About the battery--I was hoping someone who had experience with this would chime in. I use the regular batteries, but eyeballing mine and looking at the way the Axim sits in the holder, I wouldn't think there would be any issues using an extended battery. Maybe another member will still address this.
Well mine will be here tomorrow so I'll let you all know.
I have already told all of my friends who own Axims about this and there have been many purchases of it in the past 20 or so hours.
Be warned, the stand is very fragile. If you are not gentile with it it will break. Also, even if you are very careful with it, the plastic will still break by the hinge and by where the spring loaded wire bends into the piece that holds up your PDA. I have owned two of these keyboards and I love the design. For the second I reinforced the stand all around with epoxy glue and extra pieces of plastic to reinforce it and I made a metal hinge by slicing up small metal document clip. No problems.
I am a man who purchases little but what I do buy is top notch. I believe that longevity is as important as functionality. I am very curious to know more about how you modified the stand. Please any pictures or ANY more information at all that you could give would help us all. I want this purchase to last as long as possible. And I want to use it frequently. Your mods sound like they are a really good idea since you are one who has owned multiple units and I value your input.
If I bake the stand because I use it often in daily activity I'll be heated.
I've got essesntially the same keyboard from Dell awhile back before they got ou t of the market, they offered the keyboard and a few other things in a package deal. It works fine with the extended battery. I don't use mine alot but I played with it for awhile and had no problems in any layout.
OK! I've got it up and running. Using BT is new to me though and I'm a little miffed about some of it's functionality. First, I had to disable the driver on the PPC to us the keyboard. What does this mean? Also now when I press the button to activate the Wireless functionality it enables BT. That's not cool by me since I use the wifi a lot more than I'm going to be using the keyboard. Right now I need to turn wifi on through the wlan utility config page. That bites. How do I deal with this problem? Next, it seems i need to connect the device every time I want to use it by entering a passcode on both devices, etc. Is this normal or is there a way to streamline the process? And the manual says that if the connection is lost you can re establish it by pressing a key on the keyboard. Can someone please elaborate on this?
It's a nice keyboard. I'm pumped.
I don't own that keyboard but I can answer a few questions, however I don't understand what you mean when you say you had to disable the driver on the PPC.
The Wifi button only turns on whichever one was turned on last. So if BT was on last pressing the button will activate BT, if it was Wifi it will activate Wifi.
You can map another button to turn on wifi or change one of the soft keys to wifi etc.
You should be able to set the connection to the keyboard as automatic in the BT setting.
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Once you've paired the PDA and the keyboard, it should start up whenever you open the keyboard (which allows keystrokes to turn it on) and enable BT on the PDA. It usually takes 10-20 seconds for the first character to "take", I normally just strike a function key until I get the first feedback "click". Although sometimes when I start typing right away, it does in fact capture the keystrokes, usually the function keys don't work immediately, so if I'm starting an address, for example, I might get "yoet" instead of "6935". But it definitely should not be asking for the BT pairing code each time you connect. The "establish connection by pressing a key" is just that: the driver is listening for the radio signal from the keyboard, when you press a key on the keyboard, that signal is sent, and the PDA then establishes the connection from that signal.
Great! Thanks guys. You've all been really helpful.
Can someone tell me how to disable the noises the Axim makes when I type with this keyboard? And not by simply turning off the sound all together. The noises are a drag to begin with but they would really bring me down if I were also using the PDA to listen to music or something like that. There seems to be no option to turn that off in the utility for the keyboard.
About the driver oddity, sorry it was a built in HID driver that needed to be disabled. Looking back I wasn't too clear on that point in my last post.
From the manual:
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On some mobile devices it may be necessary to tap the Disable built-in HID Driver button.
Click on Start > Settings > Sounds & Notifications then uncheck Screen taps to disable those clicks.
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Click on Start > Settings > Sounds & Notifications then uncheck Screen taps to disable those clicks.
I already had done that. But thank you any way. I eventually figured it out. If you click on the icon for it at the bottom middle of the screen when the keyboard is in use (like right now as I type this) some other options apear. I hadnt thought to try that since there would have been no interface like there is for the letter recogniser or the on screen keyboard.
Speaking of the on-screen keyboard have you run into any problems with the on-screen keyboard popping up when you come to a box where you have to enter information. If you have installing this program, zenokeyboard will solve that.
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Expansys have this for £30 including delivery... and ebay has it for around the £20 in the UK.
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Next, it seems i need to connect the device every time I want to use it by entering a passcode on both devices, etc. Is this normal or is there a way to streamline the process? And the manual says that if the connection is lost you can re establish it by pressing a key on the keyboard. Can someone please elaborate on this?
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