» Sony Ericsson W595 Bluetooth and Address book Options

[Andy_P]

Hi, people who know me here will probably be surprised to find I've had very little experience of the joys of phone pairing with the TomTom.
I've tried it of course, with my family's various phones, but I've never had a phone of my own that was even BT capable!

Well I've joined the 21st century at last!

After a lot of research, I reckoned that Sony Ericsson phones seem to be most compatible, and Orange have the W595 on special offer PAYG at the moment. When I checked the compatibility table and saw EVERY box ticked, I decided that was good enough for me!

So far....
Pairing was easy, but the connection seemed pretty flakey, either the phone or the TomTom kept saying it had disconnected (or re-connected) momentarily.
Also, the read and write text message buttons were greyed out, and a test text didn't get displayed.

To cut a long story short, I tweaked a few settings in the phone and after (I think) changing the Handsfree/Incoming call setting to ""handsfree" in the "Calls" section rather then the "Bluetooth" section, it seems to have settled down.

So I'm a happy man.

Now, a couple of problems with the phonebook import.

Firstly, it has imported BOTH the phone memory and the SIM card memory, so as I'd just backed everything up to the SIM card every contact now appears in the list twice. In the contacts.txt file the two lists appear shuffled randomly, so I'll have to re-sort them in Excel and then delete every second line, but should there be a better way?

Secondly, when I look at the contacts.txt file created on the TomTom in Notepad or in Excel, every character has an exclamation mark added after it (although it displays OK on screen) so it looks like this:

">>A!l!e!x! !+! !J!a!n!/!M!","0123456789","DEFAULT"
">>A!l!l!S!t!a!r!-!M!i!/!M!","0123456789","DEFAULT"
">>A!l!l!S!t!a!r!-!P!/!M!","0123456789","DEFAULT"
">>A!l!u!n! !C!u!r!n!o!/!M!","0123456789","DEFAULT"
">>A!r!n!o!l!d!'!s! !L!/!M!","0123456789","DEFAULT"
">>B!b!/!M!","0123456789","DEFAULT"
">>B!e!t!t!e!r!s!o!u!n!/!M!","0123456789","DEFAULT"
">>B!i!l!l! !B!e!l!l!e!/!M!","0123456789","DEFAULT"

It's a mess, and I suppose it's down to messing about in Excel to try to make it look better, but again... is there a better way?

[Andy_P]

(Part) answerring my own question...
1. I got round the duplication issue, by just deleting all the contact numbers on the Sim card

2. The problem with the exclamation marks was on a 940. I've just repeated the exercise on a 720 and its fine this time. So still a mystery, but I can copy the file across to get round it.

[Andy_P]

I still have the Bluetooth constantly disconnecting and re-connecting, and it's doing it on both my 720 and my 940 now.
That seems to imply to me that it is the phone at fault (my wife's Nokia doesn't do it on the same TomToms).

Is this a common fault, would they understand me if I took the phone back to the Orange shop and asked for a replacement?

[CompufixUK]

I know im a bit late in replying but here goes......

The W595 is not known for BT power issues, which is what is suggested by the constant disconnects. Certain SE models are known for this but yours isnt one of them. Having said that they use the same bluetooth chip and power components as the ones who do have the issues. Why its not a common fault is somewhat of a mystery!

My advice is either exchange it, or take it to your local service centre (Oxford St ?) and ask them to send it to a higher-graded centre to have the BT power checked.

   Post has been edited by CompufixUK (Jun 2 2010, 12:46)

[Andy_P]

Sorry, I didn't update my post when I should have done....

The intermittent connect/disconnect only happens on my Go940.
when I tried the same phone on a Go950 it stayed connected perfectly.

So it looks like the 940 is where the problem lies.