More Bluetooth Fun

On Sept. 26, I wrote the first part of this article, Bluetooth Fun. It's been a while and I just finally got the damn PC Suite to work today. Actually, I have no idea what I did, but when I tried it, it connected to my phone and worked fine. For the longest time, the PC Suite application kept saying 'Device not Connected' even though it was. There is another application called mRouter that is required to connect the PC Suite with the phone over Bluetooth and that showed the connection was fine. There are a number of website forums on the web where many other people have listed the exact same problems that I have had with no solution. It seems the solution to most problems is just to uninstall everything, the PC Suite, and all the Bluetooth drivers. Plus, there are a number of different driver versions available and depending on who you ask, some are evil and some are great. For example, my Bluetooth dongle came with the WIDCOMM ver 1.3.something drivers. Some people say, 1.4.something is available and it's the newest, so use that. Others say 1.2 is the best and the newer versions have flaws, so use that. I've downloaded the different versions, uninstalled and reinstalled so many times I can't even count them. I even resorted to using the rollback feature of Windows XP (I think it's called System Restore). Never used it before, but even rolling back to before my first Bluetooth install didn't help. I eventually gave up and figured I would go without the PC Suite. But, it's nice to have now since I can back up the phone to the PC. I would hate to lose all that contact info. Most of it is backed up on my Clie, but not all of it.