hi
I have an XDA compact and have tweeked it loads, i have to say its the most stable XDA EVER... ITS NEVER CRASHED! even with tomtom5 and all other stuff.
Any how, I have a SD wifi card which layed dormant while I had the XDAIIi (the most unstable XDA) but I was wondering about trying to find a way to hard wire the wifi in.
I have checked the reg and it has the wifi settings ready to tweek.
what I will try is running the 2gb sd card wired with the wifi card and a scan disc driver for the 256+wifi and see if this works.
I have though about using com 1 or the USB connection too.
any ideas on this??
Related
http://www.gps4fun.com/ph_sdio.php
Who's the first to pop it into the XDA II?
I want one!
I tihnk it will be far more useful than a BT gps.
One can always install a redirecting antenna in his car ...
though I've got a non-metal roof
re
I have the Sandisk SD Wifi card which works very well with the xda 2 although delivers rapid power drain.
I suspect this will be the same drain on power ?
Also, if you use the SD slot for the GPS, where do you store the map files ?
Just my initial thoughts.
Cheers, Shire
power for WiFi is a problem due to transmission. The way Ethernet
works, the sender "assumes" you didn't "get the message" and resend
it, unless you acknoledge it. You must also acknoledge at the same
speed that you got the data. Even if you only acknoledge in 10 bytes
every 2K you get, it is still doing lots of Transmits [note: I'm not
really familiar with WiFi details, just Ethernet in general]
the GPS is just a reciever. they claim 100mA. This should give us
approx 5 hours use on full charge, with the phone powered on and
the map running ... In fact, I'm pretty sure the BT gps would not
do better, batterywise.
On maps, you got me! I guess most cities can be loaded into
te internal memory or the \storage card. If you design a good
maping software, it will "cache" your SDcard data and ask you
to swap it only when absolutely need. Having NEVER played with
GPS software (tomtom destinator etc) I really don't know the answer.
But my Garmin has just 16Mb of memory which it claims can be used
to give detailed maps - downloading part from the PC one at a time...
so the PPC must be much better.
Also, GPS cards (ie CF) is nothing new, so someone must have the answers - so come on guys, give it to us!
re
well thats what I'm holding out for, a GPS CF card. My theory being you still have the sd slot free for memory card and plenty of detailed maps.
Plus with the back pack u get a bit more juice and the VGA out.
Can't seem to get it anywhere yet though, but accessories always seem to be slow to market, no point in mass producing stuff till there are enough machines out there I guess.
mmm I digress, sorry.
Cheers, Shire
CF GPS
CF GPS card have been available for over a year, what r u talkin about?
just gogle "cf gps" or go to eg www.ecost.com.
This isn't a real solution. I can go around town with the SD GPS in
my shirt's pocket, and if I need it, I'll use it. When you or a BT GPS
user will need their's, it will be in the parked car or at home ...
mobility! mobility! mobility!
OF course, I want my XDA iii - stable OS, GPS builtin, 512Mb flash builtin,
camera 1.3Mpixel, and WiFi built in. and a larger battery, of course....
I expect to buy it early 2005.
re
lol, I was referring to the xda 2 back pack, with built in CF slot, Battery and VGA out. It's not available in the UK atm.
I didn't think the CF GPS was that big, the only thing I am not sure of is where the CF slot is in the back pack, and whether a CF GPS will fit.
Cheers, Shire
Looking at that CF bakpak the CF slot is on the bottom, so if have the CF card GPS then the GPS aerial would be upside down.
or do you try and find a program to invert your screen when you start you map software. or get a external aerial for the CF GPS.
or is it just me and the CF slot is on the top of the CF bakpack
John
Hi there,
I was using Mapopolis GPS software ver 3.20 on my SX-56 and it was working fine with the GPS reciever being picked up on COM 1. Suddenly one fine day, the Mapopolis software would not work at all and the phone for some reason would not detect the reciever on COM 1. I re-booted, re-installed and eventually blew my ROM and thus the phone entirely trying to work the GPS but to no avail. I kept trying since when I connect the GPS reciever even now directly to my laptop, it still works fine so I assume there is nothing wrong with the GPS unit itself!
I have just bought a new T-Mobile WM 2003 unit and after installing mapopolis on it, it still is not working on the GPS and giving me the exact same problem. I have put it on "autodetect" and it goes in a loop on the COM Ports and starts from COM3, then COM8 and then COM9 then back all over again...it does not even start from COM1...when I remove "autodetect" and set it on COM 1, it keeps saying detecting and nothing happens, I've left it like that for more than an hour!
I'm just wondering why it was working before and not anymore? Any suggestion or ideas are more than welcome! Are any program trying to block the COM1? If so, how do I get rid of them or free the COM1? I'm stuck...
Thanks.
Try to deactivate the beam of IR port.
Or take a look if the Activesync doesn't use the com port.
It you're using a IR external Keyboard deactivate it...
Bye, M.
Re: COM Problem
Sir,
You are a king!!! Just saved me from blowing up yet another fantantic PDA!!! I don't know how to thank you, it was the IR port occupying the COM and it is working great now after I disabled it!!! Just a small question for you, is it possible to fix my old PDA which I totally messed up because of re-setting etc etc.? I have the problem posted on:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=11858
Thanks in advance.
Munz.
tv tuner
Is it possible to use mda2 as a monitor to watch tv out of home, connecting it to an usb-tv tuner?
Re:
I doubt it since the USB-TV Tuner would require a USB port for a connect through and I do not know of PDA which have that, but then I may be wrong....
Hi,
After looking at a lot of posts from people that have managed to get their SD wifi cards working under WM5 I got me a Socket E300 card.
BUT, I can not get it to work!
Has anyone got this new blue card from Socket working on WM5???
I'm using 1.60c.64.WWE.
I've tried the WM5 drivers from Socket and their companion software, boths installed as CABs and not through the PC/ActiveSync. Both installed OK without error messages and I can start the Companion also without errors.
When I insert the card nothing happens. No light, no wifi icon, nothing.
The wifi icon has been added to the startup folder. I tried to start it manually from the Windows catalog but nothing happens.
I uninstalled the driver and tried Socket drivers, then Socket Sagem (SP) drivers and finally Sandisk driver. Nothing works.
( also got a new card from the supplier thinking the first one was DOA. What are the odds that both cards er bad???)
Please help...
Same problem here... any help would be greatly appreciated!
Same problem
Here happen the same as well, but i have the 1.60b.96WWE, does anyone know if it works with any rom?
Thxs in advance
Forget it... it does not work
Frank
Hello everyone. I have an iPAQ 210 and a CF GlobalSat BC-337 GPS card. It has always worked without a hitch until now. It could be because I installed some GPS emulation software that worked on wifi triangulation (more like it didn't work) and I'm guessing maybe it stole the com port that my card was using but that's just a theory. In any case, now my GPS doesn't work.
The ppc software that came with the card (used for running diagnostics) still detects the card on COM 1 and runs the card just fine to check sattelite strength, etc. so I know the card works and is capable of communicating through the com port. However, the windows CE 6.0 settings "external gps" normally asks for a software port and a hardware port. Both were set before but now the hardware port has reset to "none" and nothing I do to change it will stick. When I put it on COM 1 and press ok and go back in it still says "none". None of my mapping software will work either in manual mode or in "let windows manage it" mode....but as I said, the gps software sees and runs the card so I suspect windows settings are to blame. Anyone have an idea how to fix this? Is there a registry key I can change or something? Thank you.
This question has probably been asked a million times but i couldn't find an answer.
On my HTC Hero (android 2.1), there was an option to tether once you plugged the phone into your computer. This could also be used as a wireless receiver for a desktop computer lacking a wireless access card. I was using this as a last resort after losing dozens of Ethernet cables to vermin under the house. Basically the idea was: connect to your homes wireless router on the phone, then plug the phone into the usb slot of your computer and it would share that wifi connection with your computer. Recently I have switched over to the all powerful HTC HD2 and I am realizing there is no way to do this, that I can tell, with the stock phone. Is there something I'm missing?
I have tried using the Internet Sharing option, as well as the CMInternetSharing.cab I downloaded from you guys, and neither seem to bring this ability to the table. Is there an app out there that can solve this problem?
Ussually a Custom rom will fix this most have the Internet share or WiFi router but you need to HARDSPL your phone. also theres a way for you to do it just deleting your or editing your REGISTRY.
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Here is the Thread for the roms for your phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=534
and this is the rom I Recomend
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=591784
use the Cookie GTX (white theme)
Follow the intructions on how to install it(rom) also onces done click on your Window button>tools>WiFi Router and you can use your phone as a wireless router also if you connected your phone Via usb to your conputer you can connect using internet sharing.
fixed the problem
WMWifiRouter has a wifi to usb mode.
will definitely be buying it after my trial runs out.