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
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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
is the xda 1 connector the same as the XDA II, connector ??
also for the car ?
please anyone help
Yes!
audio is not !?
But power and sync are? I still have a USB sync & power cable from my original XDA - and need to know whether it is safe and will work with my new XDA2 (which arrives tomorrow! )
I also have a cable that connected the XDA to my Garmin eTrex GPS - anyone know if that will work on the XDA :?:
Many thanks
Geoff
i also have an etrex vista
works fine, infra red beam must still be shut down
serial connection kabel is still the same
my home made serial flash/unlock kabel is working great also
dont know with sync
I have done some searching and there seems to be a lot of confusion on the fact if an XDA2 fits in a Tom Tom Car kit or not.
I am planning to use a Bluetooth carkit for the phone functions, but need a Tom Tom carkit to charge the unit and connect the GPS mouse.
So my question is: is anyone succesfully using the Tom Tom XDA carkit in combination with an XDA2/MDA2 etc ?
Also I would like to know if the Tom Tom carkit has a audio output.
Thanks,
Taco
Coonections are OK, XDA and XDA/MDA II are the same....
The Tomtom Carkit doesn't have audio-out.
On a 'normal' GPS cable you could connect Pin 2 (ground) and 3 & 4 (audio-out R/L) and short Pin 19 to groound for audio out....
But afaik has te Tomtomcarkit a connector build-in, so it wil be hard to open and/or solder wires to the pins...
IT WONT FIT !!!
Hi M8tes,
I have the TOMTOM carkit with GPS for my old XDA and my new XDA II or Qtek 2020 WONT FIT !!! The connection is the same, but the craddle is 2 Small... on the www.expansys.com website you can PRE-Order the new Qtek2020-XDA II Carkit... And I belief it alse works with the old GPS TOM TOM mouse...
Regards,
Kermit
I have now purchased the above GPS system and with the Tom Tom Nav2 BT/XDA II fix (dowloadable off the TT website) have it working absolutely fine....wow at last!!
Question, before I blow something. If anyone has the TT Navigator 2 Wireless kit (and possibly the wired too), it comes with a Cigar lighter charger that powers the GPS unit and this device/lead has an "extension power connector" piggy backed on it so it can connect to a PDA also. It comes with a connector for the Ipaq, not suitable for the XDA II. However, with the XDA II supplied acessories comes a small plug in connector for connecting to the XDA II AC power lead, so that you can charge the XDA II outside of its USB cradle, and this connector fits the piggy back type connection. I am obviously wanting to use this in lieu of the supplied Ipaq connector to enable charging of the GPS and my XDA II simultaneously. Anyone know if this is OK? Logically, it seems to be the answer to charging both devices from one Cigar lighter? Don't want to blow anything. Comments welcomed, thank you. Steve
i use the xda adapter with the cigar lighter charger and it works fine
Hi Steve,
I use XDA II connector with the cigar lighter, no problem.
Hi Steve
The same here , I have used it for 2 weeks no problems.
Regards
JoseF
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