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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Computer Usage and Setup Help => Topic started by: ClrDraw on November 11, 2013, 12:28:53 am

Title: TI Connect being stupid (again)...
Post by: ClrDraw on November 11, 2013, 12:28:53 am
From time to time TI Connect does this and I usually can fix it by restarting my computer. This time it's being really weird though. I've restarted twice, re-installed my OS once, cleared all ram once, changed batteries and (because I just backed up everything this morning) cleared all memory twice. It still shows this message every time I try to send something, no matter what file I send from any folder.

http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=articles;sa=view;article=76 (http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=articles;sa=view;article=76)

Didn't work :(
Title: Re: TI Connect being stupid (again)...
Post by: annoyingcalc on November 11, 2013, 12:36:00 am
This has happened to me in the past too, did you try using TiLP, I have gotten no success with TI-Connect for the past year, and TiLP works great.
Title: Re: TI Connect being stupid (again)...
Post by: ClrDraw on November 11, 2013, 12:50:11 am
No I haven't, what's that?   *.*
Title: Re: TI Connect being stupid (again)...
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 11, 2013, 01:43:58 am
Topic title should have been "TI-Connect is a piece of garbage", but again most people know this, so I guess the current title is fine too. I had this happen once but I tried again (reconnecting my calc before doing so) and it worked again. Some people like you definitively didn't have the same luck as me, though. >.<
Title: Re: TI Connect being stupid (again)...
Post by: SpiroH on November 11, 2013, 10:05:55 am
Topic title should have been "TI-Connect is a piece of garbage", ...
LOL, do you mean "TI-Connect is a piece of s**t" ? :-\
Title: Re: TI Connect being stupid (again)...
Post by: ClrDraw on November 11, 2013, 10:36:00 am
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Topic title should have been "TI-Connect is a piece of garbage", ...
LOL, do you mean "TI-Connect is a piece of s**t" ?  :-\

Totally, it's such crap; it always has some problem with it...
Title: Re: TI Connect being stupid (again)...
Post by: TheMachine02 on November 11, 2013, 11:31:21 am
indeed  :P

Ti connect don't really have problem with me (transfer etc work fine), but if I leave it on my computer, Ti connect made him crash ><
Title: Re: TI Connect being stupid (again)...
Post by: Streetwalrus on November 11, 2013, 12:33:31 pm
Lol. The only thing I use it for now is to send OS's over Silverlink, because it's somehow broken in Tilp (via DirectUSB it works fine though but my 83+se doesn't have it).
Title: Re: TI Connect being stupid (again)...
Post by: annoyingcalc on November 11, 2013, 03:01:58 pm
No I haven't, what's that?   *.*
It is an alternate program to TI-Connect for sending files to calculators:
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/374/37481.html
Title: Re: TI Connect being stupid (again)...
Post by: Streetwalrus on November 11, 2013, 03:17:01 pm
Outdated link warning ! Grab it from here : http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_tilp/news.html
Title: Re: TI Connect being stupid (again)...
Post by: Lionel Debroux on November 11, 2013, 03:21:26 pm
Getting TILP from http://ourl.ca/4010/360344 would be even better :)
ClrDraw: as indicated by the README, you'll have to follow a manual procedure and install a "filter driver" for TILP to work. That sucks from a user's POV, but the culprit is a fundamental Windows limitation. Windows hates having more than one driver for a given piece of hardware. Having to install such workarounds is not a problem of TILP itself.
Title: Re: TI Connect being stupid (again)...
Post by: Streetwalrus on November 11, 2013, 03:28:31 pm
The mere fact that wincrap requires drivers to communicate with USB devices is already a limitation.
Title: Re: TI Connect being stupid (again)...
Post by: ClrDraw on November 11, 2013, 03:32:32 pm
Thanks for the links, I can't install it now though cause I don't have admin privileges :( IDK if the owner of this computer will let me install it, but I'll try...
Title: Re: TI Connect being stupid (again)...
Post by: Lionel Debroux on November 11, 2013, 03:41:02 pm
Yeah, without admin privileges, you're toast.
It's not so different on Linux, that said - one needs to be root for a short time as well, either for installing a package (when there's a suitable one for the distro and it's not outdated), or adding a udev file which triggers read+write access to non-root users.
Title: Re: TI Connect being stupid (again)...
Post by: annoyingcalc on November 11, 2013, 03:42:10 pm
What? I never needed to install a driver. Is this the same driver gCn uses?
Title: Re: TI Connect being stupid (again)...
Post by: Lionel Debroux on November 11, 2013, 03:46:37 pm
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What? I never needed to install a driver.
Well, for the purposes of communicating with a device in vendor-specific class, you did :)
If you didn't install the filter driver, then you must have erased TI's driver, otherwise you'd need the filter driver.

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Is this the same driver gCn uses?
AFAIK, the gCn client doesn't require libticables to be installed, so I'd say no. Plus one of the gCn bridges doesn't need a driver because it uses HID class (like the HP Prime). The limited speed of HID isn't a problem for a gCn bridge, but it is a significant problem for handling large amounts of data on a Prime.
Title: Re: TI Connect being stupid (again)...
Post by: ClrDraw on November 11, 2013, 11:06:09 pm
It's working again! :D I didn't do anything, it's so random...
Title: Re: TI Connect being stupid (again)...
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 12, 2013, 01:56:24 am
That's strange. I know I had issues when using a serial cable where TI-Connect would randomly stop detecting my calc for no reason, even after a reboot, then the next day, work again, but I never had it happen with direct USB nor silverlink (except that one time mentionned earlier, which was solved by disconnecting then reconnecting the calc).
Title: Re: TI Connect being stupid (again)...
Post by: ClrDraw on November 12, 2013, 10:38:35 am
Connect used to not detect my calc a few times a while ago, but it doesn't do that anymore.
Title: Re: TI Connect being stupid (again)...
Post by: ClrDraw on November 16, 2013, 10:26:49 am
TI Connect did the "Error device does not recognize the command" again this morning and I FIXED IT FOR GOOD! I installed the newer version from education.ti.com and it works now. I guess the older version didn't like me? ;)