I don’t like bluetooth, and don’t think one exists that works well in my convertible at freeway speeds. I wanted to use a traditional (but good, noise-cancelling) WIRED headset with the N82.

I tried 3.5mm to 2.5mm adapters to plug my Shure boom headset into the N82. No go (speakers work, no mike).

So I cut open the adapter and tried switching/shorting wires. Still no go (though I think this should be possible…).

So my final solution was this:

1. Take the wired headset you get with the phone. snip off the earbuds.

2. Open the plastic control piece and pull out the circuit board.

3. The mic is a small metal cylinder. Take it off (you could de-solder it, but I just used some needlenose pliers in a twisting fashion, and it came off). If you want (and I did), solder a couple short wires onto the posts where the mic was soldered.

4. Get a 2.5mm female plug. This will have three wires.

5. Strip the wires from either of the nokia headset’s earbud wires (you only need one; you’re going mono). You’ll have two thin wires.

6. Since your wire color will vary from mine, I’ll give a quick summary and you’ll have to test to get the colors right (I use the voice recorder to test as I’m doing the wiring):

A. One of the 2.5mm plug wires (in my case, green) will be soldered to one of the mic wires (the ones you soldered to the board) AND to one of the earbud wires (in my case, green).

B. The other mic wire from the circuit board is soldered to another 2.5mm plug wire (in my case, red).

C. The remaining earbud wire (my case, copper color) is soldered to the remaining 2.5mm plug wire (my case, copper color).

*** that’s it ***

*note: You COULD skip the 2.5mm female plug and just snip your wired headset, soldering it directly to the nokia headset wires.

*note 2: You COULD do all the soldering directly on the circuit board. I’m not good enough to solder that small, and would have fried something with the heat (or dropped a ball of solder on something– who knows).

Does this application allow you to display feeds on the standby screen? Thats what I’m really waiting for.

The RSS application looks like a great one from first impressions. dont worry about entering me for the free version if I like it I will happily pay for it. Initial views after about 15 minutes are good but I will play some more and get back to you with some more comments after a better test drive. I would be interested in your labelled graphics as I do understand how to do the graphics labelling what I am struggling to come up with in my own head is what to label the graphics, such as read updated etc so I would be interested in what you have done. If you want to send me through your graphics file that would be great. Take care and keep up the good work.

Regards

Hamish

Does the BH 503 automaticaly power down or go into standby mode when not in use for a period of time or do they run down and completely if left on…..

thanks for any enlightenment …… MV