Bluetooth Networking with Treo against Sprint's will

Alexander Turcic · 11-23-2004, 02:17 PM

A guy named shadowmite released a 2-byte patch for those frustrated Sprint users who weren't able to use the Bluetooth Dial Up Networking (DUN) profile on their Treo 650.

As a reminder: Sprint decided for unknown reasons to cripple the use of Bluetooth on the new Treo 650 for laptop Internet access. Now it is quite obvious that the reason was not of technical nature, otherwise how could it have been "fixed" by merely changing two bytes?

Here is how to install the patched file (as explained by a Treocentral user):
1. Turn off Bluetooth on the Treo
2. Soft reset (a precaution).
3. Use the install tool on your computer to install the patched file. Hotsync.
4. Soft reset your Treo (just in case).
5. Start Bluetooth and turn Dial-up Networking on.

Colin Dunstan · 11-25-2004, 11:50 PM

Perhaps it was all about saving costly bandwidth. Who knows what Sprint was really thinking...

11-23-2004, 02:17 PM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,163 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Bluetooth Networking with Treo against Sprint's will A guy named shadowmite released a 2-byte patch for those frustrated Sprint users who weren't able to use the Bluetooth Dial Up Networking (DUN) profile on their Treo 650. As a reminder: Sprint decided for unknown reasons to cripple the use of Bluetooth on the new Treo 650 for laptop Internet access. Now it is quite obvious that the reason was not of technical nature, otherwise how could it have been "fixed" by merely changing two bytes? Here is how to install the patched file (as explained by a Treocentral user): 1. Turn off Bluetooth on the Treo 2. Soft reset (a precaution). 3. Use the install tool on your computer to install the patched file. Hotsync. 4. Soft reset your Treo (just in case). 5. Start Bluetooth and turn Dial-up Networking on.

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11-25-2004, 11:50 PM	#2
Colin Dunstan Is papyrophobic! Posts: 1,926 Karma: 1009999 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA Device: Dell Axim	Perhaps it was all about saving costly bandwidth. Who knows what Sprint was really thinking...

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