Apologies for the intrusion.
I too have an 8300 and noticed that you mentioned Bitpim and that you
had it working. If you care to share some info I would appreciate it.
I purchased a bluetooth dongle that sees the phone and
vice-versa...howeve, bitpim does not, no matter what I do. Seems like
the serial settings are com7 & com8 and neither they nor any others
shown in device manager(4 through 14) do either--when I manually
insert them.
I can make the computer 'see' certain instructions from the phone,
depending on what transaction I enter. However, bitpim cannot---times
out each and every time.
I assume the serial connection is what bluetooth uses but I cannot
seem to change the embedded com7 &com8 and, in any case, as I
mentioned, none of them work.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks
Tex