AnyDVD & Huawei E220 conflict finally fixed

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Thisismarvelous

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There are a few people out there who have probably sorted this out by now but I've been struggling for ages to get it fixed and was led to believe that the only way I was going to get my E220 modem to work properly was to uninstall AnyDVD.

NOT TRUE!

1) Installed VMCLite E220 3.2.1.156 standard
2) Installed the firmware update (not sure if it was necessary but better safe than sorry)

***** Very NB! Don't forget to remove your sim before updating the modem *****

Both of these can be found at . .

http://www.vodacom.co.za/services/mobile_data/downloads.jsp

3) Once that was done went Xp device manager and under USB serial bus controllers, disabled "USB Mass Storage Device" - This means that the E220 will no longer show up as a Mass Storage Device or a CD/DVD Device ( this being the reason for the conflict with AnyDVD)

4) With this disabled it means that you can't use VMC Lite anymore, however the E220 is still available as a USB modem so using the full version of the Vodafone Mobile Connect software does work.

There are no system reboots and crashes like before, AnyDVD is working fine and obviously the modem is working fine as well, otherwise I wouldn't be posting this.

I hope this helps anyone in need. It took me a while to figure this out and thanks to the guys and Vodacom and AnyDVD for their help and suggestions.

Just dunno why nobody else posted this somewhere, would saved a load of time and a few dents in my computer :)
 
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Thisismarvelous said:
Just dunno why nobody else posted this somewhere, would saved a load of time and a few dents in my computer :)
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Actually, it's been posted a few times before. Also in the MTN sub-forum, if I remember correctly. Most of the posts will refer to 'disabling the drive letter of the E220' but it's the same solution you posted.

Guess I should stick it in the (very outdated) FAQ.....
 
Thisismarvelous said:
3) Once that was done went Xp device manager and under USB serial bus controllers, disabled "USB Mass Storage Device" - This means that the E220 will no longer show up as a Mass Storage Device or a CD/DVD Device ( this being the reason for the conflict with AnyDVD)

4) With this disabled it means that you can't use VMC Lite anymore, however the E220 is still available as a USB modem so using the full version of the Vodafone Mobile Connect software does work.
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Thanks for this tip.:D:D It has been annoying me for quite a while as well.

Cheers
 
nuyork said:
What does AnyDVD do?
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It's a windows device driver that decrypts DVDs on the fly.

Has anyone noticed that in the settings of AnyDVD there is an option select the drives for which it is active? Does deselecting your E220's drive letter there do the trick?
 
This might be slightly off-topic, but not by that much.

Is there any way of re-formatting a USB modem to allow you to use the memeory as a memory stick?
 
I had the same problem when I got my E220 but I ended up uninstalling anyDVD which seemed to help but that was after I struggled. But I have now flashed my modem with the Huawei firmware, though I have not re-installed AnyDVD on my PC again. Will try that later...tnx
 
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