Nokia 6255 (new CD flip phone) problem

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#15118 29-May-2005 20:04

The Bluetooth issues you've mentioned Taniwha appear to occur on new GSM Nokias as well.

Depite many of the Sony Ericsson issues IMHO there is no disputing that every other manufacturer should follow SE's implimentation of Bluetooth, it's far superior to Nokia.

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#15162 30-May-2005 22:59

Well got my 1 gig memory card (mmc plus) 2day,

Just loaded 700 meg of my albums (thats 25 cds) or 350 odd files. Should be about 24hrs of listening time. Awesome! who needs a walkman now!! Not me now that I have this phone, the programming still bothers me but overall its a little gem!!!

Tried Winamp, free rip and Media player. But the best compression and fastest time for ripping was nokia audio manager in the PC suite that came with the phone. In their native .aac format. Great except Audio manager doesn't retrieve the titles etc. So used Media player and PC suite tiled on screen and copy and paisted the song titles over to Audio manager once media player had found them on the net. works well. Saves typing them in and I have a MS Office keyboard that has buttons for copy and paiste anyway.

Oh by the way if you guys and gals are interested. The best site for all memorycards (much better than trade me) is www.flashcards.com. Good site, good service, best prices.

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#15165 31-May-2005 08:49

Oh dear another problem,

The playlist is only capable of listing 200 titles so can't use random selection for all songs on the card have to select and play by album for all that is not in the playlist.

Again the programmers where a bit short sited big cards where available B4 the phones release and it has been promoted as an MP3 player.

All was going so well to that point. Damn silly!!

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#15168 31-May-2005 10:07

Great, a 1gig card works with them, I was a little concerned when in all the documentation I had seen from nokia the biggest sided mmc they had mentioned was 512megs, thought it might have been a mapping issue the phone just couldn't handle a bigger card.

I have managed to get my hands on a second headset for them (I'm sure you can use standard pop port headsets) and this weeks expriment in to butcher a headset into a stanard 3.5mm stereo jack plug and see if I can plug it into my car stereo, or any other stanard audio input.

Had mine about a week now, and my only real gripe is the dku5 cable not working with them, according to nokia it is compatable with the right driver, but I think because my cable is APT and not genuine nokia that might be the case, it does say on APT's site that the cable won't work with the 6255.

It's no biggy to me tho, just a pain to hae to open the phone up just to dump something new onto it. (Oh, I'm soooo lazy)

It's only power cycled a couple of times, and it's only been in a couple of places, I can almost tell when it's going to do it. If anyone else lives in New Plymouth and has the same probs let me know, I know of at least 1 other person who's phones powers down at the same spots, might be intersting to see if it's related to particular Cell Sites.

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#15169 31-May-2005 10:53

I am sure that when designed and first released overseas, these were rated for 64MB MMC cards, and later up to 512MB which possibly explains the 200 title limit.

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#15171 31-May-2005 10:58

My manual says 64MB is the limit

I also find that long mp3s (eg podcasts) often jump around inthe file unexpectedly.
If a sms arrives, the mediaplayer skips to the next track (again, annoying during a podcast)

The fastforward/rewind described in the manual, doesn't work at all

can anyone tell me if fastforward/rewind works on their 6255? If it's just me then i will be returning mine for a swap.

It's not all bad - the nokia does bluetooth stereo audio to my bluetake headphones, with great sound quality.
Walking past a cafenet wifi hotspot and the stream quality drops to something much lower, but recovers quickly. (makes for a good wifi detector)

Actaully, my bluetooth 1.0 headset gives up near most hotspots, and that's only going to get worse as there are more installe. That's one reason i'm keeping away from bluetooth keyboards for my PDA.. but i digress....

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#15172 31-May-2005 11:02

unless its within the OBF period, I doubt anyone will swap your phone for you - the manufacturer has the option to repair your unit if they choose

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#15177 31-May-2005 11:23

i'm pushy enough that i've got over the counter swaps after 6 months before. I buy enough stuff in that store so they seem to jump when i tell them to.

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#15178 31-May-2005 11:26

nice. i often do the same, but it must be horrible to be on the recieving end.

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#15180 31-May-2005 11:44

Taniwha, FF/RW doesn't work on mine either but I don't have the earlier issue you were talking about where the MP3/AAC stops when you receive a message. On mine it'll pause it, beep and then resume and same goes for phone calls and I can bounce around the menus. On a more interesting "I found a cool new trick", if you press the headset button when listening to music it'll skip a track and if you're on the standby screen, the above works but in addition you can hold it down to get the voice command prompt. Annoyingly, I think their voice commands are arse. On my dear old quasi-bluetooth T60c (the turnip to you my dear friend taniwha) you could literally dial a number by 'spelling' it out. I mean, what's the point of missed call list as a voice command as when you get to it, you're going to need to touch the phone anyway.

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#15181 31-May-2005 12:09

ditto.. my circa 1998 ericsson phone kicks the 6255 on bluetooth implementation.

i think my skipping to next track problems are related to the problem with long "music" files (that's >1hour).
after about 40 minutes the media player randomly skipps backwards about 5 minutes - this happens about every 15 minutes.
If a sms arrives during a 2 hour mp3, the phone will start from the beginning, or skip to the next track. This is especially annoying with no fastforward to get back to where i was.

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#15185 31-May-2005 16:27

Tanwhia,

Mine does ff/Rw. when the song is playing and visible on screen. Hold the scroll up it will RR, and if you press twice it will go to the beginning of the song etc etc. I had to RTFM but mine works. Try and RTFM it is a bit hard to remember the exact things to do until repitition and habit take over.

Hope this helps

By the way 700 meg of songs only took about 10 mins to transfer to the memory card via the Dick smith card reader I bought, not bad. Still not happy that I can't get the whole lot to play randomly though. With only a 200 song play list you start to hear them over. I wonder if I took them out of their Artist, and album sub folders and dumped them into one big file, If that would make a difference???

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#15186 31-May-2005 16:44

i have RTFM - page 50: "To rewind thew current track, press and hold the scroll up key. To fast forward the current track, press and hold the Scroll down key."

But the manual is incorrect. No rewinding and no fastforwarding takes place. The phone immediately skips to the next track when you press the down button. If i hold the down button, the phone cycles through my song list very quickly.

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#15189 31-May-2005 17:41

think I have it

If you go to your music files through Gallrey, open a folder and play. FF/RW don't seem to work.

But if you go in through Music player and get the screen with the rectangles with the song title and the seconds counting down and the play arrow showing FF/RW work.

Going in throught the gallery and playing an .acc track should bring up music player with all its functions or you should be able to go in through Music player and get to the gallery/Media card???

Check this out and see if yours is the same.

Another reason why the playlist should be as long as required or you should have access to the folders as you do in gallery from the options menu in music player. Silly silly silly programming!

PS
Also didn't mean to imply you couldn't or hadn't rtfm just that its hard for me to remember things after only one read or so. Apologies if that came across wrong!

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#15190 31-May-2005 18:13

Coupla things

Just read right through the whole thread and don't agree with the comments on testing/programming. I heard about this phone about 6 months B4 release so they had plenty of time to sort it. And alot of the things I am complaining about I found in the first two days and seem to me to be pretty simple. Just seems like someone had it, made a few calls but never really got to know it well. Mostly the issues are about access to more folders in the options menus in several different areas, especially Phonebook/ringtones and media player.

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Can't you just go down to dick smith and find a lead or combination of adaptors to go from the head phone jack on the top, to a stereo input. The sound out of this jack seems well below the sound out of the bottom port but if you plugging it into an amplified source this shouldn't matter. Let me know how you get on, be nice play my collection through another device, even the computer

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