Old Bluetooth, New Bluetooth...

[Dannyalcatraz]

I just got my hands on an iTouch, intending to use it to replace my aging Palm Tungsten T2.

The trick, of course, is transferring all my old data. Transferring my moderately sized "Contacts" section shouldn't be too much of a problem. Even if I have to do it manually, I think that's an "Orc-sized" issue.

The real "Tarrasque" is found in my Palm's "Memos" section, containing nearly 300 files- some as big as the software could handle- covering business, personal and RPG data.

So today I tried to use Bluetooth to beam a "chapter" of C chords in an alternative tuning from the Palm to the iTouch. Both devices had their Bluetooth activated, but while the Palm could find the iTouch and start the process, it quickly stopped and gave me an "Unable to send to:" message.

Looking at the sequence of events from the other side, the iTouch seemed not to be able to find the Palm.

Is there any way to get these 2 devices to start talking to each other?

Or am I going to have to...*shudder*...retype EVERYTHING manually?

 

[Alan Shutko]

The iPod Touch doesn't support Bluetooth file transfer. Curses!

The best chance would be to sync the files from the Palm to a computer, and import them into the iPod Touch.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Right now, I'm trying to figure out what exactly Bluetooth devices WILL do with each other.

Besides my Palm, I'm trying to get my new phone and the iTouch to talk to each other- and the phone to talk to the Palm, fwiw, but none of them are playing nice.

 

[Thanee]

Well, I would also hook them up to a PC for file transfer. Either via WLAN, if they support it, or via USB. That should be way easier.

I havn't used BT a lot (mostly for my headset), but file transfer is definitely possible, though I also had a case where two BT devices simply did not work together (probably because of differing standards; there are quite a few BT standards out there).

Bye
Thanee

 

[ssampier]

File formats, always fun.

From my cursory look, it looks like Outlook is the secret formula.