That's not the worst of it! Not only can't you control when it sync's in the cradle, activesync loads constanly even when there is no connection. :-(
It's a mess.....
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Originally Posted by biglouis
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'ang on. As far I understand it there is absolutely no way in ActiveSync 4.0 to stop continuous syncing. This means that when cradled your device will regularly fire up and sync.
Check here if you don't believe me:
http://www.pocketpcfaq.com/faqs/acti...shoot-as4x.htm
You could control the scheduling of syncing in 3.8 but obviously this was a mistake as it was as use to their customers, so Microsoft removed it in 4.0.
The teasing "scheduling" menu option you see in Activesync 4.0 is purely for WiFi syncing and the only reason it exists is that if you did have your transmitter on all the time it would suck power out if you PC kept on regularly syncing with your PPC.
LouisB,
You've got to hand it to Microsoft. Idiots can often screw up a good thing but it takes a particularly psychopathic sadist to come up with removing useful features in new releases just to remind you of their power over you as a customer.
My solution is particularly heath robinson. Instead of plugging my cradle into the inaccessible reaches of my PC backplane as I've pretty much done with every PDA I've owned since my HP95LX in 1990, I've snaked it round to my front USB socket. If I want to stop the regular attempts to sync I unplug the cable.
Good isn't it?
LouisB
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