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Backpack Problems

Nothing new here, but i am having problems with my Backpack and would like to find out from other backpack users if they are having problems. in order to be able to evalute the problems and possibly approach o2 could you please say where and when purchased, nature of problem, has this problem been from day 1 or did it develop.
thank you in advance, but i'm tearing my hair out here and i'd like to know the experiences of others before i go to o2 with what they may consider is a unique problem.
ian

ianlake said:
Nothing new here, but i am having problems with my Backpack and would like to find out from other backpack users if they are having problems. in order to be able to evalute the problems and possibly approach o2 could you please say where and when purchased, nature of problem, has this problem been from day 1 or did it develop.
thank you in advance, but i'm tearing my hair out here and i'd like to know the experiences of others before i go to o2 with what they may consider is a unique problem.
ian
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I have the backpack, bought it in may04. Don't use it much except maybe on holiday.
What problem are you having ?

Bought mine from O2 at same time as Xda II, works a treat although not used the CF slot must, mainly used with LCD projector for powerpoint.
Control 2 x XdaII & backpacks at work and haven't seen any problems.
If you post the exact problem I'll see if I can replicate it.

Bought mine from a PDA store in Kuala Lumpur about 4 months ago.
So far have experienced no problems.. Use the CF slot for memory cards and a Dell WiFi card. Use the video output with my Epson LCD projector.
Ed

backpack
My problem is i cannot get system to recognise any compact flash card i insert. first card i bought was fuji - i inserted the cf card and the system requested drivers! then i tried a bytestor same problem. i invested in a card reader and formatted the cards still the same problem. on one of the forums here i spotted a download 'bpinsert' i tried that and altho' it is a shortcut to a non-existent program the fuji card was recognised for a short while and i seemed to be able to access it, then the system froze and after a soft reset the problem started again. i have the part number, serial number and model number and am about to approach htc to see if i have a good product, if not i'll have to buy a new digital camera to use the 256mb flash cards and i'll sell the backpack on e-bay to some schmuck. (joking). the thing that is making my tear my hair out is i bought an sdio gps unit, as i was going to lose storage space i bought a backpack, now i find the sdio unit will not work without an update with autoroute 2004 and altho' the back pack does work with presentations - about three per year - i can't use the storage facility. oh well one lives and learns. still i could save some money on a new camera i know this guy............................

BackPack Problem
Hi,
I got my BackPack about 3 months ago, the reason I bought it was to do my powerpoint presentations using my Imate (xdaII). But the problem I found is that the Imate gets too slow. Have you also experienced the same problem?
Regarding the CF Card, it works fine, reading and writting, note that I heard 1st set of backpack manufactured early this year can not write to BackPacks!
One more problem, if you use XCPUScalar Softwar (to speed-up your PDA to 530 Mhz) then it can not recongnize the CF Card in the BackPack, you can not read or write either (acutally as if it does not exist). I guess this is due to the Speeding up software. If I enable it, then CF card is available and the Imate can recognize it.

Unkown card error
ianlake-
I've got the same problem - you're not alone. I am trying to use a 1 gig IBM microdrive and a 128MB noname card. Both, from time to time, ask for drivers for the "unknown card". What's worse is the error is sporadic and I can't rely on using the storage for anything important on the go. My desktop has a built-in reader (in which both cards work fine) and one of the main reasons I bought the backpack was to transfer files quickly from desktop to CF to I-mate. I haven't been able to find any tips in my searches but please keep me informed of any progress you've made.

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One more problem, if you use XCPUScalar Softwar (to speed-up your PDA to 530 Mhz) then it can not recongnize the CF Card in the BackPack, you can not read or write either (acutally as if it does not exist). I guess this is due to the Speeding up software. If I enable it, then CF card is available and the Imate can recognize it.
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This is certainly the answer to my problem, uninstalled XCPU Scalar and things are all OK, including some things that i hadn't really noticed.
I think i should contact XCPU Scalar and report the problem.
Thank you GoldenSands.
ian

Most welcome "ianlake".. but does your Imate go very slow when you connect it to the projector and run a presentation? Even if it is connected to the monitor!

from what i've been able to read then when one display using the backpack the fps is limited to 1-2
which could cause it to seem pretty slow

Rudegar said:
from what i've been able to read then when one display using the backpack the fps is limited to 1-2
which could cause it to seem pretty slow
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Sorry, but what is "fps"??
The only reason I bought the BackPack is to run the presentations through my Imate, and I was unable to do so; due to the very low speed I get when it is connected to the projector. Actually it gets slow once I run IA Screen Mirror.
I got IA Screen Mirror Ver 2.01 (Build 15055)
Is any one aware about a newer version? and from where can we download it?

fps == frames pr second
as in how many pictures you get every second

GoldenSands said:
Most welcome "ianlake".. but does your Imate go very slow when you connect it to the projector and run a presentation? Even if it is connected to the monitor!
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yes, horribly slow, but by the time i get round to doing my presentations at the end of a boring lesson my students have gone to sleep - so no-one notices.
ian

Driver pleese for Backpack

frog said:
Driver pleese for Backpack
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Es!!!!
:lol:
GoldenSands
Спасибо !!!

I use my backpack with a compact flash modem and I did'n face any problem with it. But after purchasing a sandisk connect plus, WiFi+128 MB card, the device is getting very very slow plus it is only recognizing the memory part and not the WiFi part.
Originally I wanted to use my i-mate with WiFi but nochances.
I even formated my device several times but the original driver is nor working.
Also after contacting sandisk directly I got no help!!!!!!

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FI, no overclocking programs like XCPUSCALAR etc work with backpack. The files in the CF card will not be recognized if overclocking progam is installed especially if you set the speed above the default speed setting. Also, GPS performance is erratic.
I've changed my backpace twice. Firstly, it was a faulty backpack that could not recognised my CF card after a few weeks of usage. The 2nd time was the backpack battery konks out after about a year of usage. Could be due to end-of-life of backpack battery. All were changed within the warranty period of the backpack.

Qtek terribly slow....

Al of a sudden my qtek is slow as hell. I had PDA Viet 4003 on it, I don't have any extra app installed and the phone is basically used for tasks, appointments, contacts, listen to music on my 4gb SD card, and a solitaire game here and there. I "formated" it and installed smart1.3 again (the one I had before) and nothing seems to speed the thing up. It is slow, slow slow. Even the wm5 novendor id was slow when I was switching. And bluetooth activesync went berserk too. How come? Anyone has any advice?
help....

Maybe is your SD. If it´s not an original one, it could be that is slowering your S200.
I have experienced that with a "false" SD, my apps were slowering a lot my PPC, as it was accessing the SD to read data, but the SD was not quick enough
Sorry about my english...

It could well be the SD Card. my vendor adviced me against a 4 Gb for the prophet for the same reason and suggested a 2 Gb instead.
Pull it out and give it a try.

Ok guys I really need your help because I am running out of options. I removed the SD card, tried without it and there's no way. The only way it seem to work is by using WM5.
Am I the only one here with that problem? I flashed (almost) every one of the available ROMs with the same results: S L O W !
What could have happened? Do I have to do to use my qt s200 with a wm6 rom? Or should I just pipe down, let it go and just use WM5?
Help!

How to remove clearvue suite?

Hello guys, how do i remove the clearvue suite including clearvue pdf and clearvue ppt from my o2 xda IIi ? and other applications that i dont need. i wish to remove all the applications and install just tomtom on the device, this will make tomtom more stable as at the moment it just keeps exiting to the today screen.
Please help!!
thank you all for your efforts and time.

OTB86 said:
Hello guys, how do i remove the clearvue suite including clearvue pdf and clearvue ppt from my o2 xda IIi ? and other applications that i dont need. i wish to remove all the applications and install just tomtom on the device, this will make tomtom more stable as at the moment it just keeps exiting to the today screen.
Please help!!
thank you all for your efforts and time.
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odd i have no probs with tomtom 5 or 6 with these programs installed, sure its just not the install/version thats the problem?

skeeve666 said:
odd i have no probs with tomtom 5 or 6 with these programs installed, sure its just not the install/version thats the problem?
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ph gosh, i've been trying for a year almost. i've been trying with tomtom 6, i downloaded like 6 different ones all from different sites. I then had the thought 'maybe tomtom 6 uses more memory than tomtom 5' so i downloaded many versions of tomtom 5 too, but same result, Then i was borrowing my mates tomtom 910, i got the smart idea of copying his memory card, put it directly into my xda IIi and it worked BUT same way as all the others, crashes back to the today screen. somtimes with the error message 'data type misalignment' or 'memory access violation'
Last night i finally found out how to 'cook' roms, so i downloaded a custom rom, with all the o2 stuff stripped out, and the camera fixes with new bluetooth and radio versions.
result - same.
then i worked out how to remove the clearvue suit completley, myself!
and the outcome - same!!!! it still crashes back just like first time.
i think there is one last thing to try, to get a faster sd card, ive been using a 1GB Kingston SD, 2GB Sandisk Mini SD with adapter, 1 GB sandisk MiniSD with adapter, 512MB Sandisk transfalash with adapter, i've heard, well read, that transcend 80x cards do the magic, as it can read and write information much faster, therefore using less system memory/ram. im going to buy a 2GB transcend 150x from the shop on friday and this will be my final attempt. if it happens again, then im gona throw this junk out of my window, run outside, then run it over, reverse, and run it over again....
sorry, its just i spent too much time on this thing to work.
im getting the feeling that its the xda IIi that is faulty? as tomtom worked perfectly on my nokia n80 which i replaced with this xda so i can get touch screen!

hope you have fun, i have only ever had one version of both 5-6 they both run perfectly from a cheapo 512mb card and a cheap 2gb kingston card the cards i have are nothing special. think the 2gb was £12.99 from play.com
you using original versions or *coughcrackcedcough*,you are installing them correctly by replacing the files and suck, also you are using the correct maps for the version?.
i am runing sbp pocket plus and clock at the same time, no probs on my xda2i or my dads xda2.

OTB86 said:
ph gosh, i've been trying for a year almost. i've been trying with tomtom 6, i downloaded like 6 different ones all from different sites. I then had the thought 'maybe tomtom 6 uses more memory than tomtom 5' so i downloaded many versions of tomtom 5 too, but same result, Then i was borrowing my mates tomtom 910, i got the smart idea of copying his memory card, put it directly into my xda IIi and it worked BUT same way as all the others, crashes back to the today screen. somtimes with the error message 'data type misalignment' or 'memory access violation'
Last night i finally found out how to 'cook' roms, so i downloaded a custom rom, with all the o2 stuff stripped out, and the camera fixes with new bluetooth and radio versions.
result - same.
then i worked out how to remove the clearvue suit completley, myself!
and the outcome - same!!!! it still crashes back just like first time.
i think there is one last thing to try, to get a faster sd card, ive been using a 1GB Kingston SD, 2GB Sandisk Mini SD with adapter, 1 GB sandisk MiniSD with adapter, 512MB Sandisk transfalash with adapter, i've heard, well read, that transcend 80x cards do the magic, as it can read and write information much faster, therefore using less system memory/ram. im going to buy a 2GB transcend 150x from the shop on friday and this will be my final attempt. if it happens again, then im gona throw this junk out of my window, run outside, then run it over, reverse, and run it over again....
sorry, its just i spent too much time on this thing to work.
im getting the feeling that its the xda IIi that is faulty? as tomtom worked perfectly on my nokia n80 which i replaced with this xda so i can get touch screen!
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How or what did you do too remove the clearvue files??

By deleting clearvue from a custom rom & then cook the rom back I guess?

8GB MicroSD and Audio Manager Problems

Hi All
Happy New Year
OK, so I'm happy, I have just received my 8GB Micro SD card in the mail. I popped it in the phone, and my Touch remained happy.
There is a problem though
I use Audio Manager and have put about 1400 songs on my 8GB card so far, to take up around 5GB of the storage.
But, I can't see all my songs in Audio Manager.
When I go to the library, the rotating magnifying/search glass is always working, and it is only showing about half of my songs.
I also went into WM player on the phone, and update the library, and it too doesn't show all the songs either, although It does show about 900 of them.
Anyone know what is going on, or how to rectify this?
There is also another problem too...I thought I would upgrade Audio Manager from ver 1.02.409.721 to ver 1.02.919.713, so I uninstalled the old version, rebooted and installed the 'new' version, rebooted and went to check the 'about' page, only to see I'm still running ver 1.02.419.721.
It's really annoying not to be able to use the full 8GB capacity to load songs onto my phone so far and not to be able to get the latest AM version on my phone too!
I have an 11 hour and a 2 hour flight on Tuesday from England to USA, and I'd really like to be able to have access to 8GB of songs!
Lawrence

I would also like to know if anyone has had this problem since I was thinking about getting an 8gb card also. Someone help this guy out!

From what I've read, I believe it only registers up to 4 gb of space on the card. I may be wrong.

HangingClowns said:
From what I've read, I believe it only registers up to 4 gb of space on the card. I may be wrong.
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I don't think that is right because I've heard people testify that their 6gb cards work perfectly. But then again maybe those people are lying lol jk

i have a 4GB on mine and it also just recognizes some of my songs....any one have a solution for this.....thnx

From what I have read, all specs say that it can only recognize 4gb. But that is for microSD. Besides a few companies that have made 6gb microSD cards, anything past 4gb is usually microSDHC. I was also looking at getting a 8gb card, but I read that you need to have a microSDHC compatible device. So I'm not sure if that might be the problem, but I can't find anywhere that says that microSDHC is supported by the touch. And also there are some microSDHC 4gb cards, so that might be the issue for Ostthug2k. Check to say if it says that on the card and if not check the manufacturers website to see if it is a microSDHC instead of microSD. So I think the problem just might between have those two types. That would explain the 6gb card working because some of those are microSD and some are microSDHC. (The HC is "high capacity" by the way I think) Maybe I'm wrong about all of that, but I think its worth it to look into.

ljstevens said:
Hi All
Happy New Year
OK, so I'm happy, I have just received my 8GB Micro SD card in the mail. I popped it in the phone, and my Touch remained happy.
There is a problem though
I use Audio Manager and have put about 1400 songs on my 8GB card so far, to take up around 5GB of the storage.
But, I can't see all my songs in Audio Manager.
When I go to the library, the rotating magnifying/search glass is always working, and it is only showing about half of my songs.
I also went into WM player on the phone, and update the library, and it too doesn't show all the songs either, although It does show about 900 of them.
Anyone know what is going on, or how to rectify this?
There is also another problem too...I thought I would upgrade Audio Manager from ver 1.02.409.721 to ver 1.02.919.713, so I uninstalled the old version, rebooted and installed the 'new' version, rebooted and went to check the 'about' page, only to see I'm still running ver 1.02.419.721.
It's really annoying not to be able to use the full 8GB capacity to load songs onto my phone so far and not to be able to get the latest AM version on my phone too!
I have an 11 hour and a 2 hour flight on Tuesday from England to USA, and I'd really like to be able to have access to 8GB of songs!
Lawrence
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I also have an 8gb card which my touch recognized with no problems. It is SDHC compliant so you shouldn't have a problem with 8gb. I only have 974 songs on there at the moment but WMP handles that without a problem. You may have to delete your old library and force it to rescan if it's giving you a problem. I'll wipe my card and fill it up to the brim with all music to see if there's some physical limit and report back later today.
Link the new version of audio manager you have and I'll try that too. I never bothered with it before since WMP has always worked for me.
~Xen

Hi
I went in and deleted the library but it still only picks up a limited number of songs.
What is also annoying is that Audio Manager is constantly 'searching' for songs in the library (the rotating magnifying glass) and that seems to be draining my battery faster too!
Arghh
I can't understand why loads of other people aren't finding this out... Is it because not many people have the 8GB MicroSD card yet?
Lawrence

ljstevens said:
Hi
I went in and deleted the library but it still only picks up a limited number of songs.
What is also annoying is that Audio Manager is constantly 'searching' for songs in the library (the rotating magnifying glass) and that seems to be draining my battery faster too!
Arghh
I can't understand why loads of other people aren't finding this out... Is it because not many people have the 8GB MicroSD card yet?
Lawrence
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I put just under 2000 songs and WMP found them just find. Searching was amazinly slow, but it still worked.
Post the cab for the version of Audio Manager you're using or that you wanna use and i'll give it a try.

itune rip
i noticed that the cd that i ripped using itunes does not show up. others are fine, except for those.

what I have noticed is it recognizes mp3 files well but has trouble picking up m4a files. make sure that when you ripped the cd in itunes that you did it in mp3 format instead of m4a

i have a 2g card and at first it would only let me store about 120 mp3s. i formatted it on my pc and after that i could fill the whole card.

Had the same problem using Audio Manager / 8Gb microsd / itunes.
The solution I found :
- Only use .mp3 files (all other are not correctly recognized)
- Use itunes or another mp3 tool to clean all ID3 Tags in mp3 files. Audio Manager do not handle very well ID3 tags that are not well formatted or that contains non ASCII charcaters
Now I have 1600 songs with Audio Manager, and no more a mooving magnify tool (it mooves only on the first launch of audio manager and the stops after few minutes)

I have 1 4GB SDHC card loaded, however I don't use Audio Manager b/c I didn't like the way it alphabetized everything opposed to using track listing as well as not being touch sensitive except for the scroll bar. Additionally, 8GB card will have a lot of info on it so you should expect it to have search for a bit to compile a list and alphabetize itself. I use S2P with no problem plus full screen album art etc...

There are more recent versions of AudioManager that scroll properly and sort by track. I use it now on an 8GB card and it works just fine.

thinking of switching from android, couple of questions on the focus (and wp7)

tired of syncing phone to google to live to windows 7 for my calendar and contacts, then using windows for my daily use, but needing linux to modify, compile and decompile android apps and what not. would like to stream line my life a little.
my main concerns are bluetooth, navigation and media/sd card.
i use a jabra sp700 in car bluetooth device for phone and media while driving. how well does the focus connect and remember bt devices? my current phone, i have to switch on bt, wait like 1 minute, then switch on my bt device, otherwise, it won't connect for some odd reason.
navigation, i see that bing has navigation now, however, every video and review i've seen is it's just the top down view, which is ok, however, it also looks as though everyone is zoomed way out. can you zoom in more to see/read cross roads? is there works (or does anyone know of any upcoming updates) for a true turn by turn navigation like google's navigation?
sd card, i see the approved list, but i have an HP 8gb card, not that i care if i could use it or not since the focus has 8gb internal and i've never needed more than 7gb on my phone. however, can you use both the internal memory and sd card at the same time? ie have some stuff internal and some external?
in call volume? how is it? not really concerned with quality since i grew up in a time with rotary dial phones. just need it loud enough to hear in louder than normal areas.
oh, and apps. my past experience with windows phones was that there were no decent apps for free. hows that with wp7? right now i have angrybirds and pulse news reader, which are the apps i used most throughout the day (yes, i know no ab on wp7 yet). but are there other apps that are worth using that are free?
photos, current phone has 8.1mp camera that takes decent photos as long as lighting is perfect. how's the quality of the focus'?

About navigation,
I think there is a turn by turn Nav App called A to B, still kind of basic, but usable.
Bing map is detailed in US, you can see the crossroads.
About SD card,
There is no guarentee unless you test it. And once the SD card is integrated into the internal storange, currently the only way to format it is to use a Nokia phone.
Call volume is fine for me. Camera is also fine, LED flash is present this time.
Most games are not free, usually 2-6USD. Other than that there are many free decent News apps.

when you say integrated as in the sd card, does that mean if i put in an 8gb card, i would have 16gb? or 8gb total?

svtfmook said:
when you say integrated as in the sd card, does that mean if i put in an 8gb card, i would have 16gb? or 8gb total?
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You are going to get 16G.
If you put the SD card into the phone, the card will be part of the internal storange and you cannot different the original storange and your SDcard inside the system.