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Hi all
This is my first post but i have been reading in the forums for a couple of days to see if i can work out how to fix my pride and joy by myself.
I tried to upgrade to WM6 and it seemed to halt mid update and i lost my active sync, it was only a few seconds into the update and i stupidly left the sd card and sim card in the device, this may have been the problem. I can get to the boot loader screen as i can see serial and v1.00 on the grayed out screen. I see USB in place of serial in the boot loader screen when i connect the USB lead and also hear the connection sound on my computer. I know that active sync is working as i have connected my c500 smartphone to check. I have also reinstalled Windows mobile device center. I have also tried to connect on my XP lappy and when i try to start mtty 1.42 it blue screens my lappy (anyone else seen this or have a solution?)
Main thing is can i use an SD image to flash a new rom
If not how can i get active sync to see my device
anyone know a good repair shop in the UK
I really have hunted the forums for an answer to this problem but can't readily find a solution any help gratefully received. Also reassurance that my XDA is not totally dead would be nice.
XDA EXEC
Running boot loader screen only
trying to restore using Vista and Windows XP pro
Yu have not been reading verry well!!!
That is easy to fix, just read WIKI
Disable usb in active synh!!!!
Hi thanks for the speedy reply, but i did try disabling the USB connection in active sync and nothing altered. I may be missing something tho so will have another look at the WIKI. Maybe it's because im using Vista, reason being that my lappy running XP is blue screening, would i be better using the lappy and fixing the mtty problem? If you could give me a link to the easy fix so i could find it a little faster. I really wanted to sort this out myself but i am also concerned that my pda is screwed and although all you maybe see a lazy n00b that hasn't read the site very well i have put in a large number of hours reading, i admit flashing firmware is not something i do every day and im a little out of my comfort zone and a few pointers would be very much appreciated.
I have some staff in my folder wich helped me in any problem situation i have ever been.
Try to borrow someonce PC...
Dont use hubs.
Use the same USB port for the whall proces
Done all of those but still no active sync connection! Is there some way the profile for the PDA in active sync can be removed to allow a clean install? Or can i flash some way with the SD card and avoid Active Sync altogether?
I appear to have sorted the problem now. It would seem that the IR port was conflicting with my active sync connection, i was getting a blue screen and a message about ircomm.sys when i disabled the virtual IR port in control panel my pda connected to the mity application without any problems. Hope this will help someone else that is stuck on the same problem.
Hi everyone, I have tried very hard to find a solution to this problem. My P3300 stopped syncing with Mobile Device Center every time I plug in the USB cable. Is this a cable fault or is it hardware/software malfunction? Has anybody experience the same issue? Even with bluetooth my pc can not find my P3300? The USB cable charges the phone no problem but there's not connection from the PC to the P3300... Any help will be deeply appreciated.
if you look in the activstnc box under file
connection settings
make sue all the options are checked
If you have already checked this I'm at a loss apart from to reinstall AS on your PC.
Good luck
Pete
Thanks peterbutler19 for your input...yeak I made sure that everything was checked..also noticed that everytime I plugged in the USB cable there wouldn't be any reaction at the PC... like not even seeing an external USB device... besides only charging the P3300. Its quite a troubling issue.
Don´t know why it happens, but i found that is a problem with windows media player in windows vista.
It´s an issue between, WMDC and WMP.
Hi I use to have same problem, I think is the rom version that you use or a program that you recently install. The way I fixit was only hard reset because the re-installing of activesync dont resolve nothing.
Ark666, hmmm didn't thought about that... I might give it a try and see it that solves the problem. So far now I can only charge the phone and that's about it...
I did a hard reset on the P3300 ryomahino, but the problem still persist. I try to install the WM6 original ROM but can't do since the phone can't activsync with the PC. By the way I am using the B&B v4.2 ROM
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Ark666, hmmm didn't thought about that... I might give it a try and see it that solves the problem. So far now I can only charge the phone and that's about it...
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I don´t remember the site, but do a google search, it has worked for me, it has nothing to do with the device, the problem it´s Vista itself.
Go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=304131&page=3, post 27.
Media Player may not work after this.
Cheers.
I too had a problem with my Compact III loosing its sync with Vista.
It drove me up the wall. Somedays it was fine others it just reported a red cross... I had to go into Device Manager on the PC and remove the drivers manually and then resinstall them. But over time it would loos the syncing again.
I eventually solved it by using a different USB port on my PC.
I was originally using the USB hub that was built into my Dell monitor, but whenever the screen was powered down and the PC left on (ie overnight) the hub didn't always wake up properly.
I know only use the USB ports built into the back of the PC and I have had no problems for several months.
Hope it helps
I had the same problem with my O2 XDA Orbit.
The only thing that cured it was a hard reset
hey there,
i was searching the web and the forum though couldnt find any issues for connecting the desire z via usb to ubuntu (10.04 for me). however, it doesnt work with my DZ. i bought an addition micro-usb-connector (htc) and the phone does only charge and not ask, what kind of connection i want.
once, i read (and experienced) that you have to connect the usb to the back usb-ports (not the front ones) to get it working - that was with my desktop pc. now, using my laptop, the connection (mounting the sd, tethering or whatever) wont work on neither of the laptop's usb-ports...
so maybe there are two questions/issues:
does anyone have similar issues or maybe no problem with connecting the phone to
1) a laptop?
2) ubuntu 10.04?
thanks for your anwsers!
This might be nothing to do with it, but I found that I couldn't use adb with my phone when I was using a third-party USB cable, even though it sync'd (HTC Sync) fine. This was using XP. When I went back to the original HTC cable, adb worked fine.
Hi there,
I have a laptop with Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) and everything works fine here. If i connect my DZ with my laptop a menu appears on the DZ asking if i want to charge only, use as disk drive, HTC sync, USB tethering and internet passthrough. I havent tried HTC sync but the rest works fine. I can even synchronize my music with Rythmbox or Banshee. So what i'm saying is that it should work out of the box.
My DZ is stock European edition, no root or s-off yet.
I suggest you first look in the settings of your DZ and look for "Connect to PC". There you should see the settings for the default connection and a "ask me" option. (My default is charge only and "ask me" is turned on). If this doesn't work maybe you can test your device on another computer to see if the menu does appear when you connect your phone.
Thanks for your replies.
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This might be nothing to do with it, but I found that I couldn't use adb with my phone when I was using a third-party USB cable, even though it sync'd (HTC Sync) fine. This was using XP. When I went back to the original HTC cable, adb worked fine.
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I was trying to get adb working but ended up in getting an no-permission-error. Couldn't figure out the problem...
mordecai83 said:
Hi there,
I have a laptop with Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) and everything works fine here. If i connect my DZ with my laptop a menu appears on the DZ asking if i want to charge only, use as disk drive, HTC sync, USB tethering and internet passthrough. I havent tried HTC sync but the rest works fine. I can even synchronize my music with Rythmbox or Banshee. So what i'm saying is that it should work out of the box.
My DZ is stock European edition, no root or s-off yet.
I suggest you first look in the settings of your DZ and look for "Connect to PC". There you should see the settings for the default connection and a "ask me" option. (My default is charge only and "ask me" is turned on). If this doesn't work maybe you can test your device on another computer to see if the menu does appear when you connect your phone.
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My DZ is also European,standard stock Rom,nothing done (yet). I checked the settings you mentioned and it says "ask me".
Next thing that is really weird: I can enable the tethering option (but cannot use it), yet the connection bypass (or what it is called in English) is greyed out. Tomorrow, I'm going to try the usb cable from the box...
ok, i checked with the original usb cable, still i wont get a connection. as my laptop sits on a docking station, i also tried the back-ports (at the docking station) and un-docked it - no success. none of the three ports will grant me access to the phone.
furthermore, i booted into windows xp and it will show a removable device, but i cannot access it (says something like "enter a device").
it seems to me, that it has something to do with my laptop (lenovo t61) and its usb ports... i have no idea, what to do, so i'm happy about any advice or experience...
Try the guide on adb at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865685 , it tells you where to get the Windows drivers.
thanks for the hint, i tried to adb on linux (without success), but going for the windows try...
i'm wondering about, why the phone does not simply give access to the sd-card, like any other removable device. why do i need to install htc sync (including the drivers)? when plugging any removable dev for the first time, it normally just installs the drivers and you'll get access... where is the problem here?
abprie said:
i'm wondering about, why the phone does not simply give access to the sd-card, like any other removable device. why do i need to install htc sync (including the drivers)? when plugging any removable dev for the first time, it normally just installs the drivers and you'll get access... where is the problem here?
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I know what you mean, I would have thought it would "just work" if you connect the phone in "Disk Drive" mode, where the SD card is mounted on the PC.
You're not using a USB hub, right, you've tried connecting straight to your PC's USB ports ?
no, there is no usb-hub used. the connections i tried were always direct ones.
The next thing to do would be to try to connect your phone to another computer. Because it could also be a problem with your phone rather than your usb ports.
mordecai83 said:
The next thing to do would be to try to connect your phone to another computer. Because it could also be a problem with your phone rather than your usb ports.
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well, the phone connects perfectly to my desktop-pc...
It's a long shot, but I did some Googling on "Lenovo T61 usb problem" and saw one report from a guy whose USB didn't work on his T61 with Ubuntu until he upgraded the BIOS
Steviewevie,you are doing my work,you know
Well thanks for the info,do you happen to have a link?
Edit:thinking about that... updating the BIOS??
abprie said:
Steviewevie,you are doing my work,you know
Well thanks for the info,do you happen to have a link?
Edit:thinking about that... updating the BIOS??
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I only had a quick look, so a more extensive look may well turn up some useful info. The thread I stumbled across was at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=673501
Ok,i took a look at the link (thanks!), but that deals with ubuntu 7.04. To me, it doesn't seem to be the issue that usb ports are not working, as other usb sticks and my touch pro 2 were recognized without any problems.
Imho,it is like when I connect to the front ports of my desktop, when the connection doesn't work either, so I'll have to live with it. Thanks for your support anyway (I'm still open for new approaches)
BTW: it really bugs me that I can't just plug that device and use it as a mass storage like any other...
i have absolutely no idea why, but now it works... today, when i was charging the phone via usb (the thing, that was working from the beginning), my DZ rebooted spontaneously and afterwards it just showed the missed connection options...
no i just need to figure out how to use the internet-forwarding (dont know the correct translation - what i want is to use the internet from my pc on the phone) ... any clues?
I got DHD 2 days ago, first day everything worked normaly, now I can't connect the phone via USB to laptop. I don't get the dialog asking to charge, use as disk etc. I tried everything, debug mode on/off, restarted, removed SD card and back in again, I used another SD card, reboot my laptop, phone (also with turned off "fast boot"), ... I've had HTC Magic till now, no problem connecting it as disk to my Macbook, same was with this one. I think I might have disconnected the USB too fast, but I'm not sure if it was this phone or the old HTC Magic. Interesting thing is, this topped working Thursday night, but on Friday I could connect it to the same laptop using Nokia's micro-USB cable, it worked, but no way to getting it to work with supplied HTC USB cable I could use Nokia's cable, but it's in the office and HTC's cable should work, shouldn't it?
Does anyone have an idea what to do? Phone does not even set the card so laptop can recognise it as USB disk (even if I use Windows VM, phone is not detected, i I plug in Magic, it works on Mac and Windows. Would a factory reset help (how do I backup data on unrooted phone)?
And yes, I've searched this forum and tons of other things online, nothing seems to work Some say this cable is for charge only, but a) how come it worked when I first got the phone? b) USB cable is a USB cable
Don't you have to pull down the notifications bar, tap USB connected and then choose the connection type you want each time. I don't have sense ROM anymore but I'm pretty sure that is what I had to do every time I connected the phone, I don't remember the phone prompting me.
Doktaphex said:
Don't you have to pull down the notifications bar, tap USB connected and then choose the connection type you want each time. I don't have sense ROM anymore but I'm pretty sure that is what I had to do every time I connected the phone, I don't remember the phone prompting me.
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+1..I'd say your phone is in charge only and needs to be changed as Quoted above.
Doktaphex said:
Don't you have to pull down the notifications bar, tap USB connected and then choose the connection type you want each time. I don't have sense ROM anymore but I'm pretty sure that is what I had to do every time I connected the phone, I don't remember the phone prompting me.
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Yeah, there should be an icon in notification bar, but there isn't. I have ticked to ask me each time, I've set default connection to disk, charge only, I've set it with debug mode checked, no difference
Make sure when you connect the phone is not locked this is how I got mine to work!
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Aamir.Badat said:
Make sure when you connect the phone is not locked this is how I got mine to work!
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No difference
Have you tried rebooting and then trying again!
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Have you tried rebooting and then trying again!
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Of course, many times, with and without fast boot, I rebooted laptop even.
Have you removed any apps with Titanium Backup? Rooted your DHD? Flashed any custom ROMs/Radio's/Recoveries?
The ability to connect your SD card via USB to your computer is a core function included within Android. It would not suddenly stop unless you did something.
I'm also pretty sure the check box is for it to not ask you again. Have you looked at the USB settings to clear the default you have set?
andyharney said:
Have you removed any apps with Titanium Backup? Rooted your DHD? Flashed any custom ROMs/Radio's/Recoveries?
The ability to connect your SD card via USB to your computer is a core function included within Android. It would not suddenly stop unless you did something.
I'm also pretty sure the check box is for it to not ask you again. Have you looked at the USB settings to clear the default you have set?
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No, my phone is not rooted (yet), it has stock rom and everything. And I've never set to "never ask me again". Weird thing is that it worked for first few hours.
Now, the WEIRDEST thing is that I just got to the office and connected the phone to my (same) laptop with Nokia cable. It works like it should, to every USB port I connect it to. So my official HTC USB cable, that came with the phone does not work, charges only while Nokia's USB cable (form my old E66) works perfectly. I can use this cable, though I'm ultra curious why a HTC cable wouldn't work?!
Faulty cable or a bent pin or something. Happens from time to time. Micro usb leads are dirt cheap and readily available now anyway so no loss apart from a little tone to replace it.
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Faulty cable or a bent pin or something. Happens from time to time. Micro usb leads are dirt cheap and readily available now anyway so no loss apart from a little tone to replace it.
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Yeah. I'll test coworker's HTC USB cable tomorrow and try his Desire phone with my laptop so if my cable is faulty, I'll go to service and ask for a replacement, a cable that comes with the phone should be under warranty, right? I will post the outcome here.
Not to forget, a huge THANY YOU to all of you who tried helping me
Yep, it was faulty cable. It took them 2 WEEKS go give me a new one, but at least it works (for) now.
Hi,
Been trying to find an answer to this for a while but so far no joy. I've found a few similar threads but none with likely answers/fixes.
Anyway here goes;
I decided to finally root my DHD now that it's out of warranty. I downloaded AAHK, read the effen manual and plugged my phone in ready to go... and nothing happened.
My phone charges via USB but I get no icons in the notification bar, nothing to ask what I'd like to do (mount as disk drive, charge only etc) and nothing pops up on my PC to say its detected a phone attached.
I've checked settings and it's set to mount as disk drive by default and also set to ask me what I want to do.
I've tried manually altering from mount as disk drive to charge only and back again. I've tried it with USB Debugging on and off. I've rebooted the phone. I've powered down, performed a battery pull, powered up again and tried it - still nothing.
I've tested the SD card in a card reader and it seems fine. I've tried a different USB cable, different USB ports and even a different PC! Still the same story - charges okay but nothing else.
Meanwhile my g/f's phone (a Wildfire) mounts fine with the same cable on the same PC - so clearly the problem lies with my phone specifically and not the cable, SD card or PC.
My phone is a sim-free DHD just over a year old. It's all stock atm - Android 2.3.5, Sense 3.0, Software Number 3.12.405.1
Do I (as I fear) have a bricked USB port? Does anyone else have this problem?
Any help will be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
The port itself could have something stuck on one of the contacts, or is dirty and keeping plug from fully seating. Other than that your port could be bad. To bad you are out of warranty.
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Yeah I was afraid of that. I was hoping - vainly - that it may have been a software fault.
Still, at least I can still charge it... for now!
Thanks for the reply.
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