable that is there. This will install the microsoft stack.
5. After the installation set the bluetooth to visible/discoverable.
6. Through the new stack, add an incoming com port. (not sure if this step is necessary).
7. At the wmdc/connection settings choose to listen on "bluetooth" (not COMx)
8. Restart, wait for all the software on the computer to load
9. From the mobile's bluetooth search for the computer and choose the "ActiveSync" service.
10. Choose connect via bluetooth in the active sync application on the mobile.

Good luck!
</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#17235</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:31:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:17235</guid><dc:creator>Jammer</dc:creator><description>I have a Fujitsu and ATT Tilt. I found your posting helpful. All I did was set the com to port 7 on WMDC and on the Activesync on the device. I used the Tilt to discovery the laptop. Using the Bluetooth on WMDC did not work. If I let the laptop discovery the Tilt, the laptop sets it up as a modem on com 40. I hope this helps someone out there.</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#17407</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:15:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:17407</guid><dc:creator>T</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Thank you so much for posting this. &amp;nbsp;At first, wmdc changed the serial port in regedit back to bluetooth, which was frustrating because I couldn&amp;#39;t figure out why it was no longer syncing properly. &amp;nbsp;After I read the other posts, I no longer go into connection settings in wmdc and syncing is working fine. &amp;nbsp;Thanks again!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#17701</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:06:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:17701</guid><dc:creator>Dillon Coetzer</dc:creator><description>I've been battling with this for ages and had eventually given up... So thank you very much for your article!</description></item><item><title>Help!  Cannot sync Mogul with Vista laptop - PDAPhoneHome.com</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#17746</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:07:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:17746</guid><dc:creator>Help!  Cannot sync Mogul with Vista laptop - PDAPhoneHome.com</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;PingBack from &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/ppc-6800-xv6800/112422-help-cannot-sync-mogul-vista-laptop.html#post739579"&gt;http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/ppc-6800-xv6800/112422-help-cannot-sync-mogul-vista-laptop.html#post739579&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#17818</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:35:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:17818</guid><dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator><description>I change my regedit as you said, restarted my computer and bingo!!! My HTC Touch synced via Bluetooth.  Thank you so much for your info</description></item><item><title>re: Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#18271</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:54:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:18271</guid><dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator><description>Your making it way to hard. 

right click on the bluetooth icon click Options enable pan networking services.
Under mobile device settings change
 allow connections to one of the following ports to COM7

On your phone connect via bluetooth you'll have to pair the device. 

It will do everything from there automatically.

no making serial ports or anything just turn on pan networking and change to COM7.</description></item><item><title>Configurare BT Stack (Toshiba) con Windows Mobile 6.x tramite bluetooth</title><link>http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx#26313</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 20:23:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e0e31441-78b9-4457-b9b0-6f7906e03e71:26313</guid><dc:creator>Turibbio's Blog</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Dopo aver formattato la mia macchina, dove c&amp;amp;rsquo;era 7_beta (build 7100), e dopo aver installato il&lt;/p&gt;
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