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Posted by Clinton Fitch [MVP-Mobile Devi on March 19, 2006, 3:09 pm
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Ian,
I replied to your post in the microsoft.public.pocketpc.activesync.
Regards,
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wrote:
>I have been using two devices attached to one PC for some time with no
>problems (Windows smartphone and PDA - both on WM5). Both sychronise fine
>and don't conflict.
>
>Today we bought my wife the same smartphone as mine. When attaching to the
>PC it went through the usual 'new device' settings (as expected) and
>synchronised successfully. When I then replaced it with my phone it saw it
>as 'new' and asked me to delete a previous connection and then create a new
>one and re-sychronises from scratch. Swapping back again and the same
>happens again (it sees the first phone as 'new' again!)
>
>To summarise: diconnecting and reconnecting the same phone is fine - it
>re-establishes the connection and sync's fine. Swapping to the other
>(identical) phone means it keeps seeing it as 'new' and needs to go through
>the wizard.
>
>Is it getting confused thinking it is seeing the same phone in different
>states? Is there anything I can do to the 'labels' etc to stop this
>happening.
>
>Grateful for any help...
>
>Ian
>
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