Firerock-are you sure it's not just a problem with the LOD? i had a similar thing constantly with my old EC2 eVo, then i bought the EC2-A which has customizable LOD, put it at the maximum, and it works like a charmits m4+m1+m2 and then connect right?
didnt work :( thx tho
check if there's anything weird with the cable or usb port, try and swapping port if you haven't done that yet, try it on another pc, etc.. other than this, i don't think theres much else to say, if after all these kind of tries it keeps giving you problems it's probably faulty, try and ask for an RMA