Sync issues

TheLastPriest · #1 (**permalink**) 10-16-2010, 11:49 PM

Hello everyone,

Long time no see, I have been out of the game for a while, a few years even. I used to do a lot of modding on my PPC-6800 but as the device got older it became harder and harder to install anything without it slowing down to a crawl so I ended up using it bone stock for the last year or so. Now I have upgraded to a touch pro 2 (finally got sprint to give it to me for $99 YEAH!!) and so I am jumping back in and feeling VERY stupid.

These days I use my phone for work as well as play and have this one linked to my place of employment's exchange server (which I never had set up on my 6800 while I was modding it, which means I cannot activesync at my house since it only allows sync with one source. this brings me to my problem, I dont know (or have forgotten to be more accurate) how to link my phone to my computer since it wont allow me to sync, is there an after market program I can use? or is it a setting in the mobile device center I am missing? either way I need to be able to link the two to transfer data, install programs etc. Help please!

Much appreciation to those that share their time and knowledge to dig me out of here. Thanks in advance!

Kris443 · #2 (**permalink**) 10-16-2010, 11:58 PM

If vista or win7, d/l and install "windows mobile device center" use USB cable to connect phone to computer. wmdc will recognize it and start up and connect to it.

For XP I think you d/l and use MS activesync.

hth

TheLastPriest · #3 (**permalink**) 10-17-2010, 12:21 AM

Thanks, I swear last time it gave me an error, but this time it connected

**boredandtattooed** · #4 (**permalink**) 10-17-2010, 09:30 AM

sometimes the "enable faster data sync" needs to be unchecked... found in settings>connections>USBtoPC..

glad it already worked for ya though

Kris443 · #5 (**permalink**) 10-17-2010, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by boredandtattooed

sometimes the "enable faster data sync" needs to be unchecked... found in settings>connections>USBtoPC..

glad it already worked for ya though

yeah - thanks b&t forgot about that. Though sometimes I've just had it get stuck (knowing how perfect win7 is and all...) so unplug and wait and plug again and it catches the interrupt.

It's a nice thing to have as it gives one the contents of the phones file system.

Kris443 · #6 (**permalink**) 10-17-2010, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by TheLastPriest

Much appreciation to those that share their time and knowledge to dig me out of here. Thanks in advance!

Always ask! I find there's a ton of knowledgeable folks here.

eric12341 · #7 (**permalink**) 10-17-2010, 02:57 PM

with the advent of microsoft myphone and exchange i dont even bother to AS anymore.

MrGoodtunes · #8 (**permalink**) 12-18-2010, 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by boredandtattooed

sometimes...needs to be unchecked... found in settings>connections>USBtoPC...

Huge thanks b+t (tnx button hit). Your suggestion fix'd the sync problem I've been struggling, searching, trialing & erroring, thinking, searching, more t+e, etc. for hours now (on a Vogue purchased from eBay at the right price). And the MS.com troubleshooting pages tell you to always check that box! Thanks for getting me to try something outside the box.