Tring to register MJ again after task reboot, what gives?

nighthawks · Post by **nighthawks** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 8:00 pm

I just found my MJ not running, on the TC was a security popup telling me this web page (in the background) was a secure connection. Then the box don't show me this page in the future which I just checked.

The web page window was the registration screen for MJ, it was running, waiting for me to register, now my question is why.

Been running MJ for 5 months now what would cause MJ to pull up the reg. screen, it would be like plugging the MJ in for the first time, makes no sense.

The TC was running fine, mouse/mon/key, nothing was locked up on it.
It was MJ itself.

After I cleared the security screen I closed the reg. web page and MJ was running, after 5 min. I had to reboot, MJ was waiting for the registration

After the reboot everything came up like normal, what gives?

bitstopjoe · Post by **bitstopjoe** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 8:03 pm

Maybe the forced "Lucky You" update in Feb had something to do with it.

Joe Sica

nighthawks · Post by **nighthawks** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 7:13 am

bitstopjoe wrote:Maybe the forced "Lucky You" update in Feb had something to do with it.

I have no idea, I'll see if I can find any log files to look at.

Regards
John

bitstopjoe · Post by **bitstopjoe** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 7:30 am

Just check your version # and if it is 1.92.530.5 date 02/26/2010. Then yes you got the update about 2 weeks ago, give or take..
It seems some people after this update were forced to register again. So this seems to fit your situation, BUT not being a TC user I can not say for sure.

Joe Sica

nighthawks · Post by **nighthawks** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:53 am

bitstopjoe wrote:Just check your version # and if it is 1.92.530.5 date 02/26/2010. Then yes you got the update about 2 weeks ago, give or take..
It seems some people after this update were forced to register again. So this seems to fit your situation, BUT not being a TC user I can not say for sure.

Yes on the version # and date. I didn't re-register, I just rebooted the TC and it came up working fine, I donno, maybe it was a one time thing.

That's why I was looking for a program that could watch the MJ (or any program) as long as the TC doesn't lock-up, you could config. it to restart the MJ if MJ has a problem. The task I have setup just shuts down MJ and reboots the TC. Be nice to have a program to watch MJ when I can't.

Thanks
John

bitstopjoe · Post by **bitstopjoe** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:57 am

Well at least now you know why it happened.... "gots" to love them random Lucky You updates.

Joe Sica

nighthawks · Post by **nighthawks** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:57 pm

nighthawks wrote:
bitstopjoe wrote:Just check your version # and if it is 1.92.530.5 date 02/26/2010. Then yes you got the update about 2 weeks ago, give or take..
It seems some people after this update were forced to register again. So this seems to fit your situation, BUT not being a TC user I can not say for sure.
Yes on the version # and date. I didn't re-register, I just rebooted the TC and it came up working fine, I donno, maybe it was a one time thing.

That's why I was looking for a program that could watch the MJ (or any program) as long as the TC doesn't lock-up, you could config. it to restart the MJ if MJ has a problem. The task I have setup just shuts down MJ and reboots the TC. Be nice to have a program to watch MJ when I can't.

Thanks
John

Ok, this is starting to piss me off, going to stop the task from rebooting the TC, again I'm getting the (NEW REGISTERING) screen and the serial number fails, so I close the screen and it pops up again, again and again, then I just have to click start and just do a shut down and restart.

After I do this it comes up fine, what is this thing doing, is it my task as this ?

C:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -f -r -t 3 -c "MagicJack is Restarting"
This task came config. when I got the TC, I'll have to research this command line to understand the strings.
Any ideas?
Regards,
John

Thunder · Post by **Thunder** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:19 pm

This is what I use on my TC and never had any issues. C:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -r -t 00

Alpman · Post by **Alpman** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:44 pm

The command line string switches are as follows:

C:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -f(force quit apps) -r(restart) -t(time) 03(seconds) -c(comment) "MagicJack is Restarting"(text box message)

You can change -t to whatever you time you wish (-t 00 is immediate, no delay) and -c to any text string, or delete -c for no message in the text box. -f is required to kill any proces that would prevent the restart, -r is needed to restart, otherwise it would just shutdown without restarting.

nighthawks · Post by **nighthawks** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 2:01 pm

Thunder wrote:This is what I use on my TC and never had any issues. C:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -r -t 00

Ok on the switches, I went and found them so now I know what they do.

The question is why is it doing this?

"getting the (NEW REGISTERING) screen and it fails to load the serial number". Did this two times after the task does the shutdown/reboot.

I have to do a reboot to restart the TC and MJ and MJ comes up fine, so why does this happen only with the task, and when I reboot I don't get it, loads fine. go figure.

Thanks John

slceso · Post by **slceso** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 2:49 pm

this also was happening to me when I was running it on my main box (vista ult32). I had been having problems with it going straight to VM, so I would periodically check to see if there was a dialtone. a restart or reboot would reveal no issues, then shortly after, no dialtone.

Initially, I got the register for a new account screen, but somehow I was able to x out of that and just get a 'verify your account' page. after each reboot/restart, The softphone would work for a short time and then give me a "please connect to the internet and click here (Error 03)" and then the registration screen would come up after that, or sometimes just a page with nothing in it. there was one day that it was happening about every 15 mins.

I did a MJ uninstall, reinstalled, updated and back to the same thing. Luckily I got my TC running that day and swapped it over without issue, so I have to think that there was something screwed on my main box. they both connect to the same router with cables, so I don't think it was my ISP.

sorry, no solution from me.. only semi-corroberation.