Serial Connection to NT - MDA, XDA, 1010 General

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dated before January 19th 2003
Subject: Serial Connection to NT
From: Stew
Date: 03 Jan, 2003 21:48:32
Having just bought my XDA, I am keen to synchronise it with my
Windows NT laptop. Therefore splashed out on a Serial cradle,
connected it to the COM port - ran ActiveSync, and get nowhere -
ActiveSynch just keeps telling me "Your device was not
detected", and that "COM 1" and "COM 2" are available...
Any ideas?
I have plugged the serial wire into my XP desktop, and
everything just fires up and synchronises immediately, so
presumably the problem is with my NT settings? I have check the
COM port basic settings which seem to be the same on both XP and
NT...I am stuck, and the O2 support line are stuck. HELP!!!
Cheers,
Stew
Subject: Serial port on XDA
From: XDA developers
Date: 04 Jan, 2003 05:46:58
We've observed some peculiar behaviour with the XDA serial port.
It seems to wake up only when it detects sufficient voltage, and
the port can be hard to wake up from the outside once it decides
the serial port is not connected. Probably a battery-saving
'feature'.
Does your device wake up from sleep when you stick it in the
cradle? It should wake up when it sees the computer's DTR.
Subject: Serial connection
From: Stew
Date: 04 Jan, 2003 10:41:37
Interesting point.
When I put the switched off XDA into the (seemingly identical)
USB cradle, it immediatly switches itself on. The same doesn't
happen with the Serial cradle. But I have tried switching the
XDA on manually, and it makes no difference...not sure what DTR
is??
Thanks....
Stew
Subject: Serial Connection
From: Alan T
Date: 04 Jan, 2003 17:18:34
Try turning off the Infra Red Receiving option under
Start/settings/connections/beam. Until I did this, when I tried
to connect my GPS to com1 it was unavailable . I also turned of
the 'Enable synchronisation when cradled using:' in the Active
Sync options although you might want to set it to an appropriate
serial baud rate.
Subject: XDA Serial Connnection to NT
From: Ric
Date: 07 Jan, 2003 11:26:38
Hi
I am also having major NT/XDA serial connection problems on my
work laptop.
I am using a genuine sync and charge serial cable.
If I try the serial sync on my Me machine it connects.
It looks like an NT issue and I would really apppreciate any
help in resolving it
Thanks
Ric
Subject: NT4 ActiveSync
From: tabbycat
Date: 08 Jan, 2003 09:35:40
I too have an NT4 SP5 laptop Tecra 8100, with Activezsync 3.5.
However my serial connection is fine.
The only time I've had occasional problems is when trying to
connect via the docking station and being on the corporate LAN.
I se default settings in ActiveSync.
Subject: serial conn problems solved
From: Ric
Date: 10 Jan, 2003 10:16:33
HI
I posted a couple of days ago with a serial connection problem
on my work laptop AS 3.5/6 to NT 4.00 1381 sp6
I discovered the modem was on com1
I created com2 pushed the modem onto com2 rebooted and it worked
fine.
It seems that com1 must be dedicated to AS or it will not play.
Give it a go
Let me know how you get on with a post here
Cheers
Ric.
Subject: USB for NT by bsquare
From: Chris
Date: 11 Jan, 2003 15:54:09
You could also try USB for NT4.0 by bsquare.com. It makes the
usb port usable for certain devices, like cradles. Works perfect
with my MDA.