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Calculator Community => TI Calculators => General Calculator Help => Topic started by: Myntal on August 23, 2010, 09:24:37 pm
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Everytime I drag something to be transfered, it gives me a message telling me it cannot connect with the calulator. I've restarted and pulled the board and battery. I've already transfered a few things over. I was just trying to get some levels on my mario 1.2. Any advice?
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Let me see... did you try restarting your computer? That worked for me the first time I installed TI-Connect.
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Yup, i tried, and failed.. :[
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Try right clicking on the program you want to send and click "Send to TI device". That might work.
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I get an unexpected packet error at that point.
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This is strange, I do not know this error. What kind of cable are you using? Is it the silver cable you plug in the I/O 2.5 mm link port, the black serial one or direct USB?
A while ago, when sending stuff to my TI-Nspire, I would get a USB communication error and got told to retry. The only way to fix it was to turn OFF the calc, then turn it back ON.
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Did you try changing the clock? For some reason, that does something.
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I'm using direct USB.
And as far as the clock, I'll try.
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The calc clock, I hope? O.o
I hope, otherwise I am stunned at how much computer dependent TI-Connect. I remember on my old comp, audio would totally stop working when sending files and listening to music at the same time, sometimes. I had to reboot to fix it.
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Yes, the calc clock. :P I think I saw that tip somewhere on TIBD, and its helped me a couple of times.
I remember on my old comp, audio would totally stop working when sending files and listening to music at the same time, sometimes. I had to reboot to fix it.
Wow.
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TI-Connect is terrible software. It fails to work all too often.
In fact, the method by which TI handles linking is terrible. I wish they'd just do direct file transfers (i.e. the computer sees the calc as a disk drive).
Wasn't BrandonW working on something like that? Periph8x, I think?
@Myntal: If all else fails, try TILP.
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TILP is not convenient if he uses a 64 bit system, though. He'll have to deal with the driver hassle then if he ever needs to go back to TI-Connect for any reason (I think TiLP still had compatibility issues with groups, tig files and pics, right?) I wonder what is the hassle he might have to go through.
I agree TI-Connect is terrible, though. Earlier, it wouldn't let me send anymore APPS because my memory was apparently full, even if I still had more than enough free RAM/Archive and fresh new batteries. I had to do a full mem reset.
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Well, I do have to agree that TI-Connect is not that good, but it often enough works for normal purposes. (I have never had problems with it)
DJ, because of how the TI-OS stores archived files and apps in flash rom, you might not be able to send a 16KB (one page) app (or even a 16 byte program, though these two conditions cannot occur simultaneously :P) even with ~64KB archive free. Not even TILP can do anything about this since it is the OS's fault.
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Ok. 1) Can you transfer things besides the Mario levels?
2) Are the Mario Levels' names less than 8 characters long?
If both of these are a yes, then the problem is that Ti connect is giving you the wrong error message. I've seen this problem before. Mario doesn't name the programs right. What looks like LEVEL is actually LEVEL___, you need to find some way to delete the spaces. One is to go to right click>properties>TI file properties. If that fails because it can't recognize the spaces. Open it with a hex editor, change any '20' in 3C - 43 to '41', then use the previous method to put the name back.
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Well, I do have to agree that TI-Connect is not that good, but it often enough works for normal purposes. (I have never had problems with it)
DJ, because of how the TI-OS stores archived files and apps in flash rom, you might not be able to send a 16KB (one page) app (or even a 16 byte program, though these two conditions cannot occur simultaneously :P) even with ~64KB archive free. Not even TILP can do anything about this since it is the OS's fault.
I had it happen with a 3 pages app too (Doors CS)
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I should probably have said any app and any program. I was just giving really small-sized examples to emphasize it ;D