Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Issues Receiving Data on a Pocket PC w/ Microsoft Bluetooth Stack?
Posted by Ekkie Tepsupornchai in "ARTICLE" @ 10:00 AM
"I'm very frequently asked about 'mysterious' Bluetooth behavior. One of the most widely asked question concerns the inability to receive anything over Bluetooth of Pocket PC's based on the Microsoft Bluetooth stack if you disable 'Receive all incoming beams' in Settings / Connections / Beam (as is recommended by many). This is caused by the fact that Microsoft considers infrared and Bluetooth transfers very similar."
This seems to cause the most confusion with ex-Widcomm Bluetooth stack users as Widcomm-equipped Pocket PCs (including my own HP hx4700 iPaq) don't mix both infrared and Bluetooth with the seemingly simple definition of "incoming beams." So if you own a Pocket PC (or even a SmartPhone I'd imagine) outfitted with the Microsoft Bluetooth stack, it's an all-or-nothing kind of deal if you want to receive any data using either infrared or Bluetooth.
This seems to cause the most confusion with ex-Widcomm Bluetooth stack users as Widcomm-equipped Pocket PCs (including my own HP hx4700 iPaq) don't mix both infrared and Bluetooth with the seemingly simple definition of "incoming beams." So if you own a Pocket PC (or even a SmartPhone I'd imagine) outfitted with the Microsoft Bluetooth stack, it's an all-or-nothing kind of deal if you want to receive any data using either infrared or Bluetooth.
