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Connecting an XDAII to digital cameras, PC's, etc

Is it possible to connect an XDAII t a digital camera to allow me to download images on the move? Or how about connecting to any PC using a USB cable to transfer files, images, etc? I read somewhere theat the XDAII chipset doesn't support this type of connection, is this correct?

No, it's not possible. For any PDA (and our xda, too) the chipset is configured as a slave usb which doesn't allow you to use "normal" usb functions. thats also the reason because activesync exists.

You have a digital camera already in your xda 2, you can transfer files to any pc as long as activesync is installed, just click explore and you can drag and drop. Alernatively you can use a card reader, this will plug into any usb enable pc and allow transferring of files both ways.

I do not think that you can connect it bu usb - probably you need special drivers for it...

99% of htc devices don't support usb host
and can as such only be used by a host
not use other usb devices itself

some things are possible...
With the software WM5torage you can hook up your Hima or any other HTC device to any PC with no Activesync installed and it behaves like any other mass storage device. So if your camera has SD cards you can easily transfer pictures.
If you still use WM2003 on your Hima you can use accessory called Backpack to read CF cards or use a CF to any other card converter.
You can use IR or Bluetooth for wireless control of robots and other devices.
There is also RS232 on the Hima connector.

Connecting Orange M700 to TV

Is there any type of acc out there that will enable me to connect my M700 to my TV so that I can play movies stored on it?

only a pc i think
devices without the hardware option of external displays well dont have the option of external display

But
How about a digital TV, LCD with DIV-in HDTV etc'?
There might be a way to stream the video into the USB and then convert it to another digital format via DSP, no?

seriously Laron, the quality would be awful.
You'd be better off with a DVD player (maybe one which does DivX) and use some DVD RWs.
In fact you'd be better off with almost anything else!

trinity cant usb host so it cant stream anything into usb
usb are devided into usb hosts and usb peripherals
the later are "brainless" devices which can only be accessed from an usb host like a pc or a pda which support usb host

maybe via bluetooth or wlan?
for example the bluetooth powerpoint presenter.
this software converts a presentation for your pda and the viewer-software on the pda send it via bluetooth to the presenter - and this via vga to the tv, beamer etc...
i only find such bluetooth prsenters, - only for such presentations...
(h**p://www.infrablue.co.uk/)
but i can't find anything for sending the pda-display live to tv, beamter etc...
can anyone help??

dont believe any of the bluetooths stack out for any pda support any of those profiles
and remaking a whole bluetooth stack for wm would prob take a pretty long time

Plug external USB devices on HTC S730?

Hi,
I was wondering if it is possible to plug external USB devices on the HTC S730 (with adapter). E.g. external hard drive or cardreader?
Would be amazing

I have not seen a program yet which can do this.
The Fujitsu Siemens Pocket Loox T830 was able to do that.
You were able to switch between client / host in the USB settings.

But I think if this function really exists, then it is rather hardware dependend than software dependend.
Anyways, maybe someone has an USB adapter to test this for us

This is interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_ExtUSB

External touch screen

Hi,
Is there any way to hook up an external touch screen monitor to a pocket pc?
Any solution is welcomed, does not have to be Eten, but I do prefer it to be Eten.
I simply want to connect it to a large LCD touch screen, and be able to control it from that screen only.
A software/Harware solution is most welcomed.
Just to be clear, I do not want to control it from a PC desktop, but a simple large external touch screen.

So far I managed to find this:
http://www.spectec.com.tw/sdv842.htm
http://www.margi.com/products.htm
http://www.pocketpcfaq.com/peripherals/video.htm
They all need SDIO, and I know that X500/800 has SDIO.
However, I could not find an answer to whether I can control it through the
external TOUCH screen, and not just the IR remote.

The Ameo supports a VGA monitor natively, and also a standard mouse, after some fiddling somebody here managed to get the mouse drivers for 1 specific brand of touch screen working, therefore creating exactly what you want !
I can't remeber the post but it is here, he even mentions which brand of touch screen to buy !

infra-red connector for modern HTC phones

Hi,
I am using an application on my HTC Prophet, to connect via IRDA to a bike computer, to download information on rides, routes etc.
Now, I'm looking to update my phone to a Touch Pro or SE X1, but it seems that modern phones no longer have an IRDA port...
Do you know of a way to create an IR connection from the phone, say using the mini-USB port??
For example, for modern laptops that no longer have an IR port, you can buy a USB IR.
Thanks
Paul

Nope. No native IrDA and no USB host functionality, so you can't use the external adapter. With X1 microSD SDIO IrDA adapter can be an option, but I've neer seen one available for sale.
See
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=337641
for a similar discussion.

Thanks Stepw for your comments. It seems a complex topic (some phones - like the X1 don't even have a USB host connection via the mini-usb port). I was in contact with VidaOne to see if they had any ideas (they have a WM software that connects to Polar exercise devices via IR).
Since "nothing" can be done via adding hardware - given the variety of terminals -, they are looking at syncing the exercise files that are downloaded onto the PC from teh exercise device . Not quite as immediate as device -> phone, but a good second best.