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I would like to keep my new N800, but I'm having trouble connecting it via BT to my Sprint PPC-6700. The instructions say to turn BT on on the "phone" and search for it from the N800 by selecting "phone" in control panel. It can't find my 6700. So, I selected Bluetooth in control panel and Devices and it found my phone. I selected Edit and it shows:
Device type: PDA (not phone)
Supported profiles: DUN, OPP
Cellular type: (none)
Bluetooth address: this is OK

I also used Connections in control panel to create a new connection called Sprint

I went back to Phone in control panel and selected my phone which was listed in the dropdown box.

However, when I try to connect, it only intermittently tries to connect to Sprint and neither Sprint nor my phone are listed in Select connection when I try to manually select the connection I want.

Any help would be appreciated.
 
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I have exactly the same problem... I did find this for the 770 but I'm guessing it won't work on the N800.

http://thoughtfix.blogspot.com/2006/...h-windows.html
 
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I'd still like an inexpensive small device with a browser I can tether to to PPC6700. Any suggestions?
 
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Originally Posted by philask View Post
I have exactly the same problem... I did find this for the 770 but I'm guessing it won't work on the N800.

http://thoughtfix.blogspot.com/2006/...h-windows.html
It was a long shot, but confirmed, this method doesn't work on the N800, I guess we'll have to wait for someone to patch icd for it.
 
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How strange.. I just tried the whole thing again, deleted the phone from the bluetooth devices list, put the N800 in visible mode and then paired from the phone. When I went back to the N800 it listed the phone under the phones list, selected it, and then went on to try and make a connection...

It worked!

Bizarre... It's now working Nokia N800 -> HTC TyTN.
 
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Yes, but the real test is to click the world in the top right box and see if your phone is listed as a selectable connection. No matter what I did, that has never happened. So, disconnect in this pane and try to reconnect in the same pane. If the N800 is working correctly, your phone should be listed in the pane.
 
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I'm in the same boat - I have a Sprint PPC6700 and an N800. The N800 can automatically connect with the 6700, but it never appears in any connections list.

My phone also never appears in the Phone list in the 'New' menu of the 'Phone' control panel item - to get it working, I have to pair it from the Bluetooth panel first, select it from the Phone list, set up a dial-up connection, and then set my N800 to default to using a phone connection.

Between this and the local-link wifi problem, there's not very much "internet" in this tablet.
 
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The boat is getting a bit crowded. I also have a ppc6700 and a n800. I tried setting up the connection as a t-mobile connection and the phone appeared in the Select Connection dialog and attempted to connect but the connection was not successful. Maybe there is a way to edit the connectivity settings - connections dialog under the connection manager to allow the t-mobile connection to be used to connect to the sprint network through the 6700. Anyone have any ideas?
 
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I own a PPC-6700 and the N800 and here's how I get DUN to work:

Install PDANet on the Phone:

http://www.junefabrics.com/

You don't even need it on your pc once you have it configured properly for bluetooth activesync. The only component of the software that expires if you don't register is their desktop app.

PDANet has a setting to allow DUN. Once you have it activated, the N800 will set up a successful data connection with the PPC 6700.

The only thing I can say about it is that it works pretty well. As long as you don't lose your connection, you can stay connected for hours. If you disconnect or get disconnected, you will need to soft reset the PPC 6700. The workaround that they have seems to totally redirect the dataconnection of the phone. (You can shut down PDANet to get data working again without a reset, but you still need a soft reset to get another successful BT DUN connection).

I think that Sprint crippled bluetooth dun on the PPC 6700. The PDANet application pretty much tricks the phone into using bluetooth activesync to establish DUN (that's my impression, anyway).

Let me know if this helps!
 
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Originally Posted by TabulaRasa View Post
I own a PPC-6700 and the N800 and here's how I get DUN to work:

Install PDANet on the Phone:

http://www.junefabrics.com/

You don't even need it on your pc once you have it configured properly for bluetooth activesync. The only component of the software that expires if you don't register is their desktop app.

PDANet has a setting to allow DUN. Once you have it activated, the N800 will set up a successful data connection with the PPC 6700.

The only thing I can say about it is that it works pretty well. As long as you don't lose your connection, you can stay connected for hours. If you disconnect or get disconnected, you will need to soft reset the PPC 6700. The workaround that they have seems to totally redirect the dataconnection of the phone. (You can shut down PDANet to get data working again without a reset, but you still need a soft reset to get another successful BT DUN connection).

I think that Sprint crippled bluetooth dun on the PPC 6700. The PDANet application pretty much tricks the phone into using bluetooth activesync to establish DUN (that's my impression, anyway).

Let me know if this helps!
Hi TabulaRasa:
I recently upgraded my PPC 6700 to ROM 3.3 using Colonel's Custom Beta 2, which is great. I'll soon upgrade to Beta 3. It appears the new ROM replaces DUN with PAN. But I returned my N800 because I couldn't get it to connect to the PPC 6700. I'll rebuy if I know I can connect to my PPC 6700.
Questions:
Does the N800 support PAN, natively?
Does PdaNet support PAN, i.e. will my PPC 6700 connect to the N800 after upgrading to the new ROM or would I need to downgrade to ROM 2.2?
Does your PPC 6700 appears in the list of Connected Devices using PdaNet?
Which ROM do have?

Thanks
 
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