Everyday I seem to find more and more ways to play with my E61i.

Python is a extremely powerful language , wich is finding everyday more and more ways to apply itself to the mobile world.

So this is how you would go on about pairing your S60 phone with Windows XP.

The hardware used is Nokia E61i (S60 3rd), Dikom Bluetooth USB dongle, Easynote R0933 with Windows XP on it.

I will be trying this asap on Ubuntu.

Bluetooth is supported natively on XP , but if you don’t have it set up yet, here’s the Broadcom installation file.

After that, PythonS60 is to be installed on the phone. Passed though cable, SD card, etc
Here’s the Sourceforge page.

Once Bluetooth support is installed ( if you needed to ), open the Bluetooth Configuration from the Control Panel:

During the installation process, the setup will help you to pair the devices. Just make sure they’re active.

Now we should create a few COM ports on our BT device, on the Local Services tab , for testing purposes.

This will then reflect itself on the listing:

Open the Windows Hyper Terminal from the Run.. dialog:

Follow the procedure as requested from the dialog. More or less, depending if you already have a Hyperteminal setup or not, the steps for a new connection are as follows.

Choose a name and icon, for this connection.

Choose the COM port that ou want the connection to be placed on. I choose COM7 since it was created for this purpose

On the COM port properties, for my BT device, i found it neccessary to restore defaults and set the Bits per second to 9600

Afterwards all we have to do is wait for an incoming call on this port:

I’m assuming that the Python shell installation file is already on the phone. Installed and working.

We open the shell:

and if all is good it should already start running:

From the Options menu we choose to open the Bluetooth shell:

And choose the same COM port that we choose on the HyperTerminal:

Once this port is choosen, the Python shell from your phone will immediately echo on the Hyperterminal of the computer:

At the very end, without getting too much into it, let’s give the product a shot:

Enjoy!

For me it’s a fact by now. Every time i decide to install WinXP back onto my laptop, something goes wrong. Big time.

After creating a 25 GB partition on my laptop i proceeded into installing Windows Xp Sp2 (which the laptop had preinstalled anyways when i got it).
The installation went smooth enough and as expected the MBR is messed up at this point and the computer boots directly into Windows.

As done a few times before, but still worth mentioning, the procedure in these cases is:

1. Boot the Live CD
2. Open a terminal window and type:

sudo grub

3. On the new prompt:

grub>> find /boot/grub/stage1
the answer in my case (hd0, 0)

4. Proceed

root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)


After the reboot all should be good and the boot menu should appear.
The windows installation needs to be installed manyally by editing menu.lst.

Funnily enough, this was not my case.
In every attempt to issue any command on the grub shell i kept getting:

Error:27 Unrecognized command over and over again.

Rebooting the computer continuously resulted in :

Error Loading Operating System

After messing around with CMOS parameters for a while, i also noticed that after booting the live cd and setting a boot flag on the windows partition instead, everything went fine.

To make this short, the solution was reached by starting another installation,
choosing Manual on the installation partitioner.
Choosing to NOT FORMAT any of the partitions and continuing the process. At the end the setup will execute a grub-install

All my files and docs were kept intact but the entire filesystem is swapped for the new one, so all
installed software, gone.

Not the end of the world anyways, i had a AptOnCd copy of my system.

I made the Windows installation to fuss around with the Warelex Mobiola Webcam application for symbian phones.
I’ll write soon enough an entry about it.