Does anyone know if the connector under the right tab on the back of the Captivate is a functioning external GPS Antenna port? If you take off the battery door it's above the battery compartment and to the right, just beneath a copper ground tab.
It looks similar to the external GPS antenna port on my old HTC Tilt....
I believe that is an external antenna that you would hook up a wilson repeater etc to. I know thats what my Omnia had. I have since sold the Wilson, so have no way to test....But the plug looks identical to what I had on the Omnia. So thats my best guess.
James
Related
Hallo, I'm from germany and i've got an Laptop-GPS with RS232 and PS/2 conectors and i would like to know if there is any possibility to built an adaptercabel?
Then i don't have to buy a new GPS antenna.
Thanks for answering
If your gps is made by Haicom or similar, the adaptor lead containing power and data connections are only £15 here in UK, lot less trouble than obtaining an xda connector and trying to solder the connections, if you get power in the wrong place you have no xda or gps.
Hello,
my GPS is build by GARMIN. It's a GPS 35-LVS. I don't know, if it is similar to a Haicom. Maybe anyone else knows it.
You can use a serial cable + null modem adapter which is no problem.
The biggest problem for you is how to power the GPS.
I understand it is normally powered by PS2 so you need to find an adapter so that you can power it in car or use batteries.
You may be better off buying another GPS.
Hi PC-Mobile,
thanks for your answer, thats the way i supposed. In my opinion i can use a powersupply that makes 5V out of 12V. Than i get power for both, the XDA and the GPS.
Thats the cheapest way for me, the null-modem cabel i can build myself and seriel cabel is easy to buy.
Look here.
Regards, Tore
My new job is in a office with no signal network !
If I left my Tytn II 6 meters away from me it works...so the questions is: there is a way to connect an external gprs antenna? I am not speaking about an external Gps antenna but the antenna to make call.
Thanks!
There are two antenna ports on the back of the kaiser beneath the battery cover. Looking at the back of your phone with the USB connector down, the GPS antenna port is on the right and the CELLULAR port is on the left. You can by a antenna at radio shack with an adapter that will plug into the celluar port on your phone. The one I got does not fit will and has to be held in with a rubber band. It works well as I have a 100 ft cable to the roof of my building and I get full signal where as I get none from my office without the external antenna.
Macgyvec3 said:
There are two antenna ports on the back of the kaiser beneath the battery cover. Looking at the back of your phone with the USB connector down, the GPS antenna port is on the right and the CELLULAR port is on the left. You can by a antenna at radio shack with an adapter that will plug into the celluar port on your phone. The one I got does not fit will and has to be held in with a rubber band. It works well as I have a 100 ft cable to the roof of my building and I get full signal where as I get none from my office without the external antenna.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for the advice, the only problem is that in Italy we do not have radio shack point, are you able to find out on their web site the antenna and adapter for tytn II?! I am looking in their site but they have so many items!!
alex_time said:
Thanks for the advice, the only problem is that in Italy we do not have radio shack point, are you able to find out on their web site the antenna and adapter for tytn II?! I am looking in their site but they have so many items!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Should work this?? http://www.pdaplus.nl/catalog/brodit-extantenna-cable-p-1374.html
Do you get lost at work?
alex_time said:
Should work this?? http://www.pdaplus.nl/catalog/brodit-extantenna-cable-p-1374.html
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's exactly it, but that's only the adapter and plug for you phone. You'll still need the antenna. Good luck!
Like in title, I bought a Kaiser like 2 weeks ago, it was sometimes loosing GSM signal.
Few days later it lost signal completely, I was suprised, because after plugging in the antenna socket a few centimeters of cooper wire I got a preety stable signal.
I tried unscrewing the plastic antenna thingy, polishing the contacts but it isn't working. Now i have a cooper wire plugged in the socket and it's working.
How can i fix my "real" antenna? GSM is working, but not those "original" antenna contacts.
I'm not sure of GPS, maybe it's working but i'm just not getting enough signal without external antenna.
Sorry for my bad english.
A couple of months ago somebody wrote about a similar situation. To sum it up, sticking a wire in the external antenna socket disables the internal antenna & even after removing the wire the internal antenna remains disconnected.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=672263
I suspect we have a GPS antenna connection under the battery cover. Does anybody know what the connector is called that would connect to that tiny connection? I'd like to try buying an external antenna and seeing once and for all if we have a GPS antenna problem or not.
I was led to believe that connector is a cellular antenna jack, not GPS.
Hi! The unit is listed at Autopumpkin, but I can`t make external links yet, need 10 posts.. Search for SKU: CN03-03101B-US-A to find it.
I want to use it in my 2007 Skoda Octavia, and according to Autopumpkin it should fit (I sent pictures..) The big black power and speaker connector seems to be the same as the original unit, which is a Blaupunkt Nexus.
I`ve already asked a few questions to Autopumpkin, and got some answers, but there are still a few things that I need to know. I want to replace the original roof antenna with one that has DAB, FM and 3G, like partnumber 6R0035501D. Many to be found on eBay. I think I found the necessary cable for FM, with white female FAKRA connectors in each end. There are two white male FAKRA connectors on the head unit , I guess one is FM, don`t know what the other is. I think the antenna has red FAKRA female connector for 3G, I don`t know what the head unit has? Maybe one of the three SMA female connectors? I can read "Wifi" on one of them, but can`t read the other two. There are also two white multi pin connectors on the head unit that I don`t know what is used for.
I want to get the DAB+ module. FM is shutting down soon here in Norway, and this is the main reason for replacing the original head unit. I can`t see from the picture what antenna connector is on the DAB+ module , maybe SMB female? I think the roof antenna has a black FAKRA female connector for DAB. The antenna also has GPS, but some say it is better to use the enclosed GPS-antenna?
Not sure how the roof-antenna is powered. I can`t see any extra lead for power. If it is phantom powered from the radio I guess this must be done externally, or does the head unit provide phantom power on the antenna connector(s) ?
If anyone has an installation manual, or some other useful information on installation or issues with this head unit it would be great!