Hi all, i have finally just bought a diamond to replace my Trinity. After changing the ROM numerous times on the Trinity (thanks XDA-developers for the advice and knowledge to do this) I will obviously be doing the same on the Diamond.
I have only one question. I use Vista 64bit at home (it came pre-installed on the laptop before any one asks) and i couldn't get the ROM upgrade to work for the trinity, even after installing Vista drivers and many hours of trying. I switched to an XP machine at work and it worked first time, only problem is work doesn't like me spending hours playing around with my phone while i should be working.
So my question is has any one here tried to do ROM/HardSPL/radio upgrades using Vista 64bit?
Thanks
Smiffy
you can install ms virtual pc 2007 on your vista64bit and instal xp 32bit as a virtual machine and do it that way
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Hi, can anyone help?
Running Vista from my laptop and want to synch my Vario II with it (currently synched Vario II with XP running desktop). Tried to instal ActiveSync but laptop tells me it's already there but I can't find it in the programmes list and it won't find it on a search.
My laptop does recognise my memory card in the Vario II but won't recognise that it's actually in the Vario II - i'm confused. When I conect the Vario II I'm prompted for a password several times but I can't actually synch.
Vario II is running WM5, have considered WM 6.1 but would I still be able to sync with the XP desk top if I install it.
All a bit confusing and frustrating this, I'm not a techie so basic answers please (if possible!!!)
Thanks
backtap
im a veteran when it come to vista. but i still hate it!!!!!!!
check this link from microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/devicecenter.mspx
youll find the activesync for vista its called "Windows Mobile Devie Center."
vista sucks in the sense of all those security related stuffs.. wmd sucks.. big time, dun ever attempt to do reflashing of roms at vista, u may end up a bricked phone
nice help thanks
Active Sync is for Xp..
Windows Mobile Device Center is for Vista..
So you need to DL Windows Mobile Device Center
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ooops, I forgot..
Good luck!
/b/-TarD said:
vista sucks in the sense of all those security related stuffs.. wmd sucks.. big time, dun ever attempt to do reflashing of roms at vista, u may end up a bricked phone
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Vista works fine. You can get your phone bricked by not doing it right, it happens in all operating systems.
vista uses wmdc - windows mobile device center & not activesync. so go to the link mentioned on the 2nd post & dload wmdc. should be fine afterwards.
1 thing that bugs me with vista/wmdc is that everytime you sync your device, it changes your device ID to "windowsmobileXX" for my prophet and now to "HTCXX" on my touch pro where XX is a number. So some of my programs that need device ID for registration gets screwed up.
edit: i've never had any luck with flashing on vista for my prophet needed to use vmware running xp. haven't flashed my touch pro yet...
Here is a guide i wrote to flash Htc Himalaya's aka xda2 devices in Vista, the steps should be same :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=428469
Hello Gurus!
I am considering buying a new laptop as I am tired of my limitations with tweaking my phone using my MAC. Since Windows XP is being phased out as we speak, just wondering if I am going to have tons of driver issues when trying to sync and make changes with the Vista OS running?
I can 'maybe' find a laptop running XP, but Vista is super easy to find. Any thoughts??
Tack på förhand!
Scarlet
I don't have any problems using Windows Vista to connect to my ATT Tilt. Syncing via Windows Mobile Device Center works as it should. And I don't have any problems flashing various ROMs either.
The only issue I think there was is in the Cooking arena but I think even that was taken care of.
I'm running Vista Business with a TYTNII with no problems at all right now
Only thing to remember is that ActiveSync has now been replaced with Windows Mobile Device Centre
Ive got Vista Ultimate 64Bit and have no problems at all. there is a 64bit version of windows mobile device center as well as 32 bit and its far better and easier to use than XP's activesync.
In fact its easier becuae all you do is plug your phone into the usb and vista will find it and download the drivers needed for your phone. when windows mobile device center opens it will know what mobile your using and have a picture of it on the left hand side.
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n218/dolbe666/WMDC.jpg
SVIK73 said:
Hello Gurus!
I am considering buying a new laptop as I am tired of my limitations with tweaking my phone using my MAC. Since Windows XP is being phased out as we speak, just wondering if I am going to have tons of driver issues when trying to sync and make changes with the Vista OS running?
I can 'maybe' find a laptop running XP, but Vista is super easy to find. Any thoughts??
Tack på förhand!
Scarlet
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No problem there, whatsoever. I use my Vario III with my Vista Ultimate laptop and flash ROMs like a maniac! ;-) Syncing in Vista is easy, fast, and works intuitively.
However, what you'll have to do first (at least to my understanding) in order to be able to flash ROMS in Vista is this.
Not a big deal though and worked well for me.
Hope this helps.
har de bra.
Regards,
H.
I have a Vista Home Pro machine and did not think twice if it would work or not.
It works without any issues.
Tack för hjälpen!
Okay, so I will need to do what the link showed to flash a new ROM right? The syncing shouldn't be a problem out the box ...
Thanks for all the quick and really informative responses! Thanks Dolbe for the screenshot ... I love the way your desktop looks!
Ha det bra to you too lesevich
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lesevich said:
No problem there, whatsoever. I use my Vario III with my Vista Ultimate laptop and flash ROMs like a maniac! ;-) Syncing in Vista is easy, fast, and works intuitively.
However, what you'll have to do first (at least to my understanding) in order to be able to flash ROMS in Vista is this.
Not a big deal though and worked well for me.
Hope this helps.
har de bra.
Regards,
H.
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Hello I've read around on this problem, and I cant find a fix for it. Orange UK HTC Diamond, I don't have the driver CD or anything but it seems it should be stored on the device itself.
I plugged it into my laptop (Vista x32 Home Premium), and first time it comes up with "Uknown device installed. Searching preconfigured drivers." It closes and nothing happens.
I have WMDC 6.1 installed, and have unchecked advanced network functionality.
If I install XP on a VMware virtual machine, will I be able to activesync to that ? (eventually I want to install HardSPL etc.)
Anyway, and hints/tips would be amazing.
vista and diamond
I just got my Diamond this weekend, I was upgrading from an HTC P4000. I was out of town (my home pc is XP) so I decided to sync my contacts over his vista machine (btw can this be done easily pda to pda? bluetooth?) The P4000 had trouble syncing with vista, took a few tries. After outlook at all my stuff from my old phone, I put my Diamond in and... nothing. Didn't see it, but it was charging. I fought Vista for about an hour to get it working, I had to download a windows mobile center patch off of microsoft, and restart the computer+phone.
When I got home to my XP machine, I plugged in and activesync took care of everything.
All the advice I can give you is try uninstalling your phone drivers (in device manager) and try different usb ports, and restart.
heres a link to the MS troubleshooting page I tried:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/help/synchronize/device-center-troubleshooting.mspx
Hmm I'm starting to think it might be the standard USB connection that I'm using, do I need to use the standard HTC cable?
I've just tried phone on XP, and its bringing up the same error with Activesync 4.5
It is well-known that in vista you have to download, and install, Windows Mobile Device Center to sync any WM device, even PPCs.
So what's the deal?
Hey i'm also having this problem, spent ages trying to get it to work and tried
uninstalling and reinstalling everything but just get a message on the phone saying
install ActiveSync 4.5 on PC even though im using Vista.
Any ideas??
saj31 said:
Hey i'm also having this problem, spent ages trying to get it to work and tried
uninstalling and reinstalling everything but just get a message on the phone saying
install ActiveSync 4.5 on PC even though im using Vista.
Any ideas??
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You can't use ActiveSync on VISTA!!! Can't you read the MANUAL or make a search?! Install Windows Mobile Device Center from MSFT site.
For God's sake, use the included CD, it has ALL you need to start synching.
I have x64 Home Premium, and it worked out of the box.
I'm happy for you but the first thing I did was install WMDC6.1, as stated in my first post, and as I said it isn't syncing with activesync on XP either
Hi,
I am interested in installing Windows 7 on my Shift (mainly for performance reasons) as soon as its final version is released.
But I am simply lazy and don't want to reinstall and configure everything again in windows 7. So what about an upgrade installation from Vista to Windows 7?
I would expect that Win7 takes all the drivers from Vista and use them on its own. Would this work?
Does anyone of you has any experience with upgrading your Shift's Vista installation? What about the storage space? Can I remove the Vista backup (i don't mean the hidden restore image from HTC) after upgrading to Windows 7? For sure I will do an external backup from my current Vista setup before even touching Win7.
Upgrading does some problems that I will explain in like two words... but the main problem of it:
WAIT for Windows 7 RTM [13 July 2009] and FRESH install this. Upgrading not only takes more time, but also space, space that Shift doesn't have, however upgrading may cause some problems like immediately BSOD and some other ****.
Idea: I will fresh install Windows 7 RTM, and allocate two weeks of hard work for solving the problems, or the least most of them, the main problem is BSOD caused by interpolated resolution on Aero and some fullscreen application, with or without Aero, like Windows Media Center. For now... just waiting for Microsoft's product to be released
so, how about HTC Support ?
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Dear Sir or Madam As I own a HTC Shift, known also as HTC Clio 110, I would be really interested in your support for Windows 7, as Microsoft official RTM release will be available on 13 July 2009.
Me and the HTC Shift community are having problems with the video driver resulting in BSOD when operating on Windows 7 RC.
Hope that Microsoft or HTC resolv these issues as I really need something faster on this machine.
Thanks for your help and I look forward for your response.
Yours faithfully, Vlad DalvuS
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Dear Customer,
Thank you for contacting our Customer Support Center.
Unfortunately there is no support for MS Windows 7 for the HTC Shift and there is no plans for Microsoft release an upgrade license to this device.
If you have further questions you can call our Call Center from a different handset. In http://www.htc.com/select_country.htm, select your country and then click on the Support tab.
Thank you once again for your continued patronage.
Best regards,
Europe customer support team
HTC Corp. Global Service Division
This is so bad.
It is 2009 and I never want to setup windows on my PC again. Working and reliable upgrades should be Microsoft's next focus.
Hi there. I have upgraded my Shift's Vista to Windows 7 and thankfully you where absolutely wrong.
I just wrote down my experiences here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4376405#post4376405
The upgrade took long 3 hours but afterwards everything went well. Seems like Microsoft improved the upgrade procedure in Windows 6.x more than the people expected.
LordDeath said:
Hi there. I have upgraded my Shift's Vista to Windows 7 and thankfully you where absolutely wrong.
I just wrote down my experiences here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4376405#post4376405
The upgrade took long 3 hours but afterwards everything went well. Seems like Microsoft improved the upgrade procedure in Windows 6.x more than the people expected.
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Hi
Thanks for your experiences note. I appreciate it.
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Ram
I've almost but given up on this, can someone please help me. I'm trying to get my HTC TyTN II to sync with my windows 7 ultimate laptop (64 bit)
I'm trying to install windows mobile device centre 6.1 (the latest, I've downloaded and tried it again a few minutes ago). I've tried both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of the software and it just won't install It gives me the dialog box asking me 'Do you want the windows mobile device centre to make changes to your computer' If I click on 'yes' that's it, nothing else happens
Is there any hope? I can't believe microsoft could have released such a ****ty os with no proper testing with windows mobile devices. This used to work flawlessly with activesync
Please, any help will be really appreciated. I've seen some posts about people having luck with this
Run it as administrator = problem solved.