I am having a problem with the Sync relationship when I plug my WP7 into the Zune PC software. The Sync Relationship is set to Guest, I would like to change this to being a linked device to do wireless syncing ect. I have try going through the “Change Sync Relationship” steps a number of times but it always stays on Guest. I have also try renaming the device and using the “forget this phone” but neither have worked.
I also try to reset my phone and reinstall my software. Everything I try does not work. Am i the only person who is having this problem
Any help would be great.
Thanks.
Re-Connect
I remember when I first connected my Focus to my PC, the Zune software told me that the association wasn't completed and that I had to disconnect/reconnect my Zune from the PC. Once I did that, everything seemed fine. Did you experience/try that?
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didn't work
I just won't let me sync. it tell me to change my relationship from guest but when I try to do that it just goes back to the sync screen and tells me to do it again.
ddrizel said:
I just won't let me sync. it tell me to change my relationship from guest but when I try to do that it just goes back to the sync screen and tells me to do it again.
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I think what you need to do is set up your Zune account...when you open Zune on the top right by the close X there is a a user profile that says sign in..if you have not created one do that...everything else should automatically configure once you log in and plug in your device.
Also make sure you have your phone fully set up with all your accounts on your phone such as when you wipe your device you provide a windows live email account is hotmail, MSN, yahoo. Keep that consistent with your Zune account.
My samsung focus wont sync to my computer or the zune software. I tried to uninstall and reinstall the zune software but all my phone does when i plug it in is search for the drivers. once it installs the drivers it tells me to resart. when i restart my computer and plug the phone back in it starts to search for the drivers again. i tried this all day yesterday but nothing worked?? not sue what to do now
same problem,
I have having a similar issue.
Does any one have a fix? I spent hours on the phone with tech support and no luck.
Nobody has anything
Need more info.
ddrizel said:
Nobody has anything
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The vast majority of us are not having this issue. If you can answer these questions, maybe one of us can help.
What are you trying to sync? Contacts, photos, apps, calendar?
What OS are you using on your PC?
What version of Zune software are you using?
Do you sync other devices with your PC?
Do you, or do you not, have a Windows Live ID set up as your main account on the phone?
Found the fix
here is the solution, I tried it and it WORKED perfectly: No more "guest" in Zune on my laptop!!!
I've been trying to sort out the same problem with my Samsung Focus for about 4 hours.
None of the things about registry settings or Zune database files fixed my issue. I even did a hard reset of my phone to try and get things working (not that big of a deal now that contacts are all pulled from my live account and pictures upload by default). No dice.
But the brief mention of remote drives above lead me to the solution. I do have a network drive, but it was connected just fine, so I didn't think anything of it.
But then I remembered that I used to have another hard drive in this machine way back when I first setup the Zune software, and I set my Pictures in the Zune software to come off that drive. It was V:\images, but without that hard drive in my computer now, there is no V: drive. The problem is that the Zune software seems to break in a rather unpredictable way when one of the paths for your collection libraries isn't valid. The larger problem is that from the Settings->Software->Collection screen, there's actually no indication that there are any problems. It's a silent failure occuring somewhere in the Zune software that leads to this nasty behavior of being stuck in Guest mode. Worse is that if you try to remove the offending entry, but don't add a new one, and just click OK back through the windows without looking too closely, the Zune software doesn't make any changes. If you don't provide a valid path to replace the invalid one that it had, it just leaves things as they were before you removed the bad entry.
So, I removed the entry that I knew was bad (even though the Zune software wasn't complaining about it), and added a new entry that I knew was good. I clicked OK back out through the windows, then clicked on that "change sync relationship" button again, and followed the steps, and BAM! No more guest relationship!
Just to test it out (because I am a tester after all) I "forgot" the device in the software, messed up my library locations again with a temporary mapped network drive, and replicated the bad behavior and the fix again.
Interesting
ddrizel said:
here is the solution, I tried it and it WORKED perfectly: No more "guest" in Zune on my laptop!!!
I've been trying to sort out the same problem with my Samsung Focus for about 4 hours.
None of the things about registry settings or Zune database files fixed my issue. I even did a hard reset of my phone to try and get things working (not that big of a deal now that contacts are all pulled from my live account and pictures upload by default). No dice.
But the brief mention of remote drives above lead me to the solution. I do have a network drive, but it was connected just fine, so I didn't think anything of it.
But then I remembered that I used to have another hard drive in this machine way back when I first setup the Zune software, and I set my Pictures in the Zune software to come off that drive. It was V:\images, but without that hard drive in my computer now, there is no V: drive. The problem is that the Zune software seems to break in a rather unpredictable way when one of the paths for your collection libraries isn't valid. The larger problem is that from the Settings->Software->Collection screen, there's actually no indication that there are any problems. It's a silent failure occuring somewhere in the Zune software that leads to this nasty behavior of being stuck in Guest mode. Worse is that if you try to remove the offending entry, but don't add a new one, and just click OK back through the windows without looking too closely, the Zune software doesn't make any changes. If you don't provide a valid path to replace the invalid one that it had, it just leaves things as they were before you removed the bad entry.
So, I removed the entry that I knew was bad (even though the Zune software wasn't complaining about it), and added a new entry that I knew was good. I clicked OK back out through the windows, then clicked on that "change sync relationship" button again, and followed the steps, and BAM! No more guest relationship!
Just to test it out (because I am a tester after all) I "forgot" the device in the software, messed up my library locations again with a temporary mapped network drive, and replicated the bad behavior and the fix again.
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I can't believe this wasn't discovered/fixed after uninstalling and reinstalling the Zune software. The set up dialogue really should prompt you to set up these libraries...
I had many folders that no longer exist in my libraries when I set up my Focus and didn't have an issue. I should probably clean them up, though.
Yeah i know its pretty annoying.
Problem still exists with Focus S - fix worked perfectly
same problem syncing my new Focus S. Checked folders and default Podcast folder didn't exist. Changed and problem solved !
1. can you remove the hotmail email from your phone?
2. every time i sync my phone it installs programs on my phone that i downloaded from zune but deleted from the phone later. like the app store if you remove one, it doesn't sync on your phone, but with zune you can't see apps on your phone in zune (just on the phone), but i'd like to remove it from zune so it doesn't keep loading onto my phone. can this be done?
3. i bought bejewelled but it will not download. tells me to connect to wifi or a pc, and when i hook it to my pc it does not sync and download to the phone. anyone know how to fix this? i paid for it already...
thanks, that's all for now
I just got my dell venue replacement! Now, I want to transfer my songs & apps to the phone! Is there an easier way I can do it w/o having to do everything manually?
not at this time after the microsoft update zune will be able to backup your phone
if you need to know what apps youve downloaded that can be found in zune>settings>account>purchase history>apps
the music youll have to resync manually to
contacts are backed up via windows live account
I have 2 questions to answers:
1. Is any Zune Alternative Software for synch, easy and with Marketplace support?
I have 4 days Samsung Omnia 7 and i dont have visible Marketplace in my Zune Software, so i set up Marketplace as default by opening Zune and by reopen i have obtained crash error and program have closed
I have before Error by download pictures from camera to PC.. crash, but pictures has stored into PC
Without Zune i cannot download bigger apps like Skype to my phone and if i try this from Samsung Omnia 7, phone tell my, sycnhronization completed, continue to Marketplace after disconnection from PC...... OOOps, i have LAN connection and i need pc connection for phone network
2. Video and music Taging with pictures..... problem. I Tagged my songs wit ID3 Tag editor and i save it with pictures, synch to phone and songs are without pictures, what is wrong?
Not very good with the windows phone and am trying to help an older friend out that had a Nokia 710. He just purchased a HTC 8X and T-Mobile couldn't help him transfer his numbers and all. He had no idea about a windows live ID.
Sure, I could set him up a Windows LIve ID, but is there a way that we can bypass all of that and just plug his Nokia 710 into the computer and back it up, plug the 8X into the computer and upload all the information on it?
Thanks.
Reposting from the original thread:
On my nokia 710 one of the preinstalled apps is Contacts Transfer, I dont know if thats a microsoft thing, or if its nokia exclusive or if nokia have made it available on the app store (which they may have) but all it requires is both phones to have bluetooth on, then you set the old one to discoverable, follow the instructions. It seems to work pretty well with my ancient android handset.
I personally have all my contacts stored on my google account instead now, syncs more readily with more devices than the windows live account does.
There is no way to do a complete backup of WP7 except for a device image (which can only be restored on the exact same device it was taken from; even another one of identical model won't work). There are various homebrew apps that will let you get your files off, but currently we have no way to get them back *on* to WP8.
For contacts, synching to an Exchange server, Live account, Google account, or similar is definitely the best way. You can also try doing a transfer using BT, though. Nokia's Contacts Transfer app (which is just a Nokia-specific app, for all that it's pre-installed to the Setting hub) should work, but if you want to transfer the contacts en masse you may need a similar app on the other end. I don't know if HTC has one (Nokia and Samsung do, but my HTC HD7 did not). If you know how to use an intercepting proxy, you can access the Nokia- or Samsung-specific app stores and download their apps; that might (or might not, depending on how they are written) work.
GoodDayToDie said:
There is no way to do a complete backup of WP7 except for a device image (which can only be restored on the exact same device it was taken from; even another one of identical model won't work). There are various homebrew apps that will let you get your files off, but currently we have no way to get them back *on* to WP8.
For contacts, synching to an Exchange server, Live account, Google account, or similar is definitely the best way. You can also try doing a transfer using BT, though. Nokia's Contacts Transfer app (which is just a Nokia-specific app, for all that it's pre-installed to the Setting hub) should work, but if you want to transfer the contacts en masse you may need a similar app on the other end. I don't know if HTC has one (Nokia and Samsung do, but my HTC HD7 did not). If you know how to use an intercepting proxy, you can access the Nokia- or Samsung-specific app stores and download their apps; that might (or might not, depending on how they are written) work.
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He just primarily wants his email and phone numbers. His email is a @cox address though. Will the Windows Live backup let you do that? If so, I will just set him up a windows live id.
Yes, you can register any email address as a Microsoft (Windows Live) account, and synch contacts to and from it. You can do that even if you have the same email account also used as a "normal" (POP3/IMAP/SMTP) account. I'm very surprised he doesn't have one already; using WP without such an account is very limited (app store, Find My Phone, contacts and calendars, integrated IM, etc.).