hardware limitations of Snapvue

[citivolus]

just to confirm my belief, the following hardware components are not wired to the Qualcomm 7200 CPU, therefore no amount of hacking/cooking of rom's will ever make them accessible from within Snapvue:

Wifi
SD Card Reader
webcam
hard drive

Is this correct? Am I missing any other components?

[Pawel062]

yes but can be re enabled. it just needs time.

[marcoma]

OK- don't bite my head of - I greatly value your input and given the other responses in the forum know that you have / had access to the actual unit.

The question was literally about hard-wired... a physical connection between the WM part of the unit and the SD / WiFi etc. components... given your answer, you say that they ARE in fact hardwired but the software/drivers to access those components isn't there yet?
I'm on the verge of getting a device like this but if it cannot be enabled (SD card mostly) because of the physical limitation of the device I will not proceed with the 'getting the device'...

Thanks again for the clarification - your input is very much appreciated.

[juiceppc]

Isn't wifi built in the Qualcomm chip?

[cmonex]

just to confirm my belief, the following hardware components are not wired to the Qualcomm 7200 CPU, therefore no amount of hacking/cooking of rom's will ever make them accessible from within Snapvue:

Wifi
SD Card Reader
webcam
hard drive

Is this correct? Am I missing any other components?



hi citivolus... have you ever had a HPC?

anyway, SD *is* wired to the MSM7200, the SPL can access it

i think GPS is possibly fine too

as for the wifi and hdd, i've yet to check those.

[citivolus]

Hi cmonex, yes it's me from HPC:Factor, hence my intense interest in the WM6 side of the Shift! Sounds like you've already confirmed that we can access the SD card from within WM6. Would love to hear if you can access Wifi!

[pdagal]

The WiFi card shows up as an SDIO interface Marvell sd8688 wireless LAN SDIO adapter under Vista. That should mean it's possible to access it under WinMo.

[cmonex]

Hi cmonex, yes it's me from HPC:Factor, hence my intense interest in the WM6 side of the Shift! Sounds like you've already confirmed that we can access the SD card from within WM6. Would love to hear if you can access Wifi!

lol, hey there :)

well just to be clear, all i can say is the SPL can access it, so hopefully only the driver needs to be found... as far as i know beta roms had it. i'm sure we can see that soon.

as for the wifi, yes it is an SDIO wifi adapter built in, that's all we know so far but that sounds promising.

[citivolus]

does the webcam work in WM6? you can test this with Microsoft Portrait.

thanks!

[Pantaloonie]

does the webcam work in WM6? you can test this with Microsoft Portrait.

thanks!

It gives errors such as 'get camera information failed' and 'can't retrieve camera info'.