My windows always lose focus

recently my macbook cannot work well 'cause the windows always lose its focus. i canno find out what's wrong with my computer. i tried restart, clean the PRAM and even reinstall the os. but all did not work out.
please help me . this problem is so annoying that i cannot type fluently and even cannot operate with a dropdown menu.

That could be the solution... but no luck..
Now, I´m running with stack: v6.01.03(D)
...and the problem is still there.
*More background:*
I am using a SonyEricsson sync program, every morning I connect my mobile via this program. The program is set to autosync the first thing when it detecs the mobile via bluetooth. The laptop stays often in the it´s dock and when I leave it (with the mobile in my pocket) and come back, they find eachother again and the sync starts. This way I never need to start the sync by myself which I always forget otherwhise.
The problem is that my computer sometimes checks if my mobile is still there (I suspect), and each time it starts to use the internal bluetooth device, the focus of current window I´m using is lost, this is of course very annoing when I´m writing something etc. This occurs regardless of the result of the search, ie regardless of it finds the phone or not.
Is there any workaround without losing that my phone autoconnects with my computer and the sync starts?

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