Media Player problems with Nokia phone

Thor Kottelin

Hi,

I am using Windows Media Player (version 11.0.5721.5230) on Microsoft
Windows XP Professional (5.1.2600). I also use a Nokia E90 phone
(210.34.75) together with Nokia PC Suite (6.86.9.3). The phone
incorporates a built-in memory as well as a removable memory card.

My first problem is that Media Player detects the E90 as a new device, and
opens a "Windows Media Player - Device Setup" window, every time I connect
the phone. Since I continually use Bluetooth, this occurs every single
time I return to my desk.

Secondly, if I do set up sync with e.g. the built-in memory of the phone
(E90 - Phone memory), Media Player apparently renames the entire phone
into "E90 - Phone memory". This change affects other software as well.
Consequently, the next time I connect, Media Player uses the name "E90 -
Phone memory - Phone memory", and so on. If I then sync the memory card,
it is named "E90 - Phone memory - Phone memcard". This, of course, is a
mess.

I have encountered the same issue before, and worked around it by
installing and using another media player, such as iTunes. However, this
time I thought I would ask whether anyone would be able to suggest a
solution. I do not dare hope that Microsoft will suddenly fix their broken
software; I will happily settle for a registry hack or other way to make
Media Player simply ignore the phone.

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Thor Kottelin

Thor Kottelin

"Thor Kottelin" <> wrote in message
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> My first problem is that Media Player detects the E90 as a new device,
> and opens a "Windows Media Player - Device Setup" window, every time I
> connect the phone. Since I continually use Bluetooth, this occurs every
> single time I return to my desk.

Following up on myself: Media Player also opens the same window whenever I
connect a USB flash drive. Since I usually do not use such drives for
music storage, the player would be very welcome to ignore them as well.

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Thor Kottelin

zachd [MSFT]

The player wants to establish a sync relationship once with each device so
it knows why you're inserting it. This is to help grandma. Just finish the
dialog and it won't pop that up anymore for that device.

There is no global "never sync" flag that I'm aware of: that feature request
has been passed along though.

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"Thor Kottelin" <> wrote in message
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> "Thor Kottelin" <> wrote in message
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>
>> My first problem is that Media Player detects the E90 as a new device,
>> and opens a "Windows Media Player - Device Setup" window, every time I
>> connect the phone. Since I continually use Bluetooth, this occurs every
>> single time I return to my desk.
>
> Following up on myself: Media Player also opens the same window whenever I
> connect a USB flash drive. Since I usually do not use such drives for
> music storage, the player would be very welcome to ignore them as well.
>
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> Thor Kottelin
>
>

Thor Kottelin

"zachd [MSFT]" <> wrote in message
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>
> The player wants to establish a sync relationship once with each device
> so it knows why you're inserting it. This is to help grandma. Just
> finish the dialog and it won't pop that up anymore for that device.

Hi,

Thank you for your reply.

It seems to me that whatever I do, I am unable to get rid of the prompts;
they reappear whether I hit Cancel or Finish.

If I go further, and actually set up synchronization (such as with an
empty kludge list), the naming chaos described in
<news:.gbl> occurs.

Have I missed something?

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Thor Kottelin