{"id":285,"date":"2009-06-12T23:32:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T18:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techtwaddle.net\/?p=285"},"modified":"2011-04-12T23:32:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T18:02:20","slug":"cellular-emulator-com3-in-use-please-verify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/2009\/06\/12\/cellular-emulator-com3-in-use-please-verify\/","title":{"rendered":"Cellular emulator, COM3 in use please verify"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\">I was trying to set up the cellular emulator with the windows mobile emulator on my laptop when the cellular emulator spat out &quot;COM3 in use, please verify&quot;. I knew it was another classic case of some application holding a port and another application failing because of it. Such problems are usually solved by changing the order of installing those application. To find a solution I binged around (yes! I bing :) and found this msdn <\/span><a style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\" href=\"http:\/\/social.msdn.microsoft.com\/forums\/en-US\/microsoftdeviceemu\/thread\/c3bc80fa-ed59-4ce7-bf42-3f77f85e9574\/\">forum link<\/a><span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\">.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\">No surprise that many people had already gone through this. Had a hunch that one of my bluetooth services was holding down on that port. I had to find a way to make the cellular emulator use another port, so I went about searching the registry. While the search was going on, I was reading through the forum thread and it mentioned about bluetooth services holding down on a number of ports. I disabled my bluetooth device and then re-enabled it. And then when I opened Cellular Emulator, it came up on COM3. How in the world!<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\">I guess my disabling and re-enabling of the bluetooth device must have somehow freed COM3. By that time I had reached the end of the thread and there was a solution suggested which involved changing your registry keys. Well, I didn&#8217;t have to do that.<\/p>\n<p>Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/geekswithblogs.net\/TechTwaddle\/archive\/2009\/06\/08\/cellular-emulator-and-device-emulator-com-port-issues.aspx\">Next post<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying to set up the cellular emulator with the windows mobile emulator on my laptop when the cellular emulator spat out &quot;COM3 in use, please verify&quot;. I knew it was another classic case of some application holding a port and another application failing because of it. Such problems are usually solved by changing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/2009\/06\/12\/cellular-emulator-com3-in-use-please-verify\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cellular emulator, COM3 in use please verify<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ktFF-4B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}