magicJack and MagicJack Plus Support, Reviews, FAQs and Hacks

salehjoe · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 18 Nov 2008 Posts: 1

I have been trying with no luck...Nothing happens when I double click the new icon

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closer · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Posts: 4

fantastic!

got it working perfectly, thank you very much!

now, how do i configure magicjack without a dongle to be a "service" in xp?

Cheers

HITorMISS · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 15 Oct 2009 Posts: 3

OK some games especially online games have game guarding technology blah blah some may blocked magicjack. But my question is if my magic jack is no dial tone but i can dial on softphone. So it means if i have no dial tone no one will allowed to call at my number?

BTW is there a possibility if i use dongle free. so the game didnt detect magic jack usb? Also if i use dongle free. Can i leave my dongle at usb to use my phone? Thanks

w6opi · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 19 Nov 2009 Posts: 1

It appears that I must not be as bright as I had always thought!

I have tried for a couple of weeks to install the MagicJack without the Dongle. I loaded it on the desktop PC (WinXP Pro), and when I click on the shortcut it just sits there. I tried to load it from the subdir that the shortcut points to with the same results. I have tried every combination that I can think of to make it load with no success. I also loaded the program setup into two different laptops and the results are always the same.

Either everyone on the forum has agreed to gang up on me just for a good joke or I am missing something in the process. I even had my wife go through the setup with the same result.

I would really like to get it to operate and thank anyone that might assist.

Leonard

wizandy · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 22 Nov 2009 Posts: 2

I followed the instructions and it doesn't work. I keep getting the error message, Warning, you must plug magicjack into USB port.

Any ideas why i am getting this error?

trickysam · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 09 Dec 2009 Posts: 1

I need some coding help. I'm trying to turn this into an automated script.

Here's what I've got:

mkdir c:\MagicJack
xcopy /e/h/y g:\MagicJack c:\MagicJack

mkdir c:\mjusbsp
xcopy /e/h/y c:\Users\Owner\AppData\Roaming\mjusbsp c:\mjusbsp

xxmklink "c:\Users\Owner\Desktop\magicJack.lnk" "C:\mjusbsp\magicJack.exe /foreground /scf _magicJackPersonalDataRoot c:\magicjack" "" "c:\mjusbsp"

taskkill /im magicjack.exe
taskkill /im mjsetup.exe

Reg Delete HKCU\Software\Microsoft\CurrentVersion\Run /v cdloader /f
Reg Delete HKLM\Software\Microsoft\CurrentVersion\Run /v cdloader /f
Reg Delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupreg\cdloader" /f
Reg Delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupfolder\cdloader" /f

C:\mjusbsp\magicJack.exe /foreground /scf _magicJackPersonalDataRoot C:\magicJack

Everything's fine except for the xxmklink part. It makes a shortcut, but it's all messed up. I need some information on the /scf switch (which executes properly at the end of the script to call the magicJack application) but I'm having real trouble finding it. I assume it forces magicjack.exe to use c:\magicjack instead of g:\magicjack (which is on the USB dongle).

I can work around by making the working shortcut manually (which works fine, even though I type the same thing into the box) and then including it in the installation package, but I'd like to be able to do it all from within the single batch file.

Any help would be appreciated. I just would like to be able to automate this, since every so often I have to plug in the dongle to use the jack on it. After I do, I have to redo all this, and it would be nice to have it in a script. Plus, if anybody asks me how to do it, I can just give them the script instead of telling them how to do it (or in the case of my mother, coming over and doing it myself.)

Thanks in advance.

novaflare · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 26 Jun 2009 Posts: 4

the instructions here do not work on windows 7 any one know how to get it to work with out the dongle on windows 7?

ph03n!x · magicJack Apprentice Joined: 13 Apr 2009 Posts: 14

Hi all,

I was using the MJ without the dongle for a while now, thanks to johnnyboy!

I plugged in the dongle to see if I am getting any updates today - big mistake! I got updated to 1.90.521.2, dated 12/25/2009 (who releases their work on Christmas?!!)

After the update, I re-did the steps to run MJ without the dongle, and guess what, I get "Could not Start" error.

Any helps??

goliath6900 · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 06 Jan 2010 Posts: 4

same here. after updating yesterday, the dongle free magicjack stopped working. anyway around this?

agit · magicJack Apprentice Joined: 10 Aug 2009 Posts: 10

Hello guys

After the new upgrade we cannot use the mj without the dongle -- any way arround that i know many smart ppl in here will find the solutuion

ph03n!x · magicJack Apprentice Joined: 13 Apr 2009 Posts: 14

Bumping this-

Anyone who got the new update, got MJ working without dongle?? I tried working around the update- using the installation from the previous update we got in 1st August after deleting the MJUSB folder. But when it starts, it tries the update again.

Something changed in the registry tht is forcing this update? I was using the Aug version without plugging in the dongle until yesterday, and no update came- until I plugged in dongle.

ph03n!x · magicJack Apprentice Joined: 13 Apr 2009 Posts: 14

Alright - here is what I did to get this working.

1) Look for the Install*.exe and Setup*.exe in the MJUSBSP folder under %appdata%, and copy the ones dated August 2009 to some place else (Desktop?!)
2) Delete the MJUSBSP folder
3) Make sure CDLOADER is not running, delete it from the HKCU\...\Run
4) Plug in the dongle
5) Go to the MajicJack drive and delete the CfgCache.dat from the MagicJack folder (it is a hidden file)
6) Run the Setup*.exe you had copied earlier (with the dongle plugged in)
7) After MJ is up and running, follow the steps given in this thread to make MJ work without the dongle

It Works!! Now dont plug in the dongle and update again Very Happy

Thanks to this post in the Technical Support forum (http://www.magicjacksupport.com/mj-update-today-1-03-10-t8121-45.html):

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trexv · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 13 Jan 2010 Posts: 1

Hi there! i'm having difficulty running magicjack without the dongle. when i manually start the august version without the dongle, it initiates the upgrade, and then it stops, complaining that i should have the dongle connected. is there any way to disable the upgrades? has anybody been successful in downgrading and running dongleless? thanks a lot

mocars2 · Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 12:23 pm Post subject:

I just tried the link - http://upgrades.talk4free.com/upgrade/20090801000001/upgrade.exe

seems dead. Anyone else got this to open up?anyone got the Aug downgrade which they can share, thanks