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Posted by: skatersss7

has anyone used this with a sprint treo 650, or any treo for that matter, and used the Bluetooth personal access networking so they could surf internet using bluetooth on the treo?

Please help me!!!

Posted by: chefrichard

Yes ive been using internet on my treo over bluetooth with bluesoleil. The trick is not to use their drivers but the windows supplied drivers instead. Also you need a program called Softick PPP.

Posted by: skatersss7

so i already installed their "nifty" program, should i just unistall that program? also, i've tried using the windows bluetooth stuff, but it won't find my bluetooth adapter. whenever i turn discoverable on and press apply, it gives me an error and says it couldn't change that particular option. what should i do about that?

Posted by: chefrichard

I just unplugged my adapter, uninstalled blue soliel then plugged the adapter back in and let windows do its thing and had no problem. I have read that some people have had trouble with the windows bluetooth drivers but seemes to work fine for me.

Posted by: skatersss7

so i unistalled blue soleil, and now when i plug in the adapter, it just accepts it as a usb device it knows, but it when i click on usb devices on the device manager, it comes up as an unknown device. buuuuut, it still shows the bluetooth devices icon on the control panel, and the same error still happens. is there a way to completely remove bluetooth from my computer and then start over from step one? i don't even know where to begin on removing drivers for a device that doesn't show having a driver. and i know that the bluetooth devices option wasn't there before.

Posted by: chefrichard

The only other thing i can think of is trying to run the update driver in device manager. Outside of that i would contact microsoft/blue soleil for support. This page http://www.whizoo.com/bt_setup/ has alot of useful info maybe it can help

Posted by: skatersss7

so i took chefrichards advice and conviently lost bluesoliel from my computer. i finally got rid of bluesoleil's drivers and now i have the "Generic Bluetooth Device" driver up and running. I also aquired softick ppp, but i cannot get the microsoft end of the bluetooth connection to work. i followed the tutorial on their website, and that leads to me finding out places like "My Bluetooth Places" on my computer apparently don't exist. I've also tried following the tutorial found here http://www.whizoo.com/bt_setup/ to setup both my treo and my computer, but despite hours of work, i cannot get it to work. when i try and connect with the treo, i get a long wait at "Signing on" and then an error or it just cancels. anyone got any ideas?

Posted by: rythmickason

what makes the microsoft driver better?

Posted by: bubbatex

take your BT dongle and lock it in a drawer or throw it away....then you'll be happy!

Seriously, I have tried the MS drivers, Bluesoleil's drivers and Softick PPP - I can generally connect my Treo to my PC and do a Hotsync, but that is it. I have spent many hours of trying many different versions and even different sets of instructions, but I can't get the web on my Treo through BT.

Posted by: chefrichard

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Originally Posted by rythmickason

what makes the microsoft driver better?

I'm not sure why its better just seems to work for me. With my current bluetoth setup its like having wifi on my treo.

Posted by: skatersss7

just as an update, i have managed, with chefrichard's help, to connect my treo to my T1 connection using Softick PPP and microsofts driver. For anyone who got sucked into the bluesoleil nightmare, u have to go into device manager, find ur adapter, and delete the bluesoleil drivers manually, get rid of them. For some reason they aren't compatible with XP's built in bluetooth management stuff. But with microsoft's, everything works fine. So what made microsofts driver better for me... Well, it worked.