problem with WM6 and Vista connection

[mbv]

Hi,

I cannot get my HTC620 connected to my pc with OS Vista.:mad:
The Sync centre cannot find the phone when connected via USB.
Is this a known problem or just me...?

[indiekiduk]

Yeh it sucks, a massive reason to stick with XP and active sync :p

You can try going in settings, connections on your phone and turning off advanced usb functionality.

Also you can try different versions of device center, here is v6:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=83d513ea-9df9-4920-af33-3a0e2e4e7beb&displaylang=en

And here is v6.1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=46f72df1-e46a-4a5f-a791-09f07aaa1914&displaylang=en

Personally I couldn't get either of them to work. I'm pretty sure reinstalling wmdc has no effect on the rndis drivers that the windows mobile devices use to connect. Mine got in an irreparable state some how and wouldn't detect anything.

All this effort to get something working which sucks so bad. Its the worst device sync software I've ever seen, like years behind what active sync was. You'll see everything is a few clicks slower and even the syncing task tray icon is gone.

[rainmaker002]

Bump cause I'm having the same problem. Disabling advanced functionality did not work.

Using windows mobile device center version 6.1.6965

Would love it if someone has found a way to make this work...

[MightyMike]

what works for me,

if you go into your settings > connections > usb to pc > UNCHECK "enable advanced network functionality"

with that unchecked, it should work!

cheers!

[sergiopi]

I had this problem and I solved removing, from control panel, WMDC and WMDC update, then rebooting and reinstalling WMDC 6.1 again!

[rainmaker002]

(Unfortunately) I've found the problem but no way around it. I mostly access my PC remotely over remote desktop from my laptop. For whatever reason, wmdc only syncs with the account that is logged in locally. I've tried to get it to sync while connected to the remotely logged in account to no avail. I think this one is on MS to fix...