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HTC Magic on Windows 7

Hello,
I've been googling around for a workaround but I cannot seem to find one that actually works. The problem is, when I try to connect my phone to the PC and, for example, want to flash it with an official rom - it simply cannot find it. It can find the SD card when I mount it.
When I put it in, Windows attempts to install a few drivers but fails at the ADB. According to several sites, I can just use the one from HTC Sync or from the Android SDK. It installs fine but it still doesn't seem to be able to contact my phone. I cannot sync it either.
Anyone got an idea? I seem to be on my last nerve.

I dont have any problems here. What windows beta release do you use?

Final version. Released today. It's Windows 7 Professional.

First, set the phone to debugg mode...
Ok here we go (at least it works for me)...
1.- Remove the drivers actuaslly installed (it might get tricky, as I don't know exactly how to remove the registry keys)
2.- Once you have cleaned windows from the drivers, connect the phone to the computer and let it recognize everything (Probably it would not recognize the ADB drviers, so far we are good)
3.- After the drivers are installed, go and check in control panel/Devices Administration (or something like that... I have Windows in spanish so I don't know exactly how is called on english... By the way, sorry if my english sound a little bit weird =P..)
4.- Here you should see probably a device as "not recognized" or what ever is called... Here is the part where you need to select the driver manually.
5.- Check the phone driver folder (you should have it, if you don't get them)
6.- When you see the different options, select the one called HTC Dream Composite ADB Interface
7.- You are done =D...
I hope I made it clear enough for you...
If you have any doubt, add me to MSN xnofrostx - hotmail.com (I don't put the @ because I hate spam xD so you should add only the xnofrostx =P...
Hope you can get it to work...

I couldn't, for the life of me, get it to work so I put Windows XP on a vmware and flashed it through there. Works wonders.

Sorry for not being able to help.
I run Windows 7 Evaluation copy. I have had no problems. In fact there was nothing for me to set up, it just saw it on first attempt.

trillex said:
Hello,
I've been googling around for a workaround but I cannot seem to find one that actually works. The problem is, when I try to connect my phone to the PC and, for example, want to flash it with an official rom - it simply cannot find it. It can find the SD card when I mount it.
When I put it in, Windows attempts to install a few drivers but fails at the ADB. According to several sites, I can just use the one from HTC Sync or from the Android SDK. It installs fine but it still doesn't seem to be able to contact my phone. I cannot sync it either.
Anyone got an idea? I seem to be on my last nerve.
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I'm on Windows 7 Ultimate. Driver from AndroidSDK and HTC Sync works perfectly for me. I can access everything except cannot sync with HTC Sync.
Rogers Magic
Rooted
CyanogenMod 4.1.9999

I cannot sync either, when installing the sync program it gives an error but continues installation, then my phone says it cannot detect htc sync on my computer, but im gonna try this link http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/08/24/workaround-for-htc-hero-sync-problem-in-windows-7/

trillex said:
I couldn't, for the life of me, get it to work so I put Windows XP on a vmware and flashed it through there. Works wonders.
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I'm glad you decided to upgrade back to XP!

IE_DSM said:
I'm glad you decided to upgrade back to XP!
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LOL, Windows 7 is a damn nice release and a lot faster than both xp and vista compared to the hardware available at the moment off release.

i am also using windows 7 beta and final
no issues at all. and i also think, that win7 is really good piece of software. far superious to win xp

HTC Sync and Windows 7 - How to get it to work?

I have done dozens of searches and come across hundreds of people having the same issue as me and not one solution that actually works...
The software: HTC Sync, version: 2.0.18
The OS: Windows 7
The device: HTC Magic (Stock Rogers version)
The issue: HTC sync installed fine, all drivers installed fine, when I connect my Magic to my PC my phone notification area gives me the option to "HTC Sync" when I select that and it searches for a minute or so it says:
"The phone cannot detect HTC Sync at your PC. Please make sure that HTC Sync is installed and opened on your computer."
Tried rebooting my PC and tried rebooting my Magic (as a few different posts suggested). Tried installing different versions of HTC Sync, but 2.0.18 should be the right one as HTC says that it is for Windows 7:
"This release of HTC Sync for Windows 7 allows for users to sync their Android phones”
It seems Many people are having the same issue as me and yet no one has a solution?!?
Any help, pointers or advice would be Very much appreciated.

I've found that it is easiest to just avoid htc sync on windows 7 altogether. Tried to get it working for like 8 hours yesterday. You may be able to make it work if u use windows 7's xp virtualization mode (Google it) and install the program in an xp environment.
But honestly, i say avoid it until HTC makes it work properly

PurpleFries said:
I've found that it is easiest to just avoid htc sync on windows 7 altogether. Tried to get it working for like 8 hours yesterday. You may be able to make it work if u use windows 7's xp virtualization mode (Google it) and install the program in an xp environment.
But honestly, i say avoid it until HTC makes it work properly
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Well even if I wanted to just give up on syncing it, if I can't get my Magic/PC to recognize each other then I can't ever root/upgrade my phone, so giving up is not an option.

Ok I have managed to finally find a solution that works (for me).
1. Install HTC Sync
2. Download these drivers: http://depositfiles.com/files/yd61xorii and then Unzip them
3. connect your Magic to your PC
4. on your PC select: Start>Control Panel>Device Manager>ADB Interface>Rightclick>Update driver software>Browse My Computer For Driver Software>Browse to the location you unziped the drivers to>Let Me Pick From A List(Don't let it pick or it will pick the wrong ones!)>Click on "My HTC">Click Next.
Done.

you can root and upgrade w/o htc sync.
I did it yesterday. you just have to use the goldcard method to flash the proper spl, then you can put anything on the sd card. Windows recognizes the phone as a flash drive regardless of wether or not it works with sync

PurpleFries said:
you can root and upgrade w/o htc sync.
I did it yesterday. you just have to use the goldcard method to flash the proper spl, then you can put anything on the sd card. Windows recognizes the phone as a flash drive regardless of wether or not it works with sync
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You can flash your SPL without connecting your phone to your PC? (I just got my Magic to I have never done anything to it yet)
But anyways I also want the ability to use my carrier upgrades and for that I Need my phone to recognize my PC.
And most importantly I need a seamless way to keep all my different phones in sync with Outlook and HTC Sync is the only way to do that. So I'm glad I got it figures out.

HTC Sync here shows it works with Windows 7 now:
http://87.106.248.77/download/Driver//HTC Tattoo/HTC Sync 2.0.18/HTCSync.exe

yeah you can flash a new spl w/o connecting to computer.
but by all means, if you got it working, more power to you

Ive tried all the above idea to get HTC Sync to work on my PC (with Win 7) nothing works......

Chillin said:
Ok I have managed to finally find a solution that works (for me).
1. Install HTC Sync
2. Download these drivers: http://depositfiles.com/files/yd61xorii and then Unzip them
3. connect your Magic to your PC
4. on your PC select: Start>Control Panel>Device Manager>ADB Interface>Rightclick>Update driver software>Browse My Computer For Driver Software>Browse to the location you unziped the drivers to>Let Me Pick From A List(Don't let it pick or it will pick the wrong ones!)>Click on "My HTC">Click Next.
Done.
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It works for my HTC Magic!!!! thx

paunopulos said:
It works for my HTC Magic!!!! thx
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Have you got your Magic rooted and customized the ROM?
I was able to connect few days ago, after I upgraded to 1.6 and lately 2.1, I was unable to do so...

cann not install drivers fot tattoo

Hi!
Some day HTC-Sync (2033) could not find the phone (but it worked before!) so I uninstalled all HTC-software and drivers. Then I installed the HTC-Sync again but now the OS can not recognize the phone. I tried to install the drivers manually but it did not work too. When I try to select the driver manually, I always get the message 'No suitable driver found in this directory' or so... - 'Unknown Device' is all I can see in the device list.
I tried the same procedure on 3 computers running WinXP SP3, Win7 32bit and Win7 64bit - without success.
(an other android phone (t-mobile pulse) does not have problems with these PCs)
Does someone has an idea?
I also tried all drivers I could find in different forums (xda, modaco and some others), read hundreds of posts but nothing helped. I always used the original USB cable; the AV-software was inactive.
The phone is not rooted, it runs original the original HTC-firmware (Kernel 2.6.29-gf922713, Build 1.67.161.18).
please help... :-(

If you are using "Advanced Task Killer" (or something like that) you have to make sure that "PC-synchronisation" is added to the list of apps wich will NOT be killed by this program. Otherwise the "PC-synchronisation" software on you phone will not launch when you connect your phone to the computer.
If it isn't listed, try adding it to the list and then reboot your phone, so "PC-synchronisation" will launch again.
Hope it helped!

sam_cocha said:
If you are using "Advanced Task Killer" (or something like that) you have to make sure that "PC-synchronisation" is added to the list of apps wich will NOT be killed by this program. Otherwise the "PC-synchronisation" software on you phone will not launch when you connect your phone to the computer.
If it isn't listed, try adding it to the list and then reboot your phone, so "PC-synchronisation" will launch again.
Hope it helped!
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no, I'm not using any task killer apps.

... I also have tried to use Ubuntu 10.4. The result was the same as on Windows-PC - no connection. The t-mobile pulse worked with Ubuntu fine.
Maybe the Tattoo is broken? or the USB cable? (I do not have another one).
Would a factory reset help? I do not want wipe the phone if it is unnecessary...
any idea?

ok, I've tried another USB-cable but it did not helped. The issue is still there and I always get the unknown device message...

Can you try to uninnstall pc sync and after that clean windows registry with some program like CCleaner or another and then install PC sync again ?

MPABKATA said:
Can you try to uninnstall pc sync and after that clean windows registry with some program like CCleaner or another and then install PC sync again ?
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I tried that already several times, it did not help.

Is there someone that has found the answer why PC won't load a Tattoo?
win 7, 64bit,...
Thanks

petar17 said:
Is there someone that has found the answer why PC won't load a Tattoo?
win 7, 64bit,...
Thanks
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Maybe , because you've got a 64 bit system or if you use a custom rom Htc sync does work
checks if htc tattoo driver are installed correctly

Maybe factory reset
Maybe factory reset will help becouse that is the problem I had before when I tried to install recovery and those shi%&. Then my screen went dead so I had to unroot my phone and factory reset it. Surprisingly, after that my phone worked with laptop.
I can send you that htc sync.apk or pc syncronisation if I find it on ICS.
Which rom do you have?

Problem was with a cable.
My phone was not rooted, until now, but the problem which made my PC not loading a Tattoo was, believe it or not, CABLE...
Now everything is ok, and I enjoy my Tattoo with GB ROM...
Thanks to all, appreciate it!

[Q] Problems Running HTC Sync on Win 2003 Server

Hi,
Was trying to setup HTC Sync on my PC for the new Wildfire.. The previous HTC Touch was running fine thru Active Sync on my Win 2003 server.. but HTC Sync installed with two failures Windows 11 Media format and HTC Drivers could not be installed.. Later I copied HTC Drivers from supplied sd card and tried to install them separately but it says "Can be installed only on XP/Vista".. is there any ways I can use HT Sync on Windows 2003 Server.. Also will the same problem persists on Windows 2008 server.. I can connect phone and use as Storage but not HT Sync, while HTC Touch is running fine.. any other way to transfer all the contacts/notes from HTC Touch (Win 6.1) to Wildfire(Android 2.1) with just one common sim..
thanks

Windows 2003 Drivers
Hey, Download the file attached to this post. Install the newest HTC Sync 3.0.5481, run the installer, you will have two failiures, the Windows Media Runtime, and the USb drivers. Ignore them and continue with install.
After your done, connect the phone, it will say found new hardware ADB, do not let windows search for it, it will never find it. Instead point to the folder you downloaded, might ask you if you should install unsigned drivers, say yes and viola drivers installed, and htc sync ready to go
Sometimes the drivers need to be forced to install, the Windows hardware installer isnt the sharpest tool in the shed at times
Enjoy.

XAPs wont deploy on new laptop

Ive tried to figure this out myself for days now. I broke my laptop last week which was working fine deploying xaps, windows phone device manager working fine. etc, etc.
So I finally got a replacement laptop. Fresh install of the exact same windows 7 x86. Installed latest zune, Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1, Windows Phone Device Manager, .NET 4.0, WP7MarketplacePC.
So now Windows Phone Device Manager wont open at all. No error messages just wont open. Which isnt a big deal.
Main problem is none of my xaps will install. Ive tried the one that comes with the marketplace program, Tom's xap isntaller and a few others. All error out. wp7deploy which is the one I normally used errors while its analyzing.
Ive tried different roms, Including ones I know worked with my other laptop.
This is really bothering me like crazy since my laptop broke after I flashed a new wp7 rom but before I deployed any of my xaps.
I must be missing something but WTF is it. ahhhh
Thanks

Seems like quite a few users do face problems with WPDM on Windows 7 - on any version, that is. Haven´t seen any solution for this, unfortunately.
Maybe deleting and re-installing WPDM will help, don´t know...

Thanks...
Got it working finally...
uninstalled WPDevTools 7.1.
Installed WPDev Tools 7.0 with october update.
Uninstalled WPDM.
Then synced with zune and all is good...
Thanks again. Problem might have been with the 7.1 WPDevTools since it was in beta. After I get all the xaps deployed while its working Im gonna reinstall WPDM and see if that works again.