Just got a fresh Fujitsu T4215 with VISTA. Feels nice. But still many pains getting things tight. Syncing my Treo 700wx for example. Had to hand install Windows Mobile Device Center even though it was sort of halfway on the machine... Either way that was not too bad. I had become a WMDC install expert when I tried to get it working with Vista RTM on my T4010D. Anyway got it install synced up great. Next for bluetooth. *sigh*

Of course it did not work... Seems WMDC has default issues with the toshiba stack. Luckily Ken Schaefer managed to figure it out for me (was kind of hard to find on google hence this slug). Check it out here on Ken's site:

http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2007/02/18/1767.aspx

As usual I rip a copy of his text for archive purposes after the jump.

* NOTE: I incorporate Ken's edit in this copy of his original text.

If you are running the new Windows Mobile Device Center on Windows Vista, and using the inbuilt Microsoft Bluetooth Stack, then syncing via bluetooth probably works fine for you. However if you are using the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack (for example, to get A2DP profile support) then you need to do some work to get bluetooth synchronising working.

Firstly, on your host machine, open Regedit and navigate to:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows CE Services

The value you want to change is SerialPort

and change the value from Bluetooth to your incoming bluetooth COM port. Normally this is COM7 if you are using v5 of the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack (the Vista compatible version). Change the value to "COM7" (without the quotes). You will need to restart your machine.

Now pair your Windows Mobile device with your host machine. You should see the ActiveSync service listed. If you've previously paired your device, then you would have seen "Serial Port" listed as a service (which isn't enough to get ActiveSync working). Instead go into the properties of the bluetooth device and select "refresh" to get an updated list of services that your host PC is advertising. ActiveSync should now be an option. Select it. Now, when using ActiveSync on your WM device, Connect via Bluetooth should work just fine.