I realize this is an old thread; but when I was not able to get HTC Sync to work recently, it is old threads like this that I relied on to get help. Unforunately, none of them worked for me!.... (and I am using the more reliable Winddows XP). I tried
everything I could think of..... Including the latest and various previous versions of HTC Sync (including the Euro version that's supposed to work well with the Desire). Including going into settings and switching on all the needed options (ie. usb debugging, etc). Including installing the program on various laptops.
Like some here that have wrestled with this issue of getting HTC Sync to communicate with their phone, I was on the verge of giving up and deciding it must be the USB cable. Somehow, the original HTC USB cable became inoperative, when one of the internal pins on the micro side broke off. I've been using a Samsung micro USB since, and having read that for some people, HTC Sync only started working when they changed the cable, that's what led me to this conclusion. But that wasn't it either...
Turns out the solution is to have more than 15mb of free space on the internal memory chip. (14.92mb didn't do it!). After ensuring that I did, HTC Sync finally synced with the phone on both computers, no problem.... I did not see anyone suggesting this solution for HTC Sync, so I am posting it in case it helps someone in the future, from throwing their phone off a bridge. Or worse, switching to the iPhone.
Ironically, the only reason I presently needed HTC Sync to work was to create more space on the internal memory. Because as everyone now knows, Froyo's promise of fixing the stupid HTC problem of cramming most everything into the internal RAM,
regardless of how big an SD card you happen to have, is nothing but a Crayola crayon band aid solution. Pure "amateur hour" at HTC headquarters.
We're well into what... Gingerbread now?? And they still haven't solved this dilemna, preferring to pass the buck on to software app developers. (rant off)
And the only reason I
really needed HTC Sync, was not to use the program itself, but to get the adb shell to talk to the phone via the sync process. I used the adb commands (in another article) to get the Desire to always automatically install software to the SD card (so obviously, HTC
could have built this in if they wanted to! Instead of making people spend days trying to find a hack for their phone!!
-rant off again). (link:
How to Install Apps to Your SD Card on Android Froyo | Gadget News)
All that was enough to fix the internal memory issue, but unlike for some, it wasn't enough to fix GMail not syncing, pushing or updating. There too I tried everything I could find or think of. The solution for that, came from a solution here in another thread, of installing Power Controls widget, and hitting the Auto-Sync button a couple of times. This, despite the fact that I had already gone into settings, and updated the synching for Gmail and all other synching accounts on the phone (as well as refreshing the synch in the Gmail app). (link:
Gmail no longer sync-ing (solution))
Pardon the ambling rant, hope this helps.
