Hey everyone,
received today the professional car kit for the XDA II from Expansys.
Testing the car kit and compared with the XDA I car kit that I'm using with the XDA II.
With the XDA I car kit only problem is the charging and the tightness of the cradle.
I use the Tom Tom Navigator with no problem sound commes throught the car kit.
The professional car kit fvor the XDA II has a few problems.
No more sound throught the car kit when you ared using TOm Tom navigator.
When the XDA II ring the sound comes out throught thed XDA own speaker not the car kit.
I could listen to MP3 file trought the car kit of the XDA I but notg wwith the professiobnal car kit.
The professional car kit has a GPS connector which is located under the cradle it looks like an RJ11 connector next to that connecttor the is a 2.5 phone connector for the headset.
Now I need to find out whic h gps to use on this professional car kit and well the instruction come out throught the car kit speakers like the XDA I car kit.
Anybody that needs more information for this car kit feel free tho email me.
Regards
Gigi
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Has anyone seen a photo of the base connector for the new XDA, it would be kind of nice if it fits my existing car kit ( Not much chance of that)
Can anyone help
Thank you
Paul Jones
Not the photo. I have tried to connect xdaII (dummy) to my car kit! it works just fine.
Thanks for the feedback Andrej, maybe I wont have to junk my carkit at the moment !! :lol:
Regards
Paul Jones
I am very sure that the Xda II will use a different carkit to the existing Xda - someone at O2 told me this.
I am in a similar situation - I think I will try to sell my Xda carkit now!
Hi
I do nit have a car Kit but I suspect as the XDA II has and SDIO slot and the XDA does not, then whilst they may 'fit' they may not function correctly.
Cheers
Ric
It will not be compatibel!
There will be a new Car Kit for MDA II
Is that going to be the same for other accessories? E,g GPS, keyboard etc?
If the socket is the same then maybe there is a possibility of a rewire to match up the io interface.
Parrot CK-3000 V3.00 Works Well With XDA II
I tested Parrot CK-3000 Works well with XDA II
The XDA II works fine in an XDA Full Carkit with the following exceptions:
The phone does not automatically switch on when you insert it into the cradle (the XDA did).
The phone is a slightly tighter fit in the cradle (its thicker) but still fits fine. The top clip of the cradle does not come all the way down but rests on the top of the XDAII, which is also fine.
I use it daily and have no problems.
As a point, all my XDA peripherals work with my XDA II including my Foldable Keyboard.
I can second this.......just received my MDA II and everything works fine with the carkit: Handsfree phone, GPS, Power.......
It is a bit tight, but I heated up the bottom of the carkit with a blower till it became soft and then put in the MDA II and let it cool down. Now it is quite workable without having to buy a new carkit........
xda II car kit has plugin for gps devices, so is slightly different. Got this from the blurb on www.o2.co.uk/xda
Carkit
To use your device in the car - or truck - you need to install a fully wired and properly mounted carkit, as mandated by recent UK Legislation.
These units are not provided with aerial kits - these are separately provided by the carkit installer and are appropriate to your vehicle.
These carkit's are especially designed to fit Xda and Xda II respectively, and is built to integrate with most modern car connectors. In addition, the Xda II carkit supports direct connection of a GPS unit - such as that provide by TomTom Navigator - allowing you to use Xda as a navigation system.
Xda Carkit - AHTXDAKN - £176.50
We have not seen ANY existing XDA II carkits yet, so we cannot judge to soon.
At the moment all the photo's referring to the carkit from the providers are the XDA I carkit.
This carkit always had the GPS external connection, I have been using it for almost a year now with TomTom and a Holux GM 210 mouse. I have cut the XDA connector and connected the appropriate wires to the GPS mouse......works like a charm, also with the New MDA II.
Look at my review I wrote almost a year ago (It's in Dutch, but you can throw a webtranslator over it if you want to):
http://www.pocketpc-club.nl/content.php?id=1319
Re: Parrot CK-3000 V3.00 Works Well With XDA II
ronlkh said:
I tested Parrot CK-3000 Works well with XDA II
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Hi
I am thinking about buying a CK3000 but was worried that there may be a Bluetooth compatibility issue (like there is with some Bluetooth GPS systems at the moment Tom Tom + Navman apparently). Is your CK3000 working fully with the XDA 11 via Bluetooth as a Handsfree System i.e. sound through your car speakers, mute the stereo when a call comes in etc? Do you know of a supplier who will also install/configure it?
What else would I need besides the CK3000 - A XDA 11 Passive Holder and a Cigar lighter Charger?
Any help advice you can give me is very much appreciated.
Steve Grunnill
The parrot CK3000 has a Handsfree and a headset profile.
The XDA/MDA 2 only has a headset profile.
So as long as the carkit has a headsetprofile also, it will work...
Why not use the XDA II with the speaker phone enabled ??
Have you tried it ?
it's hard to quickly enable, and it's not loud enough...
Car charger seems ok...
I immediately tried my xda car charger in my xda II and it fits and seems to work in that the orange charging light comes on.
But could I be doing some damage that I am unaware of? (Incidentally some people refer to a cradle: my car charger is not a cradle...)
No the pinlayout of the XDA and MDA/XDA 2 are the same...
Has anyone found a car cradle for the XDA II (hardwired not BT). I have searched several sites an I cannot find anything. Surely there must be enough users for a company to warrant the development
Does anyone have the Car Kit sold on the Expansys site ? (see below)
Can I have your feedback on it ?
It's on preorder.... !!!
How can anyone have it allready...
jpiek said:
It's on preorder.... !!!
How can anyone have it allready...
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It's on preorder on Expansys, but maybe not elsewhere ...
http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=109748
External speaker? Does it have any way to plug the audio into the car stereo?? 3.5mm audio jack would be nice while the microphone continues to function on the Car kit.
I really want to know if this one has a GPS connection, so I don't have to swap my Holux GM 210 for a BT mouse......
Is this for the XDA or the XDA II?
their connector is suppose to be the same so it should work on both of them
Give this one a try it will be out end of this month as they said for the I-mate
and here is the specs :
Item
Seidio G2500 GPS Ready Mount
Power input 12V-24 V DC
Input Power cord - Detachable cigarette lighter cord
- Detachable cable for hardwiring
PDA charging 5.2V, 1200 mAH DC
DC output 5.4 V, 600 mAH DC
4.0 mm DC jack
Receiver connection RJ-11
Speaker 2.0 Watts
Volume control Yes
Audio In: 2.5 mm Jack
Available Color Silver and Dark Grey
Size Cradle Size: 5 in (L) x 3.5 in (W) x 0.7 in (H) (Notes: Height: Exclude height of the PDA holder)
: 128 mm (L) x 82 mm (W) x 18 mm (H)
Weight 4.5 oz
Additional Features Hands Free Speakerphone
PS2 GPS cable adaptors available
Blue Tooth Receiver Charging
Available Models Dell X5
iPAQ 2200 Series
iPAQ 1900/4100 Series
iPAQ 3800/3900/5000 Series
Garmin iQUE 3600
Palm Tungsten T/T2/T3
Treo 600
XDA2/I-MATE/Q-TEK2020
What is in the Box
1 Seidio G2500 GPS Ready Powered cradle with detachable DC power cord.
1 8" Super Strong Suction Windshield Pedestal
1 Slide and Lock Air Vent Pedestal
1 360 Degree Swivel Adaptor
1 Audio Cable (used to enable the speaker)
2 GPS wired receiver adaptor cables (allows to use with most of the wired receivers)
http://www.seidio.com/company/Product/Navigation.htm
How do you order one ?
re
http://www.seidioonline.com/
not sure the xda 2 model is availabe yet though ?
cheers, shire
Doesn't sound like that one has audio out for playing music through the car stereo. I want audio out from the XDA 2 serial port on a car kit!
called expansys today and they said their product will be on pre order till march 16th o4!!!!!!!!
Expansys Now have them in stock mines just arrived not fitted it yet but it looks to be excellent
heres the link if u want one
http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=109748
AJL said:
Expansys Now have them in stock mines just arrived not fitted it yet but it looks to be excellent
heres the link if u want one
http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=109748
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Can you confirm it works with the XDA II?
How does it connect to the XDA II headphone jack?
Does it have an external headphone jack?
(Asking this because I'm currently using an iSound FM transmitter to play MP3 from my XDA II through my car stereo.)
Thanks.
Ed
yes its for the xda2 and has an external headfone jack and gps socket
james
Is this a professionally fitted car kit, hard wired into the power and radio system of the car ?
Also can you tell me what sort of GPS socket it has, I have a Holux GM 210 which has a PS2 type connector??
Cheers
Nick
Anybody can hel with professional car kit
Hey everybody,
I purchased the Prfessional car kit from Expansys for the XDA II and I'm having a few problem I hope someone can help me out.
When I inserte the Pda in the car kit this ared the problems I have fvind:
1 No sound from car kit or pda when screen is tap.
2 No sound from car kit or pda.
3 When the Tom Tom Navigator is saying the ruote non sound from Car kit or PDA
4 When an incomingb call is received swound is hear trought pda notg car kit, whedn you answer the call the car kit start working only to receive call.
5 I've noticed that if i put the headset in the 2.5mm jack at the bottom of the cradle the sound is hear throught the headset and it disconnect the car kit.
Any help would be very helpful.
Send already 2 email to expansys no reply call the they say that I can only contact support by email or forum now I'm stuck do no if it is a fault unit or the car kit work in this manner if it does it is useless.
Regards
Gigi
eXpansis Proffesional car kit
I just had the kit installed and it looks ok. The problem is that the audio is only present when I'm on a call and it's only phone audio. What I need is a way to get the PDA audio (i.e. the navigation speaking) to come through either the car speakers or the speaker included with the kit. The fact that call audio comes through both makes me think there are two problems.
- The first problem seems to be that the kit only passes audio to the speakers when the mute signal is live for the car audio. This wouldn't be the case when listening to pda audio (navigation instructions). This seems more like a problem with the car kit which with a bit of work I could prob. get around.
- The second problem I see is that only phone (call) based audio is passed through the car kit. This problem seems to be more with the XDA. I wonder if there is a registry hack to force all audio to look the same. DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THIS IS THE CASE? If so I would really appreciate some pointers on this.
I'm using the Navman 4410 BT navigation system BTW.
Thanks,
Lyndon.
i think it is indeed a software problem.
when i first got my xda2 i made my own carkit
1 cable with audio out to carstereo, connection to my gps, connection to the charging unit
sound like mp3 and voice calling was fine
now when i updated the ROM it doesnt work anymore, i know 100% that my carkit is fine.
akira said:
i think it is indeed a software problem.
when i first got my xda2 i made my own carkit
1 cable with audio out to carstereo, connection to my gps, connection to the charging unit
sound like mp3 and voice calling was fine
now when i updated the ROM it doesnt work anymore, i know 100% that my carkit is fine.
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You made your own XDA2 carkit ?
btw. for the Expansys carkit users: Does it have an GPS-connector ? Some dutch guy at expansys said it didn't. But then again, i had to give him the link before he knew they actually sold XDA Carkits
Hi
I am trying to locate a car charger kit which will charge both my xda ii & my Fortuna Bluetooth Clip On GPS Receiver at the same time.
I searched everywhere and can't find one. Has anyone seen one for sale?
Thanks In Advance.
Jase
I have the same combination and i bought a splitter so i can put both plug in.
I'm using the splitter that came with the old iPAQ PCMCIA Expansion Pack! I don't know if they sell that seperately, but it's been working nicely.
Hi Cardfarther.
Where can i get a splitter from?
Cheers
Jase
try ebay under gps xda
I have an original XDA and an original official XDA car kit which i use with tomtom navigator 2 with great success.
The XDA car kit works great because it passes all audio through to the speaker - phone calls, sat nav instructions, mp3s, etc...
I have just aquired an XDA 2 and have ordered the car kit from expansys.
Out of impatience i pushed my XDA 2 into my XDA phone kit (it does fit with a bit of encouragement - although i wouldnt recomend it)
I have noticed that the audio is now only sent to the car kit speaker when on a phone call.
This is not ideal for me as i am used to getting the audio from the sat nav and mp3s also from the car speakers.
Does anybody know if this is just an incompatibility with the old car kit and will go away when i get the XDA 2 car kit - or is there a softrware or hardware hack that can be done to rectify the problem...
Hi all.
Found this via kelkoo.
http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/product/3345.htm
Thought it might have been somebody OEM'ing the original o2 accesory but when I look on the o2 site there is no integrated cradle car kit listed!
I'm looking for a kit that will:-
Mute the standard stereo for calls
Allow audio from the XDA2 so I can use it as a car stereo
Charge the XDA2
Allow connection to a Tom-Tom nav unit.
This item would appear to do the business. However I suspect it may be a kit avialable somewhere else and have been discussed here already.
Any hints/comments appreciated.
Thanks All.
hi
i have seen a gps ready car kit with those functions on o2s site
jim
There's this stuff below listed for XDA2 which one do you mean.
Looks like bluetooth + GPS stuff and the like to me. My focus is on audio from wired connectivity but with an option for GPS. Bluetooth isn't a factor for me. Did you mean one of the below? If you mean somewhere else can you supply a URL? Thanks. Vent mount is no good either.
Cheers.
Safe2Talk Xda II car kit - AORXD2KN
£44.99
You can fit it in seconds with power from your cigar lighter socket - and it's only £44.99.
Bluetooth Safe2Talk Xda II car kit - AORSBLKN
£54.99
Simple to fit and no trailing wires.
Integrated Bluetooth car kit compatible with the Xda IIs - using the Sony Ericsson HCB-300 Bluetooth Car Kit. Features a compact design with a high quality external microphone with speaker volume control. Professional installation needed.
Sony Ericsson HCB-300 Bluetooth Car Kit ASEZ60KN
£159.99
A complete in-car navigation package using your Xda II and one of Europe's leading satellite navigation systems, TomTom Navigator 3TM. You'll get everything you need to get started straightaway; TomTom software to load on to your Xda II, a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver plus a connection cable and vent-mounted car cradle for your Xda II. We have pre-loaded the mainland Great Britain maps on a memory card for you, which slots in to the top of your Xda II. And there's no monthly subscription for this service, just buy the system follow the simple set-up instructions and you're away.
There are two for you to choose from:
Bluetooth TomTom Navigator 3 - AORBTT3N
£270.00
The GPS receiver uses the latest Bluetooth technology and does not need wires to connect to the Xda II, so you can choose where you want to install the receiver in your car.
Also comes with an AC adapter so you can recharge the GPS receiver outside your car.
Wired TomTom Navigator 3 - AORWTT3N
£230.00
The GPS receiver is connected to the Xda II with the cable supplied.
Keep your Xda II charged whilst you are out and about with the in car charger. - AHTXDALN
£19.99