infrared?

OptimisticOne · 01-14-03, 11:50 PM

Can anybody tell me what infrared receive does and how you use it? I heard it's so you can use your handheld without the cradle to connect to the comp. Can anybody tell me if this is true or what steps I need to take to do that? Thanks for your help guys ^_^

Racer X · 01-15-03, 03:05 AM

Today at the mall I ran into this gorgeous girl who used to work at my office. She had a Siemens phone/pocket pc combo device and we tried swapping contacts via the IR. We could not get it to work. DAMN!

I had to use the stylus. B)

TZimpfer · 01-15-03, 08:12 AM

well my Toshiba laptop has an IR port. All i do is set my X5 IR port inline with my Toshiba IR port and on my X5 i go to start > activesync, then at the bottom of the screen i go to tools > connect via IR. This works very well, but beware this will only work if your devices are within probably a foot of each other. Also note, the device you are connecting to will generally pop up and ask if you want to receive the transmission, obviously say yes.

TSB8C · 01-15-03, 08:57 AM

This also works on my laptop. In ActiveSync on the laptop I set the connection settings to allow serial or IR connection and then select "connect via IR" in ActiveSync on the Axim.

ThinkerTDM · 01-15-03, 10:41 AM

Anybody know why HP bothers putting the IR thingy on their printers? It seems like a pain in the neck to use with a pocketpc...It would be so handy to just aim it at the printer and print out a phone number or something. I suppose I could install another program on the pocketpc, but that takes away valuable room from other things...

cobcdb_ax · 01-15-03, 12:50 PM

I use a neat little program from HP which allows me to print files from my AXIM to the HP 2000d in the office.
http://www.hp.com/go/pocketpcprint

I don't know about beaming individual phone numbers (etc).