ActiveSync is not a friendly sync tool for folks who use infrared or Bluetooth for synchronization. I stopped using the USB cable for the sync process when I bought the MPx200 and ever since the recent upgrade to the MPx220, I have started using Bluetooth.
Readers who have used ActiveSync over infra-red and Bluetooth will remember that in the
File menu -> Connection Settings, under the
Allow serial or infrared connections to this COM port option, an appropriate COM port or Infrared port must be selected before the connection can be established via infrared or Bluetooth. Lets say that I want to use infrared to sync the data, so I select the
Infrared Port from the pull down listing, click OK to save the settings. Next step is to align the IR ports and select the infrared sync option on my Smartphone. The infrared sync works fine till I reboot my desktop machine. The moment I do that ActiveSync forgets my port preference and defaults to COM1.
And I have the same problem with the Bluetooth COM port. My Bluetooth adapter uses COM9 as the incoming port, but I cannot get the ActiveSync to remember the COM port setting. Every time I reboot my laptop, it forgets my selection. I have to go back into the
Connection Settings and re-select the port, before I can initiate the sync process. Am I the only one experiencing this problem? Is there a way to persist this setting through a reboot? Is this a bug? Or is this a weird design feature or limitation?