Morning All
the bottom connector on my xda2 is broken and wont sync in my cradle with my laptop,it will power it though.
I need to reinstall tomtom,is there anyway i can do this to my xda via a bluetooth dongle on my laptop and just send the tomtom programe to my xda2,has anyone managed to do something similar? If so which dongle would you recommend? and any tips?
Thanks for any advice offered
Nige
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Hi,
I have a USB GPS receiver that is powered via the USB cable wired into my car which I occasionally use with my laptop.
I would like to connect this to my universal, but am worried about it draining the battery.
I have a small Belkin USB hub that has external power (which I can provide from a transformer in the Cig lighter socket) that has one mini USB socket which is usually used to connect to the PC and then 4 standard USB ports.
If I connect the GPS to one of the USB ports and then Universal to another they should both be powered, but will the Universal be able to 'see' the GPS?
I know I could go and just try it, however it would be useful to know before hand incase it doesn't work when it is supposed to due to some driver issues or something similar.
Any thoughts appreciated.
To My understanding this is not possible, the mini usb port on the uni is not capable....there is a word to describe it but cant remember at the moment. The port can onl charge and sync.
it won't work
Sadly this won't work as the uni does not support usb host - it can charge and sync but thats all as far as i'm aware.
that was it "usb host" :lol:
THanks. That's a shame, I'll have to get a BT one now.
Or look for a cradle that will act as the host for both devices. Sadly when I searched on google, most of the returned results are blocked by my work firewall, so I can't see for sure that one exists for recievers with usb plugs.
edit* Although thinking about it, the price of a cradle could well equal a new bluetooth receiver, and bluetooth would be vastly more practical use of your cash.
Thanks, already trying to track down a BT receiver.
Why not?
What makes me wonder is that when my MDA Pro is connected via activesync with my PC, I can browse with my MDA over my PC-Internet connection into the Internet. Why should it not be possible to use the usb connection of the MDA with other hardware? :roll: Isn't it just a driver problem?
Any ideas???
hm
My thought on that would be that your MDA is acting as the slave device when attatched to your PC, not the host.
Hey, here's a market opportunity for you USB GPS manufacturers - add USB Host capability and TCP/IP protocol to your USB GPS device... What? Can't hear you. Ah, Too expensive?. Ah, ok :-(
i need help with my bluetooth connection between my laptop and my mda.
i purchased a kensington usb bluetooth adapter for my laptop to connect to my mda. my laptop detects the mda but laptop is assigning the connection to com port 5 however the mda only allows for com port 6 or 7.
question is how do i make my computer assign a different com port??
please help me!!!
anyone? anyone?
World o' hurt
The only solution I found to this was to delete activesync from my pc -- no mean feat because it is always running, search for "activesynctoggle.exe" -- and delete the partnership and start over, choosing the right com port on the PC the next time.
But that never fixed the ultimate problem, which is that bluetooth would sync once, and then not again until I shut down and restarted my laptop. I finally gave up, as it worked pretty much flawlessly with a usb cable.
I've just bought a laptop with integral bluetooth and I'm hoping that it will sync with bluetooth.
hi,
anyone knows of any SW that makes the pocket pc behave as a bluetooth dongle, connected to my pc through activesync? (i have no bluetooth dongle in my pc, & i need to connect my pc to a mobile phone through activesync)
thanks.
edit: follows here
Is it possible to use the phone as a USB bluetooth receiver connected to a PC? I want to be able to use my bluetooth headset with my PC but don't have a seperate bluetooth receiver. It would be cool if the phone could be hooked up via USB to do all of this magic for me.
Seeing as how we can share the wifi and use it as a hotspot, this should also theoretically be possible. If the phone has a USB connection it should be able to share it's bluetooth capability with what it's connected to. It should take some sort of driver I'm guessing.