Palm Hot Sync Using BlueTooth Not Working Anymore

The ONLY solution I know works is to revert to 10.4.3.

I tried everything Apple and others recommended to get bluetooth to work in 10.4.4 without success. Apple does not know how to correct the defect in 10.4.4 to get bluetooth to work. (And neither does Palm for 10.4.4 bluetooth with their devices.)

I contacted Palm yesterday (1/30/06) and they said that Apple was "aware" of the problem with HotSync and Bluetooth. Palm of course said that their technicians were working on the issue. The CSA with Palm told me that they hope to see a fix to this problem by February. I really hope it's early February....

I just got my Tungsten E2 as a late Christmas present and I only got to sync a few times before that evil red "X" came to curse me....

Powerbook G4 (15 inch / 1 Ghz) Mac OS X (10.4.4) 1.25 GB of RAM

You know,

Now that I think about it - if Apple would just make a PDA as cool as the iPod, we wouldn't have these issues. Life would be bliss. I guess they got burned a little too early on the Newton....



Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4) 1.25 GB of RAM

I appreciate the info in this thread. After spending hours trying to solve the problem I finally thought of coming here. At least now I have two things: 1) a workaround that can be used until Apple gets their glitch fixed; and 2) knowledge that there's nothing to be done until a fix eventually comes out, so no need to waste more time.

iMac G4 + PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Ditto wasting time. I tried toggling Bluetooth preferences: ports etc and got my phone to offload one msg at a time, but then had to retoggle, try again and hope. Gave up in the end.
I noticed the status pane that shows 'paired:configd:fav:connected:serial' would show the connection as 'no' until it flicked 'on' for a fraction of a second then the big "disconnect" button activated by itself and the connection was lost - it's as though as soon as the connection is made something overrides it. Updates!! -last month it was itunes screwing up now its bluetooth.....

I recently bought a Treo, and one of the mail reasons was for its bluetooth capabilities. I had most of the same problems as you. Under bluetooth settings it wouldn't pair, I would enter the key from my eMac, but it supposedly wouldn't finish pairing. I went to Palm's support and found something, I have had no issues since. As long as bluetooth is capable on the computer and you have at least entered the key into the phone, you should be okay. Go to your hotsync app, open it, then check connection settings. Only bluetooth pda should be checked. Then go to conduit settings. If you don't look over these hot syncing will take forever. The only things I have hotsyncing do is the iSync conduit, synchronizing media, and synchronize memos. Anything else takes WAY to long. Other than that, I have absolutely no issues with doing a hot sync. Hope that helps anyone out there.

works for me too. not ideal, but closer .... 🙂

So you're able to pair and snyc with an eMac running OX 10.4.4?

What version of the Palm operating system are you running on the Treo?
(I believe the Treo runs a Windoze based operating system as opposed to most Palms that run operating systems written by Palm e.g. Tungstens, Zires.)

I'd say the conflict is between OS 10.4.4 and the D-Link DBT-120 USB to Bluetooth adapter. My iMac with the adapter has the same problem described here, but my PowerBook with internal bluetooth capability works fine.

Still awaiting a fix.

That's the configuration that doesn't work for me also; a Powermac G4 with a USB bluetooth adaptor.

Has anyone tried 10.4.5 with this configuration? (It would be terrible if Apple did not fix this with 10.4.5, but I don't want to try it based on the bad experience with the bluetooth defect in 10.4.4.)

Unfortunately 10.4.5 has not presented a fix for the issue. Has anyone had any luck under 10.4.5?

Did your Powerbook come with an internal Apple bluetooth? I think you have a type in your message (10.4.4 or 10.4.5), but I gather it stopped working after you loaded 10.4.4?

I've done the 10.4.5 upgrade with out any success. I can sync doing the toggle on and off method... but that's all. Apple has not fixed this issue for me!

Tim

Same problem here with my Treo 650.

After many hours of researching and trial/error,
here's what I found:

I'm using Missing Sync instead of the Palm Sync, but
this may be helpful nonetheless.

1. Uninstall and reinstall Missing Sync.
2. Trash bluetooth preferences.
3. Repair permissions.
4. Attempt to sync - may or may not work.
5. While attempting to sync, open the bluetooth
preferences
6. Toggle the services on and off in the preferences
and you may be surprised when your device begins
syncing.

Let us know if you find anything else out.

Michael

michael i also use missing sync. what i found to work is right after i click the hot sync button on my treo 650 i turn off discoverable on the mac os side of things. i then get a sync

hope this helps

d

Thanks for the information. I'll stick with 10.4.3 for now.