Right I've had it with this 6600

For the last three months I have not been able to get any info out of
my Nokia 6600 onto a PC. When I fire up PC suite the taskbar shows
that a phone with an illegal filename is connected. It shows as a
series of squares and greek characters and PCS won't read any of its
information. I can't delete the dud entry in Control Panel. I have
uninstalled PC ****e, run reg cleaner, uninstalled Bluetooth,
reinstalled Bluetooth, reinstalled PCS, tried various incarnations of
MRouter - no good. I have even had the phone's firmware reflashed (
and lost a good sound that I could not get off the phone) and the same
problem occurs again and again.

I can install apps onto the phone, amd use a Jabra headset, so the BT
connection is working. But somewhere along the line this illegal name
entry has appeared and I just cannot get rid of it. Moreover since
the firmware was reflashed the battery life appears to have dropped by
50%.

It's not just bluetooth - the phone won't talk to any PC via
infra-red. It's not just PC Suite - the Oxygen demo program can't
find my phone at all. I have even installed BT on a second PC, and
managed briefly to create a sync with the 6600. Bt that was 10 days
ago - i tried last night and could not get the BT connection to work.

I have been thinking about replacing the 6600 with a 6230. I wanted a
phone with a proper MP3 player and a radio anyway - it just didn't
come out in time for last Xmas. I have lost of spare mains and car
chargers etc for Nokias but -

Am I just going to waste my money? Will Pc Suite for the 6230 be just
as PC ****e as the one for the 6600? Is it my phone at all or is it my
BT setup?

Are any of the competitors worth considering? I used to have a Sony
t68i which was small and cute - the BT connection worked properly and
I could sync fine with the PC - but it couldn't take photos and it was
increddibbblllyyy sllllllllooooowwwww.

Opinions and suggestions welcome.

nl

PC Pro this month - "Bluetooth is here - and it works!" My arse.

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Moreover since
>the firmware was reflashed the battery life appears to have dropped by
>50%.

what firmware do you have, type *#0000# in standby.

>
>It's not just bluetooth - the phone won't talk to any PC via
>infra-red. It's not just PC Suite - the Oxygen demo program can't
>find my phone at all. I have even installed BT on a second PC, and
>managed briefly to create a sync with the 6600. Bt that was 10 days
>ago - i tried last night and could not get the BT connection to work.
>
>I have been thinking about replacing the 6600 with a 6230.

good downgrade! have fun with the smaller screen and less
customisability!



have you tried formatting the phone?



i've never had problems with bt or irda on my 6600. connects fine to
my hdw-3 headset, pc and ipaq no probs whatsoever!

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 09:31:21 +0100, eggster2k
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Moreover since
>>the firmware was reflashed the battery life appears to have dropped by
>>50%.
>
>what firmware do you have, type *#0000# in standby.

v 4.09.1
26.02.04
NHL-10

it was flashed two weeks ago at a Carphone Warehouse.

>
>>
>>It's not just bluetooth - the phone won't talk to any PC via
>>infra-red. It's not just PC Suite - the Oxygen demo program can't
>>find my phone at all. I have even installed BT on a second PC, and
>>managed briefly to create a sync with the 6600. Bt that was 10 days
>>ago - i tried last night and could not get the BT connection to work.
>>
>>I have been thinking about replacing the 6600 with a 6230.
>
>good downgrade! have fun with the smaller screen and less
>customisability!
>
I know it's smaller, but that has advantages of its own. As for
customisability, I love apps like SmartLauncher and SMS reminder, but
I find it hard to like a phone that doesn't do the basics.

>
>have you tried formatting the phone?
>
One of the first things I did.

>
>
>i've never had problems with bt or irda on my 6600. connects fine to
>my hdw-3 headset, pc and ipaq no probs whatsoever!

Until the second BT installation refused to work I was convinced it
was the BT stack on my PC. In fact I still am. Everything works fine
*except* syncing to the PC but that's annoying enough to taint
everything else.

> Until the second BT installation refused to work I was convinced it
> was the BT stack on my PC. In fact I still am. Everything works fine
> *except* syncing to the PC but that's annoying enough to taint
> everything else.
>

Hi,

I've just gone through the painful procedure of getting my 6600 to talk to
PC Suite using an MSI USB BT adaptor on XP SP2. Don't know what OS you're
using, but my phone firmware is the same as yours. If you're using MSI
search for my posts 'Bluetooth PC Suite Queries' of the last few days.

Regards,

K

If you are running Windows XP you might try Service Pack 2 since it includes
a Bluetooth Stack. Also, use recent version of PCSuite, like 6.2 or higher.

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...xp/choose.aspx

http://www.nokiausa.com/phones/software/6820/


"Kieran" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
>> Until the second BT installation refused to work I was convinced it
>> was the BT stack on my PC. In fact I still am. Everything works fine
>> *except* syncing to the PC but that's annoying enough to taint
>> everything else.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just gone through the painful procedure of getting my 6600 to talk to
> PC Suite using an MSI USB BT adaptor on XP SP2. Don't know what OS you're
> using, but my phone firmware is the same as yours. If you're using MSI
> search for my posts 'Bluetooth PC Suite Queries' of the last few days.
>
> Regards,
>
> K
>

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 15:22:49 -0600, "Projekt 13"
<[email protected]@m.colostate.edu.NO> wrote:

>If you are running Windows XP you might try Service Pack 2 since it includes
>a Bluetooth Stack. Also, use recent version of PCSuite, like 6.2 or higher.

you can't use pc suite 6.2 with the 6600. it has its own pc suite

On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 08:12:45 +0100, eggster2k
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 15:22:49 -0600, "Projekt 13"
><[email protected]@m.colostate.edu.NO> wrote:
>
>>If you are running Windows XP you might try Service Pack 2 since it includes
>>a Bluetooth Stack. Also, use recent version of PCSuite, like 6.2 or higher.
>
>you can't use pc suite 6.2 with the 6600. it has its own pc suite

Thanks to all for their positive suggestions.

I solved the problem by going into the Registry, finding the dud entry
under 'Nokia' and deleting it. Next time I synced - sunc? up, PC
Suite found the 6600 under its proper name and right now it is backing
it up. Hallelujah.

This was after installing SP2 by the way, which doesn't appear to have
done much harm so far, but didn't make any difference to the Nokia
problem.

I'm using Nokia PCSuite 6.2 successfully with a Nokia 6620 (Windows XP SP2
and Microsoft Bluetooth - the one that my keyboard/mouse use).




"eggster2k" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 15:22:49 -0600, "Projekt 13"
> <[email protected]@m.colostate.edu.NO> wrote:
>
>>If you are running Windows XP you might try Service Pack 2 since it
>>includes
>>a Bluetooth Stack. Also, use recent version of PCSuite, like 6.2 or
>>higher.
>
> you can't use pc suite 6.2 with the 6600. it has its own pc suite

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 11:01:22 -0600, "Projekt 13"
<[email protected]@m.colostate.edu.NO> wrote:

>I'm using Nokia PCSuite 6.2 successfully with a Nokia 6620 (Windows XP SP2
>and Microsoft Bluetooth - the one that my keyboard/mouse use).

maybe over in america yes, but not here in europe for the 6600.

I have the same problem. Anyone knows which file should be deleted?
Thank u in advance,
Panagiotis

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:35:10 -0500, pmperik
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>>
>> I have the same problem. Anyone knows which file should be deleted?
>> Thank u in advance,
>> Panagiotis
>>
if you mean an illegal filename in the status bar, and you are running
XP, the solution is:

run 'regedit'

find the entry for 'Nokia'

in a subfolder of 'Nokia' you will see the illegal filename and
several subfolders branching off it

delete the illegal filename and all its subfolders.

close regedit.

That's it.

I recently found that my Nokia 6600 had tempoarily forgotten its IMEI.
Some apps I had installed were complaining they did not belong on the
phone. Checking the IMEI I found it was reported as ????????????????
I cured the problem by rebooting the phone and it remembered its IMEI.

I think I must have tried to run PC Suite to sync the phone when it
was having one of these attacks of amnesia. A new connection was made
with an illegal filename and it was impossible to get rid of without
editing the XP registry.

fixed, thanx.............
I deleted a file and everything is fine now