Help needed: Mac Mini and Nokia 6680.

[dalo]

Hello folks. I will just drop a few lines to see if anyone else ever heard of a similar problem and what I might do to get it right.

I have a Mac Mini (Mac OS X 10.4.4), and a Nokia 6680 mobile phone. Since I got my Mini I've been using the Bluetooth synch function to keep the Adress book application in synch with the Contacts in my 6680, but lateley the Bluetooth link between the phone and computer has started to fail more often. This resulting in the Bluetooth icon in Adressbook going back to grayis color, and the 6680 reporting "disconnected from <hostname>. It GOES on when I want it to, but only for a couple of seconds.

At the moment, this doesn't bother me that much. But sending SMS messages via Adress book is a really cool feature that I actually use for sending all my SMS messages whenever I am near my computer.

If more details is needed, I can provide them, blut at a first glance --does anyone know what seems to be going on? My 6680 and Mac Mini works as it should in every other aspect that I can think of.

 

[dalo]

Things have now changed:

The computer in question is now a PowerBook G4 17", the os is 10.4.7.

Beside of that, "Adress book" stilll disconnects to my phone whenever I feel like using Adress book for writing SMS. A very neat feature, by the way. Why is this so?

Interesting to note is that if I open the dialog of sending stuff to my phone (at the very top bar of Mac OS), and choose my phone and connects to it, THAT connection won't drop out. The bluetooth connection works with the phone in every other way, it's just Adress book. Having the Bluetooth file exchange window open listing the contents of the phone (read: having an active connection to the phone), WHILST trying to connect with Adress book, WON'T DISCONNECT Adress book, judging from the blue BT icon on top of the application. It seem to work as long as it gets help from another application that can establish a BT connection.

Or so I thought.

Even if the BT icon in Adress book won't drop off if I follow the above procedure, it still disconnects in the way that sending SMS option when right clicking on a contact is grayed out.

So it stil drops the connectiion, even if Ive found a way for Adress book not to report so to the user. The frustrating users.

Anyone?

 

[fryke]

I'm trying to find out what exactly doesn't work. Just looking at the PB 17" now. Have you *ever* been able to send an SMS through Address Book with this combo? Does it only sometimes disconnect - or always, and is the option always greyed out?

 

[dalo]

I'm trying to find out what exactly doesn't work. Just looking at the PB 17" now. Have you *ever* been able to send an SMS through Address Book with this combo? Does it only sometimes disconnect - or always, and is the option always greyed out?

Interesting you looked up the specs of my computer. But have in mind:

This was the very same thing with my previsous mac's. Unsure if it's worth mentioning, they were:

A PowerMac G4 with a Bluetooth USB flash card.

A Mac Mini (ppc) with built in Bluetooth.

And of course my current PowerBook G4.

Think is, the problem here occured on all those machines, and they were very different systems.

So, say, I try to do this in Adress Book. BT on 6680 is turned on always (and by the way, the Symbian OS in the 6680 runs the iSynch agent, neat).
I click on the B in Adress Book, and after a while it goes to blue. As far as I know, it is actually connected to the phone, but only 5 seconds. I havent even tried sending a SMS in that time, of course I could try to do it. So that's it, it disconnects.

The long post up there only mentioned a way for Adress Books BT button to remain blue, but as I said, the BT connection is as dead after 5 seconds as it is when it's gray.

Interesting stuff... any suggestions?

I have since then reset my 6680 too, and re-installed (I had to, due to the reset) the iSync agent.

Also note that this is the only broblem realting to Bluetooth between my phone and my computer (also any of my previous machines). Everything else works as it should.

 

[fryke]

I didn't have to "look up" your Mac config. You mentioned it in the post in this thread. But if you say it happened with all your Macs and you've completely reset the phone, it might just be that the AB support for this particular phone is flakey. I don't have a 6680 here, so I can't test it. Maybe someone else on here's got one?

Googling "6680 nokia address book sms", I've stumbled across this: http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-44053.html ... and I guess it's simply not implemented for this particular phone. Which is sad - but probably there's not much one can do. I can only add that I never got that feature to work with my old Nokia 6600, which was also an S60 phone (older OS version, though). If I remember correctly, I've only ever managed to get it to work on Sony Ericsson phones.

 

[dalo]

I didn't have to "look up" your Mac config. You mentioned it in the post in this thread. But if you say it happened with all your Macs and you've completely reset the phone, it might just be that the AB support for this particular phone is flakey. I don't have a 6680 here, so I can't test it. Maybe someone else on here's got one?

Googling "6680 nokia address book sms", I've stumbled across this: http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-44053.html ... and I guess it's simply not implemented for this particular phone. Which is sad - but probably there's not much one can do. I can only add that I never got that feature to work with my old Nokia 6600, which was also an S60 phone (older OS version, though). If I remember correctly, I've only ever managed to get it to work on Sony Ericsson phones.

Well, yeah. But the problem is that it IS supported, and it has worked from time to time... for over weeks, sometimes. If it was unsupported or straight dead, I'd be happier, but it HAS worked on all those machines (including this one), and I feel confident it will on this PB too. Still, I rely on this, and I'd be glad to find a way to get around it. Meaning, how to fix it.