Registered: Jan 2000
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Posts: 15

With all the continued posts on USB Cradle Synch problems, I've been keeping an unscientific tab on my own synch activities.

I have a USB cradle at work and a USB cable at home. I consistently have problems with the cradle. I do the regedit trick, the soft reset trick, just about everything. I even "jiggle" the cradle (with the visor in it) as well as the usb connection on the back of the computer. Sometimes I get to synch, sometimes I don't.

However, with the USB cable at home, I have had maybe 2-3 times a synch problem showed up. Leads me to think the cradles are crap and there is something with the manner in which the cable hooks into the visor that makes a better connection.

Anyone else have a similar experience? I'm close to calling HS and offering to send my cradle for a cable. Thanks for anyone who cares to respond...

Registered: Dec 1999
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Posts: 10

I have two serial cradles, one of which has already been replaced. Now I'm having problems with the new one. I tried to rub the connections on both the cradle and visor with steel wool. This seems to have helped. This leads me to believe that connection between unit and cradle are bad and needs to be cleaned up from time to time.

Hopefully this problem won't get worse.