Mobile Action MA-730 Bluetooth Handset Manager.

I have just bought one of the above and wonder if any other members of
this ng has had any experience of using them. The device, consisting
of a CD of software and a special Bluetooth dongle, is supposed to
download the phonebook and other data on my Nokia 6230i to my computer
hard drive.

I set it up and it starts the download procedure but then suddenly
stops downloading before the complete phonebook has been transferred.
I then try again and again but the same thing happens. A notice comes
up on the PC saying that the downloading has failed.

I wonder if anyone has any ideas how to fix the problem as the system
seems very good if only it would complete the download.

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Alasdair.

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> I have just bought one of the above and wonder if any other members of
> this ng has had any experience of using them. The device, consisting
> of a CD of software and a special Bluetooth dongle, is supposed to
> download the phonebook and other data on my Nokia 6230i to my computer
> hard drive.
>
> I set it up and it starts the download procedure but then suddenly
> stops downloading before the complete phonebook has been transferred.
> I then try again and again but the same thing happens. A notice comes
> up on the PC saying that the downloading has failed.
>
> I wonder if anyone has any ideas how to fix the problem as the system
> seems very good if only it would complete the download.

Use Nokia's own software.

I suspect that your dongle is not special in any way, it may be branded
as such but it isn't.
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Regards
Jon

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:22:41 +0100, Jon <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Use Nokia's own software.
>
>I suspect that your dongle is not special in any way, it may be branded
>as such but it isn't.
>--
>Regards
>Jon

I can assure you that it is very special and has its own key code. The
software will not work with an ordinary bluetooth dongle as I have
tried that.

The software can be downloaded from the Internet free of charge
www.mobileaction.com but it will only work with a MA dongle for which
one has to pay.

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Alasdair.

> The software can be downloaded from the Internet free of charge
> www.mobileaction.com but it will only work with a MA dongle for which
> one has to pay.

I looked at the site but still don't understand... what's it for? It seems
to do the same as the Nokia software which is free anyway.

Joe

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> >I suspect that your dongle is not special in any way, it may be branded
> >as such but it isn't.

> I can assure you that it is very special and has its own key code. The
> software will not work with an ordinary bluetooth dongle as I have
> tried that.
>
> The software can be downloaded from the Internet free of charge
> www.mobileaction.com but it will only work with a MA dongle for which
> one has to pay.

Well I stand corrected, but also dumbfounded.

If it's simply a matter of knowing the bluetooth passkey then this
surely will be in the documentation somewhere? In fact you would have to
know the passkey to be able to enter it into your phone.
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Regards
Jon

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:06:42 +0100, Jon <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>Well I stand corrected, but also dumbfounded.
>
>If it's simply a matter of knowing the bluetooth passkey then this
>surely will be in the documentation somewhere? In fact you would have to
>know the passkey to be able to enter it into your phone.
>--
>Regards
>Jon

No, one enters the passkey into the software during the installation
process. That allows it to talk to the dongle.

The free Nokia software is fine as far as Nokia goes but the MA allows
one to transfer phone books from one handset to another. If I were to
buy a Motorola phone f'rinstance, I could transfer the phonebook from
my Nokia to my Motorola with no losses or truncations.

Most shops say they will transfer your phonebook from your old phone
to your new one but they use a SIM card as a "wheelbarrow" and if you
look at data transferred by SIM, it is truncated because the SIM can
only cope with words of limited length.

BTW, I have over 200 entries in my phonebook collected over many
years!

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Alasdair.

"Alasdair" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:06:42 +0100, Jon <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>Well I stand corrected, but also dumbfounded.
>>
>>If it's simply a matter of knowing the bluetooth passkey then this
>>surely will be in the documentation somewhere? In fact you would have to
>>know the passkey to be able to enter it into your phone.
>>--
>>Regards
>>Jon
>
> No, one enters the passkey into the software during the installation
> process. That allows it to talk to the dongle.

Yes, that's for the software, not the BT driver which is available
separately.

> The free Nokia software is fine as far as Nokia goes but the MA allows
> one to transfer phone books from one handset to another. If I were to
> buy a Motorola phone f'rinstance, I could transfer the phonebook from
> my Nokia to my Motorola with no losses or truncations.
>
> Most shops say they will transfer your phonebook from your old phone
> to your new one but they use a SIM card as a "wheelbarrow" and if you
> look at data transferred by SIM, it is truncated because the SIM can
> only cope with words of limited length.
>
> BTW, I have over 200 entries in my phonebook collected over many
> years!

Personally I'd still ditch the MA device and buy a generic BT dongle with a
Widcomm stack. There is software available for most handsets that allows
you to import and export phone book etc. You may have to use an intermediate
format such as csv though.

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> The free Nokia software is fine as far as Nokia goes but the MA allows
> one to transfer phone books from one handset to another. If I were to
> buy a Motorola phone f'rinstance, I could transfer the phonebook from
> my Nokia to my Motorola with no losses or truncations.

> BTW, I have over 200 entries in my phonebook collected over many
> years!

Sync the nokia with outlook (if you can) and then your chosen new phone
also with outlook. That's how I do it, I have around 250, most with 2
numbers and about half with an email address and around 30 with postal
addresses.
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Regards
Jon