Why is my CA-42 cable not recognised/malfunctioning?

Question

I have a Nokia 6020 and an unofficial (I think) CA-42 data cable bought off ebay. It continues to pop-up with:

'USB Device Not Recognised
One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognise it.'

I've tried downloading the software from the nokia website and from the disk that came with the cable, uninstalling the other version before installing the alternative, several times, blowing in the USB port and everything, turning the PC on and off - really, everything I can think of and that I've read I think I've tried.

I don't want to shell out £30 for another official cable from Nokia to find that the same problems occur with that one.

Anyone out there who can help??????? Pleeeeeeeeeease?

Answer 1

Nokia's are notorious for crap USB coms.

You have to turn on the PC & phone (& plug in the cable) in a very specific order (& don't forget that you also have to enable USB comms on the Nokia itself too).

Also the 'latest' version of the Nokia PC software is often WORSE than the previous version !

Search the newsgroups for your model number - you may get lucky and discover which version of s/w works for your phone and which order to turn on & plug in cables ... (there are a number of sites that 'archive' old drivers).


NB. Amazing enough, iRDA comms often work better than USB with Nokia's :-)

Answer 2

Why don't you by a blue tooth dongle and send all you information through that instead. They cost about a tenner!

I've got one and I'm not good on the computer, but i swap all stuff on to my pc with it and its really good! Easy too!
And my computer is ancient!

obviously your phone has to have blue tooth for it to work tho.