I have a SX-66 that has already begun to do odd things, mainly show the GSM/GPRS WinPPC splash screen and then white screen until a hard reset. I upgraded to the newest rom from the SIemens site, but I could use some US Cingular Specific Guidance. While I have read the intro to upgrades, etc. herein, Cingular's version of the device is not mentioned. Can anyone provide som eassistance to me? What needs to be done to get this thing working properly. Before I set up my Socket BT GPS and BT800 handsfree, I want to make sure everything is perfect, then I will burn a pbackup and put the data from outlook onto the phone. Thanks in advance.
That happens to me on occasion.
I dont have to hard reset, I just soft reset, maybe a couple of times and it fixes itself. I usually softreset once, or twice every two or three weeks. Windows mobile has some issues, but the SX66 is not the only blue angel that has these problems
The best thing to do is this: Setup your SX66 the way you want it, then backup (complete backup).
What I did with mine was to backup everytime I installed a new app. Use it for a few hours make sure it does not crash, install another app , backup, test, install next app (etc etc etc).
I am at a point now that my device works great (with the few soft resets) and if something catastrophic happens I can restore it
Hello.
If you downloaded the 'legit' Siemens upgrade from either Siemens or Cingular's web site, there is NOTHING for you to do prior to running the backup.
Except the following...
Make sure your phone is fully charged. Activesync it first, to store all of your contacts, email, and calender data in Outlook. Reset the phone (push the reset button on the bottom).
Now, you're ready to begin. Connect the phone via the cradle, and run the installation program. Keep in mind, the upgrade will erase everything in the phone.
I also have a BT800 headset, and I can tell you from experience that it doesn't work too well with the Blue Angel phones (yet).
Don't worry too much about upgrading the phone. It should go fine. Just make sure the phone is directly connected to your computer, and not through a USB hub.
Excellent News
Glad to hear I am not too far off. I also replaced the sim chip which seemed to stop the phone from hanging up on the GSM/GPRS windows splash screen. I backuped as soon as I had it working for a while, as you said and today cam into the office to find the Socket BT GPS with map software and my BT800 arrived. Hopefully the BT 800 issues will be solved so those of us with Blue Angels can rpove convergence devices really can do all those things... and do it well. Thanks for the help. This forum is extremely well versed. Lot of posts to read to get smart... :shock:
I came home and after I came home I do what I always do, sync my MDA Vario with the pc.
I don't know what happened, but the left upper button which I use to open my Gmail (and Outlook) email account didn't work.
I soft resetted the MDA Vario, the today screen only showed my appointments, the owner and the date, no email.
I couldn't use the touchscreen
I soft resetted 3 times and the email line appeared again.
The screen worked again, but the left upper button stopped working, in fact, when I try to open the "message" option in the regular program menu, it won't work.
Like it's there, but it't not.
Does this mean I have to hard reset? Or can I edit a CAB file?
Vario is unlocked, nothing weird is installed.
Darn.
Anita
Well, after some research, I found out that the mini sd card was the cullprit. Took the card out, soft resetted the Vario, and it worked.
I formatted the card and put it back into the Vario and it all seems to work..
Anita
Have/had the same problem with messaging. Same fix as well. Just thought I'd throw that in here for future reference.
I guess, if you have backup software (Windows Backup will work) on your PC, you could always use an SD reader on your PC and backup your SD card regularly. That way if it gets jacked in the future, you have at the very least something to go back to.
Thanks for the tip!
Anita
All of a sudden my activesync has stopped working. I can't connect via USB or bluetooth. It worked fine in the past! Now, if I plug in my Tilt with the USB it gives me an error message saying Activesync cannot connect, and gives me the option of troubleshooting. Going through the troubleshooting process yeilds no diagnosis; everything appears to be working ok.
If I try and sync with bluetooth, I see the Tilt connect, and then disconnect a few seconds later. No error messages, no nothing.
My Tilt's activesync window displays the message:
"To synchronize your device with a desktop computer, install the synchronization software from the Getting Started Disc included with your device on your PC." It once displayed info such as my last sync, etc.
I've tried reinstalling activesync, and disabled my firewalls.
Anybody else have this issue, or know of a fix?
ActiveSync
Moved message
Needs a little bump here
mystic_nacho said:
All of a sudden my activesync has stopped working. I can't connect via USB or bluetooth. It worked fine in the past! Now, if I plug in my Tilt with the USB it gives me an error message saying Activesync cannot connect, and gives me the option of troubleshooting. Going through the troubleshooting process yeilds no diagnosis; everything appears to be working ok.
If I try and sync with bluetooth, I see the Tilt connect, and then disconnect a few seconds later. No error messages, no nothing.
My Tilt's activesync window displays the message:
"To synchronize your device with a desktop computer, install the synchronization software from the Getting Started Disc included with your device on your PC." It once displayed info such as my last sync, etc.
I've tried reinstalling activesync, and disabled my firewalls.
Anybody else have this issue, or know of a fix?
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Sounds like something has changed on your PC, perhaps via a Windows Update. Have you checked to see if your firewall is the culprit?
You may also want to do a clean uninstall and then reinstall Activeswync 4.5 and create a new partnership with your device.
You can also try restoring your PC back to a date that you were able to use Activesync....
This happens to me rather frequently (I am looking for an ActiveSync replacement because of it).
However, I fix it by either soft reset of the device, PC, or sometimes both. If that doesn't work, you need to delete the partnership with the PC and reconnect.
RK
...any solutions yet?
I just got my kaiser 3 weeks ago after using a wizard for almost 2 years. what a great phone the wizard was... I kinda miss using it! Anyhow, i just experienced the sudden activesync failure. I now get random activesync openings on my kaiser with the message "To synchronize your device with a desktop computer... yada yada".
I have already setup a bogus server and set the scheduling to manual.
I have compared the wizard registry to the kaiser registry by searching every instance of 'activesync' and couldnt find anything.
I also deleted all instances of activesync in the notification queue and had memmaid rebuild it.
The device will connect to activesync but pops an error message that it could not synchronize and goes into a guest account setting. So for now I am having to use pimbackup to backup my data on the kaiser, bluetooth it to my wizard, then sync the wizard with my laptop to get the data into outlook. I am considering a hard reset but kind of want to wait until the at&t 6.1 official Rom comes out. I am also considering Chapura Pocketmirror Professional which worked well on an old Ipaq i had (wm2k3) that had sync issues. I also want to get this resolved so i can practice loading a new rom on the wizard. So....
Anyone have a fix yet? I hope so!!!
Oh, and for reference (to answer questions from other threads), my kaiser battery drains 4 to 5 times faster than the wizard in side by side use, and the kaiser definitely does not have a transflective screen while the wizard does... bummer. but the kaiser is tremednously faster!
1. Disconnect the device from your computer.
2. Try going to your device and select:
start->settings->connections->USB to PC.
3. Uncheck "enable advanced network functionality"
4. Reconnect the device.
Active Sync....
Hi,
You can try "PocketMirror® Professional 2.2.4 for Windows Mobile", its a pretty good syncronization tool, but it costs a few bucks...
I've been using the trial version of PocketMirror and must say its pretty good with my TYTN 2.
Regs,
The Reaper.
... my thoughts exactly
yeah, i tried the usb to pc option as well. even downloaded a cab from another thread that allowed me to choose rndis or usb mode. neither worked. I will probably use pocketmirror pro as well...
Hi, I just flashed a new ROM on my Orbit that works brilliantly, no issues at all, apart from the fact that the computer now doesn't see the device at all. Not even the blo-blong sound when you connect any USB device. The only thing I get connecting the cable is charging the battery. And if I start Active Sync on my Orbit I get the same message as mystic_nacho:
"To synchronize your device with a desktop computer, install the synchronization software from the Getting Started Disc included with your device on your PC"
I just tried an hard reset to try to fix the issue - no success..
Before flashing everything was fine..
Btw, my wife Diamond doesn't connect either, and it never did it: something related to the TouchFlo thing?
Any idea?
The ROM I flashed is
gullums TouchFlo2D beta 4
update
I found the Diamond 'Getting started disc' and installed the Windows Mobile resources tool...
The disc I have from the Orbit box is for Windows Mobile 5, I guess it's not worth to find it out and try...
Nothing changed, anyway.
update 2
Yesterday night out of the blue - while the Orbit was still connected to the pc - ActiveSync started to work... F. knows....
i had the same problem - sync was working fine and then stopped. what worked for me was to go to USB to PC under settings and uncheck "enable faster data syncronization".
hi,
i also had sync. problems in the past.
searched for months.. since i figured out that some registry entries on my PC where missing!
imported the mayor setting from my brothers PC and TADAAAAAA. problem solved.
search my threads and maybe you 've luck with my soloution!
mystic_nacho said:
All of a sudden my activesync has stopped working. I can't connect via USB or bluetooth. It worked fine in the past! Now, if I plug in my Tilt with the USB it gives me an error message saying Activesync cannot connect, and gives me the option of troubleshooting. Going through the troubleshooting process yeilds no diagnosis; everything appears to be working ok.
If I try and sync with bluetooth, I see the Tilt connect, and then disconnect a few seconds later. No error messages, no nothing.
My Tilt's activesync window displays the message:
"To synchronize your device with a desktop computer, install the synchronization software from the Getting Started Disc included with your device on your PC." It once displayed info such as my last sync, etc.
I've tried reinstalling activesync, and disabled my firewalls.
Anybody else have this issue, or know of a fix?
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Have you recently used a memory cleaning Application like memmaid, Clear Temp, or SKTools? You might have cleaned out some important notification files, like repllog,exe that is used for activesync.
I had the same thing happen to me when I first used these cleaners. I had to do a hard reset on the phone to make it work again found out about the remedies listed below after the reset.
I have heard others were successful repairing these notification Queue's with MemMaid. You can hold your stylus on the repllog,exe notification, and a popup up will appear, asking you to Recreate ActiveSync, or rebuild notification Queue. I don't know if this feature is available in Clear Temp, or SK tools.
I've also heard of restoring activesync by unchecking all of the folders, syncing, and then adding each folder back to the list, one by one, until all is restored.
I too have just developed the same problem.
I have 2 TYTN II' one will sync fine the other wont.
It all went horribly wrong after I tried to install Wisbar and an Ipod theme, after I uninstalled it, cos it didn't work I found I could no longer sync with USB to PC and the sync option is greyed out on my phone. The phone will charge with some of my usb cables, but now even seems fussy about which cable will charge and some now won't.
I am given to wondering whether the usb connection on my Phone is the problem...everything else seems to be working fine.
I have even installed different ROMS via the memory card still the problem persists.
I would love someone to come up with a fix
**UPDATE**
Well I now have got it working, in my case I was right, the usb connection on the phone was to blame. I took it to a mobile repair shop, I told the guy that I thought it was faulty he took one look at it and said that I had a bent pin, he got a little tool out and teased it back into position, sure enough when I got home it worked fine so now I am able to sync again. Not sure how long it will last though.
**Update 2**
Failed again, at least I know what's wrong now.
First, mobile device center quit working on my new HP touch desktop. I have deleted everything and started over. I've had issues since the Vista on that machine is 64bit rather than 32.
I can connect via USB and view my files on my Diamond, I simply can't get Outlook (trial version) to connect.
It was working but now it decided to die and no matter what I do (including an hour on the phone with HTC tech) can I get it to work.
NOW, my 32bit Vista on my laptop gives me the following message:
"Synchronization could not be completed because one or more objects were in use. Please close all programs on your device and this PC and try again."
There's nothing (application-wise) running other than activesync. I've deleted partnerships and started over. and I still get this same message.
Can anyone PLEASE tell me what the F*CK is going on??? I absolutely freakin' hate activesync and windows mobile device center bull****.
Frustrated,
Mark
I just did a hard reset and I get the same error message. So I'm assuming that the problem is with my laptop, not my Diamond.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Mark
Hi
I had a similar problem where my Diamond would Sync fine at home but for the life of me I couldn't get it to Sync with my work machine, one day it just stopped working.
All the troubleshooting guides I found suggested to make sure that under..
Start, settings, connections, USB to PC
The 'Enable advanced network functionality' was checked, mine already was.
So I unticked it and tried a Sync and lo & behold it synced. I then re-enabled the check box and it was still Syncing.
This was after many deletions & recreations of the partnership, and even uninstalled the Mobile Device Center, all the while it would connect and I could browse the device, just no syncing.
Hope you get it fixed.
Cheers
Dude, I think that fixed it!!!
I clicked it and tried it several times to no avail....
I did a soft reset and it seemed to work.
Thanks,
Mark
I am a total spaz when it comes to these things, but you all have never steered me wrong before, so here goes.
I kept getting an message about storage space the other day and accidentally performed a hard reset on my Tilt II. Dumb, I know, but it happens. Thankfully, all of my files were reinstalled when I synced my phone. All was well, called out an hour before I got home tonight, but I shortly discovered that the "phone" part of my phone was not working at all. No contacts, no nothing, not even pulling up the screen to dial out. I did a few soft resets, took out the SIM and the battery, to no avail. I thought I would try to sync it again and see if that helped.
Well, I kept getting a message saying that my device could not be connected to ActiveSync, so, like an idiot, I read a blog that said to overwrite with ActiveSync 4.5, which I did, and delete the existing sync settings on my phone. I was understanding that all of my info would be preserved on the PC and that I would just need to reconnect my phone.
Well, I don't have the setup disc and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it working again. It seems that the only programs available are for Vista, but I have XP. I have no idea if it stems from the phone being jacked or what.
Please help!