T68i
Infra Red
Transferring images by using the infrared port isn't that intuitive. Perhaps slightly less
painful than Bluetooth, but still not that pleasant. On this page you can see
how I transferred a picture taken by the phone's camera and transferred it to a
pc. I then edited it on the pc, and transferred it back to the phone.
1, Take the picture
Encourage a child to perform. £5 gets a go climbing on a
fake rock wall in Central Milton Keynes.
Take a picture using the T68i camera attachment. |
Locate the phone menu 'Fun and Games'. Obviously the English euphemism didn't
get through to the Swedes and Japanese working at Sony Ericsson. It does not
mean 'Fun' and 'Games' as in the logical combination of a collection of 'fun'
objects and a collection of 'game' objects. No. Fun and Games means
recalcitrant, tedious obstinacy. For example when
the cat
needs to called in for his evening meal, he will show interest, but not come in.
He will sit just out of reach looking at me with distain. After a minute of
waiting, and making encouraging noises in the wet and cold he finally greets me.
He has his Whiskas, and all is fine.
Sometimes we enter the state of "Silly Buggers". I won't describe that.
Sorry about that. Focus!
 Using
the menu system on the phone go to: 'Fun and Games', 'My Pictures' and
select the picture to transfer.
The back light will go off after a few seconds and if your not careful
you will delete the image! YES! By auto conditioned reflex you will WANT TO
hit the 'C' 'YES' buttons as you normally do. Ah you fool, utter utter fool.
Be careful. You are not in control. Do not anticipate the horrendously slow
user interface.
If the display light turns off , click 'C'. The light will come on, and the
screen will ask you to 'delete?' Click the 'NO' button.
This is so Exciting!
(And we're nowhere near done!)
OK. We have our chosen picture displayed, with the back light on. Good. Click
'YES' then 'SEND', then 'Via infrared'.
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"Currently Unavailable" come the 2 tone Up Yours response.
YES! Yet more inferior user interface to contend with. You complete and
utter fool. You imbecile. Cretin. You should have enabled the infrared port
first! Oh dear! You are a retard!
[This is ridiculous. Is the internal structure of the T68i so abysmal that a
function call to enable the infrared is not possible? Run out of stack space
have we?]
So back to the main menu we go. Click 'No' several times. Bizarrely the offer
to delete the image doesn't appear.
3 Enabling the Infrared Port
Main Menu, 'Connect' then 'Infrared port'.
If the option is greyed out, then do the following: reboot the phone.
Yes: turn it off. Yes: take the battery out. Make a cup of tea. Put the battery
back and turn it on. Now we should get back to the 'Main Menu, 'Connect' then
'Infrared port'.
You will be prompted by default to keep the IR port turned off. I suggest
that you set it to ON. The ten minutes option is for the optimistic ones of you
out there.
Click 'Yes', then 'NO' several times.
Follow the diatribe above in 2, Fun and
Games. This time we should get: "activate and align the receiving device".
After a few seconds it will give up. GOOD now we can look at getting the PC to
participate in this image transfer.
5 Enabling Infrared on your PC.
You won't have explicitly enable infrared every time - you can enable it and
leave it set.
Here's how I enabled infrared on my old Sony Viao Windows laptop. It's
running Windows 98 Here goes:
On the pc go to "Start, settings, control panel."
 Click
on the infrared icon |
The following tabbed dialog will appear:
Enable infrared:
Enable the icon on the toolbar - it tells you what's going on!
Name your PC if you want to.
Click apply:
Get that T68i mobile telephone. Set the two devices so they're a couple of
inches apart; their black beady eyes looking at each other.
Encourage the phone to try again. See
step 4 above.
Test the error recovery if you want by blocking the infrared beam.
After a few moments the image file will be be popped into "c:\my
recieved files".
6 Transfer from PC to Phone
I edit the image and choose to send it back to the phone. From Explorer,
select the file. Right click 'send to' then 'Infrared recipient':
The phone complains:
incoming item size unknown
free memory: 48 kb
continue?
Click 'YES' on the phone. Behold:
Further dextrous manipulations later and I've set the image as the phone's
'wallpaper.'
Done!
Maybe our Swedish and Japanese friends really do know the meaning of 'Fun and
Games'.
Infrared is invisible...
... to human eyes. The camera used to take the following picture detects
infrared as a blue glow:
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