When I first upgraded to Windows Vista with a Latitude D630, I was saddened to find out that the default Microsoft Bluetooth stack did support many of the profiles that I got from my XP OS. Namely, it did not support the PAN profile which is needed if you want to connect your laptop to your phone (such as the Samsung i607 a.k.a. Blackjack). On my Dell D810 the Dell card was using a Toshiba Bluetooth stack which did support a list of Bluetooth profiles.
No thanks to Dell Support, I finally found a somewhat recently released Bluetooth stack from Toshiba, that I could install on my machine and would recognize the PAN profile. The installers can be found here. This link has the both the 32 and 64 bit versions. Unfortunately, the download speed is a bit slow so be patient. You can find the 32 bit version on the US site.
The process seems to be quite straight forward with a bit of a twist. Here is what I did.
- Downloaded the proper version of the Bluetooth stack from Toshiba's site.
- Remove the current Bluetooth stack.
- From device manager, right click on the Bluetooth radio's and click 'uninstall'. In my device manager I saw both the Dell 360 Bluetooth Radio and the Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator. I removed the Dell entry first then the Microsoft entry.
- Run the installer for the Toshiba stack.
- Once the stack installs you may need to restart.
- After your install is complete you can get your phone ready to be 'found' and initiate the sync.
- The laptop finds the phone and finds the 'Network Access Point' profile (PAN).
- The from there you can use the Internet Connection application that is on the phone. Set it to use Bluetooth instead of USB and initiate the connection from the notebook.
Lastly, there is the issue of being able to Active Sync your phone with your laptop. On the initial discovery the laptop is missing the profile of 'Active Sync'. Instead it simply says 'Serial Port'. Thanks to someone else that had the same problem I found that if I could make an edit to the registry and viola. The key is:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows CE Services\
Change the 'Serial Port' key from what is probably 'bluetooth' to the COM port that Toshiba uses for serial communication; COM7 in my case. You can read more about it here.
Update: I also found this link has a decent set of screen shots.