I am attempting to install, for the first time, Windows Media Device Center 6.1, onto my computer.
What happens is the installer runs for a bit then once it almost gets to 100% it goes in reverse, then the install program closes itself, with nothing being installed.
I then tried running windows update with the BA pluged in. WU detected that there was an update but then it reports that the installation fails with that too.
Anyone know what could be going wrong? I really want to get my BA updated to WM6.... or even get it ready to sync with my computer period.
Thanks for all the help.
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I've tried to open the WMDC for almost a week without any luck.
When I click on the WMDC icon from my start menu, WMDC logo pops up from the screen says "Please wait while Windows Mobile Device Center starts." for about good 15 seconds... and the poof. Nothing happens.
I uninstalled the WMDC and reinstalled it many many many times without any luck. I even deleted the device driver from driver manager... no luck.
What is going on? I has been working fine until last week?!? and I can't seem to pin pont what the heck is wrong with my computer...
BTW, I have a Titan (Verizon Wireless X6800) with DCD's 2.2.6 rom with the 3.27.00 radio rom... and of course Hard-SPL has been done. I suspect nothing really is wrong with the phone and am pretty sure that it has got to be the computer itself..
Can anyone chime in on this matter? I'd really appreciated all your help.
I have a Treo 750 (Telstra, Australia) and today decided to update to WM6.
I have it synced to my PC running Vista Ultimate. Did this just before the install, then ran the install and half way through it crashed. After resetting the Treo, it came up with the initial install screen (date/country/etc). After completing all this it went in and it was still WM5... so obviously the update failed. But all my settings are gone (including email/contacts/etc, which are still on my PC).
BUT, now the computer won't recognise it when i plug in via USB, so I cannot even sync all my stuff back to WM5, let alone install WM6.
I have had a read of these forums, and it seems that to do an installation through a SD card, you need to do some of the steps through sync first, so unless i can work out how to sync it, i think i am screwed. Can anyone help?
Thanks
I had been using Windows 7 for weeks withno issue (official beta, build 7000), then suddenly about a week ago I started having strange device issue. It started takin forever to go to sleep and when I got home and plugged in my usb hub or any usb devices directly in they would not be acknowledged at all. I think I have found the culprit. In the event viewer I am getting tons of errors from RapiMgr service not responding. Also, I cannot stop the service or terminate the process (WmdHost.exe) no matter how I try. I will restart and turn that service to manual startup now and see if I still get this problem. It doesnt happen all the time, but now that I think about it it may correspond with times where active sync wont connect for some reason (ie everything working fine but no active sync connection -> put it to sleep to go to class (takes forever) -> get home and plug in usb hub and nothing connects).
Anybody else have this issue? Was there a recent update to WMDC?
I'm also using the official Win7 beta, and I had a problem with WMDC when I first installed it. It wouldn't acknowledge that I plugged in my phone. I got really frustrated looking for a solution, and after a lot of cursing, investigating, and more cursing, I finally just uninstalled it and installed it again.
And if you can't uninstall it because you can't stop the process, try booting into safe-mode if you haven't already. If you don't know how to boot into safe-mode, hit F8 while booting Windows to have boot options come up, then select safe-mode. I haven't tried with Windows 7 as I haven't needed to, but in previous versions of Windows, I believe that was the key to press. Hope that solves the problem,
Dave
DaveTheTytnIIGuy said:
I'm also using the official Win7 beta, and I had a problem with WMDC when I first installed it. It wouldn't acknowledge that I plugged in my phone. I got really frustrated looking for a solution, and after a lot of cursing, investigating, and more cursing, I finally just uninstalled it and installed it again.
And if you can't uninstall it because you can't stop the process, try booting into safe-mode if you haven't already. If you don't know how to boot into safe-mode, hit F8 while booting Windows to have boot options come up, then select safe-mode. I haven't tried with Windows 7 as I haven't needed to, but in previous versions of Windows, I believe that was the key to press. Hope that solves the problem,
Dave
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Thanks for the suggestions. There was no need to boot into safe mode as the process doesn't hang right after a reboot. It seemed to only start after running for a while. After rebooting I just uninstalled WMDC. I will see if the problem happens again but I am 90% sure WMDC is the problem. The question is just why would RapiMgr just start hanging all the time last week and continue to do so after a reformat? Perhaps the ROM that I am now running confuses activesync enough to cause it to freeze the process on my computer? I can't remember when exactly I started using this ROM. Hmmm. If I dont get the problem for a few days I think I will reinstall WMDC and then disable advanced network functionality in USB to PC on the device.
BTW, when I reformatted I decided to go to W7 build 7068. Not really any noticeable changes I dont think, but a nice new login screen background. MS did a very nice job with W7. So polished looking and a joy to use.
Hi all,
i am really very disappointed, already spent around 12 hours looking for a solution,
the WMDC does not run at all on my Vista machine which is Business 32-bit,
i tried to uninstall, install again, reboot, more than 20 times, with no luck
this is making me creazy, i couldn't find someone suffered the same
please help me, i am willing even to pay for this help
regards,
sounds like a corrupt vista install I would reinstall or restore it back to default
how to confirm its vista
Hi..
thanks for your post?
how did you confirm that its vista issue,
could i just put the vista CD and ask to rebuild?
will it remove my files on the system
yes itll delete everything
my advice would be to get 7
"i couldn't find someone suffered the same"
was a bit of a give away
you could try another vista computer to verify
or if you're using usb you could try using bluetooth and virsa versa
personally I never had any problems with vista wmdc
its not showing the interface
my home vista machine is working fine,
my machine, is not, its not yet about connecting my mobile,
the software it self is not showing,
i install it, without any error msg, it shows in the start menu, and in the programs of control panel,
but when i click on the icon in the start menu, nothing show at all,
i belive it should show the interface even if the mobile is not connected yet,
acctually it shows ew devices
hi.
it shows new devices as unknown device then the driver couldn't be found
if it's a work computer they prob just removed the rights of installing new hardware
from your user account
i tried both with my user which is part of the administrators group, and also tried with the administrator account directly,
both resulted the saem
it takes around 1 minute on the "0 remaining time"
then it just hide without saying its finished or completed,
the result is an icon in the start menu,
and in the windowsmobile directory in windows folder, it shows some files, like setup, and drivers
then if i check properties of the icon in the start menu, it shows that its for first time installation,
i click on it, it install again
then the changes are on the windowsmobile folder in windows folder more EXE files are there like WMDC.exe (but if run it, nothing comes out)
if i recheck the properties of the icon on the start menu, there is no more target application, (you could call it broken link)
whats happenning
i went through the installation part of it,
http://www.pocketpcfaq.com/faqs/wmdc/install.htm
its exactly what happen with me,
but my side i reach the screen which shows "Installing device driver software"
then it failes after,
if i check the devices i find that it find a bluetooth device, but cannot install it correctly
Hello...
I have HD7.. when I plug it into my PC (Vista OS), it will install driver for the first time.. but the process always failed
It says :
"Windows found your driver software for your device encountered an error while attempting to install it.
The resource loader cache doesn't have loaded MUI entry.
If you know the manufacturer of your device, you can visit its website and check the support section for driver software."
I've already install Zune also.. but in the end, my HD7 can't connect to Zune
Is there any solution ?
Thanks before..
Its Vista, it fails.
Downgrade to XP lol
Try a disk cleanup, if that fails, turn off UAC, restart your computer and try again.
VegaNovus said:
Its Vista, it fails.
Downgrade to XP lol
Try a disk cleanup, if that fails, turn off UAC, restart your computer and try again.
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I've already try to turn off UAC and uninstall my antivirus, but it still the same
It's better to downgrade to XP, or upgrade to Windows7?
Sorry for the stupidly long reply, if your computer can handle it, upgrade to Win7 (but will cost)
A downgrade to XP is free, just use your Vista key to install XP, then when it comes to activation, call the number.
HD7 doesn't sync to zune
hey guys, I have the same problem. My HD7 cannot be recognized by zune. Always when I plug in my HD7. Its requesting for driver, but cannot find any. Any suggestions how to solve this problem?
I've already tried another USB port, another PC, reinstal OS (Vista with all updates till now), reinstal WP7 on my phone (NoDo, no Mango yet).
I think, problem could be, that once I've tried to use my phone as a wifi router (via DFRouter app.). I changed some setings in app but it didn't work so I uninstaled it. BUT I did not change the settings back. Could be this the problem??? If yes, how to solve it?
@Erdo9: DFRouter, and similar apps that modify the USB behavior, will make it impossible to connect to the phone using Zune. Why you would think it's a good idea to change the USB mode and then uninstall the software without changing back, I really can't imagine. However, fortunately for you there are others who did the same thing. Search around for "DFRouter Fix" or similar. You may need to buy some hardware and/or set up a "gold card" to modify the USB mode.
Try installing Windows Mobile Device Centre.
Google it up, download it from Microsoft's website. It should do the trick.
ok... first.. reinstall zune...
2nd: vista? 32 or 64?
which NATIVE language?
which UI language are you using? You installed multilanguage packs?
you disabled (i think completely) UAC, try also disabling also DEP (blind suggestion)
If disabling UAC, much less DEP, is required, you have a much, much worse problem. Pretty much all Microsoft software from the last decade has been DEP-compatible. If you need to disable DEP to install something that many other people are running just fine, that means you aren't running the official Microsoft code. That usually means malware.
Just saying... I really don't know what the problem is. Windows won't actually automatically install the phone drivers unless you have an up-to-date Zune install, but if you do, it should "just work" in a few seconds.
GoodDayToDie: Thank you so much. Now its working properly
Look in event viewer for any clues.