[arcteryx]

Hi nokia users,

Since a few days I am back to Symbian, after using Windows Mobile for a year. Got a Nokia E71 and really love it (user interface, phone and onboard functions are so much better!!), there is one problem although: whatever I try (see below), it seems impossible to use the phone as an external modem (and that’s a must have function for a phone for me). Important to mention: the mobile internet connection are working fine on the phone itself, AP settings seems to be OK. I tried following:

- Fixed cable connection, using the E71 USB profile ‘Share internet connection). Phone installs Nokia Connection Manager on my computers and tries acting as a modem. Got the error ‘No modem found’

- PC Suite One Touch Access: with the USB cable or Bluetooth connections there is no problem in connecting phone with the computer. When I try to connect to the internet with One Touch Access, the connection fails (with error messages ‘No modem found’ or ‘Could not use the connection. Modem could be busy or modem is not configurated properly’). I tried several settings: choose my provider, manually configurations, nothing worked

- JoikuSpot (let your symbian phone act as a wifi hotspot to share mobile internet connection): installs seamlessly, computers can see and connect to JoikuSpot, but then nothing happens. 0-0 packets are send and received when I check the status on the phone.

All the above I tried on two different Windows XP Home computers with compatible Bluetooth stacks (first tried Bluesoleil and then the standard Microsoft Bluetooth stack), with three different versions of Nokia PC Suite (6.7.22 + 6.86 + 7.07).

I hard-reset the phone several times (via *#7370#). I did not synchronise data to use a clean phone. Nothing worked. What worries me is that even the USB connection gave no response, it makes me think that the onboard modem is broken.

If you have any ideas what I can try, please share them with me!

Thanks a lot and greetings,

Wouter

[palangmead]

Have you downloaded the bluetooth modem drivers? You might also need the cable driver.

You can get the cable driver here:

http://europe.nokia.com/get-support-and-software/download-software/cable-drivers 

The Bluetooth drivers are in the downloads section of the E71 section of the Nokia page, but for some reason pasting a link won't work

I managed to get the trial of joikuspot premium working (on a mac), but you should be aware that the lite version of joikuspot just connects you to their home page. It's a demo only really, I have never been able to use it for sharing my phone's connection.

Good luck!

[StevenVeldstra]

You are so right, i have a windows laptop and all the connections work fine, 10mins and youre done, on apple however, everything seems to fail, thanks nokia for all youre sweet compatibility functionality (took mee 3 hours to set it up). Hmm either apple are duplo computers, or nokia just does not care (and will lose market share again).

Cheers,

And urhm its not my mac but my GF loves the look of those **bleep** pc's.

[StevenVeldstra]

the bleep part spels D_U_P_L_O you know the kids lego. It amazes me that nokia *bleeps* that.

Cheers

S