BlueTooth Question (please) + Comments

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ayaka

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This is rather a jumbled "info post" combined with some questions, so bear with me but I wanted to relay as much of my current setup as possible so as to provide information someone can hopefully answer:

First of all, I'm lovin' it. Dumped Palm Desktop, installed PilotInstall (in Programs, then deleted the duped desktop app and made my own shortcut, but I digress) . . .

W2K said "detecting Palm device . . . need Palm USBD.ini . . ." - so loaded original T3 disk and it found it (I then opened up CD without auto-run, and moved the .ini to a "backup drivers" folder for next time). All is great - installs text files and prc's in about 3 seconds. Rockin' ! Bye-bye conduits, but I'm getting around that with the following based on your help, if I may ask:

I'm purchasing a Bluetooth Dongle today. Alert the media.

1. Will this allow me to BT contacts and other Palm databases to the desktop for backup?
2. Does the PC ask for a "receiving folder name" once I'm "bonded?"
3. Does that become automatic default after first process?
4. Are they all pretty much the same or is there a better brand? Prices seem to hover between $19 and $30.

Thanks in advance - with BT backup, 4 backups on the SD Card and PilotInstall, I'm "closer to Linux" without sweating the conduits too much. I'll miss MobileDB4 and TextSync/TealDoc - but plain .txt can be BT'd or PilotInstalled to handheld or card, then "sorted" by TealDoc on the handheld. Pilot Install does time-sync, so don't need TimeSyncXT. Docs2Go/Sheet 2 Go replaced by TinySheet (a step backward, but sheets stay same size regardidless of edits on handheld). I'm going to see if MobileDB4 can be installed (PC conduit only) without the conduit. Usually, software will say "can't find Palm folder" but hopefully I can make it work. It's handy having the desktop 2MB interface for creating on the desktop.

I'd appreciate any input from anyone using this method to any degree.

Something to consider is while you can back up your ContactsDB to a Card, PalmDesktop does not allow you to do that during HotSynch; rather the information is retained in the "depths" as a .bak. BT'ing would enable you to send, although "locked," that file to a folder for backup. Filez allows you to do it - TealMover allows beaming of a locked item but (as far as I can gather) not bluetoothing. I'm sure it does somehow, as they've fixed it for the Treo lately - but I haven't found how yet. Anyway, if Filez will do it, then problem solved.
 
If you use FileZ to check the backup bit for the Contacts db, it will back up during HotSync. I've used that method to get the actual .pdb file to use in the Palm OS Emulator (actually, it was AddressDB.pdb, but I don't see why it wouldn't work for Contacts as well).

I have no experience BTing files to a PC, but when I BT files to my Zodiac from my phone, they seem to go to /Palm/Programs/(whichever app handles that type of file) and when I BT files from Zodiac to phone, they are received as SMS/MMS messages, then when I save the file, it goes to a folder in the "gallery." (I've BT'd pictures both ways and sound clips from Zod to phone, but haven't tried anything else to see where it goes.)
 
Won't work for contacts. Tried setting backup bit in TealMover and Filez; it remains "set," but doesn't transfer. However, TMover lets me copy it to SD card and transfer that way; it would also let me Bluetooth it which is why I'm getting the "dongle."

With that (and a mobile phone CD/adapter for the Motorola v710) - I should be "contacts backed up" on both phone and T3 "platforms," and may even be able to import via CSV specific palm catagories to the phone's phonebook - which Verizon "locked out" of the Bluetooth ability.

Thanks Telyx - the 2nd paragraph regarding folders was ESPECIALLY helpful. Cheers.
 
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