a good news...
http://www.brodit.com/productinformation.jsp?anr=968649
the new ACTIVE holder
Thanks for the link...
Unfortunately no power output for a GPS unit?
I fail to see the difference between the passive holder and supplying your own cable, and this active holder... you still have to attach a cable every time you slide the device in!
timetex said:
I fail to see the difference between the passive holder and supplying your own cable, and this active holder... you still have to attach a cable every time you slide the device in!
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Exactly! (Glad I'm not the only person thinking this!)
I'm waiting for a holder like a laptop docking station. Slide the Universal into the holder in landscape/laptop mode, with connectors at the back for audio (with the jack) and the USB/power connection. It's surely no coincidence that HTC made this machine with all the connectors in a row on one face and with the connections in parallel? (On the XDA2 the main connector is at a different angle to the headphone jack so one holder couldn't provide both interfaces in one fixed cradle.)
Also I am looking for a holder that doesn't mean I need to butcher my dashboard with screws to fix it in.
A new dash would probably cost me as much as the Universal if I bodged it.
joebongo said:
Also I am looking for a holder that doesn't mean I need to butcher my dashboard with screws to fix it in.
A new dash would probably cost me as much as the Universal if I bodged it.
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These brodit holders don't need you to botch your dash...
You simply buy the proclip from Brodit which matches your car, and that attaches to your dashboard without drilling or screwing - they usually just involve you "spreading" the dash at a join and slipping it in. Works perfectly.
timetex said:
These brodit holders don't need you to botch your dash...
You simply buy the proclip from Brodit which matches your car, and that attaches to your dashboard without drilling or screwing - they usually just involve you "spreading" the dash at a join and slipping it in. Works perfectly.
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It's a nice theory but they seem to be designed to block air vents though, especially on my car. I've never understood why this is an acceptable solution. Seems like a bad idea to be blowing either ice-cold or roasting hot air straight at the back of a £400 nugget of ultra-sophisticated electrickery instead of at my face. Whether it buggers up the machine or not (and I'm guessing it doesn't cos nobody seems to complain) I don't want this solution! I want it mounted somewhere unobstructive, away from the car's functions! A sucker-mounted screen attachment is ideal. But I'm still waiting for one...
SiliconS said:
timetex said:
These brodit holders don't need you to botch your dash...
You simply buy the proclip from Brodit which matches your car, and that attaches to your dashboard without drilling or screwing - they usually just involve you "spreading" the dash at a join and slipping it in. Works perfectly.
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It's a nice theory but they seem to be designed to block air vents though, especially on my car. I've never understood why this is an acceptable solution. Seems like a bad idea to be blowing either ice-cold or roasting hot air straight at the back of a £400 nugget of ultra-sophisticated electrickery instead of at my face. Whether it buggers up the machine or not (and I'm guessing it doesn't cos nobody seems to complain) I don't want this solution! I want it mounted somewhere unobstructive, away from the car's functions! A sucker-mounted screen attachment is ideal. But I'm still waiting for one...
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That depends entirely on your car...
Mine has at least 4 different locations for mounting, 2 of which do, indeed, foul the airvent - but I have my iPod mounted on one clipped down near my stereo, which is a perfect location.
The alternative is a bracket from Dashmount (www.dashmount.co.uk) as, IIRC, these don't block vents in a lot of cars.
Has anyone yet found somewhere that's selling these on behalf of Brodit yet?
When I got the XDA2(X) in 04 it was via www.handnav.co.uk, but I cannot see anywhere that's selling them at the moment.
Cheers
Ant
I have had one of these brodit and proclip combinations for all my recent devices and i can tell you there is nothing better, perfect holders and easy installation with no screws or anything into the dash, they clip in and are solid as a rock 10\10 in my book
Chris
ps anyone selling yet in the uk
SiliconS said:
I'm waiting for a holder like a laptop docking station. Slide the Universal into the holder in landscape/laptop mode, with connectors at the back for audio (with the jack) and the USB/power connection. It's surely no coincidence that HTC made this machine with all the connectors in a row on one face and with the connections in parallel? (On the XDA2 the main connector is at a different angle to the headphone jack so one holder couldn't provide both interfaces in one fixed cradle.)
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Ditto, I've suggested as much to Brodit, let's see what results
Anton.Valleyman said:
Has anyone yet found somewhere that's selling these on behalf of Brodit yet?
When I got the XDA2(X) in 04 it was via www.handnav.co.uk, but I cannot see anywhere that's selling them at the moment.
Cheers
Ant
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Handnav can get any Brodit Part once it's available to retail, another alternative is Nemesis the UK importer. http://www.nemesisgb.com/ Cr*p website but call them and they can' t be more helpful.
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A sucker-mounted screen attachment is ideal. But I'm still waiting for one...
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See this. Brodit even have a clip that will interface between that four pronged mount (known as the HR-Mount) and their cradles.
Decisions, decisions!!
In all honesty I'd love to have a good Brodit mount that sticks to the windscreen to show off the Exec in laptop mode to other drivers!! haha...though I've been weary of it losing suction and falling (in probably slow motion with me watching it) disasterously to the floor mid journey.
I'm keeping the arm of the existing car kit I had for the 2/2i but hoping to just rescrew in the Exec model.
Ant
Handnav will have the brodit in stock from the end of next week!
Oooo nice find ... I want ... no need this .
Just emailed HandNav asking when it's coming in and if I can order it .
Brodit also has powered Holder now for the JasJar QTEK 9000 etc
Major design flaw with Brodit. Follow thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=30022
I have Just ordered a powered Brodit Holder for my MDA PRO, it shall arrive on Monday. Costs: 53,55 Euro, this is for the Powered holder with sigarette plug.
Great, let me know when it arrives if your speaker is also covered by the device, like in my post above ^
I'm interested in switching to this from my Samsung i730 pocketpc/phone - basically looking for a device that will do all the same things - but be more usable with a terminal server.
Anyone have experience using it with a Terminal Server? I'm very interested in screen real-estate / resolution.
Thanks.
I use my ameo to connect to terminal server regularly, it's pretty good and very useful, the screen is usable especially with keys to jump to top left, top right middle, bottom left, bottom right rather then having to scroll around.
I use it often for my own servers and to support my customers. It's a life saver and works very well even over sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooow GPRS.
i use it all the time and i have the kensington bluetooth mouse and the stowaway bluetooth keyboard hooked up and it all works very will with remote desktop. just make sure you get the wm6 version of remote desktop.
I use it all the time to connect to our servers at work to do jobs normally only available internally. Fantastic and plenty big enough.
Thanks for replies - that's my top issue, I can connect to a term. server with my i730, but the screen is stoo small to do anything useful.
The only other thing I will have to work out is portability.
I carry the i730 on a belt, I assume that won't work for the 7501. But carrying it on a belt means always and always having it on-hand. I'd have to do something similar with the 7501.
I'm reading that many people are treating it more as a mini-laptop then a pocketpc/phone - (ie, not always carrying it) - how do you guys handle it? I fear it will be sitting at home when I need to emergency connect to a terminal server.
BTW, I know I'd use a bluetooth headset for phone calls, and I thought about folable (and full size) bluetooth keyboards for data entry - but for some reason I never thought about a bluetooth mouse.
If I carry just the unit (without even the magnetic keyboard) by itself all the time, but have power/bluetooth keyboard & mouse available in a bag for trips... well, VERY tempting.
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Oh, almost forgot - 1 handed use! I assume that's out the window - especially reading ebooks 1 handed? Any way to hold the unit with 1 hand & turn pages with the same hand (without pain) ?
Thanks for all help!
HELP!
Got my HTC in today - trying terminal server. I can connect - sortof.
At the login screen, I don't seem to be able to type anything, with either the hard keyboard, or a sip. Can't change the username, can't type a password.
I have NOT gotten my cell sim chip yet, so I am doing this while connected/synched to my pc - dunno if that has something to do with it.
Any other ideas?
Found this reading the thread....
If the Keyboard isnt working for you it's because you installed the .cab to your storage card. There are scancode files in it that MUST go in the \windows folder, but installing it to a storage card puts them in \Storage Card\Windows.
Last post for now (haven't searches this answer yet).. is the appx. 16 colors I'm getting normal?
Can anyone recommend a starting point to get a motorcycle controller built? I have been playing with Xbox/PS3 controllers and they provide basic system controls of up, down, left, right, back, select capability and I would like at least these basics on a controller that is thumb accessible on a motorcycle. I would also like to add volume up and down. Since the usb drivers are built into android, Could the board be easily created? Once the board is created, building the enclosure would be relatively simple. I use my phone on the dash of my bike for GPS/Phone/Music through my bluetooth helmet.
Personally, I'd use a Teensy (ATMega32u4 USB board),
but that's because I've already used it for a project and it would be easy to get this one done.
If you wanted to be cheesy, you could gut an old USB keyboard and take out the board.
Figure out what cross connections give you the keyboard commands that you want.
Hello,
I have a PCB that is communicating with an android handheld via a USB UART connection.
The PCB handles a d-pad over a serial connection, also has a few other un-mapped keys.
What is the best way of having the android OS recognize the d-pad controls natively, as in I would like to map a home button, back, menu etc as well as the d-pad
It seems as though there are already provisions made within the android OS to handle full external keyboards and joysticks etc
If someone has achieved something similar, such as connecting a serial joystick/dpad/keyboard over USB bridge, please chime in.
Thank you for everyones help in advance.
BUMP!!
willing to pay for someone to help figure this out!
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Hi everyone, I basically have an ongoing project at the moment where I'd like to have a headunit in the open top kit car me and a friend are building. Everything is full on stripped down back to basics, no ABS, no powersteering but we're keen to have a bit of fimiliarities with the headunit. I'm struggling a little bit on exactly what to get, I don't know if an off the shelf solution exists or if I'd have to go down something like the rasperry pi route but effectively here's what I'm after from the unit. Don't mind the idea of a tablet of sorts as well, but it would need multiple USB slots (see below).
Android OS is probably best for what we're after however open to suggestions/other ideas
Multiple USB slots 3 minimum - 1 for ODB/ Diagnostic connection, 1 for Apple CarPlay and the other for DAB radio if required
Resistive touch screen - there's no roof on the kit car we'll do our best to weatherproof it but we'd like for the screen to be not effected by droplets of water if it does start raining
Something that's not incredible slow
The monitor and the OS can be two separate devices if required e.g Resistive monitor and then trailing a HDMI/USB to the computer which would be in a dry wiring tray.
Has anyone done this? Seen anything that'd suit? We're really open to suggestions and looking to find a solution asap.