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Why can't it just work??
Authored by: smashing on Oct 11, '03 09:35:13AM

I have had problems with bluetooth and syncing Sony Ericsson phones (t68i, p800) from the beginning. With each update of iSync, OS X, iCal, I've hoped in vain these problems would at last be resolved. With this latest update to 10.2.8 and the heavy emphasis on bluetooth improvements, I really finally believed the whole thing would work as it should...

But it doesn't.

Can't connect, dodgy connections, t68i works, p800 doesn't, sometimes the other way round (but mainly the p800). I'm a technical user, I've disabled the firewall, I have no carriage returns in my addresses, I've reinstalled, re-paired, rediscovered... rediscovered utter frustration more like.

My PC sitting next to my mac works beautifully on both phones. What is it that I'm doing wrong?

It hurts me as a long time Mac user that the PC does it so much better. Elegance is a fine thing, but not if the dress hides a multitude of sins. I feel like a bit part player in The Crying Game.

Come on Apple, sort it out, it shouldn't be this difficult.

(For what it's worth, I have a Tecom dongle, I didn't install the BSD subsystem when first installing Jaguar. Those are the only ideas I have left.)



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Why can't it just work??
Authored by: paulsuerth on Nov 12, '03 10:11:44PM

fwiw, i've had the t68i and now the p800. i've tried them both on the pc and mac. (bt on a pc totally sux for me). i noticed a marked difference in connection quality (# of attempts versus #number of successful completions) by the dongle mfr. i don't even try syncing via bt on the pc, but the cable sync is fine over there. on the mac the dlink dwm120 is flawless, the current belkin and the previously used ambicom and long-range belking were hit and miss at best.



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