PC Suite No Connect Fix

Question

Ok, I searched the forums in vain and tried every single thing.
At work I have a fresh XP Pro over a dual core, but didn't have the cable so I just plugged an USB Bluetooth dongle and then popped PC Suite over. Worked like a charm.
At home, however, it was a disaster zone. Errors in MSI files, errors installing, phone was not detected. Uninstall, clean, error. Over and over again. Phone was located OK via offline transfer mode, everything was fine, but the PC Suite never detected nothing. So I tried the cleaner, still nothing.
Even worse, the more I "cleaned" the worse it got, to a point where PC Suite claimed I had no cable, no serial, no bluetooth and no IR so, as a result, Fk me, what do I want? After much of the trial-and-error work, here is the way it finally worked:
*WARNING* You do this at your own risk. Should you decide to proceed, print this message or at least READ IT THROUGH. There is a chance you need a hint and this message is not there for you. Backing up is a GREAT idea. You should be 18 if you are on this forum so use your brain.
* Uninstall older PC Suite if any
* Uninstall everything else related to Nokia that actually uninstalls (my driver and connectivity solutions were stuck)
* Run the cleaner and clean throughly. ("issues with uninstallation" and "clean my pc")
* At this point, you'd think you got away with it but you did no such thing. Files are still there. so:
** Search the whole drive for "nokia". Delete everything that has the name on it. Nothing Nokia ever made was critical for your OS. ESPECIALLY nuke any INF file you find (archive if you are the cautious type), they are most likely old. Turns out the new phone loaded old files. You clean yet? No.
** Open Regedit and search for Nokia. Make sure your search includes keys, values, names, etc. Delete everything that has the logo. If it's a CLSID key (with curly braces and numbers/letters, like {ADC987-etcetc}), delete the whole {} key, not the subkey with Nokia dll or sys or exe. Keep going and remove from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE any devices that mount on USB with the Nokia on them. Again, nothing Nokia ever wrote was system critical, the chance of actually nuking anything is close to null. I DELETED OVER 100 KEYS. If you found 3, you either did it wrong or you didn't try so many times. Maybe you never had so many versions. Anyway.
NOW you have a clean drive and a clean registry hive. Just to make sure, also search drive for "PCSuite", there is a common folder named like that.
* reboot. (NOTE there is a chance your computer hangs while loading. The Nokia cleaner tries to call some Unregister files, but they are not there. Should this happen, press Alt+ctrl+del, start Task manager and kill Regsvr32.exe. System will continue loading.) Also note that if you reboot after the PC Suite clean tool you should avoid this issue altogether.
* You now have a clean system.
* Install Nokia PC Suite 6.28 2 (whatever the latest is). DO NOT TRY CABLE DRIVERS FIRST. It didn't even work on my machine, but you never know, why risk a version conflict? Once it's done, the connect wizard starts. Next it to where it asks for connection. You now have *fresh* inf files, so it's safe to plug your phone. When it's plugged, select "PC Suite" from the connection type dialog in the phone. When this happens, and you did everything right, an avalanche of small dialogs will start to install the devices that emulate the phone behavior. Some will go faster, some will go slower. Be patient, modem is most likely last. At some point, PC Suite will say in the background that it found your phone.
* Congrats. The process is called "uninstalling the previous version" in the less-than-automatic way. I have no idea about you, but MY installation loaded some of the files it used on my old 7610 phone so no connection, obviously.
IMHO, the PC Cleaner tool should also clean hardware keys it creates directly or indirectly. If a key for a driver already exists, Windows will fail silently to mount other drivers. Someone should have known that.

Answer 1

Hi out there,
i deinstalled the Toshiba BT Manager.
I installed another BT Dongle (USB from Yakumo). It worked after several tries.
Unfortunately i had to give it back to my collegue.
I deinstalled all that YAKUMO-Stuff and made another try.
With Toshiba SD Card now works:
- Usage of GPRS Modem Connection via BT (COM 41)
- Exchange of Data within Windows Explorer
But there is NO WAY to establish a Serial Connection (i configured it on COM42 with the Connection Wizard) between the Portege and the Nokia.
Regards
Marco