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Old 04-04-2006, 02:01 PM
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PDANEWBIE: I think your missunderstanding the product a bit. It's software that installed once, on the PPC. Not on each PC that you connect to. The software allows the PPC to emulate a USB storage device.
 
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Old 04-04-2006, 03:49 PM
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Yup - instantly turn your PPC into a USB drive, or to be more precise, a glorified card reader :lol: No more fooling with Activesync on strange computers!
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Old 04-04-2006, 06:41 PM
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Ahhh silly uneducated me! I thought it was some kind of device driver you load onto the PC to make the PC see the Pocket PC as a device (hence the Windows 98 refference). I didn't realize this was a PDA installed emulation device.

Now I have another question. If you have a PC that has activesync on it do you have to turn off the emulation portion on the PDA or does it just work in conjunction with activesync? Or is this just a program you run on the PDA and it does not stay resident in memory so you just don't run the progem before you plug it into an activesync loaded PC?
 
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Old 04-04-2006, 06:51 PM
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[quote="hishamh"]Not all ppcs - the iPaq hx4700 has USB2 transfer speeds.
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Well that's one. I'm sure there are plenty (a few?) more that have Usb 2.0 connections, but on a scale of all PPCs, this number is limited to a few (rather new > 36 mos.). Not everyone buys a new PPC when it hits the market. Besides, using a a USB 1.1 connection to transfer data to a 4GB SD card would be slower than my Netflix movies arriving on a Sunday. What's that you say, the mail isn't delieverd on Sunday? My point exactly. I would like to see this incorporated into the OS as well.
 
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Old 04-04-2006, 07:14 PM
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Now I have another question. If you have a PC that has activesync on it do you have to turn off the emulation portion on the PDA or does it just work in conjunction with activesync? Or is this just a program you run on the PDA and it does not stay resident in memory so you just don't run the progem before you plug it into an activesync loaded PC?
CEII has two modes, controllable from your PDA - the first is an Activesync pass through, which basically allows the standard Activesync connection. In this case, your device is seen as a normal PDA and not a thumbdrive. The second mode activates the emulation, in which case AS is completely ignored - your PDA will work as a standard USB drive.

Important limitation to note though - RAM is not readable in this mode, hence my reference to glorified card reader :lol: Switching between the two modes takes two clicks, as CEII places an icon in your "system tray" for lack of a better term (which means yes, it's loaded on a soft reset and stays resident, and yes, it takes some doing to uninstall).

Second limitation - you can't switch modes while connected, or at least I don't dare try

Third limitation - on some PDAs (like mine) the internal flash ROM is not readable either.

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What's that you say, the mail isn't delieverd on Sunday?
:lol: Don't disagree with you - just pointing out an error. For large file transfers, I use a dedicated card reader as well, but on the go or in a hurry it's not really feasible or practical to carry around - a retractable sync cable is a lot more convenient, especially if all I'm after is small docs or ppts. Using a card reader, I'd have to pop out the card, put it in the reader, dig out the reader's cable, and then plug in - I lose two steps by having just carrying a sync cable instead.
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Old 04-04-2006, 08:53 PM
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Once, and only once, I installed AS on my work machine to retrieve one file that was on my miniSD. I've not needed that functionality since. For file transfers, I usually use my Archos: 20GB HD & USB 2.0 speeds. If for some reason I forgot to charge my player, I just send it to my gmail account (that only works for non-sensitive material though).

That being said, I will probably download one of these 'just in case'...
 
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Old 04-05-2006, 07:17 PM
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I was looking around just a while ago for an easy way to backup my CF card - which sits very very snug in the device - to my PC. On my old PPC I had an SD card that was easy to remove and my PC had an easy to access reader - but CF is much more cumbersome for me.
I almost ended up buying the Card Export program to use with a folder-sync program (Karen's Replicator) I use, but then found MobSync for that task.
I'll be looking at the WM5torage though now too. Just in case. There have been a few times a program like that would have been handy while traveling.

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