Sending files on bluetooth... - Networking

I've been trying to send some files, mainly pics and video, over bluetooth to my friends iphone. I've got the ATT Tilt running TPC v11. I've been able to connect to his phone, his sees mine but when sending file it fails. I've been searching and reading and from the looks of it, I don't think the iphone can recieve files. I don't know the first thing about iphones but after looking at his it seems pretty easy, turn on bluetooth and it searches for devices. If anyone has any tips or just knows it doesn't work, let me know. Thanks!!
Just another thought, could you somehow send files over wifi?

is this a wifi / bluetooth for wm question
or an iphone question because
if the later iphones are pretty closed country when it comes to such things

Can you send files over bluetooth or wifi to another WM phone? Can the iPhone send files to YOUR phone via bluetooth or wifi? What file format are you trying to send/receive?
In "my experience" Bluetooth connections are quirky, the radios have to agree to communicate and they tend to argue or ignore each other. Again... "my experience" is that repeatedly trying to get them to communicate is the only way to get them to "recognize" each other.

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BLUETOOTH AND WIFI - O2 XDA MINI S

ok, im new so don't blast me for asking for help. I've searched all over the forums, but cant find what im looking for.
Ok i have had this phone (and is wicked by the way) for 1 day now,
i have removed all the crappy O2 stuff, with help from others on here!! Thanks guys. Got a reg editer so im getting there.
Basically i send my self a file with bluetooth and now i have no idea where it has saved itself.
I cant find any free WIFI connection programs that work, hitchhiker dont work for some reason get some error as it starts up.
The other thing i was looking for is something to scan for blutooth devices and maybe look on the other phone? i seem to remember this in an old PDA i used to have.
Thanks for any help
To scan for new Bluetooth Connection all you have to do is:
Go To Com Manager
Settings
Bluetooth
Bottom Tab Devices
New Partnership
This will scan for any available devices. The rest of you question I am not sure about.
When I save files I have received via blutooth they go into the my documents directory
hope that helps
yeah i can pair devices but i want to scan for a device and then be able to click on something like explore and see what they have on thier phone?
Does such thing exist?
I need a good free WIFI connection manager that i can download.
Thanks for both your help

How to Setup Laptop to Use 3G Internet from My Cingular 8525?

Okay, I've searched for several hours so I don't act like a true newbie and ask a dumb question that's been asked a hundred times, but I can't find anything definite on this, so here goes.
I have a new Cingular 8525 and have Cingular's PDA Connect Unlimited data plan. I am in a 3G area. I have an out of the box phone with Windows Mobile 5 with no ROM updates or hacks on it.
I would like to take my laptop in the car and hook my phone to it and have my laptop use the 3G connection that my phone is providing. I know you can setup a modem connection, and I've done that, but it only connects at 115k, which is the fastest setting the modem driver and bluetooth dongle have listed. I would like to be surfing on my laptop at the 3G speeds.
I know there are implications where Cingular may or may not charge me, because I am supposed to possibly have something called the Laptop Connect plan, but lets assume that's not an issue.
Also, whichever way is easiest, I can either use my USB cord to tether my phone and laptop together or use my Bluetooth on my laptop and connect that way.
Anyone have the steps on how to make this work?
Thanks
Did you ever get this working?
I have almost the same situation: a Tom Tom GO 720 device that will talk to the 8525's Handsfree service via Blue Tooth, but says that the phone is not advertising the DUN service.
Got it working
I did two things to make it work.
First, I got Internet Sharing working by using the cabinet called UPRREY-ICS[1].cab that you can find on this forum site. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1564979#24. This will install a link to the Internet Sharing application and show it under Programs.
That made my laptop able to use the GPRS connection. This uses the Bluetooth PAN to tether the laptop and the phone. (but be careful - your plan might not allow large data transfers).
Second, I found two files, also on this forum site, called WM6_DUN.zip (or separately as BT_DUN.cab) and MODEMLINK.zip.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/misc.php?do=showattachments&t=314371
MODEMLINK.zip has a .rgu file in it that I didn't have to mess with .. I just copied the other files to the windows directory and restarted.
Now my TomTom GO 710 finds the handsfree connection, the phonebook/object connection, and the DUN service so it can get on the internet when it needs to.
Thanks to URPREY, The.Drone, and MUN for their previous posts. You rock.
Hi
I have a tomtom gps 720 that I am trying to conntect to a HTC touch diamond, downloaded the software and have placed it into my windows directory etc.. which seems to have helped as it now shows on my tomtom that my phone supports wireless data transfers, the problem I am having now is when putting the setting in the tomtom for the wireless settings my mobile of phone does not appear so I am getting up to 65% through setting it up before I run into a wall....
any further ideas?
I would suggest using the data cable method without bluetooth headaches. Diamond has a ver poor battery, so when ised with USB cable it can stay alive but ultimately your laptop battery is drained
Diamond should have built-in internet connection sharing option. Does the prompt that appears when connecting to PC have that? If not try the HTCtoUSB PopUp cabs taken from Raphel.
Regards,
Carty..
I have no problem connecting the htc diamind or the tomtom go 720 to the PC, I'm just trying to get the wireless data to work so I can send and receive text messages through the TomTom.
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Hello, I need to find the best possible laser color printer at the lowest possible price. I need to prints lots of documents black and white, flyers with a few photos on them, color posters and etc. So I would like to have both of best worlds and have some great photo quality and print the most pages per toner cartridges. Can anyone help me basically find a good all around color laser printer that has full ink toner and not so expensive?

Choosing between WiFi, GPRS, VPN etc. - any simple utility outthere? plz...

Is there a kind of utility that if a connection is required, asks user how to connect? Something like there use to be on a PC, when You start IE? I don't remember which version of IE/Windows it was but it looks something like this - http://support.bee.net/dial/email/outlook6.gif
The problem is, selecting manually how to connect is very much pain in the ass, I am wondering that if there isn't a software already written for this, why is that. It would be a simple yet very usable - You start IE for example, and the phone asks you how to connect, via WLAN or GPRS or whatever. OR maybe even over BT if You have a BT device for connection over PC or smth.
The second option would be to prioritize the connection list - like tell the PDA that first try WLAN, if it fails then try GPRS etc.
The third option would be somehow to use MortScript for this. It's still better than going to Connection Manager through tens of taps.
Been searching the forums. Looked through at least all threads' titles under networking. But no solution so far.
Any ideas? I would appreciate any help. And still wondering why someone hasn't already solved this... Maybe they have, but cannot find it then
So nobody has ever heard of anything like this? Would there be an enthusiast who would program such utility? It would not be a major application...
How do you manually choose connection?
I have HTC Diamond with Windows Mobile 6. I connect it to my work computer to synchronise with Outlook but I want to use my 3G (or GPRS) connection for internet. What should I do?
i really dislike the way the WM6 autoamatically chooses GPRS has its first connection type.. but then if WIFI is turned off it has no choice
An option to possible enable Wifi rather than GPRS would be nice
Windows mobile's connection manager is horrible. I suspect the group assigned to WM networking at microsoft had little (or no) prior experience and didn't really understand how IP routing, interface stacking, etc. works.
We sorely need some kind of end-to-end communications manager that is aware of all network devices (GPRS, CF wireless/ethernet cards, onboard wireless, bluetooth, USB, etc) and virtual devices (all forms of VPN), and how they interoperate. Something that allows editing of routing rules, per-connection DNS servers, gateway priorities, preferred devices, timeouts, connection persistence, etc.
Worry about things like "dial-on-demand" after the basics are covered.
Today it's virtually impossible to keep a WM device on a VPN connection and even harder when you've got phone calls and wifi to deal with. I have my activesync configured through a PPTP VPN and at least 5 times a day it loses its connection and requires me to manually press "sync." Sometimes that doesn't even work, requiring a reboot. Usually there will be some vague and unhelpful error message like "waiting for network" or "could not connect for an unknown reason."
In fact while I'm on a bit of a rant, is anyone else infuriated by error messages like that?
Obviously there was an error - you don't need to tell the user that. If there was no error, you'd be connected! What is the purpose of telling the user there was an error? There is always an "error" unless there is success. TELL THE USER WHAT THE ERROR WAS. Anything else is useless and frustrating.
The device should also absolutely freak out if it ever loses any connection. If the phone loses anything.. the GSM signal, activesync's connection to the exchange server, the VPN... it should beep, vibrate, flash, and refuse to do anything (sleep, power off, etc) until either one of two conditions is true:
1. The error is no longer present (the phone was able to reestablish the connection), or
2. The user has acknowledged and dismissed the error.
It should never be the case that the phone is disconnected and not attempting to reconnect, unless the user chooses that mode of operation. Anything else leads to lost email, missed meetings, and high blood pressure.
Ugh.
Anyway, I think there's a lot of money to be made by a company that can put together a properly functioning WM connection management system. I'm still looking...
This might help, I've not tried it yet but it looks promising....
http://www.iaccarino.de/silvio/ppcstuff.htm#MobileProfiler
That is a much needed program. WM 6.1 does an awful job with GPRS, WiFi,
Phone, etc.
Thanks joemanb, somehow I missed Your reply. But this isn't exactly what I'm looking for. But thanks anyway. I understand that this proggy would be very useful for many people but I don't understand why somebody with programming skills doesn't want to do it...
I have the very same problem.
I have both symbian and WM phones.
Nokia have had this right since my 9500 when you check email or go on the Internet it prompts you for the connection to use. I got a Imate-Kjam and was shocked that it did not do this. It was subsequently replaced with a E90 that still does it the right way and very well. I just got a Samsung SGH-i780 and it is great but it still has no Idea of how to connect to the Internet the way I would like. having 3g makes it less of a problem as I simply don't use the wi-fi but this bugs me that I can't.
All they need to do is have the phone prompt you when you open a Internet app for the connection to use. How hard can that be to realize ?
Bump bump bump
Um... Bump?
Come on developers, You cannot say You don't miss something like that already...
Bandswitch
I hope too in the developers. While waiting I found "Bandswitch" which make something similar...
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-bandswitch-v1-2-3.html
Disable GPRS connections
Try this. Works fine on my Herald/P4350.
http://www.modaco.com/content/pocket-pc-software/246171/new-free-utility/
Thanks for the suggestions but as far as I can tell, these apps only handle mobile data connections and now Wi-Fi. You can easily disable GPRS by creating a fake GPRS connection with no real access point. That is not what I am trying to accomplish here. But thanks anyway.

SAP between phones?

I have had a kaiser for about a year. I just got a raphael. I am very impressed by the raph - everything about it is wonderful (well, 'cept the gps). I would like to use both.
Well, AT&T does not support multiple sims per plan - otherwise I could drop one in each phone, and have both to use.
So, here's what I see (in all cases with the SIM card on the raph):
1. set up wifi network sharing, connect to it via the kaiser. Still doesn't offer all functionality, but does let me use the internet.
2. Bluetooth pan internet sharing between the two. I'm not exactly sure how to set this up, though... it always gives me errors.
3. The ideal situation: SAP. If I could set it up so that the kaiser can think it has a SIM card, I would get all functionality on both sides, right? Is this possible? Would it be missing anything?
Some other thoughts:
1. is it possible to get just the GPS shared across bluetooth (use raph with kaiser's gps)? I'll figure out how to fix raph's gps eventually, but I see this as an interesting choice anyway.
2. what other profiles can I get working between the two?
I'd really like to see all of these things done in windows mobile - seeing as I only have one sd card for the moment, and it's for the raph. As soon as I fix that, I'll be more worried about leaving kaiser in android/other linuxes. Any ideas?
ATT's GPS runs via the data plan on my phone, so I tried what you're wanting to do and I had to pair the devices mapping the GPS on one of the unreserved COM ports, and on pairing enabled the outgoing COM, if you use Active Sync you should be familiar with the idea of mapping services through COM ports, on the 2nd phone that had the working data plan it would only show the shared gps service, but it wasn't called that port keys are named in the registry, and differ from phone to phone. So this isn't a pretty setup. I only got it working in google maps since you can define the gps settings manually. I would give specifics but I'm trying it with my old ppc where gps is on port 3, but has virtual serial ports mapped to 6 and 7. Again, get a good registry viewer/editor, port scanner etc so you can find out whats running where. I needed PAN to be enabled on the ppc for gps to work. I don't know if it's reporting exact locations or estimations etc. hopefully someone smarter than me can tell you.
You can get voice to work sort of, you can use handsets as headsets remotely just like any other bt headset, but thats all kind of pointless.

[Q] xv6800 as pocket pc

I have a verizon xv6800, that i would like to use only as a pocketpc with wifi, usb and bluetooth. I have no interest in having phone or texting capabilities, just the use of the pocket computer.
Can anyone point me to the software that I would need to load to accomplish this?
Thanks in advance for your time and patience.
Daniel
Just go to the communications manager and turn off the phone function.
yeah that could work as half a fix, but does nothing to eliminate the verizon part of the software, nor the messages/reminders i keep getting about voicemails, and sms mssgs., that are on the phone, that i cant access to remove.
Really just need the ppc functionality, with wifi, bluetooth, and usb.
Thanks for responding tho.
Daniel
I'm not against reflashing the unit with a new rom that has no phone/sms capabliities, just WM 6.1 with usb, wifi, and bluetooth, but there are like eleventy billion posts here, and its a bit overwhelming as to where to start.
Daniel

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