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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / October 2004VPC (XP): Can't hotsync
I'm hoping someone can help... I was trying to run XP via VPC 7 on my ibook. No dice. Yesterday bought a spiffy new G5 imac and installed VPC fresh- thought that might help. STILL doesn't work. I saw the posts about "start windows, wait, plug in cable, connect palm, hit sync". That won't work either. When I click sync the usb light (in vpc) flashes, and it makes a noise. If I check USB settings at that time, the palm will be there (enabled)- it usually isn't there. Then the palm just keeps saying "establishing connection", and the HD light flashes a little, but no hotsync window ever appears. After a while I hear another noise from VPC, and then the palm will have a message saying the connection couldn't be established. I have disabled the mac hotsync (but I didn't take it out of startup items- just clicked disable in the hotsync manager). Also my cable DOES charge- I saw something about "no cradle, just a sync-only cable". Well I'm not about to buy another cable just to try it. I mean this is absurd. Lots of people use windows and palms- this shouldn't be so tough that VPC can't do it. And even if this fix does work- to have to unplug my cradle, restart windows, wait wait wait, plug in the cable etc etc etc every time I want to sync is crazy. But I guess it's a start... Does anyone have any other tips???? Thanks!! > I'm hoping someone can help... > I was trying to run XP via VPC 7 on my ibook. No dice. Yesterday [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Thanks!! Obviously you downloaded and read my syncing in VPC success tips. Sorry it requires more effort than your'e willing to spend. I suggest giving up entirely now because, believe me, it will never work otherwise. But 100% works everytime if following every tip, take your choice. BTW, its essential to NOT plug in the cradle USB ever before the Windows Palm Desktop installer prompts to when to plug in during install. If you didn't, best to reinstall Windows fresh for clean USB device driver .dll install. It will never work right otherwise either, That's what that piece of tape over the USB plug was trying to warn about. Seriously? Reintsall windows if I plugged the cradle in too soon?? I installed windows, then palm desktop. I don't remember EVER being ASKED for the cradle. I keep re-running the hotsync installer, and I get to a point where it asks me to put the palm in the cradle and press hotsync- but as usual I can't get it to connect. I'm not unwilling to put in some effort try to figure this out, and I don't like the argument that I should just quit if I think the process is unwieldy. I am just trying to make the point that I'm sure the number of people that would like to hotsync palms in vpc is not small- this is not some strange obscure feature that only one-in-a-zillion people would ever want to do- so I'm just surprised (well of course I'm not surprised, we're talking about microsoft) that the support is so terrible and that no one seems to have acknowledged this issue. > > I'm hoping someone can help... > > I was trying to run XP via VPC 7 on my ibook. No dice. Yesterday [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > either, That's what that piece of tape over the USB plug was trying > to warn about. Alex, I spent several years visiting the Connectix (former and original VPC authors) forums reading endless comments from angry users absolutely unable to get either Palm Hotsync or Pocket PC Activesyncing to ever work, no matter how many times they tried or how many hours they wasted in their efforts. The general "wisdom" and experienced users advice was that "USB syncing in VPC was broken" and needed to be fixed. By trial and error I proved that concept was 100% wrong and it DOES work, if all the procedures I found necessary were followed, and always 100% success was the result. Eliminating any single sequence would guarantee sync failures. It is emulating an entire operating system and that fact that syncing works at all is amazing to me. Also, Windows OS like to discover any "new hardware found" software drivers and install them the way it is designed to, and not following that rule is asking for nothing but frustration. Its just the way Windows OS work, if you want to use them, you have to play by their rules. |
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