The old 'pc suite for nokia 6600 bluetooth problem' again!!

[Timbersnake]

Right, i hope i have the right section for this......

Let me begin by telling you ive been at this for three days now!!!!!
I have a bluetooth dongle. It will not work with Nokias PC Suite.

I am on:
XP Pro SP2
NOKIA 6600

The Bluetooth dongle is generic. At first, I had huge problems getting the Widcomm drivers to recognise the dongle. I managed to remove the Windows drivers for bluetooth, activate the widcomm drivers and now that annoying 'red' bluetooth icon in the system tray is now either white or green. Great, bluetooth dongle now activated with the proper drivers.

First of all, before the widcomm, the original microsoft bluetooth drivers seemed to work ok, but not with PC suite so it was slow and pointless (sending one file at a time). So this is why i engaged the WidComm ones to try to get the bluetooth and pc suite together.

However, the connection manager on PC suite still will not recognise the bluetooth connection.

Now i have heard this is a common problem, and ive found many jargon filled, half typed, half baked ideas on how to get round this. what i require is this worlds concrete answer, in FULL ENGLISH!!!! Imagine as you type your answer to this problem, that your not reading it through your eyes, but mine, and assume i know nothing at all about what your talking about. thus, no jargon, no codes, no slang, no maybes, just a full description of the solution.

Right, first of all, ive heard that if other devices are using the same com ports as other devices (i.e Microsoft activesync etc) then this causes problems. Of course, not a very helpful answer when they dont bother to say HOW to find out if other devices are using the same pre-selected com ports as have been selected for bluetooth. Any ideas how i can find this out??

Second of all, Ive also heard that PC Suite from Nokia is basically crap as it was built with 'shaky software' what ever that is. Perhaps I should get another PC suite?? Any suggestions, and i dont really see why i should have to pay for one either.

Mrouter refuses to connect, always grey no matter what you do. It wont let me select com port 7 either. (apparently through complete luck, if you right double click the mrouter icon and highlight your required port, then press the SPACE bar, it will tick or untick your selection. you will never find this info anywhere else as everybody is to lazy to write it, but here it is!!!!)

So basically, ive got the widcomm drivers and sp2 windows drivers for bluetooth all sorted. just want to get this pc suite thing done.

Now finally, ive heard lots of different solutions. but by now, a concrete guide must have been established that everybody refers to now??

Please please put me out of my misery. some of you will already no what i went through to get the widcomm drivers sorted, so please, have mercy!!!!

Also, if it turns out that PC Suite is crap, then shouldnt we all be getting in contact with nokia to get either a fixed version, or for them to purchase us another version like oxygen?? Surely, in respect, we've all been sold a dodgy product??

[8675309]

....nothing for the "concrete guide" as yet.

search the threads for "thanh" "6600" and "bluetooth" also "sp2"

it is easier i guess with a branded bluetooth dongle, than with a "generic" one.

or our power user thanh might read this thread and help you out....

[Timbersnake]

well, judging by the lack of response, there is no cure for this problem. Thats a shame.

Over the years, my first phone (and we are talking 9-10 years ago) was a nokia. forget the model now. It was on one of the countrys first pay-as-u-go (we were under 18 so no contract for us) After the 5th replacement, I sold the phone and never brought a nokia again.

Then, everybody went nokia crazy, and me being me, didnt follow the sheep. So ive had the old siemans S50 (very good), the old 'lob it at a mans head and he will die' motorolla, ive even had that cute little retro bosch phone, the first with the blue screen!!!

But, then came the nokia 6600, which basically wrapped up everything in a phone i could wish for. Very versatile, very compatible, unbelievable ability. Biggest screen on the market before you enter PDA territory, but still small and light.

Ive never had a probelm with this phone before, and its WAS the first phone where im due an upgrade now, but i dont need a new phone?! I was all set for the Nokia 6630 being my next phone. But now, im not going to bother with nokia again. I feel ripped off and very let down. As far as im concerend, nokia owe us all a refund on this. How can they have the bare-faced cheek to launch a phone with software that isnt compatible with bluetooth properly?? Basically rendering the phone useless. Oh yes, we can all get oxygen and the like, but whats the point in paying for it? When nokia gave us software the SHOULD have worked with bluetooth and the phone? Sort of takes the point out of bluetooth. I was basically mis-sold a product which re-installed my fears in the low quality of mass-produced nokia crap.

Well, thats my 2 cents worth.

[thetinster]

Firstly, make sure you have mrouter runtime installed as this is the software which searches com ports for devices allowing pc suite to work correctly.

Next you must make go to bluetooth settings in control panel and add incoming and outgoing com ports for your device. Be sure not to use com ports used by other applications. If after completing these steps you receive a message that com port in use by other application change port numbers on bluetooth settings.
With xp sp2 your com ports need to be excluded in your firewall options on control panel. This will allow the com ports you previously set to be used.

Finally go to mrouter properties and check the com ports. It is important at this point to make sure the com ports set up on your bluetooth settings are checked in mrouter. Use mrouter to connect to bluetooth device and your device should soon be shown on pc suite