[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] Stew:
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Subject: Serial Connection to NT

From: Stew

Date: 03 Jan, 2003 21:48:32

Having just bought my XDA, I am keen to synchronise it with my

Windows NT laptop. Therefore splashed out on a Serial cradle,

connected it to the COM port - ran ActiveSync, and get nowhere -

ActiveSynch just keeps telling me "Your device was not

detected", and that "COM 1" and "COM 2" are available...

Any ideas?

I have plugged the serial wire into my XP desktop, and

everything just fires up and synchronises immediately, so

presumably the problem is with my NT settings? I have check the

COM port basic settings which seem to be the same on both XP and

NT...I am stuck, and the O2 support line are stuck. HELP!!!

Cheers,

Stew

Subject: Serial port on XDA

From: XDA developers

Date: 04 Jan, 2003 05:46:58

We've observed some peculiar behaviour with the XDA serial port.

It seems to wake up only when it detects sufficient voltage, and

the port can be hard to wake up from the outside once it decides

the serial port is not connected. Probably a battery-saving

'feature'.

Does your device wake up from sleep when you stick it in the

cradle? It should wake up when it sees the computer's DTR.

Subject: Serial connection

From: Stew

Date: 04 Jan, 2003 10:41:37

Interesting point.

When I put the switched off XDA into the (seemingly identical)

USB cradle, it immediatly switches itself on. The same doesn't

happen with the Serial cradle. But I have tried switching the

XDA on manually, and it makes no difference...not sure what DTR

is??

Thanks....

Stew

Subject: Serial Connection

From: Alan T

Date: 04 Jan, 2003 17:18:34

Try turning off the Infra Red Receiving option under

Start/settings/connections/beam. Until I did this, when I tried

to connect my GPS to com1 it was unavailable . I also turned of

the 'Enable synchronisation when cradled using:' in the Active

Sync options although you might want to set it to an appropriate

serial baud rate.

Subject: XDA Serial Connnection to NT

From: Ric

Date: 07 Jan, 2003 11:26:38

Hi

I am also having major NT/XDA serial connection problems on my

work laptop.

I am using a genuine sync and charge serial cable.

If I try the serial sync on my Me machine it connects.

It looks like an NT issue and I would really apppreciate any

help in resolving it

Thanks

Ric

Subject: NT4 ActiveSync

From: tabbycat

Date: 08 Jan, 2003 09:35:40

I too have an NT4 SP5 laptop Tecra 8100, with Activezsync 3.5.

However my serial connection is fine.

The only time I've had occasional problems is when trying to

connect via the docking station and being on the corporate LAN.

I se default settings in ActiveSync.

Subject: serial conn problems solved

From: Ric

Date: 10 Jan, 2003 10:16:33

HI

I posted a couple of days ago with a serial connection problem

on my work laptop AS 3.5/6 to NT 4.00 1381 sp6

I discovered the modem was on com1

I created com2 pushed the modem onto com2 rebooted and it worked

fine.

It seems that com1 must be dedicated to AS or it will not play.

Give it a go

Let me know how you get on with a post here

Cheers

Ric.

Subject: USB for NT by bsquare

From: Chris

Date: 11 Jan, 2003 15:54:09

You could also try USB for NT4.0 by bsquare.com. It makes the

usb port usable for certain devices, like cradles. Works perfect

with my MDA.