xee1mm 's List: project PPC wmdc error

• Why am I unable to check PIM types in Change Content  Settings for my Windows Mobile 2003 partnerships? If you have a partnership  with a Windows Mobile 2003 device, you are unable to check E-mail, Contacts,  Calendar, Tasks in Change Content Settings. You can uncheck them but you can  never check them.

  • WMC and WM 2003 lack of support

  • WMC and WM 2003 lack of support
• Sync does not start after partnership creation.  
  Sometimes, if you do a clean install of Windows Mobile Device Center,  the install does not finish adding and enabling the necessary firewall  exceptions for Windows Mobile Device Center on your PC.
   
   
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    Go to Start > Run > firewall.cpl
     
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    Choose “Allow a Program through the Windows Firewall”
     
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    Check all entries that have “Windows Mobile” in the  name

  • sync configure with firewalls

  • sync configure with firewalls

• Does the desktop see the PocketPC? You can check this by looking in the desktop, going to the Device Manager (under Control Panel, System). Normally, a Windows Mobile device wil manifest itself as a Network adapter. If the device is correctly installed, you will see something like this:

• Before you start the real troubleshooting, some general things must be done  to make sure that the problem is with Activesync, and not with your PocketPC or Microsoft Outlook (both also being vulnarable for application hangs):

  • Make you have run Windows Update with the device connected to your desktop, just to get the latest version of WMDC installed.
  • Remove all the files in the /windows/temp/ and C:/Users/AppData/Local/Temp directories
  • Run "Detect and repair" on Microsoft Outlook. You can start this in Microsoft Outlook in the "Help" menu, "Detect and Repair".
  • Run "ScanPST" from your commandline to make sure your Microsoft Outlook .pst file is not damaged.
  • Reboot your desktop and perform a soft reset on your mobile device to make sure that Activesync has not crashed on your device.

• Also in Firewall Tab, click on Advanced button  and go to Ports and Protocols tab. Add and create a port called  Windows Mobile Device Center with TCP Port  Range as 5721, For Connections dropdown as Inbound  [local ports] and Scope is set to Local network  (subnet).
• Other possible cause in failure to connect to WMDC is due to driver installation  may not have completed successfully. If you think this may be the case, follow  these steps
• If Microsoft resolution doesn’t help, try to disable the Advanced  Network Functionality mode on the Windows Mobile device from the  USB to PC icon in Connections of Start Menu  Settings.
• However, the most likely and most possible resolution for dropped connection and  not connected problem for Windows Mobile Device Center is related to Windows  Media Player process
• click on Task Manager. Then click on Image  Name to sort the list of processes according to name alphabetically.  Locate and highlight wmplayer.exe near the bottom of the list,  and click on End Process button.
• it may be causing by existing wmplayer.exe already existed, blocking future sync  process. To fix the issue, open Task Manager  (taskmgr in Start Search), and search for any  wmplayer.exe service that is running
• and kill or end all these processes.

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• Some utilities may mistake the ActiveSync connection as a valid internet  connection and shut it down in favor of Wireless LAN connection.
• Since Windows Mobile 5.0 and ActiveSync 4.x now utilize the Windows system  TCP/IP stack for communication, the device connection will appear as a network  interface and information between the PC and your device may be erroneously  interrupted by VPN Clients
• Since Windows Mobile 5.0 and ActiveSync 4.x now utilize the Windows system  TCP/IP stack for communication, the device connection will appear as a network  interface and information between the PC and your device may be erroneously  interrupted by Network Traffic Optimizers

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  back to WMDC 6.0 worked for me.
  
• deleted all Registry keys in:
  HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows CE Services
• The answer (in my case) was to uninstall WMDC 6.1, then rename the folder  
  C:\Windows\WindowsMobile, then reinstall WMDC 6.1 with the device connected.
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   > -- Uninstalled the two Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 items from the  
   > Control Panel > Programs and Features list  
   > -- Manually deleted the contents of the C:\Windows\WindowsMobile folder.  
   > Initially I could not delete some DLLs but once the two "Windows Mobile  
   > device connectivity" services were stopped from the Task Manager, I was able  
   > to delete the rest of the files in the WindowsMobile folder, except for the  
   > en-US folder containing the *.MUI files. I could not delete them and so  
   > decided to leave them.  
   > -- Using Regedit, I deleted all entries from the following two keys that  
   > related to my two devices:  
   > * HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows CE Services\Partners  
   > * HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Portable Devices\Devices (I left  
   > in the entry for my memory card)  
   > --- Using Windows Explorer, I deleted all files in the following folder:  
   > * C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\ActiveSync\Profiles  
   > --- With my two Pocket PCs disconnected, I tapped on Start > Programs >  
   > ActiveSync > Menu > Options, highlighted the Windows PC and tapped on and  
   > the Delete button. Both of my PPCs had two entries in here so there could  
   > have been some confusion on the desktop at some point, so I deleted both of  
   > them. They do not sync with any other computer.  
   > -- Rebooted (Restarted) my Windows Vista computer  
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   > -- Reinstalled WMDC 6.0 from the Microsoft Download website.  
   > -- Recreated the two relationships from my two devices, and they each did  
   > the initial long sync  
   > -- I then tested each device that it could perform a sync not long after it  
   > was reconnected, and they both now sync perfectly. I also tested that making  
   > any changes to some contact details in Outlook 2007 would update the devices  
   > after a sync. and it did.

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• This is getting worse. Check the "USB connection" on Connections one way and I get the Microsoft USB under Network Cards; the other way I get "Mobile Devices", but they are mutually exclusive.
• Did you UNINSTALL the version that comes with Vista and download WMDC 6 from Microsoft's website. All my problems were solved when I did that.