6700 Gripe #1
I’m on my second day of using my new XV6700. The good news is that the calendar synchronization problem seems to have solved itself, and I’m definitely seeing the “wow factor” when I show the phone to other people. The wireless e-mail push function is working great — except for my e-mail processing rules, which I’ll talk about another time.
But this morning I had trouble synching through my USB cradle. At first it was doing my Exchange server synch just fine but hanging on the synching of Windows PC items (notes and favorites). I tried a soft reset, and then it won’t synch at all – my computer said that it couldn’t recognize the USB device. Grrr.
Fortunately, after a PC restart the phone was recognized and I had a trouble-free synch.
I have a feeling that I will be experiencing this kind of minor inconvenience a lot. The Windows Mobile operating system is often said to be less stable than other systems like Palm and Symbian. I’m hoping — and predicting — that the many advantages of having a Windows Mobile phone will outweigh the disadvantages.
[...] Problems with ActiveSync? Could be your personal firewall. All of a sudden, my Verizon XV6700 Pocket PC Phone stopped synchronizing with my PC via the USB cradle. I’d had this problem before (twice, actually), so I figured that after the right combination of PC restarts and phone soft resets all would be well again. But not this time. I ran through the ActiveSync troubleshooter, but it just told me that the device seemed to be disconnected. Then I noticed a tiny link to the detailed log from the troubleshooter. Within the log, I found this helpful advice: Unable to establish a connection between the PC and the device. Get up-to-date solutions to common connection problems. Please click the following link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=65257 [...]