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This IntelliGolf® Tour shows you how easy it is to score a round of golf on your Nokia smartphone. Note: The screen shots below are from a Nokia N95 smartphone.

IMPORTANT: Before installing the "full" IntelliGolf Birdie or Eagle edition software (with our Windows-based desktop and synchronization software), please do the following two items below. If you are only installing the Eagle OTA edition's smartphone (only) software, you can skip all the way down to the "IntelliGolf Installation Instructions" for the Eagle OTA edition (below).

1. You must ensure that a) Nokia's PC Suite version 7.0.8(or higher) software is installed onto your PC, and b) that you select USB Cable driver (i.e. not Infrared or Bluetooth) during the PC Suite's (PCS) installation process. To check what version of Nokia's PCS software is currently installed on your PC, start up Nokia's PCS software on your PC (Windows, Start, All Programs, Nokia PC Suite). Click on "Help" and then "About". Under the Nokia PCS heading you will see the version number that you are running. If you are not running PCS version 7.0.8 (or higher), please perform Steps A and B below. If you are running PCS version 7.0.8 (or higher) please skip to #2 below.

Step A. Uninstall the current (older) version of Nokia's PCS software components as listed below. To do this, click on Windows START, then Control Panel, then (in XP) Add/Remove Applications, or in Vista select Programs and Features and then Uninstall a program. During the uninstall process, keep you current settings (if ask). Please uninstall/remove the:
   1) Nokia PC Suite,
   2) Nokia Connection Cable Driver,
   3) Nokia Flash Driver,
   3) Nokia Software Updater,
   4) PC Connectivity Solution (Nokia), and
   5) Windows Driver Package(s) for "Nokia".

Note: Unfortunately, we've found that simply using Nokia's "install latest updates" routine (icon) does not seem to remove all remnants of the older PCS items.

Step B. Download and install Nokia's latest (free) PC Suite software by clicking here. Please look in the What's New section and then click on "Go to Download". Then, just follow Nokia's instructions. It's easy. That will install all of Nokia's latest PC Suite software (i.e. those items uninstalled above) and should not effect your previous settings.

2. Next, you should (optionally) consider downloading and installing Nokia's latest "smartphone software" (Step C below) after "backing-up" your smartphone using the PC Suite's back-up utility (i.e. the icon looks like a "safe"). Step C is optional, but is surely something worth considering now, or doing in the near future, if IntelliGolf does not install or run properly for you.

Step C. Since smartphone (firmware) version numbers vary by phone and date, we can't provide you the latest versions numbers. But, Nokia's free "Software Updater" software will figure this out for you when you run it :-). To download Nokia's latest Software Updater please click here. Please see the Section entitled "Software Updater". Click on "Device software update", then "Get Started", then skim down the web page until you see your smartphone listed. Then, click on your phone's name (i.e. do not click on the generic "Download" button at the top). That will select the correct Software Updater for your "specific" phone. Once the Software Updater download window appears, click on "Run" and follow Nokia's Software Updater instructions. This process will take about 15 minutes, but it is well worth doing periodically. Once the Software Updater has completed, you will have Nokia's latest software/firmware on your PC and Smartphone. Then, you can restore your previous smartphone settings from your back-up copy, as recommended above.

Congratulations!

Now it's time to install IntelliGolf. Please follow the IntelliGolf installation instructions below that pertain the the IntelliGolf software that you purchased. You'll be ready to golf in minutes!

To install the IntelliGolf software on your PC and Nokia-based smartphone, please select your product (below) and then follow the product's instruction instructions. You'll be ready to golf in minutes!

Eagle and Eagle Upgrade editions - Unzip the downloaded igeaglexxx.zip file and save the included two (2) files to your PC. First, double-click on the igbirdiexxx.msi file. That will install the IntelliGolf Birdie edition's desktop software, smartphone software, and synchronization software to your PC. When you are ask if you want to install the Birdie edition's handset software onto your smartphone, please leave the box "unchecked" (i.e. no). Second, double-click on the igeagleoxxx.msi file. That will install the Eagle GPS Option's smartphone software onto your smartphone. When you are ask if you want to install the Eagle edition's handset software onto your smartphone, please leave the box "checked" (i.e. yes). You're done. Please view the Quick Start Tour below. Have a Great Round!

Note 1: If you will be loading the IntelliGolf Eagle edition software onto a Nokia-based smartphone that includes an embedded GPS chip in it (e.g. Nokia N95) please click here for further set-up instructions.

Note 2: If you will be connecting/using a Bluetooth-based GPS receiver with the IntelliGolf Eagle edition software and your Nokia-based smartphone, please click here for general set-up instructions. You might also want to refer to your smartphone manual for specific information on how to set-up a connection to your Bluetooth-based GPS receiver.

Eagle GPS Option - The Eagle GPS Option (add-on) software requires that you have already installed the Birdie edition version 9.x software onto your handheld and desktop. Once the Birdie edition has been installed (see below), simply click on the igeagleoxxx.msi file and follow the on-screen instructions. That will install the Eagle GPS Option's GPS and Bluetooth software to your smartphone. You're done. Please view the Quick Start Tour below. Have a Great Round!

Note - Please see Note 1 and Note 2 above for setting up your GPS receiver to work with IntelliGolf.

Birdie and Birdie Upgrade editions (+ Eagle GPS Option) - First, double-click on the igbirdiexxx.msi file. That will install the IntelliGolf desktop software, handheld/smartphone software, and synchronization software. Note: If you also purchased the Eagle GPS Option (add-on) software, double-click on the igeagleoxxx.msi file next. That will install the Eagle GPS Option's GPS and Bluetooth smartphone software. You're done. Please view the Quick Start Tour below. Have a Great Round!

Eagle OTA edition - Please save the igeaglenkxxx.jar file to your PC. Then, use Nokia's "Install Application" utility (PC Suite) to install IntelliGolf onto your smartphone. Or, you may download the IntelliGolf igeaglenkxxx.jar file directly to your smartphone and use the File Manager (Menu, Tools (or Office), File Manager) utility on your smartphone to install IntelliGolf onto it.

For answers to common questions (e.g. downloading courses, network set-up, GPS set-up, etc) please visit our FAQs by clicking here.

User Instructions Steps 1 though 9 pertain to the IntelliGolf Birdie, Eagle, and Eagle OTA smartphone software. Step 6 only applies to the Eagle edition and the Eagle GPS Option software (w/ GPS capabilities). Step 10 only applies to the full Birdie and Eagle editions (i.e. not the Eagle OTA edition) as the Birdie and Eagle edition's include our desktop and synchronization software. Have a Great Round! 1. Start a New Round. Launch IntelliGolf on your phone by selecting the IntelliGolf program icon. To start a new round, simply choose the New menu choice. If you have scored other rounds, you may also resume them or delete them from the menu shown here. 2. Choose the Golf Course. Now it is time to select, enter, or download your favorite course's digital scorecard. You can either: Choose from an existing course on your phone using the Select/Change menu item (see below), or Add a new course manually to your phone using the New Course menu item (see below), or Wirelessly download a digital course scorecard directly to your phone using the Download Course menu item. There are more instructions on setting up and wirelessly downloading courses below, or If you own the Birdie or Eagle edition software you can download courses to your Windows desktop from the Internet and use PC Suite to transfer them to your smartphone. See Section 10 below. Click here to access the database. IntelliGolf provides the ability to wirelessly download digital scorecards directly to your phone using your it's Internet access (data) capabilities from our IntelliCourse™ database. It includes over 25,000+ digital scorecards. Downloading a scorecard from the database will save you up to 300 key strokes as compared to entering all of the hole yardages, par ratings, and hole handicaps manually. This is another free benefit of using IntelliGolf (i.e. access to the IntelliGolf course database :-). To download a course, please select the Download Course menu command and follow the Search instructions in the next section. To wirelessly search for a course, please enter (at least) the course's name into the Course field. Entering more information (e.g. City, State, Country) will help to refine the search, but may also limit the search. As such, entering just the course's name is best until you get familiar with IntelliGolf. Then, choose the Search command from the menu item. IntelliGolf will connect to the Internet and search the IntelliGolf database for your course. During the search you can use the Cancel command to stop the search at any time. At the completion of the search process, IntelliGolf will automatically present the list of available courses that meet your search criteria.From the course list, please select a course to download and then choose the Download command. Once the course download begins, you will see a status bar appear that will let you know how the course download is progressing. This should take less than 1 minute to complete under normal circumstances. In addition to downloading courses, you may also add a new course by using the New Course command. A course name and at least one Tee name (e.g. Blue) are required. The other fields (e.g. Phone, City, State, etc.) are optional. You may enter information for as many as 5 tees. Choose a tee number from the menu to enter information for another tee box. Choosing the Tee Details command will bring up a series of screens that allow you to enter information for each hole of the currently selected tee box. 3. Add the Players. After selecting the course to play, the Add Players screen is shown with you already selected for the round. To add up to 4 other players use the Add menu command. Choose the player you would like to add to the round and then the Select command. If you would like to create a new player, select the <New player> item. Creating a new player is easy, just fill in the information and choose the Done command. If you would like to enter a player's handicap, you have four choices: Handicap Use this selection to define a player's handicap. USGA Index Use this selection for players that have a USGA Handicap Index. IntelliGolf will compute a course handicap for the golfer using the formula: Course Handicap = Index * slope / 113. IntelliGolf supports a men's and women's slope rating for each tee, so be sure to set the Sex field correctly if you are using this handicap choice. Average Score Use this selection when a player does not have an established handicap but they have some idea of what their "average" score is on this course. IntelliGolf will compute a handicap using the formula: Handicap = Average Score - Course Par. EGA Index Use this selection for players that have a Handicap Index issued by a European golf association. IntelliGolf will compute a course handicap for the golfer using the formula: Course Handicap = Index * slope / 113 + rating - par. Note: If you are a "professional" golfer and have a "plus" USGA Index (e.g. +1), please enter the handicap value number and then check the "Pro/+ hdcp index" checkbox. Most of us (amateurs :-) think of this as a negative handicap, but it is actually called a Plus Handicap. 4. Add the Side Games. If members of your group have agreed to a friendly side game, add games here by choose the Add command. If you're playing "just for fun", enter a wager of 0. This screen is also used to edit or delete games already being played. After choosing Add, this screen will allow you to select a game. Choose a wager amount and which golfers are playing. Skins can be scored with or without carryovers, and Nassau can be played with or without presses. Handicap scoring can be calculated one of four ways on an individual game basis: Handicap difference Full handicaps Handicap values No handicaps When using the Handicap difference method, IntelliGolf subtracts the low handicap from all players' handicaps. The Handicap values choice lets you enter a handicap value for each player for just this game. 5. Enter Strokes, Putts and Hole Information. This screen is where you enter the strokes and putts for the players as well as hole yardage, par and handicap information (if you have not already done so). Scores and putts are entered on your phone's keyboard. Entering the scores shown is as easy as tapping on the 4, 1, 4, 2, 5, 2, 6, 2 phone keys. On the first hole, choose the the Start command when you tee off. IntelliGolf will automatically keep track of the elapsed time of your round in the upper right corner of the screen. The dots after the hole score column indicate how many strokes that player gets based on the handicaps for the current sidegame. Use the trackwheel/trackball to select player scores. Pressing the "Alt" key while using the trackwheel/trackball allows the other areas of this screen to be selected. Once selected, press the space key on your keyboard or use the Select/change command to see a player's scorecard/statistics, track shots, assign game points, or view the game scorecard. If you select and activate the green rectangle under the flagstick, it brings up this screen so you can track statistics for your shots. You may also use the Shots menu choice. For drive, fairway, approach, and chip shots, you can mark whether your shot hit the fairway/green, or missed. If you missed, you can mark whether the miss was left or right and/or short or long (via the arrows). Too see the information for all tee boxes on a hole, use the Tee Details menu command. If you haven't entered the tee box information for the course you're playing, that can be done here too. 6. IntelliGPS® (Eagle versions only) The IntelliGolf Eagle edition and Eagle GPS Option software provides the ability to view GPS distances from tee-to-green. This can be done using industry-leading GPS receivers connected to your smartphone or via the embedded GPS chip in some Nokia-based smartphones (e.g. N95). This is for GPS-surveyed courses as denoted by the "satellite icon" listed next to the course name. To get to the GPS distances screen, please select the GPS menu command or press the # on your keyboard. This screen is used to set which GPS receiver (i.e. None, Bluetooth, or Integrated) that you will be using with IntelliGolf. If you are using a Nokia-based phone that includes an embedded GPS chip (e.g. Nokia N95) please click here for detailed set-up instructions. If you will be using an external Bluetooth-based GPS receiver, please refer to the Bluetooth documentation for your phone. You must turn on Bluetooth communication before starting IntelliGolf. You may also need to add your Bluetooth GPS receiver to the devices list in your phone's Bluetooth setup screens. After that is done, then use IntelliGolf's Discovery menu item (via Options) to find the GPS receiver that you will be using with IntelliGolf. There is more on this in our FAQs in the GPS and/or Nokia sections clicking here. If your favorite golf course(s) has not been GPS-surveyed yet, you can use IntelliGolf's GPS Survey screen to quickly survey your course. Simply select the Record button as you reach the 200, 150, and 100 yard/meter markers, any of three custom fairway points (e.g. creek, sand trap, lake, etc) per hole, and the front, center, and back of the green. IntelliGolf will record these GPS coordinates for you and automatically convert them into distance readings. For detailed instructions on how to survey a course using IntelliGolf, please click here. For detailed instructions on how to survey a course using popular Earth viewers like Google Earth, please click here . 7. Let IntelliGolf Score the Round. During the round, IntelliGolf will tally the scores. At any time you can view a player's scorecard and statistics by selecting their name (use the Alt+trackwheel/trackball). At the end of the round this scoring summary screen is shown. This is the player's scorecard. You may switch to another player's scorecard selecting their name in the previous screen with your trackwheel/trackball and pressing on space key or choosing the select/change menu choice. You can also view scoring statics for a player by choosing the Averages, Totals or Putts menu commands. You may also cycle through these screens by pressing on the space key on your keyboard. See how you performed today in an instant with easy to read bar charts and tables. View scoring totals for each player. View putting stats for each player. 8. Let IntelliGolf Score the Side Games. When the round is complete, IntelliGolf calculates each player's winnings! This is the game scorecard. You can view this during the round by selecting (Alt+trackwheel) the last rectangle on the hole scoring screen. 9. Post Your Round Bring your smartphone with you into your home course clubhouse. Select a completed round and press the Post menu command. IntelliGolf will show you all the scoring information you'll need to post your score for handicap calculations. 10. Synchronize with Desktop PC If you purchased the IntelliGolf Birdie or Eagle edition software (i.e. not the Eagle OTA software), your Courses, Players, and Rounds can be uploaded and download to/from your Windows-based PC. On your PC, you can then use the IntelliGolf desktop software to review performance charts and graphs, approximate your handicap, print scorecards, export rounds to the web, upload and download digital scorecards from the IntelliGolf course database, and more... To upload/download your courses, players, and rounds to/from the IntelliGolf desktop software, please perform the steps listed below. Connect your phone to your PC with its USB cable. Select "PC Suite" on your smartphone. Start the IntelliGolf desktop (PC) software. - Click just to the left of the courses, rounds and players (PC) that you want to synchronize to your smartphone. A blue sync icon will appear. Start the IntelliGolf smartphone software. Choose "Options" and then the "Synchronize" menu command. Choose the "Start" menu command in IntelliGolf on the Sync Settings screen and follow the on-screen instructions. IntelliGolf will now upload/download your courses, players, and rounds to/from your PC. You are now ready to review some great statistics, charts, and graphs using the IntelliGolf desktop software. Please click here to view tour for the desktop software. Congratulations, you are now ready to start using IntelliGolf! Have a Great Round! © 2009 IntelliGolf, Inc. All rights reserved.