Re: [newbie] Re: Nokia 6800 connection
On Monday 14 March 2005 16:23, Amy wrote: Indeed, my model does not have bluetooth. I would be using the data cable to connect it up. Do you have a program you use for things like contact book backup, loading pictures on your phone, etc? Part of the reason I'm asking on the list is that I am having trouble getting answers out of Google. I've tried, but my googling skills apparently suck and I can't get anything I can make heads or tails of. I use kdebluetoothd for everything that my phone does. I have made connections with the stock Nokia software under Win using my work computer but the Symbian OS can be used with Linux, just not quite as elegantly. So, contacts can be sent and received from the phone using standard .vcf format. From KDE Contacts, save one of your contacts in vcf format and you can then send that to the phone and from there, you can save it as a contact in the phone. You can also send from the phone to your computer, again as .vcf and then import it into KDE. For pictures, you simply send the picture to your phone or from your phone and it comes down or goes up as an image. Same for .mid files for ringtones, etc. kdebluetooth comes with a file transfer agent using bluetooth that is very adequate. None of this is material to you since you don't have bluetooth. IR works as well on my phone but I haven't done any IR under Linux since my desktop machines don't have IR connectors. I haven't ever used a data cable so I don't have any info about that, when I went shopping for a phone, I was specifically after bluetooth for obvious reasons. However, according to my reading, your model has very limited PDA functions, so possibly you won't need to go as far down that path. Try here: http://devidal.tv/~chris/nokia_6800/ And, there is a Linux/Win tool called gnokii that is specifically for connectivity of phones and Nokia 6800 is supposed to be supported. http://www.gnokii.org/ -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Nokia 6800 connection
On Sunday 13 March 2005 18:16, Amy wrote: If anyone else is reading this, and has any experience with Nokias directly, I'd appriciate it if you'd comment and let me know. Thanks! I have a Nokia 6600. It has IR and Bluetooth. I have used bluetooth quite a lot and the connection to Linux is fine. I can send files, receive files, contacts, etc. However, IIRC, your model does not support bluetooth so the only connection method that I can see would be via cable. Also, Nokia's software is usually freely available though it only works with Windows. You should be able to find a lot of howto's for Linux by Googling. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Nokia 6800 connection
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:34:57 -0500, Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 18:16, Amy wrote: If anyone else is reading this, and has any experience with Nokias directly, I'd appriciate it if you'd comment and let me know. Thanks! I have a Nokia 6600. It has IR and Bluetooth. I have used bluetooth quite a lot and the connection to Linux is fine. I can send files, receive files, contacts, etc. However, IIRC, your model does not support bluetooth so the only connection method that I can see would be via cable. Also, Nokia's software is usually freely available though it only works with Windows. You should be able to find a lot of howto's for Linux by Googling. -- Bryan Phinney Indeed, my model does not have bluetooth. I would be using the data cable to connect it up. Do you have a program you use for things like contact book backup, loading pictures on your phone, etc? Part of the reason I'm asking on the list is that I am having trouble getting answers out of Google. I've tried, but my googling skills apparently suck and I can't get anything I can make heads or tails of. Thanks! -- I have 50 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Nokia 6800 connection
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:21:23 -0600, skunge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amy wrote: Hey guys, I want to connect my Nokia 6800 phone to my computer to put my own images on it (the ones that came with it suck, and the ones I can download are over priced for what they are), and I was wondering if anyone's been able to connect a mobile phone to a computer running Mandrake in order to upload pictures and sounds to it? More specifically, has anyone gotten the Nokia 6800 connected correctly? I'm tight on money at the moment, and so I'd like to avoid spending money on a data cable that's going to do me no good. I haven't had much, if any luck, with what I saw on Google, and I didn't see anything about connecting mobile phones in the list's Wiki. Thanks in advance for any help! Amy I can't speak to Nokia from experience, but I've gotten Samsung and Sanyo phones connected to Mandrake with bitpim (http://bitpim.sourceforge.net/). The bitpim site only indicates one Nokia phone model known to work, but states others may work, though they are untested. You'll need a USB cable made for your phone, and it looks like you can get one here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=5755884150category=20366 I bought my cable on eBay, and it worked like a charm. The eBay knock-offs are about $50 less than the cable the phone vendors sell. Good luck! I can probably get the data cable I need through work, and only pay a couple to a few dollars more than the cost of the cable you linked + shipping. Maybe even about the same taking my employee discount into consideration. Though, if I hadn't caught the subtext of the coupon Nokia gave me when I registered my phone, I might have bought it from them. They charge $49.95, and I have a coupon for $10 off, but it requires me to spend $50 or more, and that usually doesn't round up five cents. *shrugs* I'll look into the one at work though, thanks. If anyone else is reading this, and has any experience with Nokias directly, I'd appriciate it if you'd comment and let me know. Thanks! Amy -- I have 50 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
