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Connection to phone could not be established:
Could not open COM7!

I had this working last week. Can't think what's changed to stop this from working.

I've tried:
- Removing the device from my bluetooth devices and re-adding it,
- De-selecting and re-selecting the "Serial port (SPP) 'MyPhoneExplorer'" Service in the bluetooth device properties
- Uninstalling (re-booting) and re-installing MPE on the PC
- Using a different COM port in MPE (COM9 - Standard Serial over Bluetooth)

None of these fixed or got around the problem.

One strange thing that I haven't seen before is that there are two "Serial port (SPP) 'MyPhoneExplorer'" Services in the services tab of the device properties. One has its checkbox un-checked and doesn't have a COM port associated with it. The other has COM7 and is checked.

I have tried removing both Incoming and Outgoing COM Ports from the Bluetooth Setting dialog->COM Ports tab but this didn't fix the problem either.

Log file below:


Logdatei MyPhoneExplorer
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Programmversion: 1.8.2
Datum: 17/02/2012

13:47:50.40 Setting Port: 999
13:47:50.40 Setting Baud: 115200
13:47:50.40 Avaiable Ports: COM3=\Device\Serial0; COM7=\Device\BthModem0; COM9=\Device\BthModem1;
13:47:50.42 Main Load frmSplash
13:47:50.45 Load frmSplash...
13:47:50.98 Hauptfenster wird geladen
13:47:51.64 Sidebar fertig geladen
13:47:55.70 UC SMS wird geladen
13:47:55.85 UC Phonebook wird geladen
13:47:55.96 UC Phonebook fertig geladen
13:47:55.96 UC Calls wird geladen
13:47:56.02 UC Organizer wird geladen
13:47:56.19 Organizer initiated
13:47:56.29 Startpage=3
13:47:56.30 UC Filebrowser wird geladen
13:47:56.39 UC Filebrowser fertig geladen
13:47:56.39 UC AppBrowser wird geladen
13:47:56.40 UC Notes wird geladen
13:47:56.41 UC Calls wird geladen
13:47:56.44 Setting Lastuser: HTC Desire S [356708048458911]
13:47:56.45 Lade Userdatenbank: HTC Desire S [356708048458911]
13:47:56.69 LoadDatafile: Phonebook.dat(345352 Bytes)
13:47:57.18 Kontakte geladen
13:47:57.22 LoadDatafile: Calls.dat(9208 Bytes)
13:47:57.37 Anrufe geladen
13:47:57.55 LoadDatafile: Organizer.dat(154766 Bytes)
13:47:57.76 Organizer geladen
13:47:57.77 Notizen geladen
13:47:57.77 Load SMS Data...
13:47:57.79 LoadDatafile: SMS.dat(117854 Bytes)
13:47:57.79 SMS - Datenbank wird geladen...
13:47:57.91 SMS Laden - Readfile: 16 Split: 0 Parse: 125 HandleMultiSMS: 0 Nachrichten: 564
13:47:58.03 RefreshList (Archive): Addrows=0 Sort=0 MenuUpdate=0 Redraw=0
13:47:58.18 SMS Data Loaded...
13:47:58.18 SMS geladen
13:47:58.92 Hauptfenster fertig geladen
13:48:01.19 Avaiable Ports: COM3=\Device\Serial0; COM7=\Device\BthModem0; COM9=\Device\BthModem1;
13:48:01.19 Neue COM-Bibliothek wird verwendet
13:48:01.19 SPort Properties set, opening COM7
13:48:02.87 After OpenPort
13:48:02.87 Could not open COM7!
13:48:02.87 bOpened=False
13:48:02.87 Could not open COM7!
13:48:02.87 Refresh ComDescriptions...
13:48:02.87 PORT: COM9 Enumerator=BTHENUM Displayed=Standard Serial over Bluetooth link InstanceID=BTHENUM\{00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB}_LOCALMFG&0000\8&15C9992C&0&000000000000_0000000C
13:48:02.87 PORT: COM7 Enumerator=BTHENUM Displayed='HTC Desire S' Bluetooth-Port InstanceID=BTHENUM\{00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB}_VID&0001000F_PID&0000\8&15C9992C&0&64A769B95D83_C00000006
13:48:02.87 PORT: COM3 Enumerator=PCI Displayed=Intel(R) Active Management Technology - SOL InstanceID=PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C3D&SUBSYS_21CE17AA&REV_04\3&E89B380&0&B3
13:48:02.87 ErrMsg: Connection to phone could not be established:
Could not open COM7!
13:48:03.78 Downloader: RC=6 BytesMax=5 URL=http://www.fjsoft.at/myphoneexplorer/version.txt
13:48:09.72 Refresh ComDescriptions...
13:48:09.72 PORT: COM9 Enumerator=BTHENUM Displayed=Standard Serial over Bluetooth link InstanceID=BTHENUM\{00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB}_LOCALMFG&0000\8&15C9992C&0&000000000000_0000000C
13:48:09.72 PORT: COM7 Enumerator=BTHENUM Displayed='HTC Desire S' Bluetooth-Port InstanceID=BTHENUM\{00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB}_VID&0001000F_PID&0000\8&15C9992C&0&64A769B95D83_C00000006
13:48:09.72 PORT: COM3 Enumerator=PCI Displayed=Intel(R) Active Management Technology - SOL InstanceID=PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C3D&SUBSYS_21CE17AA&REV_04\3&E89B380&0&B3
13:48:10.15 StickyNotesPath=C:\Windows\system32\StikyNot.exe FileExists=True
13:48:10.19 StickyNotesTitle=Sticky Notes
13:48:13.81 OK pressed in settingswindow
13:48:13.93 Set first swap of settings
13:48:13.94 Apply new holidays
13:48:13.96 Holidays applied
13:48:13.98 Second swap of settings set
13:48:13.99 Everything is done
13:48:14.48 Avaiable Ports: COM3=\Device\Serial0; COM7=\Device\BthModem0; COM9=\Device\BthModem1;
13:48:14.48 Neue COM-Bibliothek wird verwendet
13:48:14.48 SPort Properties set, opening COM7
13:48:15.98 After OpenPort
13:48:15.98 Could not open COM7!
13:48:15.98 bOpened=False
13:48:15.98 Could not open COM7!
13:48:15.98 Refresh ComDescriptions...
13:48:15.98 PORT: COM9 Enumerator=BTHENUM Displayed=Standard Serial over Bluetooth link InstanceID=BTHENUM\{00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB}_LOCALMFG&0000\8&15C9992C&0&000000000000_0000000C
13:48:15.98 PORT: COM7 Enumerator=BTHENUM Displayed='HTC Desire S' Bluetooth-Port InstanceID=BTHENUM\{00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB}_VID&0001000F_PID&0000\8&15C9992C&0&64A769B95D83_C00000006
13:48:15.98 PORT: COM3 Enumerator=PCI Displayed=Intel(R) Active Management Technology - SOL InstanceID=PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C3D&SUBSYS_21CE17AA&REV_04\3&E89B380&0&B3
13:48:15.98 ErrMsg: Connection to phone could not be established:
Could not open COM7!
13:48:38.08 Avaiable Ports: COM3=\Device\Serial0; COM7=\Device\BthModem0; COM9=\Device\BthModem1;
13:48:38.08 Neue COM-Bibliothek wird verwendet
13:48:38.08 SPort Properties set, opening COM7
13:48:39.13 After OpenPort
13:48:39.13 Could not open COM7!
13:48:39.13 bOpened=False
13:48:39.13 Could not open COM7!
13:48:39.13 Refresh ComDescriptions...
13:48:39.13 PORT: COM9 Enumerator=BTHENUM Displayed=Standard Serial over Bluetooth link InstanceID=BTHENUM\{00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB}_LOCALMFG&0000\8&15C9992C&0&000000000000_0000000C
13:48:39.13 PORT: COM7 Enumerator=BTHENUM Displayed='HTC Desire S' Bluetooth-Port InstanceID=BTHENUM\{00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB}_VID&0001000F_PID&0000\8&15C9992C&0&64A769B95D83_C00000006
13:48:39.13 PORT: COM3 Enumerator=PCI Displayed=Intel(R) Active Management Technology - SOL InstanceID=PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C3D&SUBSYS_21CE17AA&REV_04\3&E89B380&0&B3
13:48:39.13 ErrMsg: Connection to phone could not be established:
Could not open COM7!
13:48:40.61 Avaiable Ports: COM3=\Device\Serial0; COM7=\Device\BthModem0; COM9=\Device\BthModem1;
13:48:40.61 Neue COM-Bibliothek wird verwendet
13:48:40.61 SPort Properties set, opening COM7
13:48:40.86 After OpenPort
13:48:40.86 Could not open COM7!
13:48:40.86 bOpened=False
13:48:40.86 Could not open COM7!
13:48:40.86 Refresh ComDescriptions...
13:48:40.87 PORT: COM9 Enumerator=BTHENUM Displayed=Standard Serial over Bluetooth link InstanceID=BTHENUM\{00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB}_LOCALMFG&0000\8&15C9992C&0&000000000000_0000000C
13:48:40.87 PORT: COM7 Enumerator=BTHENUM Displayed='HTC Desire S' Bluetooth-Port InstanceID=BTHENUM\{00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB}_VID&0001000F_PID&0000\8&15C9992C&0&64A769B95D83_C00000006
13:48:40.87 PORT: COM3 Enumerator=PCI Displayed=Intel(R) Active Management Technology - SOL InstanceID=PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C3D&SUBSYS_21CE17AA&REV_04\3&E89B380&0&B3
13:48:40.87 ErrMsg: Connection to phone could not be established:
Could not open COM7!
13:49:01.54 Avaiable Ports: COM3=\Device\Serial0; COM7=\Device\BthModem0; COM9=\Device\BthModem1;
13:49:01.54 Neue COM-Bibliothek wird verwendet
13:49:01.54 SPort Properties set, opening COM7
13:49:02.72 After OpenPort
13:49:02.72 Could not open COM7!
13:49:02.72 bOpened=False
13:49:02.72 Could not open COM7!
13:49:02.72 Refresh ComDescriptions...
13:49:02.72 PORT: COM9 Enumerator=BTHENUM Displayed=Standard Serial over Bluetooth link InstanceID=BTHENUM\{00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB}_LOCALMFG&0000\8&15C9992C&0&000000000000_0000000C
13:49:02.72 PORT: COM7 Enumerator=BTHENUM Displayed='HTC Desire S' Bluetooth-Port InstanceID=BTHENUM\{00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB}_VID&0001000F_PID&0000\8&15C9992C&0&64A769B95D83_C00000006
13:49:02.72 PORT: COM3 Enumerator=PCI Displayed=Intel(R) Active Management Technology - SOL InstanceID=PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C3D&SUBSYS_21CE17AA&REV_04\3&E89B380&0&B3
13:49:02.72 ErrMsg: Connection to phone could not be established:
Could not open COM7!
13:50:10.90 Avaiable Ports: COM3=\Device\Serial0; COM7=\Device\BthModem0; COM9=\Device\BthModem1;
13:50:10.90 Neue COM-Bibliothek wird verwendet
13:50:10.90 SPort Properties set, opening COM7
13:50:12.21 After OpenPort
13:50:12.21 Could not open COM7!
13:50:12.21 bOpened=False
13:50:12.21 Could not open COM7!
13:50:12.21 Refresh ComDescriptions...
13:50:12.22 PORT: COM9 Enumerator=BTHENUM Displayed=Standard Serial over Bluetooth link InstanceID=BTHENUM\{00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB}_LOCALMFG&0000\8&15C9992C&0&000000000000_0000000C
13:50:12.22 PORT: COM7 Enumerator=BTHENUM Displayed='HTC Desire S' Bluetooth-Port InstanceID=BTHENUM\{00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB}_VID&0001000F_PID&0000\8&15C9992C&0&64A769B95D83_C00000006
13:50:12.22 PORT: COM3 Enumerator=PCI Displayed=Intel(R) Active Management Technology - SOL InstanceID=PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C3D&SUBSYS_21CE17AA&REV_04\3&E89B380&0&B3
13:50:12.22 ErrMsg: Connection to phone could not be established:
Could not open COM7!
13:58:00.45 Refresh ComDescriptions...
13:58:00.45 PORT: COM9 Enumerator=BTHENUM Displayed=Standard Serial over Bluetooth link InstanceID=BTHENUM\{00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB}_LOCALMFG&0000\8&15C9992C&0&000000000000_0000000C
13:58:00.45 PORT: COM7 Enumerator=BTHENUM Displayed='HTC Desire S' Bluetooth-Port InstanceID=BTHENUM\{00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB}_VID&0001000F_PID&0000\8&15C9992C&0&64A769B95D83_C00000006
13:58:00.45 PORT: COM3 Enumerator=PCI Displayed=Intel(R) Active Management Technology - SOL InstanceID=PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C3D&SUBSYS_21CE17AA&REV_04\3&E89B380&0&B3

One strange thing that I haven't seen before is that there are two "Serial port (SPP) 'MyPhoneExplorer'" Services in the services tab of the device properties. One has its checkbox un-checked and doesn't have a COM port associated with it. The other has COM7 and is checked.

This should not happen.
- restart your phone
- remove the phone from your bluetooth environment on the PC
- make a new pairing, check which COM-Port was assigned and then try again

Restarted phone - only one COM port showing in the device now and it's connecting fine again via BT.

Thanks!