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If I had to use the device without charging I think it would last less than a full day. Now talking of battery life, the HTC Touch Dual battery life royally sux. The result is that all my syncing is done via the 3 data plan. I have a device (the HTC Touch Dual) without WiFi as I found it frustrating to use WiFi because you don’t have the ability to have Push Email and it just drains the battery. Whilst their coverage isn’t great outside the metro areas (and data is painfully expensive when it falls back to GPRS), inside the metro area I have found the reception to be good and the data is still the cheapest on the market. The next thing to note is that I recently moved across to the 3 network. It also gives me the ability to not only sync to as many devices as I want, worldwide, it also gives me the ability to control my devices (remember that Exchange 2007 has the ability for the user to self manage their devices – it ability to remote wipe etc), and of course has webmail access. Instead of managing our own mail server all my SoftTeq mail goes via a hosted service ( ) – for $10 (US) a month I get as much storage as I want and never have to worry about maintaining/backing up. Firstly, I don’t sync anything with by local machine, everything is sync’d to Exchange 2007.

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Ok, so if you are still having issues it might be worth getting hold of your local Windows Mobile MVP and asking them what you can do.īefore I go, I’d like to talk through how I have my device setup. Whilst this might be advanced functionality under ActiveSync, it generally just causes problems using the WMDC. Then uncheck the “Enable advanced network functionality” option.

Go to Settings–> Connections and select the “USB to PC” icon (first picture below). Disable advanced network functionality on the device.

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Note: The filename of the download is “drvupdate-x86.exe” – please make sure you rename this so you can find it later – don’t spread the plague of rubbish filenames!

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No this doesn’t mean looking in Windows Update as for some reason it doesn’t show up there! Go to the Windows Mobile Device Center for Vista website, scroll down and select the appropriate update. Make sure you are running the latest version of the WMDC.As such here are some pointers to get this to work using the WMDC. Q: My device is now connect to WMDC but I can’t browse to internet sites on the device.Ī: My first response to this is to get yourself a decent data plan and then to use that instead of using the internet connection on your computer but I understand that this isn’t a great option for people using “expensive” carriers -). Make sure you disconnect your device from the usb port first just to be sure. Kill the WMDC process – Task Manager is your friend – open it and kill the wmdc.exe process.Again I don’t know why, but this does seem to work. Quite often this is enough to convince the WMDC to drop existing connections and re-establish them. Try adjusting the Connection settings on wmdc – Change the “This computer is connected to:” value from Automatic to Internet and click Ok.Funnily enough in most cases I’ve found that you can then change back to the original port and it works fine – go figure!

Simply changing to a different port can be enough to get it to work. I’ve found that sometimes WMDC gets all confused and refuses to communicate through a specific usb port.

Try unplugging and plugging it back in (obvious step – see the first point though as you may be unplugging it before WMDC has done its thing).

When the device shows “Connecting” on the ActiveSync screen it is actually trying to establish the connection – when this stops it should read Connected at the bottom, if not, you have a problem.

Look out for “Connecting” on the device – for some reason WMDC can be really slow to detect the device and can take upward of a minute in some case (long enough for you to think it hasn’t connected).

Q: I’ve plugged my device in and opened the WMDC but it never seems to connect. Yes, I know there are forums out there talking about all the things you need to try before sending the device back to the manufacturer but the reality is that as a consumer experience this SUX.Īnyhow, instead of just ranting about the evils of the WMDC (which increasingly reminds me of searching for WMDs in unstable territories….) I thought I’d list a couple of the tricks I use to try and get things to play ball. Unfortunately, despite continual discussions between the community and Microsoft we don’t seem to be making much progress in making this easy for the end user. You would think, brand new Windows Mobile device (running WM6 of course) + Windows Vista (with all the latest updates installed) would be able to connect, sync and browse the internet via the USB connection. Last night I spent a frustrating hour or so messing around with a HTC TyTnII and the Windows Mobile Device Center under Windows Vista.

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