magicJack and MagicJack Plus Support, Reviews, FAQs and Hacks

lseay29 · Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 7:56 am Post subject:

Try this link instead. http://www.fileswap.com/share/11f253b8b41b9272fa4abf66c98f1951/upgrade14.exe.html

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kidnme10 · magicJack Apprentice Joined: 18 Jan 2010 Posts: 10

I went through all of the steps and I am using Vista Home Premium. I get warning MJ can not start when I attempt to start MJ.

kidnme10 · magicJack Apprentice Joined: 18 Jan 2010 Posts: 10

I followed all of these instructions as posted on wiki but, when I unplug the dongle and startup MJ i get Warning MJ could not start.

1. Plug in the magicJack USB device.
2. Start MagicJack if it didn't start automatically. Wait until it is "Ready to call."
3. Go to Windows Task Manager (alt-ctrl-delete to access it.).
* Kill the magicjack.exe process.
* If present, kill the mjsetup.exe process.
4. Copy the "magicJack" folder from the MagicJack flash drive to a drive on your computer.
* For this example we will assume you copied to "C:\magicJack\".
5. If you don't already have a shortcut on your desktop to the magicJackLoader.exe, make one now. This program is found in your mjusbsp directory, which was located in the preparation step above.
6. Right-click on the shortcut, click Properties.
7. Replace the "Target" field with:
"{drive:\path_to_mjusbsp}\magicJack.exe" /foreground /scf _magicJackPersonalDataRoot "C:\magicJack"
* Notice the use of "magicJack.exe" instead of "magicJackLoader.exe"
8. Put {drive:\path_to_mjusbsp}\mjusbsp in the "Start in" field.
9. Go to Start->Run, type "msconfig", go to the Startup tab and disable "cdloader2".
10. With the USB device still installed, run MagicJack using the shortcut you created (or edited).
11. After it starts, and is "ready to call," end MagicJack by going into Task Manager and killing the magicjack.exe process.
12. Safely remove the USB device.

You should now be able to start MagicJack using the shortcut you created (or edited). It should start fine and be ready to call

lseay29 · Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:57 pm Post subject:

kidnme10.... See page 14, ph03n!x for what he did to correct the 12/24/2009 upgrade which eliminated the MJ running as a service. Hope this helps and please post your results.

kidnme10 · magicJack Apprentice Joined: 18 Jan 2010 Posts: 10

I followed all the steps on pg14 and I continue to get Warning MJ can't start, when the dongle is not plugged in. However, when I pressed the mjsetup.exe nothing happened.

mocars2 · Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 1:53 am Post subject: Re: @ lseay29

mocars2 · Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 4:27 am Post subject:

Strange thing happened after I installed the above upgrade14, I put the dongle back in and it just kept saying, in the left box on the keypad, it was installing an upgrade and to wait. My phone number at the top was now 000-000-0000. After about 20 minutes it still was saying it was installing an upgrade. I hooked upa phone - got a dial tone but when I dialed a number, nothing happened. I took the dongle out waited a few minutes and put it back in and the samething happened. Luckily I had a copy of the mjusbp file and replaced it back and it now worked.

Anyone know why after installing the upgrade14 above, the new upgrade wouldn't install and why my MJ wouldn't workafter that?

lseay29 · Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 10:34 am Post subject:

mocars2... I sent you a PM message.

abc121264 · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 20 Dec 2009 Posts: 3

I tried it as u mintion above but unfortunately I got

Warning:
magicJack
Could not start

click here for help

Any suggestion will be highly appresiated

runeland1 · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 2

As of February 7, I have not been able to get this to work. If anyone can upload their working files so we can just copy them onto our system that would be great.

hsweiss · Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:25 am Post subject:

Setting the no-dongle shortcut to dump the startup into a log file, I find that the latest version of the code sets a watchdog timer looking for the hardware. When it doesn't find the hardware, we don't get a startup. I was hoping that there was a switch (for debug purposes) to startup w/o setting the watchdog. But so far, I've not found anything in the released code. I have not had the time yet, but I wonder if the "downgrade" code available on the MJ website (for those who had problems with the latest release) would allow dongle-less operations?

filmguy · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 12 Feb 2010 Posts: 2

Is there a way to do this on the mac

canada2 · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 14 Feb 2010 Posts: 2

canada2 · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 14 Feb 2010 Posts: 2

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