I just bought a datacable for my cellphone. It’s an USB-cable that converts the USB connection to a serial-connection (since the cellphone has a serial port). When you connect the cable, and the cellphone is “on”, you will have an extra com-port, that you can select in the software. Connecting the cord resulted in an extra com-port and removing the cord removed the extra com-port from the device-list. But the software did not detect the phone (please connect your phone first). USB is supposed to be plug&play, but as a last resort I restarted the PC, and to my surpise: the software recognised the cellphone. So the advice “I all fails, just reboot your machine” even works when connecting plug&play devices…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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