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I`ve just purchased a USB lead for my new K500i to enable me to download/upload to my phone. I got the lead from Ebay and whilst the drivers supplied and software loaded fine for some reason it`s not detecting the phone. Device manager indicates that the US lead is working correctly which leads me to assume the problem is at the other end i.e connection to the phone.

I`m a bit of a novice with mobiles and only had the K500 a few days. Should i have enabled something on the phone first? Also when trying to access WAP, orange World etc the phone cannot establish a connection. Could this be related?

Any help greatfully received.

John

tbh, i`ve never had any luck with data leads, but there are a couple of important things to consider, first off is the lead an oficial sony/ericson accessory ? or a "third" party jobie ? cos usually the software that comes with the phone will only work with official leads (it`s this way with nokia phones anyway) secondly, if it`s a third party lead, you may need different software something like mobi-mb or oxygen (check for compatabililty first) but tbh, if i`m right in thinking that the k500 has bluetooth (& i think it has) the nest way to do it is spend £10-£15 on a bluetooth dongle, solves all the problems in one go :)

hope this helps

Thanks for the response.

No software came with the phone, it came with the lead and although the lead is not an official Sony lead the software is Sony. I take your point with the bluetooth idea but unfortunately the K500 doesn`t have it.

This item was edited on Wednesday, 22nd December 2004, 23:13