Help. 7210 IR problem

I had no problems transfering ringtones and images from my lap top to my
7210 via IR connection. That is until today. Now it says 'Failed to
update ring tone / image to phone'. I have checked the connection, it
works fine. No memory problem, because I still have more than 300 kb. I
am using PC Suite 5.61 on the Windows XP lap top. I had removed and
reinstalled PC Suite, still the same problem. I even deleted some games
on the 7210 to get more memory, but without success. I need help, please
somebody help me.

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"Bumita" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I had no problems transfering ringtones and images from my lap top to my
> 7210 via IR connection. That is until today. Now it says 'Failed to
> update ring tone / image to phone'. I have checked the connection, it
> works fine. No memory problem, because I still have more than 300 kb. I
> am using PC Suite 5.61 on the Windows XP lap top. I had removed and
> reinstalled PC Suite, still the same problem. I even deleted some games
> on the 7210 to get more memory, but without success. I need help, please
> somebody help me.

Hmm, I've not met this one before. There are four possibilities I can think
of other than a bug or glitch, but none may be right. Some file systems have
a limit to the number of files they can store in total, and in a given
folder. You could try making a new folder and using that. Or you could try
deleting some of your ring tones or graphics and then seeing if you can
upload a different ringtone or graphic respectively.

Secondly, it's possible that even though the memory is shared that the phone
reserves a set amount of memory for things. For example it may keep say 300K
for contacts. So you can have 500K if you want, but if you just have 1K
you're still using 300K.

Thirdly, it's possible the system is reporting it's free memory based on the
total memory size minus the amount that is used. A common mistake that many
of my computing students have made in the past. People often forget that the
amount of space a file takes up on a disk is actually a multiple of the
cluster size required and not the actual size of the file - it's always
more. This very "feature" appeared in early versions of Windows 95. People
were using FAT16 on their hard drives from Windows 3.1 and upgraded to
Windows 95 which promptly created hundreds of shortcuts which were each
about 300 bytes in size. However, each of these shortcuts really took up
about 32K or even 64K as that was the cluster size of the hard drives and
these people then wondered why they had used only 80MB of their hard drive
yet their 400MB hard drive was full! In an ideal world the files would just
be stored in the same way they would be loaded into RAM, but it's easier for
people to use a filesystem like FAT16 that has already been tried and tested
and is readily available.

Finally, it could be that the file allocation table is full. This is where
the phone will store the information on all of its files, like name, size,
attributes, and which bits of memory they use.

Try deleting a picture or two then uploading another picture, or try
deleting a ring tone then uploading another one. Does this work?

Adam

"Adam Greatrix" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Finally, it could be that the file allocation table is full. This is where
> the phone will store the information on all of its files, like name, size,
> attributes, and which bits of memory they use.

Nokia is a little vague on exactly how it adds up, but here is their memopry
list for the 7210:
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The following functions share dynamic memory that is dependent on the data
quantity per item and shared memory available at a time in the Nokia 7210.

Phone book (up to 300 entries)
.. SMS messages (up to 150 text messages or 50 picture/concatenated messages)
.. MMS (up to 15 max size 30 kB MMS messages)
.. Ringing tones (31 preset, 20 removable, up to 60 average size 5 kB ringing
tones)
.. Images (10 preset, up to 35 average size 10 kB images)
.. Calendar notes (up to 250 entries)
.. To-do list (up to 30 entries)
.. JavaT applications (3 preset, up to 6 max size 64 kB per application)
-------------------------------------

Not sure if the 20 removable are included in the 60 or what. Seems like one
would have to have an awful lot of ringers before it were a problem, but who
knows.

BTW, the Ericson t300 is weird with cluster sizes or whatever. I have put
..8k files on that only too the memory total down by 1k, others of less than
1k have taken 3, and almost anything over 5 takes up 10.


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Thanks for the lengthy explanation. I sure appreciate that. BTW, I have
only downloaded 13 ringtones with average size of 15 kb, and only 1
image of 24 kb. I have deleted all the preset images and ringtones in
the gallery to get more memories. But the same problem persisted. I
suspect it's something to do with the phone's IR mechanism. Someone
suggested I purchase a cable (I don't know what cable) to connect the
phone directly to the laptop. But I am not going to depart with my money
unless I know for sure it will work. Any suggestion?
Thank you.

Bumita wrote:

> I had no problems transfering ringtones and images from my lap top to
> my 7210 via IR connection. That is until today. Now it says 'Failed to
> update ring tone / image to phone'. I have checked the connection, it
> works fine. No memory problem, because I still have more than 300 kb.
> I am using PC Suite 5.61 on the Windows XP lap top. I had removed and
> reinstalled PC Suite, still the same problem. I even deleted some
> games on the 7210 to get more memory, but without success. I need
> help, please somebody help me.