something dodgy found regarding SD cards?

[Nossie]

Hi,

I upgraded to the 4.01.00 build of 2003. I decided after a bit that I missed the stuff I could add in from the kitchen and also for some reason when I tried to install something to the SD card it would just create a cab file on the card... So I manually started the cab installer from the location and it automatically installed the software into main memory?

I went back to a new brew of yorch's kitchen using 4.00.16 with hopes that this would be resolved...

I dont seem to have any problems accessing the SD card.. the data is transfered over fine... although I set Activesync to use the sd card it only ever copies the cab file and then shows the program not installed.... if I go to the SD card I can see and run the cab file copied over by activesync... but it only copies it to memory

I thought cab files installed relative to your current location (i.e) you run an install from the SD.. it gets installed to the SD.. run it from the main memory and it gets installed to the main memory.. etc.

But I'm totally confused as to why activesync refuses to install anything onto the SD card itself.

Has anyone else recieved this problem? know how to fix it? any ideas?


currently it appears I can only use the SD card for music/files or whatever I want to store rather than install other programs...

cheers for any help,
Ian.

[Scrappy]

I would uninstall your current version of activesync and install version 3.7.1. If you have 3.7.1, I would do a reinstall. It sounds like the issue isn't your SD card or the ROM that is loaded.

[monika69]

I mean installing software to SD card and running the software from SD card, others things are not that smooth .... but the above mentioned is ok

I do use WM2003, version 4.0.21 T-Mobile ROM

regards,
monika

[Nossie]

Just thought I'd add how I fixed the problem...

I stopped using this
http://www.iliumsoft.com/site/fg/dockware.htm

everytime I hard reset my device the first thing I'd do was install 3 programs...

Iliumsoft Dockware Pro
Tillanosoft Small Menu Plus
Omega One Battery Pack 2004

On that build (4.01.00) of the ROM Dockware would pretend to install by activesync... but it wouldnt even copy over or anything...

After doing that, the rest of the software would follow straight into main memory whither I asked it to or not.... the exception to this case was a few programs like Resco explorer and a few games that did install to the card.

Everything else just copied the cab files over to the sd card.. and then when you installed the cab files from there, they went into main memory.

So.... I hard reset the device and didnt install DockWare at all.... every piece of software installs fine now without a hitch...

Strange huh?

MOTD: dont use Dockware on later builds of 2k3 heh