magicJack and magicJack Plus Support, Reviews, FAQs and Tricks

It is "YMAX MagicJack USB Device" Device type : Disk drives Location: on Mass Storage Device.. I am Vista!!

Is that how it is identified in device manager under the Universal Serial Bus Controllers section? If so then ther is a discontinuity between what you are seeing and what the OP is seeing ...

For some reason, in Vista the MJ is configured as a USB controller while in XP it is configured as a Mass Storage Device. If someone else who is running Vista would look into the device manager and post how their MJ is configured would add another data point for this question. You may have stumbled ...

i fixed mine by plugging it directly into a usb port on the mb. vista finds it and installs it as a 'usb controller'. i believe the monitor is found as a 'usb controller' as well, so you must not be able to plug a usb controller into a usb controller....

troy

That sounds like a Vista feature.....

I AM ON VISTA.

oldnuc: a town/city would be ok.

Have you received the latest upgrade? Yesterday or today when you statup the MJ? For some reason, the Vista upgrade does not want to play with your BIOS. For what ever reason the MJ has decided that it will no longer respond to the initialization ...

yes, blue light comes on when the computer starts to boot if it's plugged in (but bios quickly freezes up @ 'Initializing USB Controllers'.

what is odd, is that when i FIRST got it and nothing was installed, it did not freeze up when it was plugged in and turned on. i believe it was only after i ...

though wrote:yes, if unplugged and i plug it in, it loads up and works great.

latest bios installed, same problem

When you bootup the computer with the MK plugged in watch the Blue LED and se if it is on and stays on until the OS starts to load.

ya, i can disable usb support and it boots fine. no usb devices work though (obviously). if i enable it and the magicjack is plugged in, freezes at "Initializing USB Controllers".


With the MJ unplugged, start computer. then plug in the MJ. Does the MJ startup and function?

Any luck locating a ...

The latest Ubuntu works well, but the Java update did require use of the secret handshake to get it set as the default and link the FireFox plugin. The good news is it did not take forevr to find the info.

OK thanks.

I know their firewall is excellent, but I hadn't seen anything on their AV product.

Gary

There are some tests of their AV program out there somewhere, I forget where. I seem to remember it was as good as the rrest of them. Remember, AV mostly detects and protects against KNOWN virus ...

First, check ASUS for a BIOS update for your board.

Second, turn off USB support in the BIOS and see if the OS will pick it up when it boots. There can be problems with this if you happen to have anything like USB mouse or keyboard.

It could also be a semi-broke MJ

I would say that is true. XP is at SP-2 and is good. Advance comments on SP-3 is that there is a large performance boost.

Ipicked up the pointers to the Comodo products off of this site.
Firewall Leaktester. There is a performance chart on there somewhere. I also run a paid AVG AV and Firewall on another machine and it also works well, but costs $$$. The free AVG is ok as long as you remember to keep it updated.

If it were me, I would go to Distrowatch and then the page thy have for your distro and hope the is a user forum listed there. A symbolic link is something like a shortcut to a file in another directory. Each distro is different due to the way the GUI handles the update process. You can go to the ...

These work and have no bad habits that I have found. They are both FREE. Remember, your mileage may vary, or YMMV.



Comodo AV and Firewall

With XP. First try a different port and be sure to have the computer up and running before you plugin the magicjack. If you receive the same response then do you have any of the CD/DVD creating software installed? They will have these "helper" programs that handle the playing of CDs and DVDs. That ...

First question, what operating system. XP or Vista

It appears that you are using the 1.4.2 plugin and it usually will not play well with others. Updating java and linking to the plugin, it REQURES a symbolic link or you will also have crashes is distro dependent, is described on the Sun site but that is not the best way to do it. Which flavor of ...

MagicJake
Do you have the latest version of Java loaded and is it the default. Did you also link the latest plugin to FireFox?

The latest Firefox nightly works fine here. Upgrade....

If you go to the windows secrets site, and not just the article I referenced, you can contact the editors. Thee might be a comment section, don't remember. I subscribe to the newsletter and it shows up in my email.

This is the "Contact" page...

Windows Secrets Contact

There is an article in Windows Secrets newsletter discussing MagicJack this issue. TOP STORY

MagicJack promises dirt-cheap phone calls.

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Have done nothing to the number and the yellow button is now green this AM.

Do you have the latest version of Java installed?

When the problem occurs the next time take note of all of the programs you have open and then go to Control panel>Sounds and Audio Devices and see what is selected. Might want to go ahead and check the box to use the default audio device also.

There are a host of things that can cause this problem

Mine works but no e-mail.....

The voice mail seems to work, it is the e-mail notification that has failed.

I received a call into voice mail this morning, verified by the caller. No e-mail yet. Most likely broke.

Those are the ones I am talking about. They are there whether IE or Firefox.

How to filter them out?

Two ways. First is try the Adblock Plus extension and the filterset. That should do it. But, if it does not, then this is the nuclear option. Install this file, Blocking Unwanted Parasites ...

Adds? I don see no stinkin adds. Are you sure you are not imagining them?

Try this: FireFox

there is a difference between negative comments about a product and the pointless bashing that had been going on the last week or so that the forum was up. i certainly wouldn't want those types of comments in a chat where i was trying to get a problem solved.

And I suspect that you have just laid ...