I have no probs with dual boot and no problems with BT PAN with a Samsung BJII. I will be getting rid of the dual boot soon as I have basically no use for Windows with OSX getting the battery life it does with coolbook. Office 2008 for Mac replaces the need for Office 2003 in Windows. There's nothing left in Windows I need and if I do I'll install it virtually.

As I said before about BT, it works very well and reliably now. I had issues with BT in the beginning but there are a few posted workarounds for getting it to work properly. Since removing the BT connection from Networking preferences and leaving only BT Pan it never flakes out. It would probably leave issues for other devices though but I dont use any other BT function so dont need the BT connection part. Initially I also needed to delete a previous pairing with the phone from BT preferences but removing BT Connection has fixed it entirely and I can leave the previous pairing and reconnect every time without issue.

Here's the USB device I ordered. Not cheap but I have had a few hackintosh machines and no doubt will need something like this when I try OSX on another unit...

http://www.soundprofessionals.com/cgi-bin/...em/SP-USB-MIC-1

Problem with this device is it's not tested by anyone with a Wind and needs a skype plugin installed to drive it according to the website...I hope I dont need to install anything for it to work with iChat....I consider myself to be taking one for the team on this one, it says mac supported but I wont know to what extent until it arrives.

There's also the turtle beach device but it's not available worldwide from their site (google: turtle beach USB sound). I didnt know where else to get it from, it's white and would have looked pretty slick hanging out of the Wind (mines pearl white). It also has a dedicated volume control button for headphones which would have been handy for simple adjustment without disturbing the Wind as it does it's thing (like playing music or a movie):

http://www.TurtleBeach.com/products/amigo/home.aspx

Although it states not supported by OSX on the site a user at msiwind.net has tested one and it works flawlessly. I tried to find one on Ebay but nothing was listed....

Until sound is fully working (if at all) this is the all in one solution for headphones/MIC thats small enough to not be a hinderance and can be plugged in when needed in seconds. The thought of using a BT headset or some form of USB headphones made me shiver!! Built in MIC was a must have as I love ichat and wearing something while chatting sorta kills the whole experience for me, each to their own.

Out of all the times I rebooted I've probably lost the battery icon 4 times. It's a small quibble but not one that breaks the experience, a reboot brings it back 99% of the time. I must say thanks to Paul for all the info and the great tutorial...If you have ever set up a hackintosh before youll know that it's trial and error to get certain things working properly and this includes testing kernels, .kexts, and finding solutions to quibbles before you settle on a a mix of what does and doesnt work. A1 effort on his behalf ( and the Kalyway distro)

Hope everyone else enjoys it as much as I do, truly the best hackintosh I've had out of 4 laptops, it has what I need to be truly portable on a non Apple device.

I'm still using Pauls method and Kalyway 10.5.2

I've also seen some of those problems reported using the MsiWindOSX86 distro from other users. At least with the 10.5.2 Kalyway release all those things work. I havent had any problems with my install yet. I sleep my unit and the only odd thing that occurs is the wake from sleep...the mouse (touch pad or USB wireless) goes berserk for a second (only if you move it!!), other than that it's probably close to perfect (nearly, need internal MIC to work).

I have ordered my USB sound dongle with built in MIC and MIC/Headphone so sound is solved for the time being. Bluetooth is partially solved by deleting the Bluetooth Connection from networking preferences and leaving just Bluetooth PAN in there. Also the standard BT icon is useless at times, if it blanks out and the "on" and off" switch is blanked out the solution is to download istat menu's and replace the BT icon with that of the BT monitor button from istat menu's, you'll be truly able to turn on/off the BT button even if the original BT button was blanked out at boot. Under BT settings you can remove the normal BT button from the menu bar. So far on the 6 cell battery my Wind came with I'm getting 5 hours in OSX with coolbook app installed.....

I'm on holidays ATM but from memory the invoice stated roughly $57.00 U.S posted to me in Australia...it may be less for those in the same country as manufacture that's why I didnt mention it before. Thats why the cost earlier as stated was roughly $100.00 U.S for all the bits including the spectec card....

All you have to do is email the company regarding shipping to your address...they send you an invoice payable by CC or other means....you dont have to pay for it if you dont want to.....

Thats why I said email them, you are under no obligation to purchase, they just send you an invoice.

As far as break the phone is concerned it wont!! The adapter rules out any soldering required. You slot one end in the Micro-sd slot and the other has the wi-fi card slotted in ready to go. Load up the drivers and if it works it works.....No need to even open the phone to test. To purchase the SD to micro SD adapter all that's needed is to email the company and they'll send you an invoice, I think you pay via paypal/credit card....

Drivers are available for the spectec SD cards for wm5 and wm6...There's no need for specific downgrade mini-sd to micro-sd adapter, it will work with SD cards as well as mini SD, the pinout's handled by the adaptor. I also dont think you need a specific motorola Q9 wifi card.....It'll either work or it wont, thats the deal here nothing else.

I'm not prepared to be the guinea pig for now so I havent purchased anything.......I'm interested in other things right now (OSX on my MSI Wind netbook) so all the BJII needs to do is supply me with internet and let me make calls. Wifi on it is the last thing I'm hanging out for!!!

To be honest, I havent treid it out. It seems so simple...buy the adapter, buy the wifi card, stick them in and apply drivers and see if it works......but the $100.00 barrier is still there. Considering the adapter is easy to acquire I wouldnt even bother breaking out the soldering iron....it's a simple slot and try option. Worse case scenario is that the card has to be listed on ebay and youll have an adapter you use occasionally to hook up a standard mini-SD card to.....for whatever reason lol.

Would love to see someone give it a crack...I have just purchased my MSI Wind Netbook and it'll be here tomorrow hopefully. Then I'll be able to join all the Advent owners over in another thread....more MODACO..yay!!! but for now I'm broke....

Me too. My fix if the wall charge isnt occuring is to power off the device and pull the battery, leave for 5 minutes. Place battery back in and it will charge properly from the wall again.....It's only happened to me twice and is annoying but can be overcome.

It's scans for a bluetooth device when it's not unlocked for use with the intermediate driver......simple. If you get a lock within 5 minutes there's nothing wrong with the GPS!! You change the option to intermediate driver under "settings"...."remote GPS". It wont show up if the software isnt unlocked....

Garmin XT doesnt require any hacks........if the software is installed properly and all the maps and software unlocked you dont even need the GPStest.lnk to fire up the GPS...Garmin will do it itself when you turn it on. I'd say your software isnt unlocked and you dont get the intermediate driver as an option..

The application unlockers dont unlock software for you!!! They unlock the phone for use with third party software or software that wasnt signed by Microsoft.....

Read a few more threads....

Yeah the iPhone 3G is looking good......unfortunately I think the Australian telco's are going to ask for kidney donations in order to get one. I cant get one until I know it will share an internet connection over bluetooth with my provider...Once confirmed I am also probably going to jump onboard and get myslef a dirty 24 month contract...

I love the BJII like no other phone previously..(well I did love my AT&T 8525 but not as much) and the BJII has proven to be one of the most stable....only my old N73 Nokia came in a close second/third....

My main gripe with the iPhone 3G is I want dedicated Sat Nav with Voice/Turn by Turn instructions.....I also want A-GPS turned off and standalone GPS on!! Will have to see what those nifty developers push out for the future and keep an eye on the pricing.

HA...the same thing happened to me!! nothing but crickets and tumble weeds.

An adapter has been produced and can be purchased..

I actually have an invoice here for the product including price and shipping but the adapter is for SD cards to micro SD.

Basically it solves soldering anything at all but as a result you have to pay!!! Thing with the BJII is the chipset is said to be SDIO compatible yet there's nothing around to slot and prove it....

If we could some way marry a spectec donated card from a user and try and get the adapter as a review unit we could be on to something.....

The whole thing would cost me about $100+ USD to just try out....and there are no guarantees, we would most likely need a driver of some sort ripped and ported from another device...but then still no guarantees it would work. Unless we physically try it will always be a "what if" situation. I dont have the cash atm as I am saving for an MSI Wind UMPC due in a few weeks.......

Here's the adapter:

http://www.ameri-rack.com/APA-TFC1m.html

I could easily get that inside the BJII neatly and professionally....Question is do the spectec wifi cards have any memory onboard?

Drivers for the card:

http://www.spectec.com.tw/Download.htm#wlan

Windows Mobile 6 listed...doesn't say anything about standard edition.

So there it is......

Well, you didnt use the search function... Basically you need to use GPStest to trigger the GPS and then fire up google once you have obtained a lock.... Try reading the "The Lost Souls thread of tips" for more info regarding GPS and the DO's and Dont's.....

Hey, didnt mean to sound sarcastic...no offence was meant. Thing I've noticed in the BJII thread is heaps of double posting!! Lots of threads being started regarding the BJII about things already discussed or figured out.

There's a thread "The Lost Souls thread of tips" if many newbies actually read it they would see whats been covered. It still get's updated and covers the most basic of unlocking procedures with links to full info on what does and doesnt work on GPS.....

I guess I'm getting old but posting a about something thats already been mentioned usually means that person is too lazy to look, if they took the time to register with the site they could at least do a search!!!

I understand you were curious and wnted to help out....not problems with that!! Adding to the community is what it's all about....but lets keep it simple and easy to read without duoble post on subjects. Even if a thread is old revive it with a new post instead of starting a new one.

regards,

Peter

Unfortunately Australian Phone companies/carriers wont insure phones they dont stock or didnt sell you.



Bummer!!!......

Hey thanks everyone!!! Seems all I need is the Window glass part...$29.95 plus the shipping. NICE!!!

Thanks again....I really REALLY appreciate it....

At least I Know I can get parts......

Regards,


Peter

Hi all,

Well it happened...Tthe plastic outer screen on the BJII is cracked.

Believe it or not it fell off the dash of my car and landed face first into the carpet mat on the drivers side and right onto a stone that had been brought into the car....how unlucky!!! Very unlucky...

Thing is the LCD screen isnt cracked but the plastic overlay (looks clear like the buttons) is cracked on the left hand side. It's not big but it will spread there's no doubt about it!!!

SO....Spare parts links anyone!!! Can I get a new housing or not. I havent seen them. Any lovely American citizen willing to see if they can source one....I'm in Australia where they dont stock the BJII...

I'm so totally bummed....still thankfull it wasnt the LCD screen though. I'll post some links to pic's shortly, I just got home from a long weekend and the wife is yelling at me to get of the PC as I am apparently on it all the time and I havent bothered to "say hi"....

Add insult to injury lol.........

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Man I never suffer that long...

Ever since I set it up properly initial lock is under 2 mins cold boot (outdoors) and roughly 3 mins indoors. Hot start is unreal...less than 10 seconds, if i go through the domain tunnel (Melbourne, Australia) I lose sats in 5 seconds....soon as I pop out the other side I'm back up and running in 10 seconds....no lies. My BJII has held 3 bars signal on commercial aircraft at over 500 klm/hr using Garmin....better than my old BT reciever (also sirfstar III chipset) as it gets faster it obviously cant keep up but it definitely has proven itself....

Best thing I ever did was remove all hacks and Hardreset!!! Since then it's flawless.

God nobody uses the search function...Already done!!!!

http://www.modaco.com/content/samsung-i617...-internal-pics/

Wifi was discussed ages ago....

There's a new product on the market with an adaptor from microsd to sd thats sdio capable...the guts will fit inside the BJII it's just a question of whether or not it will work with Win Mobile Standard edition. The chipset in the BJII supports SDIO devices and Wifi....just have to spend the money on an SD Spectec wifi card and the adapter (about $100 USD) and see how it goes.......

And yes it's tight inside the BJII but modding can be achieved...

Now that is something.....

I originally wrote about making an SD adaptor for the BlackjackII ages ago....very nice to see that someone actually manufactures something I wanted to try out.....I took internal pictures and what not of the BJII and even found the necessary pinouts to convert the micro SD pinout to the SD pinout...

Very nice....I could definitely mod my BJII to accomodate the SD card holder and just run the ribbon cable within the phone and hide the lot...

Now.....How much and where do I pay!!! I'd get one purely for the SD adapter part....I've got some big SD cards here I could use even if the WiFi didnt work (dont we need drivers to make it work??) and is the BJII actually SDIO capable? This has never been answered properly and nobody has actually tested an SDIO device in there. The chipset the BJII is using does support SDIO but it remains to be seen if it works.

I'd be quite happy to put my BJII up to be the bunny so to speak....


But the real professionals need to actually comment of the possibilites of it working....last time this was talked about it was sitting at a 5% chance.
Apparently there is some Wifi files floating about in the BJII whether or not they could be used remains to be seen. Someone has to pay up to try it all out. Who's it gonna be....If I know the price for parts I'm in. I'll take dirty big photo's and blog the lot and if it fails I'd like to know why and how to maybe fix it...

If someone here is savvy in the techno areas ( be able to get drivers working etc or figure out the failures) I'd also be prepared to donate to the cause...

It's funny my original post regarding this subject had only about 3-4 replies yet 1,700+ views and nobody mentioned something like this and I wrote that back in Feb...how technology moves.

Here's my original idea...this new piece of info jumps through all of that and leaves only money and the proabability as the final frontier...

http://www.modaco.com/content/samsung-i617...d-to-sd-jumper/

NO!! The device id is generated when you buy Garmin XT...it's based loosely on your IMEI number (unique code).

Sotware's not unlocked...Garmin needs an activation code to unlock it for use with the intermediate driver. Otherwise it scans for a bluetooth device.

It'll find nothing unless it's unlocked. Nothing in these forums will unlock it for you!! The unlock is directly related to your device ID/IMEI number.

Sweet looking update...it needs to released A.S.A.P....so that I can play.....LOL

Wouldnt mind seeing a cooked up version either. Alas XDA developers have shunned the smartphone edition and wont work on it.... I remember seeing a forum thread over there regarding the BJII and starting a ROM discussion section....it was declined, mods must hate the Standard Edition LOL.

The Bluetooth in th Blackjack II is 2.0+ whereas the Motorola Razr had 1.2...there was a few Razors released so if eloborate which model you owned. Without knowing the specifics of the razor I would say it's a compatibiity issue...

If the Car doesnt list the signal or battery strength of the BJII so I would presume that due to incompatability it cant pull the info from the phone...

I could be wrong but it wouldnt be the first time things havent worked together due to upgrades in the standards......

stupid double post!!!...not sure what happened?

No offence Hockey but you must not have searched hard enough.....there's heaps of info here!!!

This particular section for the i617 is plagued with repeat requests....Although I do have to admit the search function of this forum is a bit sucky it still works....

I could (just by doing a quick glance) see quite a few threads relating to GPS.....


Garmin XT works the best on the BJII......have a search around for Garmin XT on the BJII. There's no wares at this site!!! So mention of it will result in some deep trouble....


*by the way your not in trouble...just some guidance regarding the site...:-)

Hi FAF_DRAKO,

There's never been a need for the com port hack for Garmin XT...some people use it but it just causes issues.

Although the calculating route takes a little while (It was slow to begin with) it's not that bad, I actually get a lock with the intermediate driver in less than two minutes line of sight to the sky....roughly the same in the car. Since this version of Garmin XT it's the most reliable it's ever been!! In fact I have had very little issue apart from installing it since I got my BJII......

Give it another go!! The only thing thats bad about Garmin XT is the map lag....it may be one of two things...the processor in the BJII or the code in Garmin referring the update position of you on the map against the satellite's current data.....the lag is noticeable and something I experienced with my old N73 nokia with a BT GPS unit...despite that unit being flawless with just about anything else it was connected to....

I've played with baud rates and all sorts but the map still pans/scrolls slow as you move along...it's not a big drama as the directions and measurements of distance before a turn are always spot on...It works...but it's not always pretty&