I Love/Hate Technology

[legalmoose]

There are times when I really hate technology.

Knowing that there was this suite of software for my phone that is supposed to let you back up and synchronize data on your phone, and knowing that this would be a desirable thing (to share all my Palm/Outlook contacts with the phone), I went out and purchased an IR dongle for my PC. I got IR because I have more devices that can connect via IR (three) than via Bluetooth (one), so it would be more useful in the long run. Got the IR dngle in, got it all hooked up, and its running well. I can connect via the Palm, and the IR screen recognizes my 3650 is there.

Then I installed the Nokia PC Suite. Oy. First time, enough Windows errors that I had to restart it a second time (it does so once during install), and then it wouldn't find the phone. Plus the "connection manager" thing they claimed should be there wasn't there. So I uninstalled, rebooted, and reinstalled. Got the connection manager, and that shows the 3650, but the other tray icon never "connects" to the phone. Which means the PC Suite never gets past the "you need to connect to the phone" startup screen.

Makes you want to pitch the whole damn thing out the window. Maybe another "uninstall/install" round is in order. Ugh.

Anyway, time for bed and I'll deal with it more tomorrow evening. At least I got laundry done tonight around the computer mess.

Comments

[pinkfish.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, that Nokia PC Suite is a heap of rubbish. I didn't have the problems you did, (though I have heard others fail to get it working with IR), but even once it was working, it didn't let me edit my contacts easily on the PC side. I still don't have a working set of contacts on my phone. This shouldn't be that hard!

[plato4013.livejournal.com]

The 3650 looks like a really neat phone. I have the 6200 (in Charlie’s Angels 2) and it has IR built in so I just beam numbers from my palm and it enters everything in perfectly. I don't have the Nokia PC Suite, but I've seen a lot of people having problems with it on newsgroups. Hope you are able to get it to work. Sometimes installing software on a windows machine is such a pain....