I've tried activesync both with and without the advanced networking checked.
I meant that if you select disk drive it'll connect every time and let you access the internal storage, but activesync never works after the first sync.
After all that it finally took a hard reset on the phone to let it connect so I could unlock it again. Something happens at some point after the first sync that causes these issues. As long as I don't let the phone go through its first setup, it'll connect every time. Man, if I could bill for all these hours I've spent trying to get this to work
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