reesie Posted April 30, 2006 Report Share Posted April 30, 2006 Complete technophobe here! Does anybody know how to bluetooth photos and videos from your phone onto your computer? Or can you transfer them by some other means? I've tried,but failed, to figure it out! Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted April 30, 2006 Report Share Posted April 30, 2006 Does your computer have bluetooth? Bluetooth is a communications protocol that allows file transfer between two bluetooth enabled devices, phone and PC for instance. You may not have it on your PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reesie Posted April 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2006 Eh....I dunna ken. (I'm a bit of an ignoramus when it comes to computers) Do you have to download it? Is there another way to transfer them? Whatever the case the easiest option would be sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted April 30, 2006 Report Share Posted April 30, 2006 What computer do you have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reesie Posted April 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2006 Those kinds of questions scare me! Well, it's a Dell...need more info? I can't see any names or numbers....Apart from Optiplex GX280. Does that make sense? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted April 30, 2006 Report Share Posted April 30, 2006 That's a start!! ....I will investigate ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reesie Posted April 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2006 Tanks ta dee. I did try but I'm pretty clueless to be honest. Don't go to any bother though it was just on the offchance that somebody might know! Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted April 30, 2006 Report Share Posted April 30, 2006 It looks as though bluetooth is not a standard fitting from what I can see. If no-one has fitted one since you bought it you need a bluetooth dongle. It a device that plugs into your PCs USB port and allows communication between phone and PC. What type of phone have you got (there may be an alternative method)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reesie Posted April 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2006 Ah. My phone's an old battered Panasonic fax. Does that dongle thing cost money? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peeriebryan Posted April 30, 2006 Report Share Posted April 30, 2006 Hey Reesie. You can get a Bluetooth dongle from Maplin at St Enoch Square (assuming you're in Glasgow) You just stick it into a USB port on your computer, run the CD that comes with it and you should be all set. My one cost about 10 quid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reesie Posted April 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2006 Fantastico. Thanks Bryan. I take it that's one fo the shops opposite the shopping centre? Will I just ask the fellow (or fellowette) in the shop how to work with the photos and hellery or is it pretty sraighforward? Bearing in mind my level of technical ability....or interset, rather!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reesie Posted April 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2006 Clearly can't type either! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peeriebryan Posted April 30, 2006 Report Share Posted April 30, 2006 Aye, its on the other side of the square from the shopping centre. There's one on Great Western Road, kinda opposite the Liquid Ship and The Captain's Rest pubs I don't know about PCs, bit it was very simple to set up on my Mac. I reckon it should be quite straight forward on your PC too. The CD that comes with it should have a wee program to send/recieve files. And it depends on what the features on your phone are. I would imagine even a very basic phone should be able to bluetooth a few photos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reesie Posted April 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2006 Cool, I'll nip to the one on Great Western Road. Tahnks for that. Hope du's fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted April 30, 2006 Report Share Posted April 30, 2006 I don't know about PCs, bit it was very simple to set up on my Mac. I reckon it should be quite straight forward on your PC too. Reminds me of my days in IT support. Editor of newspaper asks my colleague, the IT Manager, if it would be difficult to move the (brand new) Dell PC to another desk. No problem at all says my boss, "as easy as moving an electric fire". He moves it and the PC will no longer attach to the network. He fiddles about for a bit - still no joy. He asks me in to look at it. I swap network cables - no joy. I test all of the other cables and the switch - all OK It's only 6 weeks old so I ring Dell tech support. They tell me to download network card drivers. They are 1.45 mb so wont go on a floppy so I have to download winzip, install it, download the drivers on another PC and span the drivers across two disks then unspan and install on broken PC. It still wont connect. I suspect that the NIC on the motherboard is faulty and tell Dell when I next ring up. They tell me that there is a process that I have to go through. We go through the process, me getting more determined to prove that I am right by following their every instruction. I FDISK and re-format the drive, re-install the OS and drivers. It still wont connect to the network. They tell me that I have installed the drivers in the wrong order. I am told to re-format the drive and reload the OS and drivers. i follow their instructions. Still no joy. Dell suggest faulty network cabling. I move the PC to a known working connection. No joy. Dell suggest faulty network hardware. I move the PC to a different HP switch. No joy. I take a hard drive out of an identical Dell and install it and the PC still wont connect to the network. I put what they say is a bad install on an HDD into another identical Dell and it connects perfectly. This is now 6 weeks later and Dell agree that it could be the NIC on the motherboard The techie replaces the motherboard and surprise surprise it connects to the network straight away. Two weeks later the exact same fault occurs. This time I buy an ethernet dongle. Two weeks later another Dell fails with the same proble. A month later another one fails. It looks like a faulty batch. i write myself a note to carry a couple of spare ethernet dongles as we have bought about 100 almost identical Dells and we are about to buy another 100. Moving an electric fire is a hard thing to do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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