??? Using Active Sync on Macbook through Parallels
 

Anyone else have this problem? I have a Macbook and i have parallels running windows xp; however, every time i connect my phone to the computer, it asks me if i want to connect to the Mac or the Virtual Machiene, i select virtual machine and it won't ever connect to active sync.. anyone got any ideas?

Re: ??? Using Active Sync on Macbook through Parallels
 

Really? Did the phone show up a screen ask you do you want to use ActiveSync, Disk Mode or Internet Sharing once you connected it to your MB?

It works on mine, but I'm using VMWare instead of Parallel.

Re: ??? Using Active Sync on Macbook through Parallels
 

I wanted to second VMWare, my touch pro syncs fine via VMWare with Windows XP.

Re: ??? Using Active Sync on Macbook through Parallels
 

why dont you just use "missing sync"??

Re: ??? Using Active Sync on Macbook through Parallels
 

i flash my phone all the time, so thats why i want to use parallels.. do you guys use VMWare to flash?

Re: ??? Using Active Sync on Macbook through Parallels
 

This works pretty well too:

http://mac.eltima.com/sync-mac.html

Re: ??? Using Active Sync on Macbook through Parallels
 

Does anyone flash their phone using the mac side of their partition? if so, what do you use to connect?

Re: ??? Using Active Sync on Macbook through Parallels
 

If you have an Intel Mac, what I suggest you to do, safely is use Boot Camp. After all no matter how much it can emulates (or runs natively) Windows in a OS X environment, the USB pass-thru the OS X kernel to the virtual machine can cause issues.

Keep in mind that when the phone goes into Bootloader mode, it became a different device. Translation: USB connection drops, VM doesn't see it and you need manual reconnection to the VM. Also, not all VM support certain modes where USB is emulated as serial or plain USB.

What you CAN do is rename the ROM file according to the phone and put it in the root of your SD card, boot into the bootloader mode and flash from the SD card. That way you don't have to worry about having the flashing procedure takes a dump and brick your $700 phone.

For those who still has a PowerPC-Mac, well... find a PC, or try the flash from SD card method.