{"id":282,"date":"2010-06-06T13:12:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eriknovales.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/06\/windows-7-mobile-device-center-not-recognizing-my-phone-over-usb\/"},"modified":"2010-06-06T13:12:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T20:12:10","slug":"windows-7-mobile-device-center-not-recognizing-my-phone-over-usb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Mobile Device Center not recognizing my phone over USB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had some issues setting up my <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HTC_TyTN\">increasingly old and decrepit phone<\/a> with my new machine \u2013 I installed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsmobile\/en-us\/downloads\/microsoft\/device-center-download.mspx\">Windows Mobile Device Center<\/a>, but it refused to recognize my phone when connected by USB. I seemed to be having some other issues at the time, and had an aborted attempt to install the proper USB drivers for my motherboard\u2019s controller. I went through the following steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>uninstall Windows Mobile Device Center<\/li>\n<li>uninstall the unidentified devices in the Device Manager<\/li>\n<li>reboot<\/li>\n<li>install my motherboard\u2019s \u201cproper\u201d USB driver (NEC)<\/li>\n<li>reinstall Windows Mobile Device Center<\/li>\n<li>Try connecting via USB again \u2013 it still failed, as before.<\/li>\n<li>Slap in my Bluetooth adapter and connect via Bluetooth. When I did this, it seemed to install the mobile device.<\/li>\n<li>I also had to delete my two existing PC partnerships before setting up the new one. Now it all syncs correctly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Annoyingly, I still cannot sync via USB, but at least the Bluetooth works. I could have probably skipped to that, but I\u2019m so used to syncing via USB that I wanted to get that working. I guess I could probably start <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpcfaq.com\/faqs\/wmdc\/connectoverview.htm\">sifting through the RNDIS driver error logs<\/a> and see if I can find anything there, but considering that this whole epic saga started because I needed to sync someone\u2019s address to my phone so I could mail them a package, I don\u2019t want to get sidetracked too much more\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had some issues setting up my increasingly old and decrepit phone with my new machine \u2013 I installed the Windows Mobile Device Center, but it refused to recognize my phone when connected by USB. I seemed to be having some other issues at the time, and had an aborted attempt to install the proper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}