linking to Nokia phone using Billionton bluetooth card

I'm back up in Darwin again for a few weeks and trying to get my CF18 to connect using a Billionton PCMCIA bluetooth card to my Nokia 5500 sport phone so I can extract some pics I took yesterday with the phone's camera...

I can get the bluetooth device wizard under Xp to find the phone, and I can allocate a passphrase to it which then causes a transmission to the phone asking me to enter the code, however after about 10 seconds the phone says it cannot pair with the computer.

For those of you who have done this before, have I missed anything? I have had the phone paired up just fine with Bluetooth car kits and other phones (mainly ZTE phones which are what my work uses).

I am probably missing something simple.

THanks, Craig.

 

And I was missing something simple.

The only way to get the computer to receive a file over bluetooth from my phone is to use the bluetooth icon in the taskbar to open up a menu from which I can select 'receive a file'.

Trying to initiate the process from the phone fails and always gives a 'failed to connect' or similar message. Still not sure why but starting the process from the computer does work and I was able to get the images shifted over. If you're interested in the images (they're 3 pics of my train in Darwin a few days ago just as the sun was coming up) they're in my flickr space at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/navarzo2/3729433050/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/navarzo2/3729433048/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/navarzo2/3729433044/

Not bad for a mobile phone camera... And it proves that the Billionton card does indeed work fine. Still not sure why I need to start a transfer from the computer rather than the phone, but that could be due to the security issues associated with bluetooth (as it's not a secure protocol).

Craig.

 

nice pics!

In my experience bluetooth problems have not been with hardware or drivers but with the (poor) bluetooth integration that comes with windows.