Wired Remotes W100 & E100: compatible with Kaiser?

[gilsas]

Hi,
I can't stand the terrific sound produced by the boxed headphones and while looking for a miniUSB - 3.5mm adapter I found 2 HTC branded wired remotes that look good: W100 & E100:

E100: http://www.expansys.fr/htc/p_htc_item.aspx?i=150195
W100: http://www.expansys.fr/htc/p_htc_item.aspx?i=148543

These require a driver to be installed on the device (for controlling play/pause and call functions). On many sites, descriptions for both are identical.... and it's hard to know whether any of these actually work with the Kaiser as pointed by some users:

http://www.expansys.fr/r.aspx?i=148542&r=4930

Seems HTC is refusing any form of customer support as soon as you have a rebranded device, bad..

Can anyone confirm either the W100 or E100 works? hoping that not a matter or ROM (I'm the proud owner of a French Vodafone branded Kaiser)

Thanks

[Jozer99]

I don't own one so I can't say conclusively, but I have heard they work. The thing is, the remote buttons are only supported by HTC Audio Manager and possibly WMP, but not any other media player. Audio should work for any app, and I believe there is a built in Microphone so you can use it for calls with a normal MP3 player headphone set. The only difference between the E100 and the W100 is the color. I was considering buying one of these, but $60 is a little much for a headphone adapter. I bought a $6 headphone adapter on eBay which works great. I don't have a remote, but you can control the MP3 player from your pocket via the scroll wheel (which is super handy), so I really don't need it.

[-haze-]

I use this and it works fine if you don't need the remote features.

http://cgi.ebay.com/3-5mm-Headphone-Adaptor-For-HTC-Touch-Dual-TyTN-II-D810_W0QQitemZ220191106343QQihZ012QQcategoryZ3311Q QtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem

(man, that's my 3rd post here today about ebay. I think I have an addiction.:) )

[gilsas]

I don't own one so I can't say conclusively, but I have heard they work. The thing is, the remote buttons are only supported by HTC Audio Manager and possibly WMP, but not any other media player. Audio should work for any app, and I believe there is a built in Microphone so you can use it for calls with a normal MP3 player headphone set. The only difference between the E100 and the W100 is the color. I was considering buying one of these, but $60 is a little much for a headphone adapter. I bought a $6 headphone adapter on eBay which works great. I don't have a remote, but you can control the MP3 player from your pocket via the scroll wheel (which is super handy), so I really don't need it.

Thanks for the tip! Strangely, here in France you can get these wired RC for 27€ (everything is expensive here) which makes less than 40USD... but that's expensive enough for forcing me to check it's actually compatible.
As for the color, it sounds logical but by typing "wired remote" on www.expansys.com I found out tenths of E100 and W100 with no apparent correlation between reference and color. HTC also references each W100 in black and white colors.... strange!

[briggs81]

I can't get mine to work. Says I have the latest drivers. though i don't see a latest driver for specifically the tytn II.

[gilsas]

Finally got mine - works great with both windows media player and HTC media player, there's maybe a driver / ROM issue. I have a Vodafone branded device (French SFR v1615). I did'nt do anything, just plugged it and it works.

[max621]

in a functionality both are same but E-100 comes with a pair of head phones set and W-100 is only a remote control

[briggs81]

Mine works now, it was just a polaris based rom that i was using that caused it to not work.

[Mannish Boy]

Mine works now, it was just a polaris based rom that i was using that caused it to not work.

How did you get it to work? Changing the ROM to something else? If so, which did you change it to?

I'm using Dutty's V4 which is really great, but the wired remote doesn't work at all. Anyone come up with a solution as yet?

[briggs81]

No, the v4 is the v4 beta polaris based rom. Will not work.

With his unreleased final v4s, he is going to be using v3 + beta v4 tweaks, so that means no more polaris based rom.

He should be making a beta for it at some point which I will be testing out.

It also does not work with WMP on q-mobiles 1.2, but it works with audio manager if you install it.

[briggs81]

I've tried a few roms. It works with..

schapps 4.31 and his windows mobile 6.1 one.
Duttys v3 final (good rom)
Duttys v2 roms

q-mobile 1.2 audio manager music control buttons and phone buttons, but no WMP music control buttons

Panosha (sp?) rom

Havnt tried alex roms yet so don't know about those. WIll try that today sometime, and hopefully a new dutty v4b

[Ves]

I have it aswell it work. Both with the HTC media player and WMP. The red and green phone buttons work aswell. Haven't tried mute. Only thing is my media player is Mortplayer and the remote doesn't support it.

[moddin]

Does anyone have the e100 http://i.expansys.com/i/b/b154773.jpgfor the att tilt where it actualy works and does it work (remote control) for anyone using pocket player. Sorry for the huge pic but it looks real nice.

[Melkor]

To summarize what was posted before in this thread:
- only the volume buttoms work with other players (like pocket player)
- some ROMs have problems

[lindsaydr]

I have just taken delivery of a dopod W100 and it works brilliantly. Bye Bye Ipod nano!

[moddin]

I am talking about the E100 designed specifically for the ATT tilt( supposedly). http://www.expansys-usa.com/p.aspx?i=157661 comment says it doesnt work with tytn II. it is about $3 more expensive than the E100 for the Tytn II but the tilt is different from the Tytn II. Has anyone tried this product on the tilt??

[briggs81]

The comment says it doesn't work with TyTN I, not TyTN II, if you are referring to this one.

"Does not work with TyTN I

* It is not recognized by the device. Installation of the latest driver does not help."

it's not specifically designed for the tilt, that is just their website saying that.

There is the w100 and the e100, plain and simple. e100 comes with crappy HTC headphones, the w100 does not.

Device is the same, OS system is the same on tilt and tytn II, it's all the same crap!

I am sure it works on a TyTN I anyways, device is not that old and you just need to do the right drivers (and that's not easy, driver cd sucks for this thing).

Anyways, I use it on my polaris.

[justin0679@gmail.com]

Hi all,

I have x2 TyTn ii's... the w100 remote works on one device and not on the other. Does anyone know what the driver is called or what files are needed for the remote? My thinking is if I can find them in the device that works with the remote I can copy & paste.

I am using same Rom & Radio on both devices. I suspect the problem was caused by using the "home plugin uninstaller" The thing is that I have reflashed the suspect device and no joy... tried alternative radios and no joy...

I HAVE DISCOVERED ON THE SUSPECT DEVICE THAT AFTER I POWER UP IF I PLUG IN THE REMOTE IT STARTS THE AUDIO PLAYER AND WORKS PERFECTLY - IF I CLOSE THE APPLICATION ON THE SUSPECT DEVICE THE REMOTE FAILS TO WORK FROM THAT POINT ON...

Would welcome suggestions...

Thanks...

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