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Model: EP8402
Version: 1.1
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FCC – B Radio Frequency Interference Statement
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B
digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to
provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is
operated in a commercial environment. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate
radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction
manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Operation of this
equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference, in which case
the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense.
Notice 1
Any changes or modifications made to this equipment that are not expressly approved
by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate the
equipment.
Notice 2
Shielded interface cables and A.C. power cord, if any, must be used in order to comply
with the emission limits.
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Copyright Notice
The material in this document is the intellectual property of us.
Our products are under continual improvement and information in this document is
subject to change without notice. WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR TECHNICAL
OR EDITORIAL ERRORS OR OMISSIONS CONTAINED HEREIN.
Trademarks
All trademarks used in this manual are the property of their respective owners.
Strongarm is registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
Windows CE 3.0/CE .Net is registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
Windows 98 is registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
IE, Pocket Word and Inbox are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
ClearVue is registered trademark of Westtek Company.
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Contents
Safety Instructions............................................................................................................ 6
Ha rdware configuration .................................................................................................. 7
Top view of EP8402...................................................................................................7
Bottom view of EP8402.............................................................................................8
Getting Started ............................................................................................................... 10
Basic operations.............................................................................................................. 11
Desktop..................................................................................................................... 11
Control panel ............................................................................................................11
Pocket Word .............................................................................................................11
Internet Explore........................................................................................................ 11
Inbox......................................................................................................................... 11
Media Player ............................................................................................................ 11
Networking capability.............................................................................................. 11
Printing support........................................................................................................12
Battery ......................................................................................................................13
Power/Message LEDs ..............................................................................................14
On board Flash memory...........................................................................................14
Software reset ...........................................................................................................15
Buttons......................................................................................................................15
Palm-reject touch panel............................................................................................16
VGA out ...................................................................................................................16
Operation environment ............................................................................................16
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Remove/insert cover.................................................................................................16
Eject/insert Back Stand ............................................................................................17
Software keyboard and Handwriting recognition program .....................................17
PC Synchronization........................................................................................................ 18
Driver/Application installation ..................................................................................... 19
OS image upgrading: ..................................................................................................... 21
QuickSetting Utility........................................................................................................ 22
Miscellaneous:..........................................................................................................22
Brightness:................................................................................................................22
Volume: ....................................................................................................................22
Backlight: .................................................................................................................22
Rotation: ...................................................................................................................23
F-keys: ......................................................................................................................23
Flash .........................................................................................................................23
Registry: ...................................................................................................................24
Information:..............................................................................................................24
Frequently Asked Questions ......................................................................................... 25
Specifications ................................................................................................................. .30
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Safety Instructions
1. Always read the safety instructions carefully.
2. Keep this device (include the battery pack) away from excessive moisture and
temperature extremes. Do not expose it to liquids or precipitation.
3. Make sure the voltage of the power source matches the hardware specification
before connecting the AC adapter to the power inlet.
4. Do not disassemble, crush, puncture, short external contacts the battery pack, or
expose it to fire or water.
5. The openings on the case somewhat are for air convection hence protects the
device from overheating. DO NOT COVER THE OPENING.
6. Avoid scratching the surface of the screen and banging it against hard objects. It
would damage the cover of touch panel and cause it not response at all. Only use
the stylus provided with this device to prevent scratching the screen.
7. Prevents this device from dropping and electrical shock.
8. All caution and warnings on the device should be noted.
9. If any of the following situations arises, get the device checked by a service
personnel:
- The A.C. power adapter or its plug is damaged.
- Liquid has penetrated into the device.
- The device has not work well or you cannot get it work according to this
User’s Guide.
- The device has dropped and damaged.
- If the device has obvious sign of breakage.
10. DO NOT LEAVE THIS DEVICE IN AN ENVIRONMENT UNCONDITIONED,
STORAGE TEMPERTURE ABOVE 70 C (158 F), IT MAY DAMAGE THE
DEVICE.
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Hardware configuration
1.
1.Power Jack
To A.C. power adapter
2. MIC-In Jack
Stereo Microphone input
3. Line out Jack
To earphone/ext. speaker
4. Mini IO Port
USB client– sync. to PC
VGA –Monitor/Projector.
5. Swing button
Page up/down and Enter.
6. Infra red
SIR, max. 115.2Kbps.
7. Power button
Power on/off system
8. USB Host port
USB v1.1 (12Mbps).
9. PCMCIA slot
PC card 16bit mode.
10. Cover/Stylus slot
For cover or stylus
11. Message LED
Indicates new message.
12. Function keys
Programmable Application
Buttons
Refers to “Quicksetting”.
13. Microphone
Internal mono MIC
Top view of EP8402
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14.Rear port
To Sec. battery and external k/b.
15. Main battery breaker
Break out main battery power.
Lock it on left position to enable
main battery power.
16. Hardware Reset button
Data will lose if you take this
action. Refers to “Basic
Operations, software reset “ to
learn how to do software reset.
17. Lower BackStand
Elevate EP8402 about 30 deg.
Good for taking notes.
18. Higher BackStand
Elevate EP8402 about 60 deg.
Good for browsing data.
19. Decoration/security hole
Tie your decoration or security
cable here.
20. Internal speaker
Internal mono speaker.
21. BackStand ejector
Move left to draw the Stand out.
Bottom view of EP8402
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Our Shipping package should include:
ePad main set include main battery inside.
Stylus
AC adapter and its power cord
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Leather Cover
Carry bag
Mini port USB sync cable
Windows CE .NET Operation System
Optional Accessories are
Secondary Battery pack
Mini port 2-in-1 cable (USB + VGA)
RS-232 cable
Folder Keyboard
Name card scanner
Bluetooth adapter
GPRS cellular phone card
GPS receiver
Car adapter
802.11b WLAN card
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Getting Started
Step 1, While first opening ePad gift box, please make sure that no device
damaged or components lost in this package.
Step 2, Remove the film on your ePad surface; it’s for protecting screen.
Step 3, Built-in battery is charged to 50~80% of its capacity before shipping. Even
Step 4, Find out “Main battery breaker” on the bottom side (it is
covered by Microsoft Windows CE .NET license label),
push the bar to the left until you feel it has been locked.
so, we suggest you charge it for more than 8 hours for the first time.
Warning! Make sure this breaker bar is locked on the left hole. Uncertain lock
may cause power lose and may corrupt file storage.
Step 5, It takes 36 seconds to boot for the first time. 5 seconds for bring up to boot
loader screen, next 25 seconds for loading OS image to DRAM (process is
showed on the screen). Then 6 seconds with blank screen for bringing up
desktop. During the course of booting, the red Message LED is on till OS
brings up. Lost power or hardware reset will go through this process again.
Step 6, Set current date and time to ePad by tapping Start > Settings > Control panel
> Date/Time. This setting can be done by tap “time” on the right-bottom
corner of system tray.
Step 7, Calibrate touch panel by tapping Start > Settings > Control panel > Stylus.
Step 8, Give an asset’s name for this one by tapping Start > Settings > Control panel >
System > Device name.
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Basic operations
Desktop
Looks and works the same as Microsoft Windows series classical desktop.
Tap Start on the left-bottom corner to experience Windows CE OS.
System tray is on the right-bottom corner, including Time, Input panel, power status…
Tap any task on the task bar for 1 second will prompt you to “Close” it.
Control panel
The control panel of WinCE is somewhat like that of Windows 98.
Pocket Word
It is most like MS Word of PC but only a compact editorial format.
File transferring between PC and ePad will translate autom atically.
See on-line help for more information.
Internet Explore
It is most like MS IE of PC but only supports version 5.5.
Inbox
See on-line help for more information.
Media Player
See on-line help for more information.
Networking capability
eP ad joins network either with LAN or WAN by wire or wireless connection.
Within LAN environment
Connect to local area network by PCMCIA LAN card, 802.11b Wi-fi card.
Most of such kind of network environment has DHCP server take the responsibility
to dynamic assign an IP address for new attached device. That is you can bypass
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(click ok) the “network adapter property dialog window” if you insert a LAN card
into
ePad
Or you need to ask your network administrator to get the DNS,
network mask, gateway and IP address.
Same process as 802.11b Wi-Fi card. The only difference is that you need to select
one “network” to connect before you can use it. A “network” list will pop up if
your Wi-Fi card has been recognized by Windows CE system. The “network” here
can also be known as 802.11b access point.
Within WAN environment
Connect to WAN by 56K, v.9x modem card or GPRS modem card.
GPRS modem is known as 2.5 generation of Mobile Phone system. There are 2
approaches to get GPRS service: By GPRS PC card directly or by Bluetooth
adapter.
For 56K, V.9x modem card, it is supported by Microsoft standard driver.
For Blue tooth adapter, it is also supported by Microsoft standard driver.
For GPRS card, 3
rd
party driver and utility may require for proper working. Get into
our website for new updates
Use RDP program that is provide by Windows CE .NET to remote login/connect
Desktop PC via LAN or Modem connection or to simulate Windows Terminal
client.
Mapping a network resource (ex: shared drive of other PC, shared printer) can be
done by “net” command within “Command Prompt”.
NOTE: “net” command is supported by Microsoft NetBEUI network protocol. For
more descriptions, please refer to Q&A paragraph.
Printing support
support USB PCL4 Printer.
Connect to USB PCL4 printer or network printer through LAN card:
Step 1: open application that supports print function, ex: Pocket Word.
Step 2: After opening a file on the application, tap File > Print.
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Step 3: in the Print window, choose your printer type (PCL Laser or Inkjet) and Port
as USB or Network. If you use network printer, enter its path in Network Path. Other
options you can set them by yourselves.
Battery
General description:
Your is equipped with a Lithium polymer battery. It’s very slim and light.
The main built-in battery has a switch locates on the bottom side and beneath Irda
cover (refer to item 15, Hardware Configuration). It is used to break away power
supply path of built-in battery to system for safety reason. Make sure it is properly
locked before you start to use it.
Discharge:
Its battery-hour is about 4 hours that is tested at situation of full charged, continuous
working and no power saving enabled.
An external secondary battery pack as an optional accessory can provide you
another 4 battery-hour while you have such demand.
If ePad is powered by battery only, OS will go off (suspend) automatically as its
capacity is going down to 10%. This is in order to keep the data of DRAM. To
release it, please have another power source in (AC or secondary battery).
A 10% capacity remained battery can keep your DRAM data for 24 hours. Please
get it charged as soon as possible. You may lose data that saved in DRAM but not
in FLASH. Refer to “On board Flash memory” section to learn how to take
advantage of it.
Charge:
According to characteristic of Lithium battery, there is almost no “memory” effect
on it. That is to say, you don’t need to discharge it before charge.
ePad allows you to charge battery as long as you plug AC adapter in, no matter it
is on or off, battery breaker is broken or not. It takes about 2.5 hours to charge it
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from empty to full.
If secondary battery present, both batteries are charged at the same time. Because
charges secondary battery with only half current, it takes 5 hours to get it
full charged.
A red LED in power button lights on indicates built-in main battery is being
charged.
Secondary battery shows her charge status on its own pack.
Battery capacity shows on control panel is secondary at the first priority then main
battery .
Power/Message LEDs
The Power button is the power LED as well.
The right half of the power LED is in red when the battery is being charged by AC
adaptor no matter the system is on or off.
The left half of the power LED is in blue while the system is turned on no matter
what is its power source.
Message LED is reserved to some special applications.
On board Flash memory
Pedprovides you an on board flash memory to store files. The FLASH folder in My
Computer is what we provide to you.
To know more about FLASH folder, check it out through Start > Settings > Control panel >
Storage Manager. A name marks with star sign, “*”, in the List window indicates that
is a formatted and mounted disk partition.
Remember to change the save path to here instead of Windows folder. It could be
done by choose “save” option in “file” menu in an application, by “copy” action
in file manager or even by exploring WinCE device via ActiveSync.
It takes a little time to writing large data. Averagely, its writing speed is about
0.7MB per second.
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Save data here can prevent data lost if EP8402 is running out of power.
Software reset
Keep F1,
F4 key
s being pressed then same with Power button for about one second
will cause OS reboot (software reset). This action will not turn off system power
but turn off the LCD screen (Power LED keeps on). During reboot time, Message
LED will turn on till the system has been boot again.
In the following circumstances, a soft reset is necessary:
- When system is not working normally;
- After finishing an installation of application or driver.
After soft reset, applications and data in RAM will not lose, but all the applications
that were activated before soft reset will be terminated to release the RAM.
Soft reset will clear registry keys of driver in the RAM. To keep them, save registries
every time when you add driver or applications. Refers to Quicksetting-Registry to
learn more.
Buttons
On the top-right corner is the Power button. Press it once to toggle system on or off.
In order to save battery power, Windows CE automatically goes to standby mode
if system has idled for a certain length of time. The length of time can be set from
Start – Settings – Control Panel – Power – Turn off.
For the same reason to save battery power, the Backlight of LCD will turn off if
system has idled for a certain length of time. The length of time can be set from
Quicksetting – Backlight.
To wakeup backlight, touch screen, USB mouse or USB keyboard can achieve it.
In the middle of the right side of Pad is the Swing button. It is used to “Up”,
“Down” and “Enter”.
On the bottom of top case, there are 4 programmable Function buttons. Please refer
to F-keys in the below Chapter of Quicksetting Utility for more descriptions.
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Palm-reject touch panel
In order to provide a comfortable full-screen humanly inputting interface to users,
ePad uses palm -reject touch panel that is different from popular ones. With the
help of special driver, you can write on ePad
just as you do on paper without
floating your wrist in the air in fear of malfunction the touch panel.
VGA out
Plug in the mini port cable into and CRT connector
to CRT monitor or projector.
NOTE: please turn our mini port cover to 180º to make you
plug the cable more easily
Enable VGA out from Quicksetting – Misc. and tap OK.
You will have only one displaying direction on Monitor or Projector even though
there are four directions on ePad LCD. Utilize to our hardware VGA chip
benefit, we make the LCD portrait display data to landscape direction.
Because of that, system performance may down a little slow when VGA out is
activated.
Operation environment
Operation temperature: 0~40 °C
Storage temperature: -20~70 °C
Operation humidity: 20~85% RH
Storage humidity: 20~90% RH
Remove/insert cover
The slot reserved for leather cover of Pad and also for stylus holder.
While using leather cover the upper clipping part is widened to insure the reliability.
Therefore, friction here is normal. When you want to remove the cover, we suggest
that you hold the cover directly and pull up. Do not push the clip on the top.
Because it clips so tight that is difficult to remove the cover by the clip.
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Eject/insert Back Stand
Use our Back Stand to have good read and/or write angle. With Bigger Stand, you
can tilt the angle of 60º for reading; with smaller Stand, you can tilt 25º for writing.
Remove and insertion of Back Stand is very easy for you:
To eject Back Stand: move the Back Stand ejector to the left and draw the stand out at
the same time.
To insert Back Stand: push Back Stand firmly into the groove.
You can have a secondary (backup) battery here by replace Back Stand. The electric
connection is achieved through Rear Port.
Software keyboard and Handwriting recognition program
Your ePad has software keyboard and handwriting recognition program.
Click on the sixth icon below once and wait for 2 seconds, that’s pop up option menu
for you to select LargeKeyboard or smaller keyboard.
Double click it to toggle on/off software keyboard.
“Transcribe” is the handwriting recognition program by Microsoft.
There is a shortcut on desktop or launch it with LargeKB (hand icon on right side).
Click on the first icon below once to toggle handwriting and mouse.
In handwriting mode, tap the second icon once to prompt “Correction” window.
Tap the third icon to toggle “capital” “general” and “numeric” writing mode.
Tap the forth icon to change your writing character direction.
Tap the fifth icon to pop-up symbol pad.
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PC Synchronization
Install Microsoft Active Sync and synchronize to PC.
Step 1: Get free Microsoft ActiveSync program and USB driver of e Pad for PC
from CD title.
Step 2: Install ActiveSync program to your PC and extract USB Sync Driver to a
temp folder on your PC.
Step 3: Connect USB sync cable to PC and ePad. Please address to temp folder
if Windows 9X/ME/2K/XP ask you the driver for new USB device.
Step 4: If this ePad is connected to PC for the first time, you may set up a
partnership between them. Partnership will do automatically data
synchronization as they connected.
Step 5: Introducing of Microsoft ActiveSync program
Manually start/stop Sync. Explore the files/folders
This action needs Partnership. of ePad. .
Show how many items had been setup File transferring setup;
to sync. Show sync status of them. backup/restore functions.
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Driver/Application installation
Choose those accessories or application software support to
W indows CE .NET (4 .0); ARM or Strong ARM CPU; HPC or HPC pro platform .
Some shareware and freeware support PPC (Windows CE 3.0) or PPC2002 may also
run on e Pad platform. But basically, ePad is more close to HPC.
Or visit our website, we will publish our software compatibility list there.
Step 1: Choose driver or applications that match limitation list above.
Step 2: Connect ePad to your PC. Make sure they are connected.
Step 3: Run driver/application setup file on desktop PC to start install process. (If the
driver/application is a .cab file, use ActiveSync to copy/move it into ePad
Then double click on it to extract on e Pad. With this method, you may
ignore step 4-5)
Step 4: Setup program will first to retrieve
device data to check if this program
had been installed before.
Step 5: Setup wizard will ask you if you want
to install with the “default application
install directory”? Say “Yes” to save
data into DRAM or say “No” to save
to other directory.
Step 6: If you just say “No” at previous step, then a dialog window prompts you to
choose folder for saving data. We suggest you to select “FLASH” which is an
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on-board non-volatile flash memory.
Step 7: File copy action is now starting.
Step 8: When file copy action finished. Check your ePad to s ee if additional steps
are necessary to complete this installation.
Step 8: Find out shortcut or icon on start > Program or Desktop.
Step 9: Driver installation will only copy .DLL to Windows directory. For preserving
the files form lost when out of power, please save them to FLASH folder
manually.
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OS image upgrading:
Your ePad had been passed a ser ies integration test including hardware,
software and environments. There will be some issues happened while using
by various conditions. We will do our best to resolve them. Hereby we provide
you an updateable/upgradeable OS service. Following statement is the
procedures to update/upgrade OS.
Step 1: Find out the OS image corresponds to you in our web site. Please make
sure the model and language matches to your ePad. .
Step 2: Two ways to accomplish update/upgrade OS image: By memory card and
network. Network approach is coming available soon.
Step 3: Prepare a 64MB CF memory card and PCMCIA adapter. Copy the OS
image you download from our web site to that card. We suggest you to
buy a 64MB but not 32MB is because of our OS image file may take all
32MB space.
Step 4: Insert CF card with PCMCIA adapter into ePad . With F1 key be
pressed, poke reset hole to do hardware reset. (Be careful of your data
saved in DRAM, it would be cleared) Do not release F1 key until you can
see the Boot loader screen.
Step 5: Use F2 to move star sign to item 3 “Update In-card OS via PCMCIA ATA
card”. Then press F4 to begin re-wrote OS image. It takes about 5 minutes.
Step 6: When finish, boot to new OS by hardware reset again.
NOTE: Do not launch any other items in boot loader menu. It may harmful for
your device booting.
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Quick Setting Utility
Find out this utility on the desktop. This is a program to view, set and tune ePad.
Miscellaneous:
Four common and useful settings here:
- Enable mouse cursor:
Show cursor. It will show up automatically when an USB mouse is inserted.
- Enable VGA out:
Enable VGA signals out to mini port.
- Display Stylus Quick Menu:
Enable touch pen to simulate right key function of mouse. If it has been
activated, tap on screen for one second can pop-up “Property” menu.
- Always Power on the PCMCIA card:
Check this option to ignore warning dialog window while you plug-in an
PCMCIA device by using battery power.
Brightness:
There are 12 segment from dark to bright, if “Adjust manually” was selected.
Move the scroll bar to set brightness of LCD. Or deselect “Adjust manually”
and choose one situation you are of Indoors, Outdoors and Power Saving mode
to quickly set brightness.
Mouse cursor enable option locates here for your personal demand.
Volume:
Set Speaker volume here quickly. This is a simple version for you compared to
“Volume” of “control panel” by Windows CE.
Backlight:
Set the timeframe of when backlight goes to power saving. This setting can work
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with battery or AC power. Default setting is 1 minute.
Power save of backlight can also be deselect depends on your circumstance.
For saving battery power, WinCE will enter suspend automatically if there is no
interrupt event coming. Interrupt event includes tapping touch panel, pressing
F-Keys, moving USB mouse, typing USB keyboard, etc.
With AC power, you can cancel power saving function by deselect “Enable
suspend while on external power…” in Control panel > Power > power off.
Rotation:
Choose one of four LCD displaying directions.
It needs reboot procedure to take it effect, please keep “Re-Start” being selected.
Clicks OK to active your change.
F-keys:
Programming your F-keys here. Choose one function key first then assign one
application for it. Click “Browse” button to help you.
Note: Only execution file can be assigned to a F-key.
Alternate these 4 keys to act as arrow keys (left-up-down-right) by check “Set
them as arrow keys”. This is useful for you for some games.
NOTE: We change the direction of F1-F4 from left to right with final products.
Flash
Quick show total and available space of your on-board flash memory.
Find out WinCE tools, Control panel – Storage Manager, for detail information.
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The on board flash equals “DSK1: Built-in Compact Flash Device”.
BE CAREFUL OF CLEAR/FORMAT IT! If the name on “Partitions” window
follows with “*”, that means this partition has been mounted.
Dismount partitions first for deleting it. You can manage partition space by
creating new partitions. Just deselect “Use all available disk space” and assign
quantities of sections for it. NOTE: each sector equals 512 bytes. Check out
“Flash N” folders in My Computer for your new partitions.
Registry:
Preserving personal setting and installed programs/drivers. We store registry tree
into on board flash to keep your setting from lose.
For example, the process of installing a device driver will copy some files to
windows folder and add registry keys. You can save files to the
FLASH directory during setup and registry keys here after you had make sure
no problem of it. Note: not every program can be saved; it depends on the
installed programs.
“Clear” button will to restore default setting by the manufacture but not back to
previous saved status.
Information:
Show the device shipment information of ePad.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How to simulate right button of mouse with touch panel?
Ans: Tap touch screen for one second, if the location has a shortcut or property
menu by right button of mouse, they will pop-up. If any program goes no
response, tap on task bar of that program for 1 second, you may have a
“close” menu. Tap the rest area of task bar for 1 second to open “Task
Manager”.
How to connect to In ternet with Modem?
Ans:
- Insert PCMCIA modem card, tap Start > Settings > Network and dial-up connections >
Make new connection
- In the pop-up window, give a name for this connection, select Dial-up Connection
then Next.
- Choose your modem card list in the select a modem bar. Call help from your
networking administrator for setting Configure; TCP/IP settings…; Security or settings…
- Enter your ISP phone number in the next step. Country and area code
number depends on your dialing location. Click Finish then you now have a
new icon for dial-up connection.
- Double click the icon you just created. Check if it is right dialing number
you set (includes prefix dial code). Click dialing properties > Dialing Patterns… to
modify the dialing patterns.
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How to change the device name?
Ans: you’d batter name this asset with your own way because it is necessary for
network device distinguish. Change can be made in Control panel > System > Device
name page.
How to connect to Intranet or Inerter via PCMCIA network adapter?
Ans:
- Windows CE .NET supports 10M and 10/100M LAN card, but only 16-bit
card because of hardware limitation.
- When you plug in a NE2000 compatible PCMCIA LAN card, WinCE will
prompt you a “NE2000 Compatible Ethernet Driver” dialog window. Neglect
it if your networking environment has a DHCP server, or check to your
network administrator to set IP address.
- Click ok of “NE2000 Compatible Ethernet Driver” dialog window to use
PCMCIA LAN card. Sometimes WinCE OS will ask you to eject card and
insert again for the setting take effect.
How to share the network resources?
Ans:
- First of all, please change the default name for this device.
- When you plug in a NE2000 compatible PCMCIA LAN card, WinCE will
prompt you a “NE2000 Compatible Ethernet Driver” dialog window. Choose
“ok” if your networking environment has a DHCP server, or check to your
network administrator to set IP address.
- Tap “Start” > “Programs” > “DOS prompt”.
- Enable soft-keyboard (by double click the pen icon on the system tray or F4
button).
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- Key-in “Net view /domain: lovenet”. lovenet is a sample of network domain
name. Please find out your own network domain name. This commend can
find out computers on the network.
- Key-in “Net view \\eric” . Eric is a sample of network computer name. This
commend can list shared resources of Eric . Please enter the data when the
login dialog window asks you to enter login account and password of Eric .
Check out if the login process is success or not.
- Assume that there is a temp folder shared by Eric . Key-in “Net use erictemp
\\eric\temp
” to map this network folder to our ePad. . erictemp is the folder
name we named for e Pad System may ask for another login process,
please follow it.
- Back to Desktop, tap my computer > Network folder, you can now find erictemp
folder here.
Can I print out document from ePad?
Ans: Yes, ePad support 3 approaches to connect to printer, network, USB and
Infrared. Please note that printers should support PCL4 language.
- USB printer is very simple to use. You can connect printer to ePad USB
host port (mostly no extra driver needed), then choose “print” commend on
pocket word (for example), set printer as a “PCL Printer”, port as “USB”
then click “OK”.
- Using a network printer need to know the name of network printer (use Net
View commend to get it). For example, typing \\eric\hpdeskj to network path
of the printing dialog. After click ok button and finish login process, your
document can be print out.
Why I can’t tap the icons on system tray correctly?
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Ans: the touch panel coordinate doesn’t match LCD causes it. Please do following
to resolve it first.
- Tap Start > Settings > Control panel > Stylus > Calibration.
- Click Recalibrate.
- Carefully press and briefly hold stylus on the center of the target, repeat as
the target moves around the screen.
- After finish 5-point calibration, click on the screen again or press enter key
(swing switch) to accept it.
How long does the data preserve on the DRAM?
Ans: if the battery is full of charged, DRAM data can preserve for 20 days. If
battery capacity lows to 10%, system will obligate to suspend by system until
any new fresh power applies. In this situation, DRAM data may preserve for
24 hours. Please take some actions to refill power supply of ePad as soon
as possible.
The other way to preserve data is to save them into on board FLASH. Our on
board FLASH is a nonvolatile storage media. To accomplish it, choose the
save directory from “windows” folder to “FLASH” under “my computer”.
Can I preserve my installed program af ter lost of power?
Ans: Yes, but not every program. And some steps you have to take. As mention
above, there is a nonvolatile “FLASH” folder under “my computer”, you can
install your program into it (there will have a dialog window asks you where
you want installed to during setup a new program).
Sometimes, there are some files of your program copied into windows
directory such as .dll. You should to find them out and backup (.dll) to
“FLASH” folder by yourself (to view .dll files, you need to enable “displaying
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hide file” on view > option).
Some programs will add registry keys of Windows system, save the new
registries by run “Quicksetting” utility.
Why my personal installed programs disappear if I press reset button?
Ans: Yes, if you poke the reset button on the bottom side of case. It will cause a
hardware reset to clear DRAM contents.
Software reset is accomplished by pressing F1+F4+Power button concurrent
for 1 second. Software reset will not clear DRAM contents.
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Specifications
HARDWARE
CPU StrongARM SA–1110 – 206MHz (235 MIPS)
Companion Chip StrongARM SA–1111
Display 8.4” TFT Flat Panel (portrait/landscape)
Resolution SVGA 600*800, 150 nit
ROM 32MB for OS image
Memory
FLASH 32MB for data storage (maximum 160MB)
RAM 64MB SDRAM (maximum 128MB)
Touch Panel Resistive, palm-reject Touch panel
USB V 1.1, Host x 1 (Type A)
Input /
Mini port VGA out + USB client + RS-232
Output
PCMCIA Single slot x1, Type II, 16-bit mode.
Infrared SIR, maximum 115.2Kbps
Microphone Internal mono, external stereo
Speaker Internal mono, external stereo
Accessories Cover, Stylus, USB sync cable, carry bag
Certification FCC B & CE Class B for home using
Battery Pack 1800mAh / 11.1V / 20W, charge time: ~2.5 hours
AC Adapter Universal (100~240VAC), 19VDC 3A
Dimension 230 mm (L) x 154 mm (W) x 17 mm (H)
Weight 800g
Operating Temperature
0~40℃
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SOFTAWARE
OS Windows CE .Net (4.0)
Internet utility Pocket IE 5.5 and Inbox (POP3, IMAP4)
Built-in driver 10M and 10/100M LAN card
Memory card (CF/MMC/SD/Micro drive) via PCMCIA Adapter
USB/PCMCIA Card reader (CF/MMC/SD/Micro drive)
56K V.90 Modem card
802.11b Wireless LAN
GSM /GPRS/CDMA modem card
Bluetooth adapter
USB Mouse/Keyboard/Hub
USB Pen Drive
USB Printer (support PCL4 language)
USB Floppy Disk Drive/CD-ROM drive
Applications Microsoft Pocket Word/Messenger/Media Player
Microsoft
ActiveSync/RDP
“Quickset” ePad device utility
ClearVue Office viewer
Picture viewer
Voice Recorder
OCR with specified name card scanner (option)
GPS program with receiver (option)
Ebook reader (option)
Video capture with specified DSC (option)
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