So, yesterday I was suddenly unable to sync my Axim X51v using Activesync 4.5 (beta) - which has been working perfectly up until then (well after my hard reset...), and works perfectly on my Moto Q.

I tried all the usual tricks, soft reset, reboot the comp, deleting the network connection so it's forced to find the device again - none of that worked. Then I noticed that I might have grabbed a different sync cable - I have two USB travel cables, and my cradle.

So, I plugged in my cradle, and everything worked fine. Then I thought about it, my cradle, which is usually at work, never created an Activesync issue, ever. At home, things would work, then not, then would.

So, my thoughts are, it would seem that some of my Activesync issues are likely related to the sync cable! Anyone else able to confirm?

I dunno about the Axim cable - but I've discovered over the years that hardware can indeed cause problems like this. My wife's computer was having a problem staying connected to our LAN. It was working perfectly last week, then all-of-a-sudden it just seemed to drop connection a lot, no one else on the LAN could connect reliably to the printer, etc.

A number of years ago I would have struggled for 2 days to a week tweaking and tuning the software configuration blaming everything but the hardware for the problem. Last night I tweaked a couple of settings, still no joy - so I swapped in a new network card. BAM ... problem solved.

So, yes ... I'll confirm your findings. The bottom line is this: if something that worked yesterday all-of-a-sudden doesn't work today and things are no longer making sense DO NOT leave the hardware out of the equation when figuring out what's wrong because it COULD be failing. You would think that a cable (or network card) might fail completely or work completely. I've found out the hard way that hardware (including cables) CAN and sometimes DO work partially, so don't be afraid to swap 'em out!

-CB

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