How to identify 'dodgy' MMCs

[bsrjl1]

How to work out if your Nokia-supplied MMC could cause you problems. There are 5 types - look at the text on the card:

NOT OK - Last 4 digits in 2nd row = 0500-0521. Letter after JPN in 2nd row = A. No text after 3rd row.
OK - Last 4 digits = 0522 or 0533. Letter after JPN = A. No text after 3rd row.
OK - Last 4 digits = 0524 or greater. Letter = B. No text.
OK - same as NOT OK, but text 'B' after 3rd row.
OK - CE mark, 2 rows of text below & KOREA.

Hope this helps!

[Jon3G]

What is the source of this information?

[ritaritz575]

we like to know were did u get this information..

[bsrjl1]

My local Nokia Service point.

[Ben]

Good stuff, I'm sure this'll help a lot of people resolve their 6680 issues - which to be fair have been pretty few and far between considering how popular this phone is prooving!

Thanks!

[bagpuss102002]

cheers for that as a nk user i find it most interesting that certainly did help me out of a potentially sticky situation great cheers mate!

[Jon3G]

Thanks for this info it will really help the ones that are having trouble, But I still think its the first batch that were bought by the likes of CPW and others offering the handset on 3

Hmm Mine is

MC12U064DACA-QC
Q8E500000519

So according to that info it should be dodgy, hmm I put a 256MB kingston in as soon as I got the phone so not tried it.

Maybe I will Try it later

Peter

[bsrjl1]

Originally Posted by nightmare99

Hmm Mine is
MC12U064DACA-QC
Q8E500000519
So according to that info it should be dodgy
Peter

You card should be:
CE
MC12U064DACA-QC
Q8E500000 519 by KOREA

& is OK. Only possibly dodgy if you've got JPN in the second row.

[ritaritz575]

hi bsrjl1..

my nokia local service point has issued me another mmc after i complaint about missing my pix in d first one.

my mmc now has d ff info:

CE HB28N064RM3D
JPN A300514
EC00430

& accdg 2 ur info, this is another faulty card.. what da ya think?

[bsrjl1]

ritaritz575, if it doesn't have a 'B' after the 3rd line of text, that's (potentially!) dodgy too. Might be worth pointing the Service Point in the direction of Technical Bulletin 17!

[ritaritz575]

Originally Posted by bsrjl1

ritaritz575, if it doesn't have a 'B' after the 3rd line of text, that's (potentially!) dodgy too. Might be worth pointing the Service Point in the direction of Technical Bulletin 17!

huh! what do u mean 'technical bulletin?'

[Ben]

He means that's the bulletin from Nokia/whoever about the dodgy cards and that if you bring that particular bulletin to their attention then it may help them replace your MMC card with one that isn't on the 'possibly faulty' list.

[ritaritz575]

Originally Posted by Ben

He means that's the bulletin from Nokia/whoever about the dodgy cards and that if you bring that particular bulletin to their attention then it may help them replace your MMC card with one that isn't on the 'possibly faulty' list.

i already did that, brought & showed that 'bulletin' to nokia when i claimed my 'new mmc' but was told that they have NOT been given ANY official notice like that from their Head Office, so they cannot make any comment about it...

the most irritating part is they keep on insisting that the 'disappearing act' may be caused by the applications/games i have installed on my mmc!!! i told them that they are so wrong with this assumption because these applications i have now in my 6680 are the very same applications i have installed previously in my 6630 & they didnt cause me any problems before! why buy a symbian phone with upgradable memory if i cannot install applications? i think they are just finding reasons for their faulty mmc!

oh well, i will try this 'newly-issued' mmc one more time, but if that disappearing act persists with this one, i will just buy d branded ones, one that is not branded "nokia", he,he

[chaslam]

Yep mines definatly faulty. Could somone post the link to the bulletin? I was planning on buying a 512 one anyway but its better to have one what works anyway!