Hi,
I've just tried to upgrade my MDA Pro to the new AKU2. I didn't get anywhere with the installation. It got as far as 'checking the device', blue screened and now my MDA Pro will not switch on. Note that I didn't click on anything to start an upgrade.
Does anybody have any suggestions to make?
Update
Update ...
The BSOD was due to WCSEUSB.SYS (or something similar). I believe this is realted to the lovely ActiveSync ....
Plugged phone into mains without battery and the battery charge light is red. Plug it in with battery and nothing happens. Battery was FULLY charged before I started (I made sure of that).
did you put your universal on bootloader when you upgrade it ???
cheers
indra9110
No.
I followed the instructions which didn't tell me anything about that - told me to connect via ActiveSync and I would get various screens - only got to the 'checking device one' when PC BSOD.
Looks like everything is now working - went into bootloader mode and started the upgrade from there. From what I understood of the instructions you needed to connect via ActiveSync. I got the instructions from the T-Mobile site.
My question is what does the additional T-Mobile CABs that run actually provide? Is it anything that I couldn't install myself?!?
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Hi,
I was using the phone a few hours ago and everything is working fine.
Now, I'm trying to make a call and cannot! It says "no service found" and there is an exclmation mark next to antenna. I tried manually selecting the T-mobile network. Still, not working.
Also, all of a suddent, it won't let me access my contact list. It won't let me run any programs. It won't even let me get to the Phone program.
It won't recognize my miniSDA card either.
I rebooted the MDA and did the soft reset 4-5 times, still not working.
I did drop the phone in a parking lot 2 days ago, but it didn't physically have any damage and it's been working fully since that drop..up until just NOW!
I called T-mobile Support ... they are willing to give me a replacement MDA..so I guess that will be fine.
However, I cannot access my contact list - Does anyone know any way I can get my contacts off this MDA ???
Also, 4 mos ago, I installed a ROM from this site which supposedly unlocks the phone. Will T-mobile have a problem with this when they recv my phone ? Or no problem?
also..
by the way....
The phone will not sync with my laptop running latest ver of active sync.
It will say "connected" on both MDA and Laptop, then I get a pop up error on my laptop, some thing like:
" unable to syncronize with device, please check device and try again etc.."
OK - I got a replacement from T-mobile.
Now, can anyone tell me how to get my OLD contacts off the old mda and into the new one?
FYI: It won't connect via activesync
I've recently discovered that T-mobile do in fact provide the SPB GPRS Data Monitor Tools for their Vario 2 device. It comes on the application CD and you have to install it yourself.
Unfortunately, my own attempts at this have been unsuccessful. I keep getting a message telling me I need to upgrade my ROM. Rather strange considering no other official ROM has been released for this model yet.
Anyway, I've been fighting with it for a number of days and eventually contacted T-mobile customer service. I'm though to the Technical Escalations team who are looking into it. However, they can't replicate the issue.
What I'd like to know is has anyone else been successful at installing this application on their Vario 2?
ROM 1.21.110.3
Date 06/19/06
I've got it installed on my mda vario II with the same rom as you and had no issues.
chaps said:
I've got it installed on my mda vario II with the same rom as you and had no issues.
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Hi. Thanks - did you install it yourself or did it come pre-installed?
Anyone else?
i had no problems with that at all .. did you upgrade your activesync before connecting your device to a pc ?
installed from cd - all here
wundis said:
i had no problems with that at all .. did you upgrade your activesync before connecting your device to a pc ?
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Thanks everyone. Hmm.. good question. Knowing how flaky ActiveSync can be, I did upgrade it straight away. I'm running the latest 4.2. What about you guys?
Well.. I thought I'd have a crack at trying Activesync 4.5
That turns out to perhaps not being the wisest move. As is typical of wonderful Microsoft I've been having all sorts of games with the it. I ended up having to hard reset my Vario 2 again because it was having trouble synching.
Anyway, got it working finally and the result? Even better.. now when I attempt to run the installer it doesn't even show me the GPRS monitor as an optional install! Hah.. gets better and better..
Maybe this only works on ealier versions of Activesync - prior to 4.2? I'm going to have another crack over the weekend on my home PC. I might also roll back Activesync to 3.7 to see if that works any better.
HAHA!! Ok!! Further to above I thought what the heck, fired up the installer again and chose to 'repair' rather than 'modify' to install a new application. Lo and behold it went ahead and attempted to install the GPRS monitor. Result - Success! I now have this working. Go figure!
I've recently got an XDA Exec from work that I'm having two issues with. Knowing how good XDA-Developers is when I'm doing all sorts of crazy stuff with my Wizard I thought I'd jump ship to the Universal forum.
Unfortunately as it's a work unit I'm stuck with official ROMs, which means I'm using the latest O2 ROM that is AKU 2.0 I believe.
Issue 1) ActiveSync seems to get stuck some times and when it's 'looking for changes' when connected to Exchange. It just sticks there and fails to either proceed or cancel. I have to disconnect GPRS, then ActiveSync times out and it's ok again. Is there any way to fix this?
Issue 2) When I open the device and it's unlocked the screen comes on automatically. Is there any way to do this when it is locked too?
Hi, i have a HTC universal, on which i succesfully flashed one of the newer firmware's with mobile6
other then some minor details that are constantly being fixed here with the good work of some ppl here, i had no problems.
But today, the MDA just won't do anything thru the USB bus anymore, except loading.
it will load thru the usb-pc connection, or with the wall plug, but no data connection at all anymore.
I had this once, in the very early beginning of my MDA and i reflashed the MDA with the original T-mobile firmware then, i thought it was from playing around with a lot of software. the MDA worked fine again after that.
But now i can't even flash the MDA anymore. I can start it into the bootloader (v1.01) but my laptop doesn't see the device, and can't flash it.
any one any idea's how to fix this ?
Thanx, steffie
To start with: I already posted my findings on USB connections with a mobile phone and windows XP in the thread that handles a USB utility
By Accident I just stumbled upon the next and I think it is worth posting.
As I connected my windows mobile 6.0 on an HTC MDA vario II today it suddenly failed to find my device.
To sync anyway, I connected it thrue Bluetooth and that worked fine.
Then: I wanted to sync some new tracks via my Windows Mediaplayer on the XPSP2 machine. As it seems it is unseen through bluetooth.
I considred that this time, the only difference between yesterday (when everything worked fine) and today, was changing my SIMcard from the WM6.1 HTC to this one.
SO I took it out.
And hey....my device (that I had already removed the USB devices) was seen; installed and started syncing like it was yesterday.
It seems T-mobile has some strange SIM-card that makes it impossible to use the USB - Activesync functionality when the SIM is in the phone.
This goes only for WM 6.0 because my WM 6.1 (HTC Vario IV) does not have that problem at all. Maybe there is some developer with any idea as to how this might happen. There are many issues on the net concerning the same symptoms.
It keeps us busy and does make you want to take your new WM 6.1 phone on holidays instead of taking the oldie and keep an eye on that one.
It is also not so very sustainable because I did not have this problem the first year. Before the T-mobile upgrade.....
PLease tell me we are not being scr**&$#@ for marketing and explain there is a perfictly logical reason for this unforseen behaviour. I'd love to sync without taking my SIM card out. Should I get in touch with T-mobile?
Good luck to everyone who stumbles upon this thread for a reason and let me know solutions if found.