Bluetooth and Nokia 6600

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Bluetooth and Nokia 6600 - SOLVED

Afternoon All

I have a wee bit of tribbles in getting WinXP SP2 (Pro), Bluetooth and a Nokia 6600 to work together.

I can send SIS files to the Nokia phone (for themes and games), this is successful.

However, I have a couple of photos which I need to download from the phone to the computer, but am unsuccessful in doing so.

Anybody have any suggestions?

Regards

Unbeliever
 
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Are you using the PC to pull the Photo's off the phone or are you sending the pics from the phone to the PC ?
 
Sending the pics from phone to PC (on the phone) - unsuccessful)

How can I pull them off with the PC? (Tried fooling around with the Bluetooth stuff, but can't get anything to works).

It connects fine, but won't create a serial port connection, although I'm able to send stuff from the PC to the phone.
 
The_Unbeliever said:
Sending the pics from phone to PC (on the phone) - unsuccessful)

How can I pull them off with the PC? (Tried fooling around with the Bluetooth stuff, but can't get anything to works).

It connects fine, but won't create a serial port connection, although I'm able to send stuff from the PC to the phone.
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You wont be able to create a serial port connection (requires Ad software). I dont know if you can do this with the the Nokia phones but you can with the Samsung's.

>Use the Bluetooth software and search for the phone
>Open the phone connection
>You then should be able to see your folders e.g Photos
>Select and copy from phone to Computer.

Thats how i copy pics from the D500
 
Download the latest Nokia PC-Suite from here and install it on the PC. It works with my Nokia 5140
 
I downloaded and installed the PC-suite for my phone, but still diddly-squat :mad:

grrrr... and bluetooth gets hyped because of its ease-of-use, jaja i have heard that before, now I'm not impressed.

Will keep on trying, I must be doing something stuupid, or something like that...
 
The_Unbeliever said:
I downloaded and installed the PC-suite for my phone, but still diddly-squat :mad:

grrrr... and bluetooth gets hyped because of its ease-of-use, jaja i have heard that before, now I'm not impressed.

Will keep on trying, I must be doing something stuupid, or something like that...
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With PC Suite installed on a XP Box.. you just go:

First Establish Trust Relationship between phone & pc.
..then..
My Computer -> Nokia Phone Browser -> Your phone should appear in there (sometimes takes a while to appear) -> double click on phone -> and proceed to peruse your phone in search of whatever you're looking for.

HTH.
 
I initially had the same problem with connecting until I found out that by right-clicking on the connectivity icon in the running tasks bar in the bottom right corner (looks like two grey ports) and selecting connect to a device it will open a connectivity menu which will allow you to select the device that you want to connect to.

If you just want to send a pic or file from the phone to a PC select as such on your phone, but at the same time open your bluetooth connection on your PC and select the receive file from bluetooth device.
 
HOWTO : Configure Nokia 6600 phone with Bluetooth and PC Suite for successful communications : (This was tested and verified on two computers)

YMMV - do try to use the latest software tho...

1. On a preferable clean system (if the system is not a clean system, skip to step 11) start the Bluetooth installation. Configure the software if needed.
2. Once the Bluetooth software installs successfully, pair the computer and phone. Don't do anything further. You MUST have a successful pairing, otherwise you will NOT be successful.
3. Reboot.
4. Install the latest Nokia PC Suite software. Make sure to tick the 'Install SDK' component as well.
5. Reboot when the installer asks you to do so.
6. Right-click on the Bluetooth icon in the system tray, open Advanced Configuration, and select the Local Services and Client Applications tab. (This may vary from software to software, I'm using the WIDCOMM Bluetooth Software 1.4.2 build 10 package).
7. Make a note of the value of the Bluetooth serial port in use for each tab. One port for sending, other for receiving. (well, it looks like it's using two ports, to be on the safe side, select both).
8. Right-click on the MRouter icon, select Properties, and deselect the Bluetooth - COM500 entry, and select the two Bluetooth ports that was listed in step 7.
9. Right-click on the blue 'B' in the system tray, click on Quick Connect, select Bluetooth Serial Port, select the paired phone.
10. The connection will throw an error out, but the PC Suite will connect successfully. Go figure. As long as it works... feh.

You can now successfully send and receive files, pictures, music, movies and pr0n (oops) to and from your phone... :D

Should you want to disconnect, right-click on the Bluetooth icon, and select 'Stop the Bluetooth device'.

Remember to switch off Bluetooth on your phone once finished.

11. On a "dirty" system :

--- This means a system which have the Bluetooth software and Nokia PC Suite already installed - uninstall these two first. Then, after disabling your firewall and Anti-virus, reinstall the applications and see if you're successful in connecting.

Also, make sure that you've got a working USB port... :p chances are if the Bluetooth software does not pick up the dongle, try inserting the dongle into another port, or another PC.

Should you be successful, disconnect from the phone, start the firewall and try connecting again. If this fails, the firewall is giving problems.

Should you be successful with the firewall enabled, disconnect from the phone again, enable your anti-virus software and try connecting again. If this fails, then the anti-virus software is blocking something.

Remember that other USB devices and software might also be interfering with your Bluetooth connection. If you still have problems, try restarting Windows with no running programs and see if that fixes it.

Regards
 
Bluetooth is a horrible, horrible "standard". First time I got Bluetooth working (for a customer), it three weeks of back and forth trips, firmware updates, software updates, etc. It's better now, but can still sometimes be a bitch. The XP SP2 Bluetooth stack seems a heck of a lot easier than the Widcomm one. I'm using my Logitech MX5000 keyboard/mouse Bluetooth adapter to talk to my cellphone.
 
Agrees with Claymore.

Dunno why they make it so buggy and problematic, and then proclaim it as a standard when you'll have less hassle with a cable or cradle.

Some products it works flawlessly, others it is problematic.

Can't we open a Bluetooth forum to share our experiences with this?

*must remind myself to make sure my next cellphone must also have the ability to use cable connection - IR is also problematic *
 
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