ActiveSync Auto Starts By Itself in Running Programs

[simon_darley]

Hi Guys

I have the JJ working well, and I have always seemed to have this problem, but the ActiveSync always just starts up by itself without being connected or requested to.

I have read a few forums on this but nothing really helped. My original thought was SPB Weather wanting to auto update, but any changes to these settings didnt help.

I have done a full hard reset today, and keeped the apps pretty straight forward, ie the SPB suite (PP, Diary, Play, Weather, GPRS), and Resco (Explorer, Audio, Radio, Photo). Switched to MSVC rather than the original phone dialler. The rest is pretty much as it has come.

I havent done any registry hacks yet as I thought I would test a clean run on this to see how it goes.

I have read that ActiveSync is a big drain on the memory, and never likes to give all the memory back from what it needs when starting up, so every time I kill it in running programs, it comes back. I get about 600kb every time I kill it, but I am sure it takes more than that to run and start it.


Anyway, any ideas as to what might be causing it to startup by iteslf would be great. Further ideas on how to stop it from automatically starting would be wonderful.

[simon_darley]

doesnt anybody have any comments or feedback as to their experiences with activesync auto starting of it own accord? it constantly needs to be shut down from running programs.

Does it happen to you? does it not happen to you? do you know what the cause is? do you know how to fix it?

anybody?

[vijay555]

Simon, I have no major issues with activesync running.
Are you saying that AS is popping up even from hard reset?

Ensure that you're not running an RSS reader etc, I use Newsbreak and it loves to try to connect up to the 'net.

It seems that it is likely to be the weather, or possibly gprs prog, that is requesting access to a net connection. Try disabling the weather app completely. I use weather panel, and it took some arm twisting to get it to stop automatically seeking out a net connection.

Worst case, set up a spoof or dummy network connection that is unable to connect to the net. Set this as your default connection when you're offline, and then any progs trying to access the net will be thwarted. This solution at least works perfectly for me with Newsbreak for reading the news "offline".
V

[jah]

I had the same problem with my JJ and I found a setting ("Schedule") in AS on the JJ that allowed me to set the syn to "Manual". Funny, I've not this problem on my Exec.

[zohaer21]

hi
this happens as AS is by default required to connect to server automatically at a given interval
inorder to get rid of this...go into AS and create a fake server (put any values) then after creating it..reclick options and go into schedule and change the settings to manual sync and check the roam box aswell
tht shod take care of it

[simon_darley]

Thanks zohaer21 and jah

I will let you know how it goes, it was more frustrating than anything, not sure if it is the cause of my memory drain. I knew of sync manually option somewhere from my 2003 days, but since I didnt setup a sync with a server connection, the ability to set a schedule was always greyed out.

I'll see how long it takes, if at all before it pops up again.

Cheers

Simon

[BetoX]

I have the same problem... AS starts without been requested...

simon_darley says, I will let you know how it goes..

Any feedback on zohaer21 and jah procedure?

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BetoX

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[jah]

@Betox, from what I remember you need to be linked via AS to your PC/laptop and then from either the JJ or the PC you should be able to change the Schedule to "manual".

[simon_darley]

worked perfectly thanks people for your help.

create the dummy server sync, set the sync connections to manual.

delete the server sync.

havent seen head nor tail of activesync since.

Cheers

Simon