OK. I reset the phone with the reset button. What they call a soft reset. Not the hard reset with the power button held down while touching the reset button that results in total data loss. No joy. So now I'm back to removing the software and reinstalling with the device reset.
Len Hammond CSI:Hartland lenhamm...@gmail.com On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Rod Trent <rodtr...@myitforum.com> wrote: > For the record, it’s not WMDC, it’s the phone. Have you reset the phone? > > > > *From:* Len Hammond [mailto:lenhammo...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Saturday, August 01, 2009 12:56 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* sync PDA phone > > > > I know there are those of you that have had success with this == connecting > and syncing a PDA/smartphone with Outlook on Vista/Windows 7. So, what is > the trick to making it connect reliably? I get one connection and sync per > installation of the Windows Mobile Device Center software. I can remove > WMDC and reinstall and finally get it to connect and sync. I remove the > device and try again later - with or without a reboot - and Nothing. No > connection and no recognition of the device. The device is a 2 year-old HTC > 8525 with WM5 that has been reliably connecting and syncing with an XP box > for 2+ years. At least I can get some kind of communications with Win7. > That's a huge improvement over Vista with which I NEVER got a connection at > all. With XPpro the connections were pretty consistent, and whenever it lost > connectivity, I just had to reboot both devices and it would re-establish a > connection and function normally for while again. Nothing seems to help WMDC > get going again - short of a removal and reinstallatin of the whole thing. > The device shows in the WMDC app but flat refuses to do anything with it. > > > > This should not be this difficult - I'm sure I'm just missing some kind of > setting change and all will be well. I just can't seem to stumble on what to > change. Do I have to bump the device up to WM6 or WM6.1 to get this to work? > > > > /Rant > > Why can't Microsoft get this right? For $#!* sake, they wrote both halves > of the software and even they can't make the, never to be cursed enough, > thing work. Can you tell the frustration level is climbing? This kind of > crap never happened in the ten years I was running Palm devices. (even > though Palm had major digitizer issues) > > /rant off > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated as the XP box is in dire need of a > rebuild and I really would like to go to W7. > Len Hammond > CSI:Hartland > lenhamm...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
