Sony Ericsson PC Suite

[tw33k]

An interesting development. I just updated to 7127 (went well but longer than i thought/hoped). Once everything loaded, PC Suite can't detect my phone. It worked on 7100. m-router can't see it either. The really interesting thing is that "my phone explorer" connects and syncs (it shouldn't work cause pc suite is not connected) very weird...

 

[Uber Philf]

How is your mobile connected?

Enzo.

 

[tw33k]

usb

 

[Uber Philf]

Well you can rule out drivers, usually the Suite installs them..
Tried reinstalling the Suite?

Enzo.

 

[tw33k]

lol...didn't have to. just shut done the service, restarted it and bingo! all good.
thanks for ur input.

 

[Uber Philf]

Hahaha, glad you got it working

Enzo.

 

[swarfega]

I used PC Suite with beta 7000 via usb and it worked well. Not installed it recently though. My phone is the SE v640i.

 

[tw33k]

i've got a w960. the weird thing with it is that "my phone explorer" shouldn't have been able to synch with my phone because pc suite couldn't detect it.

 

[Uber Philf]

Possibly just a "one off"

Enzo.

 

[ncguy]

I installed PC Suite on 7100. If you didnt look under the covers you would think it is perfectly compatible as I haven't noticed any application issues.

Unfortunately, Event Viewer isnt as happy. It is continually generating "sidebySide" errors in event viewer. The details are very strange mentioning AMD64 architecture when I am running 32 bit windows on Intel.

Here is the actual message:

Activation context generation failed for "c:\program files\sony ericsson\sony ericsson pc suite\Drivers\DPInst64.exe". Dependent Assembly Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls,language="*",processorArchitecture="amd64",publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df",type="win32",version="6.0.0.0" could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.

I have read other posts where the "sidebyside" event viewer error is fixed by installing a missing c++ library? Here is the link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...EE-A3F9-4C13-9C99-220B62A191EE&displaylang=en

Anyhow, I'm a bit hesitant to load that library on Windows 7. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

 

[Uber Philf]

I own a Nokia :huh:

Enzo.

 

[tw33k]

i didn't have to. everything works perfectly even tho i was warned that pc suite is not compatible.

 

[ncguy]

i didn't have to. everything works perfectly even tho i was warned that pc suite is not compatible.

Have you checked event viewer to see if you are getting "sidebyside" errors?

 

[tw33k]

Have you checked event viewer to see if you are getting "sidebyside" errors?

yep...no problems

 

[Impulse]

i've got a w960. the weird thing with it is that "my phone explorer" shouldn't have been able to synch with my phone because pc suite couldn't detect it.

This has nothing to do with Windows 7, I've had that happen even on Windows XP, even when using Bluetooth too... Same symptions, I'm able to navigate the phone (and the M2 flash card) from my PC (and transfer stuff to it freely) but SE PC Suite won't connect, my Widcomm BT drives say the phone isn't connected either, and the phone itself is saying that the BT connection is failing as well... So basically nothing's working yet I can navigate and transfer files normally, lol.

W580i here btw. As you said, simply restarting the services fixes it right up... It's only happened twice to me, dunno what caused it really.

Btw, have any of you using SE phones tried an alternative to SE's PC Suite? I heard some good things about 'MyPhoneExplorer' from FJ Soft, haven't bothered to try it yet though. Mostly I've just been using the SE PC Suite to create backups of my calendar (had the phone die once already when I wasn't making backups, what a PITA)... But I wanted to start sync'ing said calendar/contacts with Outlook or Thunderbird (and then sync either w/Gcal), was wondering if SE PC Suite worked well in this regard.

 

[ncguy]

I haven't tried connecting wireless with my SE on PC Suite but most everything else works fine otherwise except for the seemingly harmless Windows 7 errors in Event Viewer.

However, after I download MP3's I have a need to change the mp3 "title" attribute on the downloaded mp3 file so that it sorts correctly in my phone. I'm not sure whats going on but after you change the title and then hit the save changes button it literally takes several minutes of hour glass and frozen PC before the machine lets go again and the change actually gets made. The title changes actually take longer than the downloads. Anyone know a way around this and whats going on here? Is the problem in the phone in this case?

 

[tw33k]

i use "My Phone Explorer" all the time. It's a great tool. However, you need to have m-router connected for it to sync properly.

However, after I download MP3's I have a need to change the mp3 "title" attribute on the downloaded mp3 file so that it sorts correctly in my phone. I'm not sure whats going on but after you change the title and then hit the save changes button it literally takes several minutes of hour glass and frozen PC before the machine lets go again and the change actually gets made. The title changes actually take longer than the downloads. Anyone know a way around this and whats going on here? Is the problem in the phone in this case?

do you mean changing the name of the mp3 on your phone or on your PC? the best thing to do is to change the name on your pc (i just use WMP to change the title, add album art etc) then copy the files to my w960i.

 

[ncguy]

i use "My Phone Explorer" all the time. It's a great tool. However, you need to have m-router connected for it to sync properly.

do you mean changing the name of the mp3 on your phone or on your PC? the best thing to do is to change the name on your pc (i just use WMP to change the title, add album art etc) then copy the files to my w960i.

Changing it on the memory card in the phone. I'm downloading from Internet web sites. I know you can change it easily on the PC but if I do that I have to first download the files to the PC and then to the phone. Involves two transfers for each file.