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XDA2s Connectivity

Sorry about this question may be a little simple but i cannot seem to find an answer on the net (or even within o2)
Is it possible for the USB output on the XDA2s to be converted to a 9pin serial port to allow me to connect say for example to a 9pin serial output of my clifford alarm system.
Thanks guys.

you can get serial cables for the phone.
I used mine for interfacing to a GPS
as for the specification of your alarm system, you would have to reverse engineer the protocol, or try and find the specs on the net.
try http://www.expansys.com/
Baz

MDAIII connected to Royaltek RGM 2000 GPS device

Hi All!
I have made a cable to connect the MDA III to my Royaltek RGM 2000 GPS device.
It works great but I don't understand one thing:
The documentation on this site says that MDAIII has rs232 interface (+-12V),
the documenation of the RGM 2000 says it only drives a TTL serial port.
I connected both device directly without a MAXIM IC.
How can that work?
Now I try to connect the GPS device to my PC over a MAXIM TTL to RS232 converter and I get only trash on my PC terminal.
Should I also connect the GPS device directly to serial port of my PC?
Please help!
I don't want the crash my GPS device!

How can I connect a serial device to orbit?

Next week I will get my xda orbit and I should like to know, how to establish a connection with a serial device . Is there a converter to the usb conector or a possibility to manage it over Bluetooth or IR?
Is the orbit a usb host or only a client? Maybe there are adapters for a host device.
Thank you
Reiner

Serial Cable

Hi all,
This forum being the greatest about HTC, I think you guys will have the answer :
I would like to use my TyTN to connect to the console of a router (using serial connection) :
1. Does anyone know where I could find a miniUSB-DB9 adapter ?
2. Will there be a driver for serial port, or is it natively managed with COM ?
Such cables exist but for PC, but not miniUSB and with a Windows driver, no info about the same thing for PocketPC.
Anyone knows ?
Thanks
zEar - HTC TyTN

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Understood the problem..
Hi all,
AFAI understood I cannot find a solution due to the lack of USB Host support in the TyTN. I still wonder if the port can be used in direct low level serial mode as you see in bootloader. Could WinMobile use it ?
Another way would be to have a device that would be usb host, putting the phone into slave mode, but maybe I dream...
Thanks for any reply..

there is a bluetooth to serial adaptor which has been reported to work with the tytn.

COM1
Hi,
After much googleing there's still hope. Windows Mobile presents a COM port : 'COM1 via cable' and in the specs of the TyTN there is RS232 communication.
I still cannot figure out if the miniUSB connector pins could be simply mapped to the corresponding RS232 signals. Probably not
Anyway I flashed the XDA-Live wm6 ROM and it's great ! the battery seem to last longer (still 70% after 2 days!)
Thanks to the xda-dev community

RS232 via MiniUSB

Hello everybody
I would like to connect my HTC TyTn II to a device which is using a RS232 for a serial connection. The software I need is running under Windows Mobile 6.1. So what I need is a device to "convert" the USB into a RS232. For PC such things are can be easily bought but I have not yet found something similar for Windows Mobile 6.1 and MiniUSB.
Have I overlooked something (maybe it was to obvious) or do those device really not exist ?
Can you guys help ?
Thanks
Michael

Hm, I believe you can do COM connections over bluetooth (I believe the phone simulates a COM port over bluetooth). You might want to look for a Bluetooth to COM adaptor (don't know whether this exists, though).

even if you found a converter and one could just use one of the many rs232 to normal usb dongles and then a usb to miniusb converter
but it would never work
because to use those conveters the device is required to support usbHost which HTC TyTn II don't