Windows Mobile Device Center 64 Bit

[Gregory Monty]

WindowsMobile Device Center is a synchronization software program developed by Microsoft, and the successor to ActiveSync. It is designed to synchronize various content including music, video, contacts, calendar events, web browser favorites, and other files between Windows Mobile devices and the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Windows Mobile Device Center was written as a successor to the ActiveSync program that was previously used to synchronize Windows CE based devices with Windows operating systems prior to Windows Vista. The first public release was available in October 2006 as a beta version meant for use with Windows Vista RC1.[1] In February 2007, the first official release was made available for download,[2] and in June 2007, Windows Mobile Device Center was updated to work with the Windows Mobile 6 operating system.[3] With the release of Windows Mobile Device Center, Pocket PC 2000 and Pocket PC 2002 operating systems were effectively phased out of full native support with Windows Vista.[4] However, basic connectivity became available for these devices with the 6.1 version release.

While Windows Vista has a base driver built-in to interface with Windows Mobile devices in Windows Explorer,[6] Windows Mobile Device Center offers a front-end for users to integrate their data in multiple Windows applications.

The base driver in Windows Vista allows browsing the device, copying files and syncing with Windows Media Player. For complete functionality including synchronization of tasks, calendar data, contacts, email etc. with Microsoft Office Outlook, Windows Mobile Device Center needs to be downloaded, which includes the additional drivers as well.[7] Synchronization with Windows Mail, Windows Calendar, Windows Contacts, Outlook Express, Outlook 2010 x64 and any version of Outlook prior to Outlook 2003 is not supported. Whenever a Windows Mobile device is connected, the Mobile Device Center pane pops up giving options to manage media and other files on the device, as well as control their settings.

Ways to interface Windows Mobile devices with Windows Mobile Device Center include Bluetooth, USB, and for legacy purposes, Serial. However, synchronizing via the serial port is not activated by default, and it is required that the user alters the Windows Registry to do so.[8]

Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 came with Remote Tools, that could be used to edit the registry of a tethered mobile device, and view the running processes. These Remote Tools utilised the ActiveSync Service, part of Windows Mobile Device Center

It appeared like the emulator was connecting properly but WMDC would just say not connected. I finally came across a comment that pointed out the issue to me. REMOTE DESKTOP. One of the only things different this day was that I was working remotely. WMDC will not connect properly to your emulator if you are using a RDP connection.

I ran accross the same issue. What you need to do is uncradle the emulator. Go to the Windows Mobile device center and click on Connection Settings. Change the connections from DMA to a com port. Save the settings and close the Mobile Device Center. Launch the Mobile Device Center and change the setting back to DMA and then cradle you emulator.

I've found more easy solution to fix this. As i am understand after some analysis, this issue happen because emulator thinks that it already connected to PC. Eg. last time you closed emulator, while it was connected and it saved this state and when you try to cradle it, it don't work. Simply go to ActiveSync settings on your emulated PDA device and you will find that it connected, disconnect it and try to cradle it again... It works for me like charm.

Ok, I know, these Motorola slash Symbol slash Zebra scan guns are really old, like over a decade old, and aren't in support anymore. But I really like them (and they're available on the secondary market for cheap) for my inventory control system for my storage unit.

Microsoft doesn't publish WMDC anymore, and it hasn't been supported since Vista, and ActiveSync is consigned to the dustbin of Microsoft developer-centric products. But is it really the only way to set up my MC9190 scan gun? How do I install applications on it and transfer files?

Juniper Systems, who make a replacement line of devices, continue to host the software and published a fix for it. Their guide is at -base/support-knowledge-base-topics/desktop-connection-activesync-or-windows-mobile-device-center/wmdc-in-windows-10.

Reboot your computer, and then launch Windows Mobile Device Center from the start menu. It will either sit there for a long time and quit, fail and ask to be reinstalled, or load. If it doesn't load, close its processes in task manager and start it again. Before it works properly for the first time, it will ask you to accept a license.

If, connecting your device via USB (I have no idea if the Bluetooth or IR options can still be made to work), it still does not show "connected" in WMDC, delete the "Microsoft Windows Mobile Remote Adapter", remove the scan gun from the cradle, and put it back in the cradle. The device will come back, and work.

You probably don't need to "set up your device" given that it'll want to be connected to Exchange with ActiveSync and that's not so much a thing these days (and you probably don't want to use it as a phone, even though you kind of could). "Connect without setting up your device" will allow you to copy files back and forth with Explorer and install programs.

In particular, the "Add/Remove Programs" option is in Programs and Services > More... > Add/Remove Programs. File management is under File Management > Browse the contents of your device, and will open Explorer (you have to go through the menu).

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows CE Services\AutoStartOnConnect\WmdcOpen - open WMDCHKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows CE Services\AutoStartOnDisonnect\WmdcCloseOpen - close and open WMDCHKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RapiMgr\SvcHostSplitDisable to 0x1HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WcesComm\SvcHostSplitDisable to 0x1

The device will show up there once the drivers are installed, but it's completely useless. It's geared toward syncing files with a Windows Mobile phone, and you likely mostly want to install an SSH client or something.

I've run into situations where devices stopped working with WMDC/Active Sync.I've usually found success disabling "Advanced Networking Functionality" on the device. On your device, tap Start > Settings > Connections > USB to PC > Uncheck "Enable advanced network functionality".

The other thing that usually causes this is the device drivers. When you plug in the device it tries to install device drivers. You may end up with a ton of "Windows Mobile Remote Adapter #n" devices showing in Device Manager. You can clean these up because the device driver will be reinstalled next time you plug in the device. There is detailed information available about the process here. If the device driver is failing to install you should see a popup near the clock/system tray area.

In addition to all the other fixes you find on the web, I noticed that the Windows Mobile device will not connect to the Windows Mobile Device Center when I am accessing the Windows machine that runs WMDC through Remote Desktop. Had that problem on Windows 7 and 8.1. The fix for me was to login to the Windows machine first without Remote Desktop after which WMDC will show that the device is connected. Once the connection has been established I could access the machine using Remote Desktop and the Windows Mobile device stayed connected.

I got this working on Windows 10 (2019) after trying a lot of different things.What mostly worked was in services, there are 2 services called "Windows Mobile-based device connectivity" and "Windows Mobile-2003-based device connectivity".

Right click on each service and make sure they start automatically (delayed).Click the "log on" tab, change the access to be "local system account and enable "Allow service to interact with desktop"Apply and click ok.

After logging onto your desktop, give your computer a few minutes to start those services. When both are running, you will need to open the application "Windows Mobile Device Center" to initiate the connection. This had be to open for this to work in my case.

You should see connected. Now, windows tends to update itself without your permission so what happens sometimes is the "log on" credentials get reset so you will need to redo them as above. But for some reason yesterday for me, nothing would connect until I did

UPDATE (Jan 2020):

I had another issue every time I docked the scanner into the cradle, it would detect a USB device but immediately register it as 'unknown device' or sometimes, very rarely, it would list it correctly but disable the device because of a timeout. My problem here was the computer I was using has USB 3 connections, so I plugged in an old USB hub, connected the dock to that and it hey presto worked again.

On my MC92N0 scanner I went into Settings/Control Panel/USBConfig and I had to tap on the "USB Client Mode." It was previously selected to port mode "USB OTG Mode". After doing this I placed it in the doc again and it connected normally\launched Windows Mobile Device Center.

Also fyi you should also be able to find the scanner and access files once you're connected by looking underneath devices in "This PC", similar to how you would access a USB flash drive. I was able to do this on Windows 7 & 8.

I spend a couple of hours trying to make this work for a MC92N0. In my case, I have used windows 10 to configure MC9090s through WDMC with NO issues, however, when attaching an MC92N0 nothing was happening, I could not get the MC92N0 to connect (same results on a windows 7 machine ).

What worked for me was to use a USB hub to connect the cradle to the PC, insert the device into the cradle, then go to the device "control pannel" > "USBconfig" > and then switched the USB modes to "mass storage" and select any of the folders (at this point the windows machine recognized a storage device was attached, but still no WDMC connection) > then I switched the setting back to "ActiveSync Serial" and the WDMC showed a connection!

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