Is there a SDIO wireless lan card w/802.11g? I have been looking for one and I can't seem to find one.
Or is there a backpack sleeve that takes the Cisco Aironet wlan cards for the XDA II? :roll: :roll:
Thanks.
Hey
yeah I've been looking for one myself... no luck though
choices seem to be 802.11b or 802.11b I hear the battery life on using the SanDisk B is appauling though :roll:
hmm..
do u know if there are any backpack sleeves that would hold a Cisco Aironet Wirless Card? :roll:
-K
i doubt that it would work
at full speed
sd unless it use an external chip
is kinda poor on xcale cpu's
strongarm dont have the sd interface at all
so it use an extra chip which is much faster then
the internal xcale cpu interface
even that extera chip i doubt that it could give such a bandwidth
Looking into GPS receivers, does anyone have the Stellus-StarNet-GPS-SDIO-Receiver being sold on eBay?
Are BT units better?
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Stellus-StarNet-GPS-SDIO-Receiver-PDA-Pocket-PC-03-02_W0QQitemZ5798917435QQcategoryZ73332QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting[/img]
sdio gps is ok when you absolutely don't want to have a second device around you. but i would not use one because sdio-port is then blocked for storage cards, so where to store the map data? and bt gps is more flexible for placing it somewhere where you have good signal. when using sdio gps you have to move the whole pda for getting better signals.
just my opinion.
peter
SDIO GPS Receivers
I would agree with Peter. Also I have been told by some tech support people that the SDIO devices are generally slower to establish a fix from both a cold and warm start. I use a BT Navman 4400 that I picked up on ebay. Worked great with my xdaII, but not as well with my xdaIIs. Onthe xda IIs, I have to use a cumbersome workaround when starting and stopping the device to prevent a freeze up of the xda. Based on what I have seen on the forum, Tom Tom appears to be the most widely used BT receiver
Hi there,
I'm wondering how the "backpack for Himalaya" is working.
It has a VGA/TV output, whereas the bottom pins on the Himalaya don't have VGA out.
What do you think? How does the screen information "leave" the XDA, if there are only USB, RS232 and audio pins on the connector (according to http://wiki.xda-developers.com/wiki/Connectors )?
All help and tips are welcome!
Cheers,
Tomiki
Hi
Are you sure such thing exists ?
I know that you can pipe-out video from Ipaq H5550 through special expansion slot.
Himalaya doesn't have such connectors (only standard charge/audio/usb/serial).
The only way to get video out from it is to encode it and send via USB.
Just like Microsoft's rdisp does. (crappy.. about 10 fps, and is hard on device's CPU)
Ugh, come ON people.
Take the back OFF your device, and wonder! wonder at the extra connector I just gave your in all its goodness!
That will be £5 for pointing out the bleedin' obvious thank you.
The backpack connects here, you remove the existing back panel to fit it.
And yes, there IS a vga out on it.
Hi Pyrofel,
The thing is: I have a Blue Angel, so I'm looking for something like that on my Blue Angel ) I thought the VGA is converted into USB and leaves the XDA II on the USB, so that the same could be done on the Blue Angel as well.
What do you think?
Otherwise thanks for tlling me the obvious, sorry I couldn'T check it out without an XDA II
Cheers,
Tomiki
i dont think the backpack connector under the back cover of himalaya
are usb
for the himalaya to have 2 usb connectors you could use at the same time it
1 would have to have an usb hub
2 would have to be usb master which it's not
No, the connector under the cover isnt usb
No, vga doesnt come out over USB.
No, ive not seen the vga for Blueangle.
This is a special port, like the expansion port on the old Ipaq models.
I dont ever remember hearing about a vga backpack for anything other than xda II, obviously it sold so well they didnt bother with it on other models.
I think there is an SDIO card with vga out. I dont know where I saw it, but im sure it exists.
well i have seen usb to vga box's
but that would require
1 the pda being able to act as USB host
2 drivers for the box for pda's
i would not hold my breath
Maybe I could take the Blue Angel apart to check out if there's video out or not.
Otherwise Margi used to sell SDIO VGA cards, but it's discontinued.
I think only the Universal can act as a USB host, not the Himalaya, Blue Angel.
Well, I don't know, if somebody finds out something, let me know
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=BA_Technical
nude BA
and people dont even seem 100% sure that universal support host
HP VGA-Out PC card with iPAQ h5550
robal: "I know that you can pipe-out video from Ipaq H5550 through special expansion slot."
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Hi robal...where did you get this information from?
I'm trying to modify the driver for the HP VGA-Out card for use with my iPAQ h5550 with PC-Card expansion pack plus.
The card came bundled with driver for WinCE2.1 only & meant for Jornada 600 series handheld PC using Hitachi SH3 CPU.
Anyone in this forum thread got any clue how or where I can begin doing that?
Any advice in the right direction is appreciated.
Thanks!
Re: HP VGA-Out PC card with iPAQ h5550
konker said:
robal: "I know that you can pipe-out video from Ipaq H5550 through special expansion slot."
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Hi robal...where did you get this information from?
I'm trying to modify the driver for the HP VGA-Out card for use with my iPAQ h5550 with PC-Card expansion pack plus.
The card came bundled with driver for WinCE2.1 only & meant for Jornada 600 series handheld PC using Hitachi SH3 CPU.
Anyone in this forum thread got any clue how or where I can begin doing that?
Any advice in the right direction is appreciated.
Thanks!
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Well I have a h5500 and I can stick in a vga card (about $120 incl ir remote) and that gives me RCA as well as svideo outputs upto 1024x768. There are both cf cards (large supply) and pccards (I have the dual pccard adapter for my 5500 along with extra battery pack).
google around for a "pocket pc" "vga card" you will find many. But you need to get the "expansion sleeve" to make it work as the 5500 does not come with any cf/pccard slots by default. There *might* be a SD vga card out there, I havent looked as I have had a 1GB sd card in there for over a year and refuse to remove it
Rudegar said:
well i have seen usb to vga box's
but that would require
1 the pda being able to act as USB host
2 drivers for the box for pda's
i would not hold my breath
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you can make anything a USB host if its a USB client, it just takes a little bit of hardware. More than a null modem however (which is what some people sell). and yes the drivers would have to be there, all in all I dont know that it would be worth it unfortunately :/
The USB host is also supposed to supply the operating voltage for the clients, that is why the wizard charges (I presume others too) that way. If you dont you violate the spec and your devices may not work. This would put a lot of load on the battery and possibly make it run considerably hotter than it needs to.
Re: HP VGA-Out PC card with iPAQ h5550
trixter said:
Well I have a h5500 and I can stick in a vga card (about $120 incl ir remote) and that gives me RCA as well as svideo outputs upto 1024x768. There are both cf cards (large supply) and pccards (I have the dual pccard adapter for my 5500 along with extra battery pack).
google around for a "pocket pc" "vga card" you will find many. But you need to get the "expansion sleeve" to make it work as the 5500 does not come with any cf/pccard slots by default. There *might* be a SD vga card out there, I havent looked as I have had a 1GB sd card in there for over a year and refuse to remove it
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Hi trixter!
Thanks for the reply...I have the PC Card Expansion Pack Plus & the HP VGA-out PC Card but dun have the right drivers to get them to work.
Any idea if the bundled driver(meant for WinCE2.1 running on Jornada 600 series H/PC) can be modified to work on the WM2003?
Please advice.
Thanks!
Hello Fellows,
I currently have an XDA II unit that has been faithful to me for years, and everytime i flash it, it's like getting a new phone
But now I have a new challenge. I need to put a magnetic card reader on a unit. The unit needs to support WiFi, GPRS and Compact Flash (unless of course someone knows of a Magnetic Card reader that plugs into the SD slot of my XDA II). Does anyone have any experience with such a unit. Or even know where I could find one?
Thanks a lot,
Morten
None of the current PPC phones have CF slots.
You can however get Bluetooth card readers. I know Symbol, Radix, and Itronix supply them, but all their stuff is ruggedised, and therefore very expensive.
Thanks, I will check this out
Hello to all around here,
has anyboy a hardware solution to add the TMC signal to the advice without buying a new gps receiver?
tmc adapter
there are "GNS FM TMC Transmitter" avaiable
just look at ebay and ask the seller
if they´re compatibel with the mini usb connection of the wonderful
trinity.
cost are about 40-60 €
have not tried for myself, but heared that it should work
greetings
Hi span_od,
If you ask for a "TMC upgrade" for a wired external GPS, just look at the device from AVANTEQ. You find it at http://www.avanteq.de/eng/beat-the-traffic-with-vio-tmc-receiver.html.
This device is just plugged into the cable between PDA and GPS and adds TMC-information to the GPS data. It is compatible to various navigation systems like NAVIGON, iGO, Destinator and fits with all external GPS having RJ11 or PS2connector.
I am using it with my HP2210 as well as my LOOX N500 since three months and it works really fine . Have encountered nearly any traffic problem since then. It is really worth the 79EUR I paid for.
Is this what you were looking for?
Best Regards
Jakob