Question about Bluetooth Hidden/Shown To All

[nk_au]

If you set Bluetooth as "Shown To All" ... it is obvious that your phone will appear in every Bluetooth search in the 10m radius.

If you place it to "Hidden", according to the 7610's Help file ... it won't appear on Bluetooth searches, but your paired devices will find your phone.

So if I pair my HS-4W with my 7610, and then place Bluetooth as "Hidden" ... everytime I turn on HS-4W, it should automatically connect (with BT activated of course) right?

I'm asking this, because my mate's T610 (already paired with my phone) and my PC can't find my phone when my BT is "Hidden", even though its paired and are "authorised"

Help?

Also ... how do you disable XP SP2's Bluetooth and install Widcomm instead? I can't downgrade back to SP1 ...

Thanks for reading! Eager to hear your reply

[francisofarabia]

If you set Bluetooth as "Shown To All" ... it is obvious that your phone will appear in every Bluetooth search in the 10m radius.

If you place it to "Hidden", according to the 7610's Help file ... it won't appear on Bluetooth searches, but your paired devices will find your phone.

So if I pair my HS-4W with my 7610, and then place Bluetooth as "Hidden" ... everytime I turn on HS-4W, it should automatically connect (with BT activated of course) right?

YES


I'm asking this, because my mate's T610 (already paired with my phone) and my PC can't find my phone when my BT is "Hidden", even though its paired and are "authorised"

Help?

Are you saying t610 paired with ur phone and connection active, and then you aretrying to connect you PC to your phone? If so, your PC will not find your phone coz with nokia the BT connection is point-to-point, you have to disconnect your nokia phone 1st, so that the PC can see it...


Also ... how do you disable XP SP2's Bluetooth and install Widcomm instead? I can't downgrade back to SP1 ...

Thanks for reading! Eager to hear your reply

from MS

SYMPTOMS
After you install Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), you experience the following symptoms:• You cannot install a Bluetooth adapter, and you experience one or more of the following symptoms:• If you install a Bluetooth device, the device installation appears to work correctly. However, when you view the devices that appear under Bluetooth radios in Device Manager, the device is incorrectly identified.
• If you try to configure the device, you receive an error message that is similar to the following error message:
Device not found.

• If you perform a slipstreamed upgrade of Windows XP SP2 by using Winnt32.exe, existing Bluetooth devices may stop working correctly. For example, some of the Bluetooth device features may stop working.

CAUSE
This issue may occur if the following conditions are true:• You install Windows XP SP2 on a computer where the Bluetooth adapter is installed but where the third-party driver for that adapter is not yet installed. Or, you perform a slipstreamed upgrade of Windows XP SP2 on a computer that already has an existing Bluetooth device installed that uses a third-party driver.
• The Bluetooth adapter has a Vendor ID (VID) or a product identifier (PID) that matches both a third-party Bluetooth stack and the Bluetooth stack that is included in Windows XP SP2.
This issue occurs because Windows XP SP2 automatically installs the device driver that is included in Windows XP SP2 instead of the third-party driver that you want to install. During a slipstreamed upgrade, Windows XP SP2 overwrites the existing third-party Bluetooth driver with the device driver that is included with Windows.

WORKAROUND
To work around this issue and to successfully install the third-party driver for your Bluetooth adapter, use one of the methods that is described in the following sections.
Method 1: Rename the Bth.inf file
Rename the %WINDIR%\inf\Bth.inf file to Bth.bak before you install or reinstall the third-party device or stack. When you rename the file, you prevent Windows Plug and Play PNP from using that INF file to install the Bluetooth driver that is included with Windows XP SP2. To rename the file, follow these steps:1. Click Start, click Run, type %windir%\inf in the Open box, and then click OK.
2. Right-click Bth.inf, and then click Rename.
3. Rename Bth.inf to Bth.bak, and then press ENTER.
4. Install the third-party Bluetooth driver.

Method 2: Update the Bluetooth driver in Device Manager
To replace the Windows XP SP2 installation of the Bluetooth stack, update the driver in Device Manager. When you do this, specify your third-party driver. To update the driver in Device Manager, follow these steps: 1. Click Start, click Run, type devmgmt.msc in the Open box, and then click OK.
2. Locate the device.
3. Right-click the device, and then click Update Driver.
4. Follow the steps that appear on the screen in the Hardware Update Wizard to specify your third-party driver for the Bluetooth device.

[nk_au]

Thank you very much francisofarabia.

About the T610 and PC, they are at two different locations.

At school, I try to connect my mate's T610 (already paired) to my 7610 (with BT Hidden) but the T610 can't find my phone

At home, I try to connect my computer (already paired) to my 'hidden' 7610 ... and the PC can't find my phone.

What's wrong? :confused:

[a2k24]

if ur connecting ur pc suite with ur phone....i dont know if a nokia pc suite rquires the ip address to ur BT dongle (cuz when i try connect my t610 to the mobile agent with sp2 on my computer it requires the ip address)
check out if the nokia pc suite requires the same. if it does, see whats ur bt dongle's ip address by
1. right clicking on the icon that shows up in the tray when u put the dongle in the port.
2. select "open bluetooth settings"
3. select hardware
4. select usb bluetooth adaptor
5. properties
6. advanced
n ull see the address

[nk_au]

I'm simply trying to right-click on a SIS file, slide through "Send to Bluetooth device" and select "nk_au's 7610" ...

But my PC can't find my 7610, when it has Hidden Bluetooth activated =S