Does anybody know of a WORKING internal GPS Module for the Prophet ? I'm talking about SDIO at most, but preferably some kind of internal extension board. I'm guessing everybody has had enough with carying around a bulky bluetooth gps receiver.
ya! that would be very nice...
No such thing, and not going to happen.
I am not quite sure about SDIO (though I never hear of one) but there is no such thing as "internal extension cards" for Prophet or any other WM device.
Their mother boards come as a closed unit and there are no connectors / slots for any hardware other then what is in the specs.
This is not a PC and the OEM never attended for people to take these things apart.
sdio
the wifi nic for the prophet is actually a SDIO extension board. not as in a physical board per say but as in the way it interfaces with the pda mb. the sd slot for the prophet i know that it is sdio compatible, what i don't know is if it supports the standard necessary for this one, for instance: http://www.globalsat.com.tw/eng/product_detail_00000053.htm
Actually the problem with that model is not the standard - they stated SDIO so no reason it wouldn't work, except they don't claim to support WM 5.
GPS basically throws ASCII strings to a serial port, but a card using SDIO would probably need a driver to be properly recognized by the OS and WM 2003 driver is more than likely not to work for WM 5.
On a side note: it is considerate of them to provide memory to replace the storage card who's place they are taking. (though this will create a problem with nav apps that lock on SD serial).
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Is there a way xdaI (Wallaby) can connect to a wireless network?
all wifi SD cards are SDIO and xda1 dont support SDIO so not that i ever heard about
http://www.socketcom.com/support/support_wlan.asp?Type=SDIO
Rudegar said:
all wifi SD cards are SDIO and xda1 dont support SDIO so not that i ever heard about
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What about the MMC type cards or is that just another name for SD(SDIO)?
And what abuot COM1(SERIAL) on the bottom of the xda witch is used to connect to a desktop computer(SERIAL or USB), is there any kind of device which can connect to that port and is WiFi capable?
mmc and sd flash cards are the same interface
sd is a newer and faster (in general) then mmc
mmc is ONLY memory
sd when the device support SDIO can offer other features like WIFI and such
the serial connector in the buttom of the xda is special for the xda and other devices dont have the same connector as in the same wirering
supply and demand makes it unlikely that anybody would make a wifi
device which would work only for xda's
when all newer pda's support SDIO
also serial connection is way way way way slower then wifi and SDIO
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mmc and sd flash cards are the same interface
sd is a newer and faster (in general) then mmc
mmc is ONLY memory
sd when the device support SDIO can offer other features like WIFI and such
the serial connector in the buttom of the xda is special for the xda and other devices dont have the same connector as in the same wirering
supply and demand makes it unlikely that anybody would make a wifi
device which would work only for xda's
when all newer pda's support SDIO
also serial connection is way way way way slower then wifi and SDIO
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THANKS!
Hi! I would appreciate your help in the following subject:
I would like to use a WiFi card with my QTek 1010. Since it appears that the 1010 is not equipped by default with a SDIO slot, I can not use the WiFi card...
My question is: is it possible somehow to make my 1010 compatible with SDIO cards? (ROM upgrade maybe???)
Thanks a lot!
Oliver
no it's hardware
the cpu in xda1 dont have a SD interface so require an external chip to handle the sd interface
xda2 and later have a cpu which have an SD interface which support SDIO
unless one could find a chip which had the same legs and same interface and was in general 100% compatible with the SD interface chip in the xda1 one could solver it out and replace it
but possibly one would also run into driver related issues as roms are very spc in what drivers there
would be easier and cheaper to buy a new device
and it would most surdenly void any warrenty the device would have
ok guys how about you put here your hardware thats working in BUZZmobile 2005 like
Working Hardware
1 -Sandisk 1GB SD card
2 -Jabra headset 250
3 -Siemans 32MB MMC card
4 -Pretec 128MMC card
it will be easy to get working hardware them....
what about the backpack
and the thumb keyboard and
other keyboards ?
SANDISK Wi-Fi
I've been playing around with the Sandisk Wi-Fi only card on WM2005 and I find the Sandisk 256MB+WiFi drivers work better than the standard ones as these support WPA security. However I am suffering from weird storage card issues and slowdowns due to the extra bit of the driver that handles the 256MB part of the card, which as we all know doesn't actually work on an XDA II anyway.
Would it be possible for someone to extract JUST the WiFi component of these drivers and leave out the 256MB storage driver component?
http://www.sandisk.com/retail/drivers-sdwsdb-256.asp
(using 2003 version)
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other keyboards ?
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i have universal irda keyboard sk6688 (try google) and it's working very good..
only problem is, that i can't turn off it's driver and turn it on, i lose backlight (softreset is a solution)
so socket wifi works in Buzzmobile
socket wifi works very well in Buzzmobile i received one for excanghe of a sandisk with memory
so one more to add
Working:
1gb PNY SD
1gb Sandisk SD
Pretec SD WLAN
Jabra BT800
Socket OEM BT GPS (black one)
Which drivers do you use rictec for your socket wi-fi card?
i think is the wifi smart phone version
i do think that it works great in socket buzzmobile its somewhere here
wm2005wifi.cab
I tried the Bluetooth Apple Pro Wireless Keyboard, it worked great.
Works in all apps, including desktop, the Apple key works like Windows key and brings up the start menu.
You can only pair the KB with one device by the look of it, so if you want to use it for your PC mainly (like me) then you have to re-pair with phone each time you want to send a sms or email via xda, a pain. But lets face it, your not going to carry the full KB everywhere are you!
I find it interesting that the KB worked so well though. Good to see WM2k5 support keyboard over bluetooth
i recently stumbled on a thread on Hackaday, where there was one entry where he managed to piggy back the connection of the SD and hard wired it to a SD Wifi, leaving the SD slot open for a SD memory card (parallel connection).
The question is, is it possible to do the same on an Atom? or any PPC for that matter? Maybe, a dummy SD or minisd with two MiniSD2SD connectors (for holder) in parallel so you could connect a minisd memory on one and a minisd wifi on the other. I wonder if the parallel connection will work?
Also correct me if im wrong, but i read somewhere that the SDIO uses two modes of communication with the SD, one is serial i think and the other is direct or something, but the latter is much slower and only good for devices like wifi and stuff and the direct method is for memory. So saying that, i guess 2 Memory card is not possible, and only Device and Memory is quite plausible.
I hope its possible. Anyone care to enlighten the subject?
why do you need to install an sdio wifi card to your atom when it already has built-in wifi? Anyway, it would be better if someone can make a sd to usb converter. This way, we can expand the sd card capacity to that of a flash drive. or maybe we can expand the RAM by replacing it with a flash drive? Anyway, maybe an expert can give his 2 cents on this.
Iv read alot about but, no definate answers, so I was hoping you guys could finally give me the correct answer.
I have an SPV M1000 and as we all no there is no inbuilt wifi, I have bought a SDIO wifi and have a SD storage card, I have seen several hardware hacking projects saying that people have taken apart teir PDA and manually solder wires from the connecting pins of the SD slot to the wifi card, and they still have the SD slot free for the storage card. so cut a long story short they have internal wifi and they can use the sd storage card.
Is this a feasable hack?
not sure if newer roms changed that but himalaya dident use to be able to work with those sdio cards with both wifi and memory
Iv got a PLUSCOM SDIO card and it works great no probs at all, iv read some posts about the contollers on the boards wont be able to handle two devices at once.
In thoery I dont see any problems other than mounting it somewhere as surly the controller will just share the load as long as your not trying to use both devices at exactly the same time (not likely in my case) then it will be just like having one card in.