ActiveSync requires an update to the latest Service Release to the client operating system.
I've spent ages tweaking my OS to make it as stable as it currently is and simply can't justify the time and expense of updating and trouble shooting my system just to install Active Sync 4...
Any one had any luck using the Universal with ActiveSync 3.8??
ACTIVESYNC 4.0
IN REPONSE TO YOUR QUESTION REGARDING ASYNC 3.8,I WAS MADE AWARE RECENTLY THAT IMATE JASJAR AND THE DIFFERENT NAMED BRANDS WERE DESIGNED TO WORK ONLY ON ACTIVE SYNC 4.0.
THIS IS PRE - PROGRAMMED INTO WINDOWS MOBILE 5.0.
THOUGH IF YOU HAVE SOME SERIOUS PROGRAMMING SKILLS - IT COULD BE DONE.....
HOPE THIS HELPS..
Thanks fanacreonte2804,
I tried it unsucessfully last night...
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Has anyone used an XDA2 with Mac OS X.3 (Panther)?
I use a Powerbook laptop and want to sync with my XDA2 without troubling the PC that I bought for the kids (with some chagrin, it must be said!)
There is a program called PocketMac that has received some good reviews - which will, apparently, allow the XDA2 (any Pocket PC) to sync with Mac (iCal, Address Book etc.), which, in turn, sync with my iDisk. Serious back up here (laptop stolen three years ago.
Anyway, my XDA2 arrives tomorrow and I wanted to know if there are any Mac Users who have some experience and, hopefully, some tips for me.
I bought an XDA2 by the way, because they look good and the functionality is clearly better than previous Palm/Symbian devices. The great reviews I have seen posted on various internet sites seem to suggest I made the right choice.
Thanks in anticipation of assistance from users' experience.
pocketmac 3.3 works perfectly - xda2 (i was using myssingsync before but it was not working fine as pocketmac is doing now)
if you need help your welcome
ciao
marco
PocketMac 3.3 works fine for me too (PowerBook G4 w/Panther). You can't install Pocket PC software via Mac -- you'll have to "rent" a Windows PC for that, unless you have the CAB files. Some say that Virtual PC would take you around this problem, I'm still working on it... Will let you know.
Also wanted to try MissingSync - the one Apple suggests - but no luck there!
Happy MacKing, and let me/us know your experience!
New experience of Mac and XDA2
I am impressed - syncs faultlessly.
Installed the Mac look provided by Pocketmac as part of the PM 3.3 software bundle.
However, does anyone know how to edit the skins in the XDA as installing an Apple logo appeals?
Apple Skins
sorry - found it in the Pocketmac bundle - it just needed turning on in the XDA2.
guys, where to find trial version of PockeMac or Missing Sync?
I am new in MAC world and seems no trial versions here
How i would know which one is working for me???
Please help!!!
Paul
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/pocketmacpro.html
there is a demo
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12331
and here
dont fear google it's your friend
Thank you Rudegar,
I actually using google very much... but kind of "slowed" about it type demo in it
PocketMac vs. Missing sync
Both programs have their quirks, but since I have a combination of chinese/english names in my address book, missing sync it is. I tried pocket mac and it hoses up unicode quite badly.
PocketMac XDA2 powerbook
I don't believe you. It doesn't work AT ALL. garbled text all over iCal, phone numbers in crap order, no iCal events getting to XDA. No Bluetooth sync...Thanks for your recommendation but PocketMac sucks. I really want to know how to make this work
I just threw away the copy of Pocketmac I had bought and went and got Missing Sync. MUCH better. Been using it over a year now. (as you can see from the post dates)
PBG4+PocketMac+MDAII=0
I cannot even get pocketmacpro demo to "see" my MDA even though its paired as a BT device with my PBG4.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks
eeeh
I'm talking with PocketMac support.
I want to buy Pocketmac Pro 3, but I cannot pay by credit card from
Poland. What should I do?
I used the Mark/Space Missing Sync for Pocket PC application
for synchronising. I bought it via Internet and I am very happy with it.
Simple and clear
I have big problem with internet :?
I often use PowerBook out of work in places where I do not have
access to Internet.
Before I had the Nokia 6310i mobile phone and via this telephone
I could connect to Internet (wireless connection
in every place within GSM network range). Gprs Nokia modem operated
without any problems, and I could connect with the computer
via bluetooth without any problem. I activatedon the phone I could
establish connection.
Unfortunately, Qtek 2020 is a more complex appliance, but has no
such option. In Pocket PC I have Internet (GPRS connect), but not
in the computer
I asked how to solve this problem on numerous forums: Apple and
xda-developers-Forum. Nobody could give me a satisfactory answer.
Please Help Masters
The following should give users an idea what they are in for if they decide to take the plunge...
It happened again. Out of the blue, my XDAII froze, then turned itself off. I closed my eyes and there it was, this terrible electric 'bling bling' sound. I didn't have to open my eyes to confirm that another hardreset had just happened on my XDAII. No particular reason. As if my XDA wanted to tease me, it had just decided to clear everything in its memory, all installed programs. And now? installing everything again? when there was no insurance that it wouldn't hardreset itself again?
No, I said to myself, not this time. I opened the file explorer on my PC and did what I thought I would never do: I started the upgrade to install Magneto or better known as Windows Mobile 2005 on my XDAII.
When I downloaded the Magneto files, I thought to myself that I would just keep them for storing. You never know. One hardreset later and suddenly Magneto sounded like a godsent to me.
The upgrade went smooth, very smooth in fact. Before the upgrade I deleted the extended rom files and storage files. Maybe that helped.
All OK? Not quite. I could not connect to my PC and activesync via USB. Everything worked well via Bluetooth, but USB? No chance. I found out that it had something to do with XP and not having the servicepack 2 installed. Well, no choice. Goodbye USB sync. I could live with that since I still had bluetooth.
Once I had Magneto running, I started installing my standard programs. Most of them worked. The only one that did not was WorldMatePro. OK, I tried to live without it.
I installed most of the programs into Storage. They all worked. I even tried to install some of them into Buzz' RAM disk. A few worked as well, some couldn't be installed there. Well, I anyway planned to use the RAm disk for storage.
I was actually surprised that XCPU_Scalar worked. Well, even Magneto is now overclocked to 530 MHZ on my XDAII.
I also installed PocketZenPhone and Pocketbreeze. Somewhere I had read that these programs would not run on Magneto. But no issues on my machine! They both worked. The only issue I have with Pocketbreeze is that the category icons & colors are gone. Pocketweather also worked fine. Again, I was surprised that Magneto was so compatible.
Unfortunately, PocketContacts was a dead-end. "No contacts found" was the only message I ever got from it. Goodbye PocketContacts.
I had a few more programs in my folder on the PC, but the memory on my XDAII with Magneto is limited. Very limited. Very very limited in fact. But for me not such a big issue as I do not have too much necessary software on my XDA. I could live with this limitation for time being.
Anyway, I wanted to try Magneto for a week and see if I stayed with my new friend.
After I made the first few phone calls with Magneto I was impressed with the dialer. Nice interface. Also, it seems to me that the phone connects much quicker to the provider than before.
But why didn't they include something like the intellidialer? Well, the new contacts application is quite nice, so I will use the contacts instead. Not too bad.
Then, on day three, the disaster. Suddenly, the screen stopped reacting. Well, it actually didn't stop, it just didn't react to the places where I touched it with the pen.
I was already thinking about "hardreset", when it came to me that the screen orientation was wrong.
I had installed Vitobuttonmapper and mapped <rotate screen> to the record button as press and <start bluetooth> as press & hold. I figured out that I must have pressed the record button not long enough, therefore the <rotate screen> command was executed. But somehow, the screen orientation remained in Portrait but the touch screen was now in landscape.
I managed to fix this problem by changing back to Portrait and making a softreset. Then I tried to repeat this error. Yepp, the <rotate screen> was the culprit.
Consequently, my Magneto has no screen rotation anymore. But I can also live with this.
The rest of the week went fine. Magneto is stable and smooth.
Now the final question: Will I stay with Magneto? Yes, I will. I am often travelling and therefore I need a device that I can rely on. If I'm on the road and my XDA hardresets, I'm dead. Therefore Magneto is the solution for me. No hardresets, and even if the battery goes dead, I'm safe.
But one thing is clear to me. When the first Magneto devices come out, and hopefully there will be the Magician with Magneto, I will immediately retire my XDAII and buy one of these devices. Magneto is the future. No doubt about it.
What do I like the most about it besides the "goodbye hardresets"? for sure the softbuttons. Just great!
I hope this was useful.
Cheers
Pat
Hmmm.... Interesting.... Very, very interesting!!!!
I think I'll try Magneto real soon... However, I have a question: Is it possible to return to 2.06.00WWE just in case?
Thanks for such detailed story!
Best regards,
Rayan
return to 2.06.00WWE
pschoch said:
I could not connect to my PC and activesync via USB
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I have the same problem. But let me just say that I have 2 harddrives on my PC. Both with Win XP + SP2. I tried to synch Magneto on the harddrive I frequently use but it DOESN'T work... So I tried booting my 2nd harddrive. This 2nd harddrive has a fresh installation of Win XP + SP2 and other essential utilities like Office suite, WinZIP, etc.
And guess what...activesync 4.0 using USB WORKED using my 2nd harddrive. Very ODD...
Rayan said:
I have a question: Is it possible to return to 2.06.00WWE just in case?
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YES it is possible to return to 2.06.00WWE...I have done exactly that.
I have been running Magneto for about 1.5 weeks. And I must say it's GREAT! But as you know it's just a leaked version so it has a LOT of bugs. So I've decided to go back to 2.06.00WWE until Magneto is more stable/reliable.
How to configure Connect via bluetooth ?
I done the WM2005 installation and i manage to connect via USB with everthing sync. But i like to know how you can setup the activesyc via bluetooth ? I own a Level One bluetooth dongle and i did try to connect via bluetooth in WM2003 before i upgrade to SE. Now in Wm 2005, i still have no luck to get it work. Help !!!
I m using Windows 2003 and had configure Comm 5 in ActiveSync 4.0, added bluetooth serial port 5 in widcomm drivers. And also i pair my XDA2 with my machine several time to make sure it is paired. I try everthing include try to do file transfer from my deskop also no luck.
Btw, i can't discover any ActiveSync service in "My Bluetooth Places", i can only see "Dial up networking, Push Object". I do c actvesync in WM 2003.
Everytime i choose "Connect Via Bluetooth", will get this message "Cannot find an existing Bluetooth partnership with a PC that supports ActiveSync. Would you like to set up a patnership now ?" Yes/No button. But i had done the pairing before that ?
please help.
Change "Secure Connection" to "Not Required"?
Works for me, without Magneto (yet)
pschoch said:
It happened again. Out of the blue, my XDAII froze, then turned itself off. .........another hardreset had just happened on my XDAII. No particular reason.
I was actually surprised that XCPU_Scalar worked. Well, even Magneto is now overclocked to 530 MHZ on my XDAII
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well... think I know why you're xda froze... I overclocked the cpu on xda and when the speeds are 2 high the device will hardreset!!
p.s. magneto rulez! tnx buzz!
I've got the same problems with activesync via Bluetooth. My device doesn't seem to recognise the Activesync service on my Sitecom Bluetooth device.
With 2003SE I didn't have any problems. Madkat's proposal didn't work.
Update to WM5
You are lucky, I was tryed whole last night but fail, it always give me the message "Error 101 - Connection error". USB connection is very good, I could do everything with cable :shock:
Re: Update to WM5
I have got the same problem connecting bluetooth adaptor D-Link DBT-120 with o2xda2 running on 2k3 not se. Anybody help?
Hello amigos!
On this page you can find a possible solution for the Bluetooth/ActiveSync problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=20727&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=100
Best regards,
Rayan
Re: How to configure Connect via bluetooth ?
clementluy said:
I done the WM2005 installation and i manage to connect via USB with everthing sync. But i like to know how you can setup the activesyc via bluetooth ? I own a Level One bluetooth dongle and i did try to connect via bluetooth in WM2003 before i upgrade to SE. Now in Wm 2005, i still have no luck to get it work. Help !!!
I m using Windows 2003 and had configure Comm 5 in ActiveSync 4.0, added bluetooth serial port 5 in widcomm drivers. And also i pair my XDA2 with my machine several time to make sure it is paired. I try everthing include try to do file transfer from my deskop also no luck.
Btw, i can't discover any ActiveSync service in "My Bluetooth Places", i can only see "Dial up networking, Push Object". I do c actvesync in WM 2003.
Everytime i choose "Connect Via Bluetooth", will get this message "Cannot find an existing Bluetooth partnership with a PC that supports ActiveSync. Would you like to set up a patnership now ?" Yes/No button. But i had done the pairing before that ?
please help.
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Try this link http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=1421
Re: How to configure Connect via bluetooth ?
Thanks everyone for the solution. I had to revert back to 2003SE by Xdajojo version, because 2005 did not connect with usb or bluetooth adapter. activesync 4.0 does not seem to work properly on my device (O2 XDA2). I changed back to activesync 3.8 and worked properly with 2003SE. I can even go on internet using activesync. Also I have TOMTOM 3.0 Bluetooth version wich did not install on 2005. I will wait until proper stabilised version of 2005 is released by xda-developers team.
Did anybody get the Onebridge Sync Client from extended Systems to work with the Universal ?
Doesn't work on my system, but I can't beleive that this is so difficult...
Have you gotten anything on this? I have a BA with WM5 and I can't get it to recognize
No. We've been told it may take 1-2 Months until they have a version for WM5. But that's for the Remote-Sync SW. The Desktop Sync SW may come faster.
Common Time, the other Notes Sync SW ist also going slow. I got a mail from them today saying that they're expriencing problems that have to do with the stability of jasjar, not with their SW, but will deliver "something" before the end of October. I don't quite understand why this is so difficult ...
ya, i decided to contact them too. they said that they now have it available but my co. is not going to purchase it yet because of instability
Extended Systems have a new version...OneBridge 5.0..which fully supports WM 2005 and their XTNDConnect PC 5.4 which is the desktop sync also supports WM 2005..cheers
Hi all,
I'm just wondering if anyone else has had any success running Money 2005 on the Exec and getting it to sync with their desktop Money data?
I've been running various versions of Money and more or less each of the XDA's (XDA, XDAII, XDA IIs) over the years but I've just got the Exec and it seems like Money doesn't want to play nice on this one. It strikes me that its an Activesync 4.0 issue as the Money 2005 application works fine in stand alone mode on the Exec, but if you try and sync it with the money files on the desktop PC as soon as Activesync starts up a prograa box pops up and just says "Reading device Databases" - unfortunaly it just hangs there doing that for eternity, unless you disconnect something, in which case Activesync crashes.
Just wondering if anyone else has experienced any issues.
Cheers,
Dave
I didn't even know you could run Money 2005 on it! I have the PC-side program for it, do you have a link to the PPC version? Then I can play and let you know what I find.
Here you go.
That particular version worked fine on the XDA IIs, but something about this new configuration its not liking (at least on my desktop and laptop) and I would suspect that its on the software side.
Thanks.
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Well, I posted a similar query on an MS Activesync Newsgroup this morning, and someone have just come back with the following:
I've had similar compatibility issues with Money 2005. Apparently some changes to WM5 make it incompatible, but MS isn't addressing the issue. I run a Dell Axim x51v and struggled with the same issue, but on top of that, I'd occasionally get the today screen to just crash. The crashes only started occuring after I installed Money, so I had suspicions that the two were related. My solution was actually simple:
Go to settings: Personal tab: Today icon: Items tab: uncheck Money on the list. Syncing became much more reliable and the today crashes stopped altogether. I don't know if it was a file lock or what...but it worked.
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Unfortunatly this still appears to do diddly for me - still hanging at the "Reading device databases".
I'm beginning to get a little narked at MS right now. :evil:
I've been happily using SBP Finance for a while. It's fully compatible with Activesync 4.0 and Money 2006
Hi all. I'm completely new to all this, but have flashed my ROM to Tof's WM6 and am happy with the results, however I have had loads of problems getting ActiveSync 4.5 to work (I haven't managed to sync it in the 2 weeks i've had it) and today for some reason every time I place the phone in the cradle it freezes until i soft reset it (the charging light doesn't come on anymore either). My laptop is running XP Pro sp1 and works fine normally, but I've been playing around with it trying to get ActiveSync to work..... Someone - For the sake of my sanity, please help
you should prob use the new wm6 forum for spc wm6 issues
people seem to report alot of sync issues when using usb
more people seem to have success with bluetooth
also not having the latests sp for the main os would prob also
invite a world of issues