Chatter Of The Squirrel

Nokia 6120 Classic

April 11, 2008 on 11:20 am | In Me!, Reviews |

Woke up before dawn and drove to KLIA on Thursday morning.

My aunt was transiting there, and had a package from my sister. A Nokia 6120 classic. Unlocked at last!!

My sis got it free for renewing a 2yr contract with 3-Network. She brought it to me last month, and I failed to unlock it myself. Nor could anyone at LowYat. So she had to bring it back to Melbourne, and luckily the company was willing to unlock the phone for no charge.

Happy Happy Joy Joy.

A new phone after 4+ years of using my Siemens S65.

OLD

NEW

Step 1: Transfer Contacts data from the Siemens to the Nokia.

Not as easy as it SHOULD be…

I’ve been saving phone data on the phone’s addressbook itself. Not in the SIM card. I store multiple numbers for each person, birthdays, addresses, and sometimes their car license plate number (so I know what car to look out for when a friend is supposed to pick me up). Can’t do all that on the SIM card. So, I somehow have to back up the contacts data on the Siemens.

Should have been easy enough. I still have my Siemens data cable. Bought it cheap off Lelong.com years ago, when I flashed the firmware of my S65 with the more updated version of the S6C firmware, the Chinese version, which had given me a more stable phone with Chinese text input to boot.

Then I need the software. Siemens should have a Mobile Phone Manager. Which I can’t find on their website. Siemens sold off their cellphone business to Benq several years ago. And thus no longer host the software. And on Benq’s website, despite having taken over these products years ago, have yet to host the software either.

Took me ages trawling through forums etc to find a copy hidden in a forum somewhere. Softpedia has a copy with a corrupt zip file.

And after all that. The software doesn’t detect my phone. Maybe something’s wrong with the data cable. Haven’t used nor touch it in 4yrs and it just dies like that??

I should just send the Contacts data from the Siemens to the Nokia one by one via Bluetooth. (Bulk sending doesn’t work). One by one for almost 200 numbers.

But what kind of a programmer will I be if I did that? A programmer is someone who, when given a 1 hour job, will spend 59 minutes to find a way to do it in 1 minute.

There happens to be a PC-Fair today. So I head out. Good excuse to drop by Petaling St for my favourite wantan mee.

The PC Fair was rather meh. The only thing special was a booth selling a never before heard Jap brand UMPC (Ultra Mobile). About the same size as an EEEPC, twice the price, but with a slim DVD drive.

Picked up a cheap USB Bluetooth dongle. And a 4GB micro-SD for my new pretty phone.

On the way back, I met up with a random guy near Ikea, and bought some second-hand bike stuff. More details to follow another time…

Back home, with the Bluetooth device… Still not working.

Downloaded some other phone backup software. Nada.

Until… I downloaded the latest BlueSoleil Bluetooth driver/software, which also works on x64 Windows. (And the necessary crack from Astalavista.)

Then I started making some progress. Screw the Siemens software. A most useful alternative is Mobtime Cell Phone Manager. With this, I could finally connect to my Siemens. Also managed to pull out my SMS archive, of a few hundred SMS that was ‘keep-worthy’.

Now, it should be as simple as connecting my NEW 6120 to the same software via Bluetooth also…

BUT NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! Mobtime CPM doesn’t support the 6120 yet!! S.F.D.!!!

But there’s another way… I can export my contacts list into Outlook Express. This feature is only available in the registered version of Mobtime CPM. Then I save those exported contacts into a .vcf file. Load these contacts into my Outlook Express Addressbook.
Install the Nokia Phone Suite for my 6120. Let it hunt for contacts from my Express Addressbook.

And it’s done.

Finally.

At 2am.

Step 2: Finally explore all the other cool things I can do with this phone.

Like listening to Third Eye Blind on it.

It even comes with Realplayer. And the first video I converted and uploaded into my phone?

This.

Why wouldn’t I want a video of an alien girl on a Vespa smacking people’s head with an electric guitar?