Power settings lost after cold boot of MC9090

Motorola MC9090
Motorola MC9090 Target Platform This guide is intended for use with a Symbol MC9090 running Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0. Assumptions

• Technician should be familiar with connecting the terminal via cradle, USB and ActiveSync.
• Technician already has the SyVox Client CAB and a grammar CAB (either the generic one or a site specific one)

Installation Procedure

1. Set up and save your wireless configuration.
2. Establish an ActiveSync1) connection between your PC and your terminal.
3. Copy the SyVox Client and Grammar CAB files to the device in a known directory.
4. From the device, install the SyVox Speech Client and Grammar CAB files by tapping on them from the directory you installed them in.
5. If this is your first time running SyVox on this terminal, SyVox will request a License Key. Go to the Menu ? License screen where you will be given a screen with a field for your License Key and your SyVox Serial Number (your device's unique identifier). Contact Genesta with the SyVox Serial Number displayed to receive a 16-character License Key for the top field. Enter it and tap OK.
6. To perform a simple test of your installation after SyVox finishes loading the speech engine, tap Menu ? Options ? Host Settings.... Choose the File option; then select the demo.xml file provided with installation; and, then the OK selection to accept that demo file. Select the Press to START Listening button near the bottom of the screen to begin the demo. Remember to have your headset nearby as the built in microphone is not sufficent for production environments.
7. Once you are ready to use this device with a remote host, to connect SyVox to a remote host, tap Menu ? Options ? Host Settings.... Select a Connection Method, enter a Connection Address, and tap OK.
   • A Socket host address is entered in the format *.*.*.*:*, (IP or hostname, colon (:), port (optional; defaults to 3001)).
   • A Web host address host is entered in the format http://*:*/ (http://, IP or hostname, colon (:), port (optional; defaults to 80), rest of address).

Notes

Warm Boot

Sometimes Windows Mobile devices require you perform a warm boot. This can be achieved on this device my holding down the red on/off button for approximately 30 seconds. You will know when the warm boot has completed when a white screen is displayed and the unit restarts the operating system.

Cold Boot

Program installations and settings on Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 devices will persist even after a cold boot. To achieve the effects of what a cold boot does on other devices, you must perform a clean boot. Because a clean boot requires interaction between a PC and a terminal in the first place, SyVox is currently not designed to reinstall automatically after a clean boot. Therefore, if you perform a clean boot on your terminal, you will have to repeat the procedures listed in this guide. 1) ActiveSync acts as the gateway between your Microsoft Windows-powered PC and Windows CE-powered device and allows you to transfer data between the two. Download it here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/4/6/5467c040-a935-4987-aa30-5dcbc36a57db/setup.msi hope that helps

You can make your profile cold boot persistent by following these steps. Create the profile. Once saved click on your wireless icon and select options. Scroll down to export. Select the export all profiles and press ok to finish creating the .reg file.
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this is because you are cold booting the unit. Everytime you cold boot a 9090 it re-sets all saved settings. You need to warm boot only unless you want the unit reset to default. any problems please mail [email protected] for support - we supply MC9090's in refurbished condition complerte with like new warranty incase you need any

To Cold boot MC9090 do the following.

1, Partially drop the battery to the half way stage.
2, Pull the trigger and press the power button in at the same time for 10 seconds.
3, the device will now boot to it's originally state.

Anything stored in temporary memory will be lost with this process.

The Fetcher

Hi Jim,

I remember having the exact same problem when I first used the MC9090. It works on such other devices like the Datalogic Viper, but not the MC9090.

The IP is set within the wireless profile.

On the radio icon in the task bar select Wireless Profiles. This box then holds all your wireless profiles, including the default Motorola "out of box". Hold down the stylus on the screen and select "Add New" follow the prompts. When you get to IP Address from the pull down menu select static and then next this will take you to another screen where you can add your details.

Now you want to make them persist through either a cold boot or when the terminal has been left without a battery for a substantial amount of time.

This can be done 2 ways. When the profile has been set up highlight it by holding down the stylus on it and from the menu select export. This saves the registry key to the Application folder; a folder which persist through a cold boot. When it does cold boot it takes all the registry keys from the Application folder and builds 1 complete key.

The other way is to close the WLAN profile and selection options, from the pull down menu select export and save all profiles.

Hope this helps.

If you need any more help then please do not hesitate to contact us:-

http://www.biastechnology.com/

or TEL 01202 620955

Hi Jim,

I remember having the exact same problem when I first used the MC9090. It works on such other devices like the Datalogic Viper, but not the MC9090.

The IP is set within the wireless profile.

On the radio icon in the task bar select Wireless Profiles. This box then holds all your wireless profiles, including the default Motorola "out of box". Hold down the stylus on the screen and select "Add New" follow the prompts. When you get to IP Address from the pull down menu select static and then next this will take you to another screen where you can add your details.

Now you want to make them persist through either a cold boot or when the terminal has been left without a battery for a substantial amount of time.

This can be done 2 ways. When the profile has been set up highlight it by holding down the stylus on it and from the menu select export. This saves the registry key to the Application folder; a folder which persist through a cold boot. When it does cold boot it takes all the registry keys from the Application folder and builds 1 complete key.

The other way is to close the WLAN profile and selection options, from the pull down menu select export and save all profiles.

Hope this helps.

If you need any more help then please do not hesitate to contact us:-

http://www.biastechnology.com/

or TEL 01202 620955

Hi

When you set the wireless profile you set the SSID, WEP, IP etc. Which I'm sure you already know. Now you want to make them persist through either a cold boot or when the terminal has been left without a battery for a substantial amount of time.

This can be done 2 ways. When the profile has been set up highlight it by holding down the stylus on it and from the menu select export. This saves the registry key to the Application folder; a folder which persist through a cold boot. When it does cold boot it takes all the registry keys from the Application folder and builds 1 complete key.

The other way is to close the WLAN profile and selection options, from the pull down menu select export and save all profiles.

Hope this helps.

If you need any more help then please do not hesitate to contact us:-

http://www.biastechnology.com/

or TEL 01202 620955

This will get you BSP 35. Before you install it, completely delete (and back up) everything in the \Application directory, as that is the only cold boot persistent directory. There may be other instructions included with the download for wiping everything out as well, so be sure and read through all the documentation and release notes first.

http://support.symbol.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=11938&sliceId=&dialogID=142352609&stateId=1%200%20142348447

I know it may be a little late now since you're question was a couple months ago, but I have had this problem with some 9090's before too where a warm boot (holding the power button down) will not bring them up, but a cold boot always does (unless of course it truly is defective - that's not usually the case though).

To do a cold boot, pop the battery out part of the way until it "catches" (you'll know what I mean if you have an MC9090 and try it). Then hold down the trigger and the power button simultaneously while pushing in the battery all the way. Once the battery has been pushed in, release the power button and the trigger.

This should cause the MC9090 to boot up fine. Make sure you release the trigger after doing the steps above. Sometimes people don't do that, and this causes the MC9090 to go into an infinite warm boot where it just continuously reboots over and over. The only way to get out of it is to cold boot again, but this time release the trigger in time.

Thanks,

Brad Radaker
Radicomm (makers of QuickTalk - push-to-talk over WLAN for the MC9090)
www.radicomm.com

If you are using a MC909X, after entering the static IP address and WEP key etc. via the Wireless Configuration Editor, you can export the profile you created by going to the Manage Profiles area, tapping and holding the profile name until the menu appears, then select export, it will create a registry file in the Application folder of the device that will persist after a cold boot, and the settings will will not be lost.