I hate activesync! (Help!)

[Guest maddskillz]

i've had a quick search of previous posts & can't find this exact problem, mayb you can help. wen i try 2 sync my phone(C500) up 2 the pc, i keep gettin this message wen trying 2 enter the mobile device: "Critical Communications services have failed to start. try resetting the mobile device, and then connect again" It seems to have started hapn after installing smart explorer (not sure if the problems related). wot sort of resetting is it talking about in terms of this message? any ideas? cheers!

[Guest Confucious]

Welcome to the forum.

A search will reveal plenty of threads on this subject but the most common cause is your firewall.

HTH

[Guest maddskillz]

Cheers! just noticed a similar problem on another post. il give it a go!

[Guest el_plebillo]

I have the exact same problem,and I DID do a search, and my problem is not solved by disabling my firewall.

all this started when I upgraded to activesync 4, it didn't work, and then, I uninstalled and went back to 3.8, and since, I get that communications error. i've uninstalled, installed, uninstalled, rebooted. erased, and done all sorts of things, and I cant get activesync to work again, I've even tried 3.7, and still a no-go.

[Guest Disco Stu]

JFran's guide here should help :

http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=...=0entry584381

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

I found I had to uninstall Activsync first then reinstall v4 to get it to work.

Also while uninstalling\reinstalling remember to leave any devices unplugged from the pc.