ActiveSync Sucks

[dfilias]

ActiveSync works for me most of the time. I don't reboot my computer every 15 minutes like some people. Mine usually stays on for days/weeks/months without a reboot.

But, without warning, ActiveSync just decides NOT to work. I hate rebooting because it takes FOREVER at work because of shared drives over a Nokia VPN switch.

I wish ActiveSync worked 100% of the time. Rebooting is a waste of my life. :angry:

[Computer Ninja]

I have very few problems with ActiveSync. Do you have 3.6 installed?

[dfilias]

I have 3.5 installed. I really don't want to mess with uninstalling 3.5, rebooting, installing 3.6, rebooting. Reconfiguring Intellisync, rebooting. Soft resetting, rebooting. Rebooting, rebooting, rebooting. Rebooting sucks.

I rebooted my computer, and it still didn't sync. I went to Microsoft's knowledgebase, went through their elementary checklist, and they offered 0% help.

My computer recognized that the Axim was plugged into the computer, as the device manager clearly showed it. So, in the sense of the OS detecting the hardware, everything is fine.

So, I'm thinking it's a software issue. Tore up all the settings and the connection wizards, and ActiveSync looked at me as if I was a freak.

So, I did a soft reset on the Axim, and everthing works.

I wonder if there's any PhD propeller heads that would like to work on their doctorate thesis, that could tell me WHY a soft reset solved my problem. What in heaven's name "got stuck" in the Axim? It's fricken solid state... there's no moving parts! Ugggg!

I'm an engineer. To me, rebooting a computer or soft resetting an Axim is a lame fix for any computer grief. I want to know WHY things require reboots and resets. I demand to know.

I guess the only way I will ever know is too take 800 and 900-level Binary classes at MIT, and dedicate the rest of my life to binary and assembly language. NOT. I'd rather eat biohazard waste from hospitals.