too many phone books!

[Matt Price]

On Mon, 2006-20-11 at 07:41 -0500, VGS wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a V551 too which I baught from Rogers. After searching around the 
> net around 2 years back, my conclusion was that a cable+software(windows 
> only called mobile phone tools. Approx $50 ) was the only way to 
> interact with the phone. Even after installing the software, I found 
> that bluetooth would not work . Connection would take place but nothing 
> else was possible. I had to use the cable. I felt that motorola might 
> have deliberately messed around with the bluetooth as the software was 
> available on many p2p sites . It may also be possible that Rogers has 
> locked it so that the customers are forced to use the built in internet 
> service to upload/download files instead of bluetooth. Hope this helps.
> 


well, I suppose it helps inthe sense that it will stop me messing about
trying to fix this machine.  obviously I'm not going to bother with the
cable -- evne if I did urn an instance of windows as a vm under vmware
or xen the hassle of getting thingssynced would likely be prohibitive.  

bummer. t hanks htough,
matt


> Regards,
> Shinoj.
> 
> Matt Price wrote:
> 
> >hi,
> >
> >I've just finally become a cell phone user for the first time.  I have a
> >cheap motorola phone with bluetooth, the v551 (rogers is the carrier).  
> >
> >For the last little while I've kept my address book in evolution, synced
> >to my pda through pilot-link.  that works pretty well.  now I'm finding
> >I have to re-enter all my phone numbers into the phone b/c I have no
> >idea how to interface it with evolution or, indeed, with my computer at
> >all.  I assume I just have to somehow get a bluetooth connection and
> >make them talk, and that this is somehow possible.    
> >
> >I assume that other people have some way of dealing with this situation.
> >so, is there some way to sync my phone to evolution, and to my pda, in a
> >manner that won't end up generating all kind of duplicate entries in all
> >of the above (duplicate entries is my main problem with the pda <-->
> >evolution setup I already have)?  If someone knows the answer I'd love
> >to hear it!  
> >
> >thanks as always,
> >matt
> > 
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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