Update 24 April 2007
This is now solved, take a look at the article here:
http://davidburden.com/blog/?p=162
Further to my posting here at the beginning of February it seems that I’ve run out of options to get TomTom Plus services to work through my TomTom 910, through Bluetooth through to the data service on the US T-Mobile service.
I’ve tried every combination and permutation under the sun to get this to work. I even had to bribe our Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) administrators at work to help me out – but no luck.
I’m distraught to be honest. Two decent bits of kit that won’t talk to each other. Let me take you through some things I checked to save you the time.
First of all, I contacted TomTom customer support with a query. After 48 hours I got a poor reply on how to configure a Razr phone via Cingular. I have noticed however in the last couple of days they have updated their list of supported phones.
If you visit tomtom.com/phones you’ll see that hands-free calling is supported with the Blackberry Pearl 8100, nothing else.
I also phoned T-Mobile technical support. I spoke to a very friendly and helpful guys who spent probably 20 minutes with me – but we had no joy. The main thing we tried was tweaking the connection string each time. (Taking commas out, capitalisation, removing text in the quotes, etc) We also tried to enter wap.voicestream.com in the APN settings on the Pearl under Options > Advanced Options > TCP.
One thing I think everyone is in agreement about is that the APN to be used on the TomTom is wap.voicestream.com as the data plan is routed through this for all Blackberry devices.
The third thing I noticed was that because I was on a BES, some services were missing from my Bluetooth profile on my Blackberry Pearl. If you’re not on a corporate network, you shouldn’t have this problem, but by default Desktop Connectivity and Wireless Bypass are disabled via the BES administrator. These need to be activated by your friendly administrator.
Your Bluetooth Options screen should look something like this:
Device name: Blackberry 8100
Discoverable: Yes
Allow outgoing calls: Yes
Address book transfer: Enabled
LED Connection Indicator: On
Services:
Headset, Handsfree, Desktop Connectivity, Wireless Bypass
If you can’t see all these services, you’re probably on a restricted profile via your corporate BES.
So, that’s where I am at the moment, still without TomTom Plus services and not happy.
Two other little snippets that I’ve found in regards to the Blackberry Pearl recently. Even though I have a 1GB memory card, I can’t save any applications to it. This is causing me space problems on my Pearl as I currently have stacked it?above and beyond the standard applications with Newsclip, Google Maps, Opera Mini, Sudoku, Ka-Glom, Mail by Google and Instant Messaging. (All of these applications are fantastic by the way, especially Newsclip, Google Maps and Mail by Google)
Secondly, Microsoft Office Communicator for Blackberry doesn’t work on the Pearl. It’s a shame as it’s an application I used frequently on my?previous Blackberry. However, I think this is more of an issue of our BES being a few versions behind.
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