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this what happened with me !!
any idea how to fix it ?


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Can you give us more details -

was it working before and then this happened?
do i have any visible damage to the dongle?
have you tried on a different computer?
do both the magicjack ...

-ph03n!x- files worked. but only to start up the mj and got phone number stuck at 000-000-0000. if the dongle present at anytime (with Internet), the program will update itself.

with the lastest dongle, noway I can see All the files that are in the "phone" drive. even tried it with a Mac osX 10.5 ...

Thanks Kevin :)

Btwm I didnt design anything - its a collective effort of a lot of people over here, and I just figured something out after the last update made the MJ without dongle to stop working!

As for the shortcut, It should be something like this (including quotes and all)-

" D:\MagicJack ...

SORRY I DONT NO ANYTHING ABOUT A PC IM A DISABLED VET THIS IS MY FIRST PC AND I JUST RECENTLY GOT A MAGICJACK I HAVENT HAD A PHONE SERVICE IN 4 YEARS COULDNT AFFORD.I LIKE MAGICJACK BUT DONT LIKE IT STICKING OUT OF MY LAPTOP IM AFRAID IM GOING TO HIT SOMETHING AND TEAR UP MY LAPTOP IM IN A ...

I've given the password to a handful already - and none updated if it worked or no!!!

Did anyone get it to work using the files I had posted??!

Check this and the following posts by me:

http://www.phoneservicesupport.com/post53593.html#53593

The good news is I got it to work...

...the bad news is do not know what I did to make it to work!!!

If you have the magicJack folder copied to your harddisk earlier (when all was fine and the damn thing was working without the dongle for you), KEEP IT SAFE - that is the key.

I am going to ...

Read the update included in the previous post please!!

I might be overlooking something, but no - the sucker does not work on a different computer when I follow my own steps!

The difference between the two computer is:

Working without dongle:
1) MagicJack was installed with the dongle, and was ...

Not sure where the install & setup files are. When I "upgraded" my mjusbsp directory ended up with several subdirectories: ar00000, ar00001, in00000, st00000, ug00000, and Upgrade. Any setup & install files I have are dated Dec 2009 or today (1/11/2010 - the date of the upgrade).

Sorry folks, I ...

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 ...

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 ...

Those who are running MJ without the dongle, look out! I am not able to get MJ to work without the dongle after this update!!

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 ...