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If you’ve ever had a car kit fitted, chances are that the engineer who fitted it paired your phone to it for you and it ‘just worked’ without you having to do anything to set it up. The only downside to this of course, is when you upgrade your phone you’re left with a car kit thats looking for an old phone, and a new phone that can’t find the car kit.

If you’re anything like me, user manuals get thrown in the back of a drawer, never to be seen again, so figuring out how to get your new phone to work with your car kit could be quite a challenge. To help you out, I’ve put a quick guide together on how to pair your phone with Nokia’s most recent car kits. So as long as you know how to search for Bluetooth devices on your phone you should get connected again in no time at all.

You’ll find instructions below on how to pair your phone with the following car kits: CK-7W, CK-15, CK-20, CK-100, CK-300, CK-600 and Nokia 616.

Nokia CK-7W:

1. Switch on the Nokia CK-7W Car Kit.
2. Activate Bluetooth on your phone, and search for Bluetooth devices.
3. Select Advanced Car Kit from the list of Bluetooth devices found.
4. When prompted, key in the Bluetooth passkey 0000.

Your phone has now been paired with the Car Kit and is ready for use.

Nokia CK-15:

If you are having problems with your Nokia CK-15 car kit, Software updates are available to download from the Nokia Support Site.

1. Switch on your phone and the car kit.
2. Press the Navi wheel in the standby mode, and select Bluetooth > Pair with phone.
3. Activate Bluetooth on your phone, and search for Bluetooth devices.
4. Select the CK-15 from the list of discovered devices.
5. On your phone, enter the Bluetooth passkey shown on the car kit display to pair and connect the car kit to your phone.

Your phone has now been paired with the Car Kit and is ready for use.

Nokia CK-20:

1. Switch on the device and the car kit.
2. Activate Bluetooth on your phone, and search for Bluetooth devices.
3. Select the car kit from the list of found devices.
4. Enter the Bluetooth passkey 0000 to pair and connect the car kit to your phone.

Your phone has now been paired with the Car Kit and is ready for use.

 

Nokia CK-100:

If you are having problems with your Nokia CK-100 car kit, Software updates are available to download from the Nokia Support Site.

1. Switch on the car kit and your mobile phone or music device.
2. Activate Bluetooth on your phone, and search for Bluetooth devices.
3. Select the Nokia CK-100 from the list of found devices.
4. Enter the Bluetooth passkey 0000 to pair and connect the Ck-100with your phone.

Your phone has now been paired with the CK-100 and is ready for use.

If you want to pair and connect a music device that supports the A2DP Bluetooth profile, disconnect the car kit from your phone if the phone supports the A2DP profile. If you are connecting a music device with out a keypad, it needs to have a default passkey of 0000. If this is not the case, see the user guide of your device to change the default Bluetooth passkey to 0000.

Nokia CK-300:

If you are have a Nokia phone running S60 Software (mainly N-Series) you can download the car kit application for your phone from the Nokia Support Site.

1. Switch on the device and the car kit.
2. Activate Bluetooth on your phone, and search for Bluetooth devices.
3. Select the CK-300 from the list of discovered devices.
4. Enter the Bluetooth passkey 0000 to pair and connect the CK-300 to your phone.

Your phone has now been paired with the Car Kit and is ready for use.

Nokia CK-600:

1. Switch on the car kit and your phone or music player.
2. Press the wheel in the standby mode, and select Bluetooth > Paired devices > Pair new device.
3. Activate Bluetooth on your phone, and search for Bluetooth devices.
4. Select the car kit (Nokia Nokia CK-600) from the list of found devices on your phone. The Passkey 0000 is shown on the car kit display.
5. Enter the passkey 0000 into your phone to pair and connect with the CK-600.

Your phone has now been paired with the Car Kit and is ready for use.

If you want to pair and connect a music player that supports the A2DP Bluetooth profile, disconnect the car kit from your phone if the phone supports the A2DP Bluetooth profile.

Nokia 616:

The Nokia 616 is an advanced car kit and the pairing process is a little more complex than the car kits listed above. To find out how to pair your phone with this kit, you will need to consult the online Nokia 616 User Guide.

Email on mobile phones is becoming a pretty standard feature, but the one thing that still puts me off emailing on a traditional handset, is having to type (a sometimes lengthy) email using the mobile phone keypad. Predictive texting and phones with half/full qwerty keyboards do make this a little easier, but its still not the same as having a proper, full sized keyboard.
The good news for Nokia owners is that if you have a handset that runs on S60 (think Nokia N95, N96, 5800 etc..) you can use a full size Bluetooth keyboard with your phone. Officially this isn’t supported on all phones, but un-officially all Symbian 60 devices are supported!

Now obviously if you’re walking down the street trying to email, this is going to be of no use to you what so ever, but what if you’re out of the office and need to reply to that email or maybe you’ve plugged your phone in to the TV to watch back your photo’s and want to be able to control your phone remotely?