Grinder with LG VX4400, anyone?

[tom]

Is anyone successfully using the Grinder with a LG VX4400 on a USB cable?

According to the Tools 2.1.0 release notes (https://brewx.qualcomm.com/noauth/cms/DX_Tools/Available%20Documentation/ReleaseNotes.pdf), the Grinder works with the VX4400, but i can't get it to work in my configuration.

The AppLoader works great - the LG USB driver simulates COM7. The Grinder, however, only sees COM1/2/5/6, and it won't auto-detect the VX4400 (turned on and attached by USB) on COM7.

Maybe the Grinder doesn't support ports above COM6?
Maybe the Grinder doesn't support USB without a modem driver?

The Grinder works with a CDM9500 on COM6, but that phone had USB+modem drivers. I don't think a USB modem driver exists for the VX4400 yet. I added a "standard modem" to COM7, as suggested here (http://www.rogerbinns.com/vx4400/vx4400faq.html#Modem), but that didn't help. I'm guessing the solution is not a modem driver.

This is probably solved by buying a LG serial cable, right? I'd like to use USB, but will switch if necessary. How are y'all connecting the Grinder to your VX4400?

Thank ye for any suggestions!
--t

[tom]

OK, I figured out how to make The Grinder work for a VX4400 on a USB cable, and i didn't need a modem driver.

On my computer, I've only seen The Grinder give these options in the drop list for COM ports: 1, 2, 5, 6. Period.

It doesn't matter if you have different ports (COM and USB-simulated COM) shown in Windows Device Manager or in Windows System Tools. It doesn't matter if you have modems installed on different ports. Even when i uninstalled all the COM drivers, it still showed COM1, 2, 5, and 6. When my computer gets totally messed up by The Shaker, it shows only COM1 & 2 until i reboot, but normally it shows 1, 2, 5, 6.

I don't know, maybe those are hardcoded into The Grinder options and it doesn't query Windows to make that list.

Anyway, i uninstalled all my USB phone drivers and reinstalled them in a different order so that the VX4400 was COM5 instead of COM7. Now i can choose COM5 from the list in The Grinder, and it works. Sometimes the auto-detect even works.