Nokia PC Suite 4.88, Windows XP SP2

My old laptop - which had IRDA port - is very dead so I want to load
Nokia PC Suite 4.88 (for 6310i) onto new Toshiba machine, without IRDA
but with bluetooth dongle

Nokia website says PC Suite 4.88 will not work with XP Sp2: does anyone
have experience of making it work (perhaps using compatibility mode?) Or
any other answers. Suite 4.81 perhaps?


Thanks
--
Richard C

On Thu, 3 May 2007 14:09:15 +0100, RCC
<richard@mapson_cowling1.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>My old laptop - which had IRDA port - is very dead so I want to load
>Nokia PC Suite 4.88 (for 6310i) onto new Toshiba machine, without IRDA
>but with bluetooth dongle
>
>Nokia website says PC Suite 4.88 will not work with XP Sp2: does anyone
>have experience of making it work (perhaps using compatibility mode?) Or
>any other answers. Suite 4.81 perhaps?
>
>
>Thanks
I had the PC Suite v6.80.22 working absolutely fine. I had my
bluetooth headset working very well with my PC too. Then I installed
the latest version of the PC Suite. What a massive mistake that was.
Nothing worked after that.
However, you want to know how to get PC suite working. Firstly, XP SP2
does not support Bluetooth Audio. So, I installed the Toshiba BT
stack. After that my headset worked. So, if you can install PC Suite
v6.80 and the Toshiba BT stack everything should work. Before
installing the Toshiba stack though it is necessary to delete the
Microsoft one. It could be that, being a Toshiba laptop, that it has
the Toshiba stack - check in device manager. I read an article
somewhere explaining just how to do it all but I've not been able to
find it since.
I am not clear as to why you want to install such an old version of PC
suite as 4.88. I assume that you know that you can download newer
versions of the PC suite from the Nokia web site.
My phone is a 6230i, I wouild imagine that the 6310i would be
supported on v6.8 of the PC Suite. If you are not bothered about
running a bluetooth headset with your PC then you might find that
simply installing the PC Suite will be enough to commuicate with your
phone.
Remove 'no_spam_' from email address.

On Thu, 3 May 2007 14:09:15 +0100, RCC wrote in
<news:w5xTwaO77dOGFwmE@cowling1.demon.co.uk>

> My old laptop - which had IRDA port - is very dead so I want to load
> Nokia PC Suite 4.88 (for 6310i) onto new Toshiba machine, without IRDA
> but with bluetooth dongle
>
> Nokia website says PC Suite 4.88 will not work with XP Sp2: does anyone
> have experience of making it work (perhaps using compatibility mode?) Or
> any other answers. Suite 4.81 perhaps?

Why not try Version 6.83.14.1, available on the Nokia site now. I am
running it right now with my 6230i to send this post and it runs fine.

--
Mike Tullett - Coleraine 55.13°N 6.69°W posted 03/05/2007 20:22:55 GMT

RCC wrote:
> My old laptop - which had IRDA port - is very dead so I want to load
> Nokia PC Suite 4.88 (for 6310i) onto new Toshiba machine, without IRDA
> but with bluetooth dongle
>
> Nokia website says PC Suite 4.88 will not work with XP Sp2: does anyone
> have experience of making it work (perhaps using compatibility mode?) Or
> any other answers. Suite 4.81 perhaps?

I had 4.8something running under XP SP2 until just recently. Worked fine
with a 6810i over IR. Don't have Bluetooth on the laptop so can't say if
that works.

However, I upgraded to PC Suite 6.81.13 (came on cd with a new phone)
and that works fine with the 6310i as well.

Don't whatever you do install the latest PC Suite (6.83) as that fucked
everything up, was an almighty pig to uninstall and clearly must have
failed even the most rudimentary product testing but they shipped it
anyway. :-(

Regards,
--
Bruce Horrocks
Surrey
England
(bruce at scorecrow dot com)

In message <5a21b3F2lpuoeU1@mid.individual.net>, Bruce Horrocks
<07.013@scorecrow.com> writes
>RCC wrote:
>>
>However, I upgraded to PC Suite 6.81.13 (came on cd with a new phone)
>and that works fine with the 6310i as well.
>
>Don't whatever you do install the latest PC Suite (6.83) as that fucked
>everything up, was an almighty pig to uninstall and clearly must have
>failed even the most rudimentary product testing but they shipped it
>anyway. :-(
>
>Regards,
Will try a 6.8...

The Nokia website is resolute in pointing 6310i owners to 4.88 which is
why I asked the original question. Thanks all.
--
Richard C