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Is TI-Connect really THAT Bad?
« on: September 24, 2008, 06:09:34 pm »
When I send files with TI-Connect while listening to music on my computer in 1/3 of the times sound suddently stops working and I have to reboot to get sound again

So, yeah. :P

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Re: Is TI-Connect really THAT Bad?
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2008, 07:21:57 pm »
really? I know TI-Connect slows down your computer quite a bit, but it never makes the sounds stop working. That's kinda odd..

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Re: Is TI-Connect really THAT Bad?
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2008, 07:42:56 pm »
It also do something involving wiping a calculator flash page or overwriting it when you send files to your calc, but I don't have much details about this.

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Re: Is TI-Connect really THAT Bad?
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2008, 08:05:38 pm »
whoah..I have really never heard of that! That's kind of weird again. Where did you hear this?

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Re: Is TI-Connect really THAT Bad?
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2008, 01:13:15 am »
Kevin always has something weird when it comes to computers XD, jking

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Re: Is TI-Connect really THAT Bad?
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2008, 01:29:47 am »
it's partially true tho O.O

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Re: Is TI-Connect really THAT Bad?
« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2008, 01:23:35 pm »
iirc, what it was doing was wiping a blank FLASH page for USB transfers, when it didn't even need this flash page. Also, sound disappearing? Only with Ti-Connect!
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Re: Is TI-Connect really THAT Bad?
« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2008, 01:50:14 pm »
Yeah, and I'm stuck with it because I have a Direct Link Cable it sucks eggs  :-\
If only ti didn't screw everything up, life would be perfect  ;D

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Re: Is TI-Connect really THAT Bad?
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2008, 02:07:21 pm »
Yes I HATE TI connect. Ill explain later, but i must sleep now. 12 hr workdays suck.

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Re: Is TI-Connect really THAT Bad?
« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2008, 04:48:09 pm »
wow, i've never had any of that stuff happen to me...

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Re: Is TI-Connect really THAT Bad?
« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2008, 04:56:18 pm »
Ti connect always has problems. From not recognizing calcs to randomly crashing and Also not allowing you to send files that it deems as "bad" (Even though there is nothing wrong with them). I can't even send most of the old programs written for the ti86 to my calc with ti connect because it flags them as bad... go figure. I really love the old graphlink software. Only problem it had was not identifing a calc when it was plugged in, and this could be fixed after a reboot or just disconnecting and reconneting the cable a couple of times. I still don't know why the ditched the graphlink software for ti connect...

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Re: Is TI-Connect really THAT Bad?
« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2008, 05:42:39 pm »
oh, i think i got the old graph link =)

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Re: Is TI-Connect really THAT Bad?
« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2008, 07:16:21 pm »
I have both the old graphlink hardware and software, plus the silver link and TIconnect. I actually have like 5 of the old black cables... :P

TI-Connect works for me in 98% of the stuff I need to send and receive to/from my calcs. That other 2% consists of using the 82 and 86, which neither works well with TI-Connect. Actually the 82 does not work at all.
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Re: Is TI-Connect really THAT Bad?
« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2008, 09:23:51 pm »
Now that you say it, i actually don't know what i have... Alls i know is that i never get crashes or weird things happening

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Re: Is TI-Connect really THAT Bad?
« Reply #14 on: September 29, 2008, 10:48:05 pm »
Well I Like tilp2 for nix but on windows it fails and since my new comp is running 64Bit vista I can't use either of them. But yeah ti-connect is working hard at killing your flash pages I think BrandonW said it erased your swap sector a few times for each transfer for no apparent reason. Hence Tilp2 is faster in some cases. But yeah to tell the truth is the both suck.

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