Guest mas99 Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 ACTIVESYNC 4.1 NOW OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/dow...tivesync41.mspx Will let you know if there are any improvements on the previous WM5 disaster MArk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pondrew Posted November 19, 2005 Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 Wow. Activesync 4 finally replaces 3.8 as the official latest version... interesting that they bypassed 4.0 entirely and went straight to 4.1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jasonkruys Posted November 19, 2005 Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 Claims faster transfers and when installing it says it is updating the USB Drivers, presumably adding USB 2.0 support. I have to say, it is a fair bit speedier transferring large files across, and twice as quick syncing on my machine! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shadamehr Posted November 19, 2005 Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 (edited) Which build number is this, as I have been using the 'web reeased' 4.1.0 (build 4807) version for a good while now - is this a better and less issue prone build? Anyone care to comment? Edited November 19, 2005 by shadamehr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shadamehr Posted November 19, 2005 Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 Further to above - the New Official Version of 4.1 is 4.1.0 (Build 4841) so indeed NEWER than the one that has been on the web in certain places for a while. As you might expect. This is just to confirm the details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mas99 Posted November 19, 2005 Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 Still does not work........... Still getting the same error msg............. So much for Orange Level 3 tech support........... Am going to rebuild my machine....... Hopefully it will work.... AMD X2 64 bit XP ......... knowing my luch it i'll not be compatabile Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shadamehr Posted November 19, 2005 Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 I want them to bring wi-fi sync'ing back. Typical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jasonkruys Posted November 19, 2005 Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 Still does not work........... Still getting the same error msg............. So much for Orange Level 3 tech support........... Am going to rebuild my machine....... Hopefully it will work.... AMD X2 64 bit XP ......... knowing my luch it i'll not be compatabile Mark <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What error messages are you getting exactly? I have been running this on Windows XP x64 Professional with no problems :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tsutton Posted November 21, 2005 Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 Any problems with using it with SPV C500 phone? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NikLP Posted November 22, 2005 Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 (edited) Let's have someone tell us what's going on with it then?? I'm not putting this on anything until I know it's stable. God alone knows how many people have ended up reinstalling their entire machine setup just to get this thing working. What of the bluetooth support? What, I say?! Edit: "ActiveSync 4.1 does not support Backup/Restore of mobile device data." WHAT? Edited November 22, 2005 by NikLP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chucky.egg Posted November 22, 2005 Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 After problems whilst running v3.8 I started using v4.1 this afternoon So far, although it hasn't fixed the problem I was having, it's working fine for me and my SPV M500 (WM2003SE) I wouldn't say it's any faster, but maybe that only applies to newer devices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chucky.egg Posted November 22, 2005 Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 Sprite Backup supports Backup/Restore Would you really trust your backups to any MS software anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest benwatt Posted November 22, 2005 Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 I wouldn't say it's any faster, but maybe that only applies to newer devices. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The increase in speed is specific to Windows Mobile 5 devices, including those that have been upgraded to it. I just upgraded an iPaq hx2750 to Windows Mobile 5 and it syncs extremely quickly. Or at least everything except the calendar does, nothing works if you have synching on for that - but Google tells me I'm not alone! :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pondrew Posted November 22, 2005 Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 What of the bluetooth support? What, I say?! Edit: "ActiveSync 4.1 does not support Backup/Restore of mobile device data." WHAT? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Since using Activesync 4 with my Windows Mobile 2003 SE Smartphones and Pocket PC Phone I've been very impressed with it. Seems more polished and stable (strange that WM5 users find it otherwise given it was designed for that os!) complete with an excellent Bluetooth sync section in Help that wasn't there before. As for the readme file stating that 4.1 doesn't support Back/Restore of mobile device data, that makes no sense! My MDA III device is backing up as I type this! I've had no problems using it since the official release, unlike the earlier beta... ...You see, I read in the readme that came with the earlier beta build that Backup/Restore wasn't functional and sure enough noticed that the Backup option was greyed out. BUT the backup/restore function has worked fine for me since installing this released version! I'll do some tests just to be sure but I suspect that they've failed to update the readme file from the earlier Beta and are wrongly stating Backup/Restore isn't available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pondrew Posted November 22, 2005 Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 Right, several succesful backups and a succesful restore later and I'm convinced there is NOTHING wrong with Backup/Restore in Activesync 4.1. At least, it works fine on my MDA III (HTC Blue Angel Pocket PC Phone running Windows Mobile 2003 SE). I wonder if they mean that Backup/Restore doesn't work for WM5 devices? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest benwatt Posted November 24, 2005 Report Share Posted November 24, 2005 I wonder if they mean that Backup/Restore doesn't work for WM5 devices? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That looks like being the case - when attaching a Windows Mobile 2003 device the Backup/Restore option is there (although in the case of my C500 it's greyed out). As soon as you attach a Windows Mobile 5 device though, that option isn't even listed. In fact when you attach a Mobile 5 device everything changes including the look of ActiveSync, almost as though it has two different versions of ActiveSync it uses depending on what you plug into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pondrew Posted November 24, 2005 Report Share Posted November 24, 2005 Interesting. Now just need to get a WM5 device so I can check it out... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mas99 Posted November 29, 2005 Report Share Posted November 29, 2005 :D ;) :) At last got it working, 1) new machine. reformated and new rules written for Zone Alarm, No more error msgs sucess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NisseGurra Posted November 30, 2005 Report Share Posted November 30, 2005 Active sync for wm5 devices stink, its so limited so for me its almost useless. Is there any other way to sync folders?, active sync4.1 dont even have that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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