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Now we all know how great this gadget is as a portable mp3 player,
Its also great for the car.... I no longer use my Cooltrax Mp3 player for long journeys... If anyone wants to try this - Maplin
www.maplin.co.uk
in the uk sells a £10 cassette adapter
http://www.maplin.co.uk/products/module.asp?CartID=030421125121999&moduleno=33816&modulecode=
That also has a handsfree mic (the mic wont work though) ... and enables you to plug the xda into your car hi-fi easily. But more importantly it has the 2.5mm headphone socket, unfortunately only a standard one, not the strange nonstandard xda version with four poles! The only downside is the usual "mobile phone noise interference" when it tries connecting to gprs while the music is playing, unless anyone knows of an easy way of shielding the cable! (get the baking foil out!)
Whats the ONLY downside of using this in the car?
Storage! With the cost of MMC cards being high, and a few games roms filling your mmc card, I started to ponder about using an external hard disk with the xda.
Obviously using a MMC>PCMCIA adapter, then plugging in a pcmcia laptop hard disk is convoluted - not to mention probably quite expensive.
Then I discovered the USB Mass Storage drivers, for pocket pc http://www.deje.gmxhome.de/download.html
which were developed for the Casio pocket Pc.... That got me thinking.... does it mean that you could install the drivers... fit the USB cradle in the car, and use some kind of usb gender changer plug to connect the xda to an external hard disk...
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...m9kdWN0X3NwZWNpZmljYXRpb25z&product_uid=35706
Wow just think, you could put all your music from your home pc in your glove compartment! and power it from the cigarrette lighter (obviously splitting the power into your xda as well) Occasionally loading it up by connecting it to your home pc!
Has anyone tried this, unfortunately I dont have a usb hard disk... :?:
obviously the xda is only usb 1.0 but presumably usb hard disks are downwardly compatibile, and the data rate required for mp3 would not be too much for the poor old version of usb to stream to the device for playback?
The xda user manual and website just says interface is USB (no version specified)
According to the Iomega website this drive does support USB 1.1
http://www.iomega-europe.com/eu/products.aspx?productId=HDD80USB20External
What are your thoughts guys?
No
Derek,
The answer is no. Enter 'slave' in the search function of this board and you will find the reason.
Sorry for the short response to your enthousiastic and long question/suggestion but the weather here is just TOO good te be inside the house.
c ya
thanks climber,
I wasnt aware of the term "slave" in relation to USB. Presumably this is just a software term with regards to the OS, or is it a more fundamental hardwired connection from the connector onto the xda data bus, that software would not be able to repurpose into being a "master device"
Derek
Make every CD as 512M Harddisk for your XDA!
Here is the solution!
http://www.pocketpcpassion.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30816
Don't think so
Well..... it depends on your requirements I guess.
Not mine!!!
Robert
Thanks for the suggestion Joey, but I have to agree with climber... whats the point of connecting a laptop to it. Sort of defeats the object of using the xda as a in car mp3 player, why not use the laptop instead!
I'd like to have a seperate removable hard disk just connected to the xda.
shame the host/slave issue cant be resolved.
What about the PCMCIA adapter method?
Ayone tried that out?
Also a no go. An MMC PCMCIA adapter uses SDIO (as do all cards which are not 'simple storage' cards). The XDA unfortunately does not support SDIO - one of those short sighted O2 thing.
I think they wanted to prevent us from sticking Bluetooth cards in and using them instead of their pricey GPRS netowork!
Shame...
I'm keeping my optimism for the future.... Keeping my chin up despite all the tales of woe...
Hopefully one day soon someone will post a solution with some new fangled device/software combination, either that or wait until 40 gig mmc cards appear...
I'm guessing at 2007, plus of course another 2 years for the cards to become affordable.
Of course by then none of us will want the xda.
:wink:
yeah same here.....
First of all, I am happy with my XDA...........now!
This might change in the future when others enter that market as well. I have worked for Compaq and my old buddies over there (now HP of cousre) snicker about the XDA.
That has two reasons:
A) they are plain jealous because the iPAQ can't yet
B) they know what is coming up next at HP
If would bet (my mom just don't allows me to :wink: ), I would put my money on HP bringing out something like that in the future. The question is when and will it do my laundry as well?
QUESTION TO DEREK: you describe the cassette thing.... what is your experience on sound quality???
You might have seen my home grown carkit and i think of using that for the speaker. http://www.xda-developers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=853
Robert[/url]
'USB on the go'
Hi,
The soon-to-come new standard called 'USB on the go' would solve your problems.. If you get for example a hd-chassis with this on built-in, you could possibly connect that chassis directly via USB to your XDA )
You can read more on http://www.usb.org/developers/onthego
Fred
I would like to know if anyone has develop or found a kind of cable that is able to link the PDA to an external vga screen. If there is, can I have the website please???
it's not possible the connector in the buttom of the wallaby is serial you cant transfer something which require as much bandwidth as tvout/monitor out over such a slow line
you can get a xda2 and the backpack and you are set
Hi All,
I'm going on a trip in a couple of month and I would like to be able to watch dvix movies/tv shows on my qtek while travelling.
i only have a 1GB miniSD card and the 2 GB card would not be large enough
Is there a some sort of external hard drive I can somehow connect to my qtek so I can watch my movies?
Would http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=14147&vpn=WL-HDD2.5&manufacture=ASUS: work?
Thanks a bunch.
That's an idea. It should work, but don't take my word for it. If you can access your pc's shares thru wi-fi I don't see why this wouldn't work. Just do what I do and make up another excuse to buy it something like "If all else fails, it will make a cool paper weight" oh and here http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833320110 $30 something off, if they don't screw you with the shipping this is not bad.
haha.. nowadays i get yelled at cuz I have collected too many paper weights..
I just tried mapping a drive to my computer and it sorta works..
only problem is when i watch a movie using tcpmp, it stops for a few seconds(spinning RBYG hourglass comes up)..
is there any settings to aleviate the network lag?
i've overclocked to 252 while watching with TCPMP.
also, i gots a problem.. i need some sort of battery power harddrive enclosure for portability??
Hmmm as far as a battery power harddrive enclosure, can't say I have seen one. I've played a bit of video accessed from my pc's shares and it's played ok, but I haven't tried to play anything while any of the other pc's on my network were on or my pc was using the connection, so mayb it could be too much traffic in your network at the time, can't say for certain now, cause I switched my router and modem for a 327w router/dsl modem and this piece of ^%$#%^$ isn't letting me access my shares at the time.
Word of advice to any who might have verizon dsl.... stay away from the versalink 327w, at first I though it was me who had the problem, but after some searching on the net i see that there are a lot of people having issues with it.
i just have one pc downloading off usenet.. i guess the problem might be the $5 router i'm using right now..
i guess there is no such thing as a hard drive that you can plug in to the qtek..
2gb minisd is the only way to go then...
Sadly sometimes we just gotta learn to adapt, but you might try looking at other options, look for a program called VEMOde. It's a program to encode video files it has settings for portable device, this way you can shrink your video files down considerably and they would still look good on your MDA. Anyways good luck to you bro. If I think of anything else useful I'll post back.
thx dude, i just used vemode and the file size are 1/2 the size now!
Yeah it's pretty awesome, I've been using it for some time now. I used to use it for my psp, now I use it for my MDA. Anywho glad that helped, later!
why not just carry a laptop? its a phone/pda and i think HTC did a great job making it small and usable. i could understand that you love the device and want to do everything possible with it but do you really want to be carrying around cables, extra batteries and a portable HD for a phone? :roll: its just a phone/pda phone with an okay processing speed.
I know how it is to have a device and want to do everything with it, i had the XDA Exec and wanted to use it as a laptop replacement and phone. but i fast realized that 1. it was just to big to use a phone 2. i was speeding way to much time configuring it and trying to convince myself that it will replace my laptop.
i don't have a laptop and my gf has forbidden me from making any major purchases after i bought my qtek.. that's until I get her an engagement ring :roll: :lol:
it'd be nice if i could just hook up a 30GB hard drive to my qtek..
i don't have time to watch the tv shows at nite, so the only time is on the way to work/home..
I've been looking for something like this for awhile with my 8125. I've seen a promising product announced at CeBit:
http://features.engadget.com/2006/03/13/live-from-cebit-the-widrive-wifi-drive-enclosure/
Supposed to be a battery (2 hour?) powered wi-fi enclosure for 1.8 or 2.5 inch drives. Looks to be available around July or so. This would be perfect for me; 1.8 drives are around 60GB (80 just announced), and would give me the space I need.
I have the ASUS, and its nice, but battery powered would be killer. I can't wait until the Wi-drive is released.
cjohnson6965 said:
I've been looking for something like this for awhile with my 8125. I've seen a promising product announced at CeBit:
http://features.engadget.com/2006/03/13/live-from-cebit-the-widrive-wifi-drive-enclosure/
Supposed to be a battery (2 hour?) powered wi-fi enclosure for 1.8 or 2.5 inch drives. Looks to be available around July or so. This would be perfect for me; 1.8 drives are around 60GB (80 just announced), and would give me the space I need.
I have the ASUS, and its nice, but battery powered would be killer. I can't wait until the Wi-drive is released.
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Thanks that looks interesting - seems to have miniusb charger port a plus!
Unless the device provides an HTTP daemon to serve the files, you won't be able to access them from the device. You may also require a WiFi Hotspot/hub for the Wizard to be able to "see" the device, since neither will be able to act as the host for an Ad-hoc connection.
You won't be able to connect the devices with USB, since there is no USB host or generic USB-Disk 'client' on the Wizard.
Hello guys,
i use pocketdivxencoder for shrinking my videos. I get about 180MB for one full-time movie.
I use the settings:
2pass
B-frames
15fps
206kbps (wich equals to quality 9)
I know, fps 15 is quite low but you won`t notice the difference on the mda cause auf the screen.
Image quality is quite cool on the small device.
perhaps you should check it out.
If you use a more simple encoding (1-pass, low quality) you can get 25 or 30fps because the CPU will take less time decoding. The video will look more smooth and the artifacts will be practically invisible on such a small LCD. I get 640x480 vids running at full speed on my Universal using nice simple encoding
Thanks for the tips guys, i was using vemode but i always had problems loading it.. i will try pocketdivxencoder!
cheers
My old e800 did this...
1st post folks!
When I install Ratoc's USB host drivers for Pocket PC onto my Toshiba e800 (which I am selling on ebay - goodbye, old friend) I can hook up and browse my Iriver H340 and even my sister's Ipod. So I can just copy films over onto a folder on the H340 and be able to watch them using TCMP.
Basically the Pocket PC acts as a USB host device and is able to see any USB drive hooked up to it. Does the Wizard have this ability, or is it at all possible?
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1st post folks!
When I install Ratoc's USB host drivers for Pocket PC onto my Toshiba e800 (which I am selling on ebay - goodbye, old friend) I can hook up and browse my Iriver H340 and even my sister's Ipod. So I can just copy films over onto a folder on the H340 and be able to watch them using TCMP.
Basically the Pocket PC acts as a USB host device and is able to see any USB drive hooked up to it. Does the Wizard have this ability, or is it at all possible?
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Welcome fuzzywuzzy, Ratoc dont seem to do a version that ties into a minsd card. In theory you should be able to with the wizard (if a manufacturer would make a minsd to usb link cable) but no-one has had success. Would be great if you could
Hi all, I was wondering if there was anyone here who has or atleast heard of anyone that has the TV Out Cable. I was interested and needed to know if the FM radio function worked with the cable plugged in?
Also, if I was using a touchscreen computer monitor, could my touches control my TP2?
I just tried using the tv out cable and it doesn't work with the FM radio. Still asks to plug in headset. Also tried the adapter and you need to plug in the headset as well. Plugged in 3.5mm headset and working now.
as for the touch screen. i dont think you'll be able to because the touch screen computer monitors need to send a signal back to the device to let it know where your touching.
BUT what you could do is install a software on your pc like Soti Pocket Controller, i think theres similar software thats free, then control your device via your pc from that software.
the tv out cable does not work with raido and i am glad i was given 30 days to return it is worthless for this phone but it is suposed to be`able to use on future htc phones
no the touchscreen will not work simply because you need a conection between the touchscreen itself not the display, touchscreens use two conections, one for the display and one for the touch input, so if you was to plug the display adapter to the phone, where are you going to plug the touch input? now... im working on a carpc and i was thinking it would be cool to use my phone as a frontend, since everything is mobile and so convinient, but i need my touchscreen to control my phone, so i need somewhat what i used to have for my omnia, which is a program that displays the phones screen on your pc monitor and you can use your mouse and keyboard to control your phone, since my touchscreen replaces the mouse, voila! it could happen, but i cant remember the name of the program and cant seem to find the htc equivalent, now somobody help!? lol
marmotabassriderx said:
no the touchscreen will not work simply because you need a conection between the touchscreen itself not the display, touchscreens use two conections, one for the display and one for the touch input, so if you was to plug the display adapter to the phone, where are you going to plug the touch input? now... im working on a carpc and i was thinking it would be cool to use my phone as a frontend, since everything is mobile and so convinient, but i need my touchscreen to control my phone, so i need somewhat what i used to have for my omnia, which is a program that displays the phones screen on your pc monitor and you can use your mouse and keyboard to control your phone, since my touchscreen replaces the mouse, voila! it could happen, but i cant remember the name of the program and cant seem to find the htc equivalent, now somobody help!? lol
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Sounds like you want MyMobiler. Free, gives direct control of your phone through mouse/keyboard (or whatever you have that replaces them), in a scalable window.
mymobiler.com
sirphunkee said:
Sounds like you want MyMobiler. Free, gives direct control of your phone through mouse/keyboard (or whatever you have that replaces them), in a scalable window.
mymobiler.com
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That's what I was going to suggest. I use MyMobiler all the time, and it's awesome.
BUT: While it's fine for normal phone use and presentations, it's no good for video or games, because the refresh rate is low. That's where the TV out cable would be more appropriate.
my mobilizer is win...
a tad bit laggy but if you connect your phone to your computer with it, you can then use the touch screen on you computer to control the cell
got mine today
I ordered an aftermarket TV Out cable from a dealer on eBay... $12.50 including shipping. It arrived today, and it was a good purchase.
I will be able to use it for PowerPoint presentations (and to show YouTube videos) at work. Video resolution isn't bad on a 40" HDTV and doesn't lag. I use MyMobiler all the time on my desktop and laptop PCs, but this adds yet another ability to my awesome Tilt 2.
Anyone figured a way to use the gtab with a projector without the dock? trying to have as few gizmos as possible to take on the road with me.
If you want HDMI output without the dock you would need a custom cable from the g-tablet's docking port to HDMI and as far as I know, no such cable exists at this time. You can search these forums for "HDMI cable" and find a couple of threads on the subject.
I understand the desire to travel light but the dock really isn't that big or heavy.
999ping said:
If you want HDMI output without the dock you would need a custom cable from the g-tablet's docking port to HDMI and as far as I know, no such cable exists at this time. You can search these forums for "HDMI cable" and find a couple of threads on the subject.
I understand the desire to travel light but the dock really isn't that big or heavy.
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Well my dock isn't exactly light but it is required to provide power to the HDMi output. I did purchase a HDMI to DVI converter for my projector and it works like a champ projecting from the gtab to the projector. Now if my mouse would work I could (almost) ditch the laptop. I have also found that most of the PowerPoint viewers don't 100% convert my PowerPoint slide decks to view on the gtab. It is typically some pictures on the slides that don't convert. I have roughly 16 slides out of 125 slides that don't project properly (can't remember off hand which program does the best job, but that is my best effort). I haven't had time to convert all of those slides although I had to teach one of my training classes today so had to lug the laptop along. Ideally a mouse or wireless remote to advance the slides would create a smaller travel kit. Good luck with the presentation. The dock while heavy, weighs as much as my Dell power brick so that at least is a trade off.
Hey guys...
this is a big question for me also...but I'm wondering if anyone has figured out a way to do video OUT of the USB port for powerpoint? Since most PPT is just static there shouldn't be a huge issue with BW (Even so, I've got a USB to VGA adapter for my laptop, so USB definently has the BW to pull it off. )
wonder if there's a simple USB to VGA adapter out there somewhere. I'll do some digging....
it's not that the docking station is heavy or anything, it's just bulky in a briefcase. I travel international all the time and want to leave as much crap at home.
Oh, and if anyone comes up with a good ppt editor / viewer lemme know.
BN
bnovak said:
Hey guys...
this is a big question for me also...but I'm wondering if anyone has figured out a way to do video OUT of the USB port for powerpoint? Since most PPT is just static there shouldn't be a huge issue with BW (Even so, I've got a USB to VGA adapter for my laptop, so USB definently has the BW to pull it off. )
wonder if there's a simple USB to VGA adapter out there somewhere. I'll do some digging....
it's not that the docking station is heavy or anything, it's just bulky in a briefcase. I travel international all the time and want to leave as much crap at home.
Oh, and if anyone comes up with a good ppt editor / viewer lemme know.
BN
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Funny you asked about a USB to VGA adapter. I'm not sure if its video out or in??? The description says you can use it for dual monitor expandability which leads me to believe its a video in cable. Anyways, someone posted a couple days ago at another forum that he found that adapter. Its expensive though. Here's the link he posted...
http://www.fommy.com/view-full-page...nic+gTablet&tabletcategory=Cables&skuno=90129
That one is pricey
There are lots of those USB to VGA adapter gizmos.. but I have hesitated to buy one because I wasn't sure there was the right software available.. presumably you need at least a generic USB screen driver..
Anyone tried one of these with the gtab?
http://www.google.com/search?q=usb+...06&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=a40f3cd63ecc4954
Your best bet would be to use a DisplayLink based adapter. These allow dvi or vga based displays to be connected via usb. They have also released linux drivers. It even seems as though they were able ouput video to such displays through an app called "Send to Framebuffer". I actually have a displaylink dock, so maybe I'll play around with it after class today. Check out the following link and scroll down to "External Displays".
http://sven.killig.de/android/N1/2.2/usb_host/
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Funny you asked about a USB to VGA adapter. I'm not sure if its video out or in??? The description says you can use it for dual monitor expandability which leads me to believe its a video in cable. Anyways, someone posted a couple days ago at another forum that he found that adapter. Its expensive though. Here's the link he posted...
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I actually have some emails into Fommy and the mfg. of the device. Although on the Fommy site it list the G-Tablet and NI Adam, I have yet to find any information from the mfg that this device will work with Android.
It is a video out device.