N-Gage QD and MP3

My mobile phone is N-Gage QD. I bought this for Symbian OS, MP3, Gaming and for the cheap price.

After purchase I realized that I have to buy a Bluetooth adapter too. So I bought Billionton USB Blue tooth adapter. There after the problem starts.

I have Windows XP profession in my system so I thought I don’t any driver for installing my Bluetooth adapter. I plugged in my Bluetooth dongle into my system and as expected Windows XP recognized my USB device and installed the default Microsoft drivers for it.

So I am able to connect my mobile to my system using blue tooth. The Microsoft driver enables normal operations without any installation. But it does not support direct software installation, address book synchronization etc. I installed Nokia’s PC Suite software to do the above tasks.

After installation I tried starting PC Suite but it exit with a message - no mobile phone connected. I tried setting up a serial port for the Bluetooth device but it also failed.

So I tried installing the Billionton drivers and noticed a valuable message in the driver installation screen – Please Install drivers before plugging in the device. I already plugged in the device !!! The installation goes very smooth and finished by adding one icon to the system tray.

After installation, the Billionton driver says no device found when I plugin the Bluetooth dongle whereas the Microsoft drivers detects it. It is because Microsoft driver connects to the device since it is installed first and there is no more device for the Billionton driver to connect.

After lot of search I found that the following methods should be followed to make the Billionton driver as the default driver.

1) Install Billionton driver
2) Connect you Bluetooth device and let the Microsoft driver detect it
3) Disable the Microsoft Bluetooth driver(2.7GHz) and enumerator in the Device Manager.
4) Now insert your Bluetooth device.

After following these steps the Billionton driver is able to detect my Bluetooth device. I have created a serial port after this and using this serial port connection the PC Suite(change the settings in mrouter) is able to communicate my mobile.

All over – Nothing can now stop me from playing MP3 songs from N-Gage. I started copying a MP3 file and noticed it the speed is very sloooooow due to the serial port connection. So I went to a electronics shop for a MMC card reader and bought it. Now the copy process it very fast, so I copied lot of MP3 into MMC card.

When I tried to play a song I realized that NGage QD does not come with a MP3 player. So I started the next search for MP3 player …………………………. and found Helix player – Helix is free and it supports multi formats. I downloaded it and installed it. Played a song and found NGage QD has only mono output. Listening MP3’s in mono system is very good to ears, you know J