12-25-2009, 08:28 AM | #61 |
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I am still hating the software. I've uninstalled and reinstalled. I've excluded on DEP, gave it free passage through my firewall. Still, when I connect the hardware, the software crashes. The software by itself functions fine, the store works, etc. I am lost. Not sure what else I can do to get this junk software working.
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What happens when you connect your reader without the Sony Library Application. Does it show up as a USB drive? If not then there is some system/usb issue. |
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12-25-2009, 09:02 AM | #64 |
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Yes, I can see as USB drive/it is accessible via Explorer. But, I beg to differ, the software is junk and it should not crash so easily. As there is no information as the software crashes as to what incompatibility there might be, nor does the read me or FAQ suggest incompatibilities, I am comfortable saying this is a problem with they Sony Software and it is poorly written. |
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12-25-2009, 09:10 AM | #66 | |
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Only a few people seem to be having issues, not the vast majority so I BEG TO DIFFER. There is something about your system that is at the crux of the problem. I've never had it crash here or on my laptop in either this version or the previous one. I'm trying to offer suggestions and possibilities as to what might be going on as are others here. Again the bottom line is it's very likely something with your particular system that is causing your issues because others are not having problems. It is not the Sony Library software, but something about your system. |
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Run MSConfig and uncheck everything that is in Startup and then reboot. Then try your Reader with Reader Library and see what happens. If things do work, then you can try putting things back in one at a time till you find the progoram that cases the issue.
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This may help, had the same issue. Turned out the Sony software wasn't authorised, which I did. Software stopped crashing after that.
mine would crash whenever the reader was plugged in. Sony - sort it out, great hardware being ruined by shoddy software. Bin that Adobe shite and write your own. |
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Windows or Mac? |
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"It works on my machine" is no indicator that the software is correct. It's one of the famous-last-lines in the software testing industry. |
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01-02-2010, 07:13 AM | #73 | |
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Very few people are actually having trouble with the software. Sorry to be harsh but that's the truth. Others with the same setup are working fine from what I know. Sorry you are having trouble and I don't want to argue with you, but clearly there is something different about your system or something you are not doing that others are because (once more) it is working for virtually everyone. For example: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...3&postcount=16 Have you contacted Sony? Last edited by kennyc; 01-02-2010 at 07:17 AM. |
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So, for what it's worth, here's what I've discovered in the past couple hours of grovelling over my newly-installed machine's services. On Win7 Ultimate x64, Sony Reader software will hang on startup if the DHCP Client service is running. If DHCP Client is *not* running, it will launch (but fail to bring up the store). That's all there is, right there. Completely reproduceable on my system. Disabling nothing else was required. No DEP. No Firewall disabling. Just DHCP Client. So, after getting Reader to launch successfully, re-enable DHCP Client and start it up. Refresh the store page -- works. I'm able to sign in, and it even persists between reboots, provided of course that I kill DHCP client before starting the reader app again. On the off-chance that it was actually a service that depends on DHCP Client, I enabled DHCP Client and disabled the one service that was running which depended on it -- WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery. No change. The behavior did not seem to depend on anything except DHCP Client directly. I don't have any non-stock drivers installed. I don't have any obscure hardware at all, in fact. No fast-and-loose games are installed. Nothing. Just Win7, Office, and Security Essentials (disabled). I *would* have expected the software to fail in the absence of DHCP Client, but to fail when it is *running*?!? This is a pretty fundamental part of my OS's network stack, which every other piece of software was interacting well enough with. This is therefore without a doubt in my mind a bug on Sony's end. That, if anything, appears to be the harsh truth. You don't take a clean install and claim there's something somehow, magically, "wrong" with it. It's quite as often a bug that also happens to have been unwittingly configured into operating on someone else's box. That doesn't make the bug not-exist. Instead, it only makes the bug more complicated. |
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Good luck.
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