This one has been hanging fire for a long time now but I finally figured out a solution to it.
This PDA phone is about 3 years old and has WinMobile 5.0 in it. It is labeled a Cingular 8525 but is manufactured by HTC and is the HTC 8525. Been great phone by the way. The final solution came to me after I had been to a Microsoft Event in the Detroit area and they were touting the new Windows Phone in the lobby. They had a laptop running Win7 and bragged about how it would hook up to my phone easily. So I let them try and to my surprise it did just fine. Later, thinking about how the driver was just right there and loaded easily and correctly, I had to wonder what I was doing wrong on my machine at home. To make this long story shorter I blew away my W7x64 and installed a 32bit version and the phone driver installed and connected and synced just fine without any errors or drama. Bottom line is this, there is no 64bit driver for this particular device. So the solution is to run my desktop with the 32bit version of Windows 7. Kind of a shame as I have 4gb RAM in it and with the 32bit version it only will use 3.5gb. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. But I thought that this might help a few folks who are expected to tie some older hardware to Windows 7. Anyway the sync has been solid now for a couple of weeks. I guess I can activate this build now that I'm going to keep it for a while. Thanks to all who offered thoughts, ideas and support. Len Hammond CSI:Hartland lenhamm...@gmail.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Len Hammond <lenhammo...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:18 PM Subject: Re: sync PDA phone To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Just had a BSOD trying to remove WMDC update. This would indicate a WMDC problem. http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-vista/stop-0x9f-or-driver_power_state_failure/ Got the WMDC and the WMDC updateremoved. Rebooting now. Will reinstall the WMDC again and try conneting again with the RESET phone. If all this fails, I'll have rebuild both my machines with XP and abandon both Vista and Win7 (which I really like) in favor of something that can be made to function. I'm almost out of time to play these silly games. Frustration level mounting. <searching for my disk with Delpart.exe on it> <http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-vista/stop-0x9f-or-driver_power_state_failure/> Len Hammond CSI:Hartland lenhamm...@gmail.com On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Len Hammond <lenhammo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can I get an explanation? I'm not seeing or at least not recognizing that > I'm seeing some kind of connection compensation as no connection is evident. > Got a link of something to read to enlighten me? > > Len Hammond > CSI:Hartland > lenhamm...@gmail.com > > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Rod Trent <rodtr...@myitforum.com> wrote: > >> BTW: Win7 **does** compensate for connection issues. >> >> >> >> *From:* Len Hammond [mailto:lenhammo...@gmail.com] >> *Sent:* Saturday, August 01, 2009 1:35 PM >> >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* Re: sync PDA phone >> >> >> >> OK. I reset the phone with the reset button. What they call a soft reset. >> Not the hard reset with the power button held down while touching the reset >> button that results in total data loss. No joy. >> >> >> >> So now I'm back to removing the software and reinstalling with the device >> reset. >> >> >> Len Hammond >> CSI:Hartland >> lenhamm...@gmail.com >> >> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Rod Trent <rodtr...@myitforum.com> >> wrote: >> >> For the record, it’s not WMDC, it’s the phone. Have you reset the phone? >> >> >> >> *From:* Len Hammond [mailto:lenhammo...@gmail.com] >> *Sent:* Saturday, August 01, 2009 12:56 PM >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* sync PDA phone >> >> >> >> I know there are those of you that have had success with this == >> connecting and syncing a PDA/smartphone with Outlook on Vista/Windows 7. >> So, what is the trick to making it connect reliably? I get one connection >> and sync per installation of the Windows Mobile Device Center software. I >> can remove WMDC and reinstall and finally get it to connect and sync. I >> remove the device and try again later - with or without a reboot - and >> Nothing. No connection and no recognition of the device. The device is a 2 >> year-old HTC 8525 with WM5 that has been reliably connecting and syncing >> with an XP box for 2+ years. At least I can get some kind of communications >> with Win7. That's a huge improvement over Vista with which I NEVER got a >> connection at all. With XPpro the connections were pretty consistent, and >> whenever it lost connectivity, I just had to reboot both devices and it >> would re-establish a connection and function normally for while again. >> Nothing seems to help WMDC get going again - short of a removal and >> reinstallatin of the whole thing. The device shows in the WMDC app but flat >> refuses to do anything with it. >> >> >> >> This should not be this difficult - I'm sure I'm just missing some kind of >> setting change and all will be well. I just can't seem to stumble on what to >> change. Do I have to bump the device up to WM6 or WM6.1 to get this to work? >> >> >> >> /Rant >> >> Why can't Microsoft get this right? For $#!* sake, they wrote both halves >> of the software and even they can't make the, never to be cursed enough, >> thing work. Can you tell the frustration level is climbing? This kind of >> crap never happened in the ten years I was running Palm devices. (even >> though Palm had major digitizer issues) >> >> /rant off >> >> >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated as the XP box is in dire need of a >> rebuild and I really would like to go to W7. >> Len Hammond >> CSI:Hartland >> lenhamm...@gmail.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
