Cingular 8525 -- Drivers for Windows Vista (32-bit)?

[cninham]

I have attached my Cingular 8525 to by computer via the USB cable. I am running Windows Vista (32-bit, official product release [not a beta or release candidate version]). I have also inserted the original Cingular CD containing the drivers for the phone. However, these drivers are for Windows XP (or other versions of Windows, but not Vista). When I connect the phone to the USB cable I get an error:

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Windows needs to install the driver software for your Generic RNDIS.

Device driver was not successfully installed.
Generic RNDIS

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I have also searched the XDA-Developers Web site for answers, but have not found any relevant answers (http://forum.xda-developers.com/ and http://xda-developers.com/). Places I have looked for answers include:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837637
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=305
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=279329&highlight=vista+drivers
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=BA_USBModem
etc. etc. etc.

Any ideas?

Thank you,

Cameron

[aroundlsu]

Install Windows Mobile Device Center Beta. It's available free from microsoft. After installing that my 8525 was recognized immediately and installed the following drivers automatically:

WpdRapi.dll
WUDFRd.sys
Microsoft Windows Mobile Remote Adapter

There may be some other things it installed, but the bottom line is my 8525 is working well with Vista and everything installed automatically. My 2125 is working well, too.

EDIT: I am using Vista RTM Build 6000.

[bobbyelliott]

Windows Mobile Device Center Beta is also working for me (on a T-Mobile Vario II). A little buggy but does the job.

Does anyone know when the final release of Windows Mobile Device Center will appear?

[szlevi]

WMDC Beta 3 on Vista Ultimate is one of the most useless beta from MS ever. In fact apart from a connection sound my Vista doesn't do anything when I connect my TyTN - on my XP Pro home at least I can browse my device. Here at work I can't use it at all, period.

After 1-2 months of use I have to admit this Vista is an enourmously giant piece of sh*t for hundreds of dollars - stay away of this crap at least for another 6-8 months or as long as you can.

[bobbyelliott]

Firstly, Vista is a great OS. You need the hardware for it (it really needs more than 1Gb of RAM to perform well) but if you have then it makes XP look like the aged operating system that it is.

And although WMDC beta 3 is not perfect, it works OK on my PC and is much nicer than ActiveSync.

[aroundlsu]

Yep WMDC beta is a little buggy but that's why they call it beta. And since Vista Ultimate hasn't even been officially released any criticisms of it or reports of problems with it on your system are mute until the release date.

With that said, I'm running Ultimate on a Toshiba laptop and love it.

[usarmy2008]

I am having a simular problem. i cant connect my 8525 to the pc. when i attach the usb to the computer and the device nothing happens.

under device manager when i force it, the 8525 comes up as an unknown device and when i try to install drivers for it, it says it cant find any.

[sergiopi]

Yep WMDC beta is a little buggy but that's why they call it beta. And since Vista Ultimate hasn't even been officially released any criticisms of it or reports of problems with it on your system are mute until the release date.

With that said, I'm running Ultimate on a Toshiba laptop and love it.

I have a multple boot machine, running, XP Pro, VISTA Ultimate RTM, Knoppix on HD (linux kernel 2.6), ofiice 2007 on both Windows. I use also Virtual PC 2007 on VISTA to have an XP Home virtual machine inside VISTA

No way to have a reliable use of mobile devices in VISTA.
Windows media player Sync is a random event, connecting and syncing is the old and well known Windows "Plug and Pray"., Virtual PC can't use USB sync, no way

On Xp Office 2007 works perfectly with Active Sync 4.2, I flashed the Hermes BIOS, and Shared my phone Internet connection.
Vista is still in a growing up stage (buggy or NO drivers at all, old Sw unstable when running on Vista, USB devices like webcams, USB phones, printers not working) . As an example I have an all-in-one HP network printer, with drivers included in VISTA Ultimate RTM release. I can print my photos only with borders, no way to print borderless!)

To solve all VISTA issues and release the full power of VISTA-Mobile Devices integration I think a common effort is needed, between mobile 0S (crossbow will be released also with this purpose) and WMDC. Remember, at the beginning they said "no need of any other SW to connect and sync VISTA to mobile devices", then... we still have WMDC in BETA :)

[Ninja1]

Install Windows Mobile Device Center Beta. It's available free from microsoft. After installing that my 8525 was recognized immediately and installed the following drivers automatically:

WpdRapi.dll
WUDFRd.sys
Microsoft Windows Mobile Remote Adapter

There may be some other things it installed, but the bottom line is my 8525 is working well with Vista and everything installed automatically. My 2125 is working well, too.

EDIT: I am using Vista RTM Build 6000.

aroundlsu,

What driver(s) show for your 8525 under Device Manager? Mine is showing as HTC USB Sync and always generates a Code 10.

TIA,

Ninja1

[Ninja1]

I have attached my Cingular 8525 to by computer via the USB cable. I am running Windows Vista (32-bit, official product release [not a beta or release candidate version]). I have also inserted the original Cingular CD containing the drivers for the phone. However, these drivers are for Windows XP (or other versions of Windows, but not Vista). When I connect the phone to the USB cable I get an error:

----- begin snip -----

Windows needs to install the driver software for your Generic RNDIS.

Device driver was not successfully installed.
Generic RNDIS

----- end snip -----

I have also searched the XDA-Developers Web site for answers, but have not found any relevant answers (http://forum.xda-developers.com/ and http://xda-developers.com/). Places I have looked for answers include:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837637
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=305
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=279329&highlight=vista+drivers
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=BA_USBModem
etc. etc. etc.

Any ideas?

Thank you,

Cameron

Do you have WMDC installed? If so, Update the RNDIS driver manually. You are looking for the Microsoft Corporation "Microsoft Windows Mobile Remote Adapter" drivers. You will have to use the Show All Drivers switch when you search for it. Then a second New Hardware window will pop-up, this is the one for the Hermes. Unfortunately it is also where I am stuck. I have my 4700 syncing, but my 8525 is not properly identified/loaded.

Ninja1

[MilanoRex]

Vista works fine with my 8525.. everything sync'd up by itself. I think it automatically downloaded the HTC update.