Hello,
I have looked at the pinouts on the Wiki for the Wallaby and Himalaya and was wondering if it was the same on the Alpine, so that I could hook up to the serial console port on a switch to manage it locally. I have installed Putty and it looks as though it provides the right functions, just the lead to worry about now.
Has anyone done it, or have any advice?
Thank you,
Andrew
the pinout is the same, I have used a serial gps with my apline so i know the serial port is correct and functional
as far as i know for comms you only need TxD, RxD and ground (wired to 2,3 and 5 on a 9 pin serial port)
Thank you Maltloaf, I have a spare USB and serial leads here so I will give it a whirl later.
Thanks again,
Andrew
I thought I would just report on the fact it works perfectly. I made a fully occupied serial lead (null modem type) and have been happily administrating the access points. It was a total pain in the backside to solder to those little tiny connections but it was worth it.
Thank you,
Andrew
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Hi,
Just wondering if anyone has successfully hooked up a Garmin E-Trex to an XDA. It should be possible using the serial connector from both (null-modem!?!). If so what software was being used on the XDA.
Cheers
Jeff
Garmin eTrex - XDA
The eTrex and XDA make a great combination even with Pocket Streets: the eTrex gives you the vector to your destination and the XDA shows you where you are on the map at zilch cost. The draw back is that you can find your target destination on PStreets but there doesn't seem to be a way of extracting the coordinates to feed into your eTrex.
So I got the TomTom Citymap of London to try that out and after a poor user experience when the supplied gps driver locked the XDA up and I had to download another, plus no explanations of various 2.06 driver features plus finding that parts of the M25 London orbital were chopped off, I have the best of both worlds. It only cost me 10UKP.
Oh yes, connections. You can buy a TomTom power/gps cable for the XDA that is meant to take the TomTom gps mouse via a 4 connector phone type socket. So all you have to do is come up with a 4 connector phone type plug leading off to you eTrex. If you have the eTrex car cable for power and RS232, which you might want to use with a laptop, you will not want to cut this. So get a cheap RS232 cable and chop the appropriate end off for your phone type connection. Marry everything up, ignore the wife's complaints about wires and delayed departures while you fiddle with the eTrex and XDA, and you are off.
The TomTom cable phone socket housing can be taken apart briefly to check which are the Common, TX and Rx wires, and the tiny circuit board even tells you which is which. If you want I can give you the pin outs but at the risk of misinterpretation.
Etrex GPS
Managed to get it to work with Navigator and am well impressed.
Got a cable from http://pc-mobile.net/gps.htm. However had a few problems to start off with. The XDA ground to a halt (I have updated the ROM to the latest O2 release and apprently TomTom 1.4 has a problem with later version). Updated TomTom to 1.51 and still no joy. Change the interface from Garmin to IMEA 4800 baud on both GPS and TomTom and had a great weekend driving up and down the motorway and country roads in Derbyshire.
Jeff
Jeff,
Cool, isn't it! Perhaps you can enlighten me about Navigator. Not knowing much about TomTom I rather expected voice prompts on the citymap thingy I downloaded. Question: what do you have to do to get the voice prompts invoked (spend more money probably) and can you hear them from the XDA? :?:
Ken
Navigator Talking
I have Navigator 1.51 installed (downloaded from Tom Tom site) only you need at least a previous version as otherwise there are no maps.
When you do a route plan (rather than just have it in map mode), it does the "300 yards turn right......turn right.....find the next convenient place and turn round"
Not sure what happens with previous versions as I had 1.4ish on before and that interfered with Windows as I had upgraded PPC2002 to a newer version and it odesn't like that too well.
Cheers
Jeff
Hi guys, do you know if the connector for the Garmin Geko 201 is the same as the Etrex? I was looking at buying the Geko and the cable from the site listed above but they don't say specifically for the Geko. I put an email question in to the cable guys but you never know how long it will take to get an answer. It's definitely a flat connector and not a round pin type. Thanks - Jim
Hi,
I've bought a Fortuna U2 GPS receiver with an O2 XDA lead.
I've downloaded some software (GPSeasyCE), but when I try and connect to the GPS unit, I get "unable to open COM1".
Any suggestoins please?
I have tuned my keyboard driver to IR & serial, and I think I'm using the correct com port settings (4800bps, NMEA 0183).
I'd really like to just check that the hardware is working.
Can I download some free demo software that will do that?
What's best?
Thanks in advance, for any help anyone can offer,
Muddy
You have to turn off the IR port.
Muddy said:
Hi,
I've bought a Fortuna U2 GPS receiver with an O2 XDA lead.
I've downloaded some software (GPSeasyCE), but when I try and connect to the GPS unit, I get "unable to open COM1".
Any suggestoins please?
I have tuned my keyboard driver to IR & serial, and I think I'm using the correct com port settings (4800bps, NMEA 0183).
I'd really like to just check that the hardware is working.
Can I download some free demo software that will do that?
What's best?
Thanks in advance, for any help anyone can offer,
Muddy
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disable your infra red port under setting, connections/beam, it will then work. A point about cables to work with gps, if you get a serial xda cable, and you also have a pc serial cable that links to your gps, all you need to do is get a 9 pin male to 9 pin male null modem adaptor, or make one, you need to join pin 2 on one to pin 3 on the other, pin 3 to pin 2 and pin 5 to pin 5, plug your xda lead one end, gps lead the other, and away you go.
hi all i brought a usb GPS receiver from off ebay (£38) for use with computer it is a NaviLock GPS which is suitable for PC, PDA and serial....
i have tried to get this to work but nothing
the model is: http://www.navilock.de/produkte/usb_gps.html BU-303
i have had a look at the xda connector place and am trying ti wire it up to a XDA car charger....
so far i have done....
RED wire - pin 21 (+5V) (on usb its +5V)
BLACK wire - pin 5 (GND) (on usb its GND)
GREEN wire - pin 8 (RS232_TXD) (on usb its DATA+)
WHITE wire - pin 10 (RS232_RXD) (on usb its DATA-)
could someone please help me as im totally confused why it will patch a signal but it wonr show on tomtom on serial 1 running v4.01.00 ppc2003 with baud rate of 4800 and nemea v2 or what ever it is
help me please
thx in advance
gaz
Looks like a usb only receiver to me.
um... but the serial and pda models are exactly the same as this but different conectors works fine on windows 98 but doesnt on xp :\ though its supposed to. pics up signal in like 10seconds much more powerfu lthen my old haicom 203e
but i want this on my xda badly dunno why it isnt working...
also i seem to have so many serial pports on my xda 1 lol its got:
com 9:
com 1:
com 2: (makes ppc go slow and freeze half the time)
usb on serial
ive tried them all but no luck :\ i swear for sure its connected up all ok :\
hellllp! lol
Try reversing the tx rx lines, it worked for swifty on his gps even though he wired it as per instructions.
tried everything :\ i rewired it back to usb to try out on my windows partition to make sure it wasnt a duff gps and it works exellent on windows 98 cant get it to work on xp nor how ever i hook it up on the xda doesnt work either the gps starts to flash to show it has a patch and thats like in my house its a hell of a powerful gps shame i cant get it on my xda
ah well waste of £40 damn gotta try flog it now
Hey everyone, I'm trying to Wire a iGPS-180 for my SX56... the original wiring was for an iPAQ 3100-3700... I've got the pinouts for the SX56 but I was wondering if anyone knew what the pinout for an iPAQ 3100-3700 were? I'm tying to trace these wires so I know which one is which because the color codes given in another post do not match what I have.
Thanks,
MMC
One more thing... when I plug everything in and try to Enable GPS it gives me a communication error and says that in can't open communication port... I'm using OSTIA 3.25, Do I need a higher version?
Go to settings/connections and uncheck "beams" if it is checked you will have no com1 port which is the port the wired gps wants to use, also if you have a keyboard driver present you will need to disable the driver.
You're a frickn' Genius!!!! You just solved 24 hours of head scratching
THANKYOU!!!
Hey all,
I was wondering if it is possible to communicate with an Arduino with a Tilt through the Tilt's USB port? I've just gotten into device application development and I had a cool idea I was wanting to make but the biggest hurdle is how to communicate between the Arduino microcontroller and the Tilt.
For those that don't know what an Arduino is (I feel sorry for you ), it is a microcontroller platform based off of the AVR Atmel168 processor. The version I've got on hand right now is a Seeeduino that has a mini-USB port on-board communicating to the Atmel168 through an FTDI USB-Serial chip (shows up as a serial port when plugged into the computer). It would be great if the Arduino showed up as a new serial port on the phone when plugged in, but I doubt it will be that easy. Does anyone know if the Tilt/Kaiser USB port can host other devices?
If anyone has a suggestion or has tried something like this, please comment. Or if I'm just crazy for thinking the phone can do this, tell me so.
Thanks all!
-Jeremy
USB drivers
Im not sure how much this could help, but it may get you off to a good start http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=480899
i noticed it said serial port in there somewhere, so i hope it helps!
You can have a try with the drivers mentioned above. If this fails, hook a Bluetooth module to your Arduino and forget about wires
When I was waiting for a haircut today, I was fiddling in the task manager and looked at the devices tab. Just thought I'd run these by you all:
Com 8: serialusbfn.dll (\Drivers\USB\FunctionDrivers\Serial_Class)
Com 9: Serial_UART.dll (Drivers\BuiltIn\SERIAL_UART3)
I haved searched around or messed with these yet but what in the world could com 8 be being used for right now?
-Jeremy
P.S. I did see that link and that will be the next thing I'll try, Thanks!
AFAIK there are some internal peripherals that are connected to the main processor through serial ports. That might be those.
Use I2C - you can get at it through the DS2746... when looking at the PCB on the side with all of the metal-enclosed areas, it's on the left, and towards the bottom (IIRC)... should be able to run 4 wires (get a ribbon cable) out the bottom (into the battery compartment)...
I've been considering this seriously... I2C is a damn useful bus, and it's underused in this device (only battery chip, touch screen, and camera control, AFAIK)....
The bus itself is two wires - SDA (data) and SCL (clock), and you'll also need +5v and ground.
Would be nice to hook up a spare ds1621 (you can get these as free samples) or a compass/accelerometer chip
Hey guys,
Im looking to unbrick my G1 (no bootloader). I have asked some questions previously but haven't had the time to do anything besides that up to now.
I haven't had any luck here in India locating what I need with confidence, but today I happened across a helpful website.
Could anyone tell me if this is what Im looking for?
wiggler-clone
robokits.co.in/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=12&products_id=240
pc-serial
robokits.co.in/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6_64&products_id=64
The wiggler look-a-like says its compatible with GCC OCD.
The pc-serial page offers a driver under the name of pl230.
I am hoping to be able to follow the unbrick page here: wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=JTAG_for_Dream/Magic
Thanks
The unbrick process originated on this forum and was really moved along by member ezterry. You really ought to read the threads here in the dev section about this. They do tend to be long, but there is every bit of information you could possibly want to know about unbricking a dream.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5911627&postcount=302
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5934885&postcount=6
thanks for the links. i am currently working through the multitude of posts.
Hey,
I am learning a lot and have what i think is my last issue before i order some parts. The pc-serial cable should be at 2.8 v but i only have access to converters that give 5 v output.
I first consulted the datasheet for the pl2303hx (link provided above) which states:
"RS-232 VDD. The RS-232 output signals (Pin 1 ~ Pin 3) are
designed for 5V, 3.3V or 3V operation. VDD_232 should be
connected to the same power level of the RS-232 interface.
(The RS-232 input signals are always 5V~3V tolerant.)"
which was a little confusing, so i consulted the vendor:
"It will output 5V if the jumper is shorted or else it will be 0V. But the unit is self powered and can accept 3.3V input and output levels.
which is self contradictory. but, from what i gather, the serial output will be the same as the usb input.
Lastly, from this google group discussion:
groups.google.com/group/android-platform/msg/bf66abf4515132fb
Someone states that they used an lm317 circuit to drop voltage to 2.8, and it seems like this is the route ill take.
Question is, which voltage do i control? I think if i drop usb vcc voltage i should be good?
I think i just going to buy it and see, whats 400 INR anyways (its like 8 bucks)
salsavirdi said:
"RS-232 VDD. The RS-232 output signals (Pin 1 ~ Pin 3) are
designed for 5V, 3.3V or 3V operation. VDD_232 should be
connected to the same power level of the RS-232 interface.
(The RS-232 input signals are always 5V~3V tolerant.)"
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If you can't understand that, then you should find someone to assist you who does.
I suppose im being a overly paranoid, and would like some corroboration. Id really hate to fry my phone, im rather attached to it.