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Page 1: ...USER MANUAL NORDIC ID PL3000 ...

Page 2: ...PL3000 User Manual VERSION 1 01 MAY 2009 Nordic ID Oy Myllyojankatu 2 A 24100 SALO FINLAND tel 358 2 727 7700 fax 358 2 727 7720 www nordicid com ...

Page 3: ...Internet Options 34 Keyboard 34 Network and Dial up Connections 34 NID AutoStart Settings 35 NID Backlight 35 NID Indicators 35 NID Key Backlight 36 NID Keypad 36 NID Link Watchdog 36 NID Power Button 37 NID Scanner 37 NID SNTP Service 37 NID Tilt Switch 38 NID Touch Screen 38 NID Trigger Button 38 NID WWAN 38 Owner 39 Password 39 PC Connection 39 Power 40 Regional Settings 40 Storage Manager 40 S...

Page 4: ...Functionality onto Another 102 Setting Default Mode of Alphanumeric Keypad 104 Enabling Disabling Backlight Indication of Alphanumeric Keypad Selectors 104 Confining Alphanumeric Keypad to Function Keys 105 Enabling Disabling Backlight of All Keys 105 MANAGING TOUCH SCREEN 106 Adjusting Double tapping Sensitivity of Touch Screen 106 Disabling Enabling Touch Screen 106 Recalibrating Touch screen 10...

Page 5: ...fringement ii This publication can include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors iii The information presented in this publication is subject to change without notice iv Nordic ID might change the utilities applets or programs described in this publication Note This publication deals with PL3000 within the scope of Windows Embedded CE 6 0 only You can have the latest version of the manual...

Page 6: ...the United States in other countries or both 802 11 and all 802 11 based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of IEEE Inc in the United States in other countries or both Java and all Java based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc in the United States in other countries or both Bluetooth and Bluetooth logo is a trademark of Bl...

Page 7: ...s take care when you are reading bar codes or when you troubleshoot bar code scanning problems Never look in the direction of the bar code scanner from which the scan engine emits the laser beam when you activate the scanning process nor aim the scanner at the human eye or the eye of any animal Caution EVERY TIME THE SCAN KEY IS PRESSED THE SCANNER STARTS EMITTING LASER BEAM By default the functio...

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Page 9: ...e higher temperature may cause damage to the battery which makes the battery unusable 100 C 212 F or higher temperature can cause a battery explosion Keep the battery out of the reach of children POWER SUPPLY Before charging the rechargeable battery check that the mains voltage into which you are plugging the power supply AC DC adaptor does not exceed the AC voltage specified on the power supply T...

Page 10: ...nt under the following conditions 1 This equipment should be installed and operated such that a minimum separation distance of 20cm is maintained between the antenna and user s nearby person s body at all times 2 This equipment must not be co located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter The picture shows the safe way to handle the device ...

Page 11: ...hanges or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user s authority to operate the hand held equipment The FCC ID information is printed on the back side of your hand held FCC Compliance Notice Note This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are ...

Page 12: ...esolution backlit color screen with a touch screen device For more information on the shell see the section WINDOWS CE SHELL on page 15 The keypad of the PL3000 is designed in particular for Windows CE system making a device application easy to be controlled with keys Every key on the keypad has its own software controllable backlight LED There are two LED indicators in the keypad area One indicat...

Page 13: ...re two options available for optically reading identification code labels One reader is intended to read liner bar code symbologies and the other one is targeted at the code labels encoded into a two dimensional pattern 2 D symbologies For more information on the optical readers see the section SYMBOLOGY ENCODED TAG RAEDING on page 47 For EPC UHF Class 1 Gen2 RFID tags the PL3000 is obtainable wit...

Page 14: ...facture or a native 802 1X stack of Windows Embedded CE for WLAN authentication For further information on Nordic ID wireless option see the section WIRELESS LAN on page 59 The PL3000 has the possibility of installing additional memory up to two gigabytes There is a SD MMC memory card slot on the PL3000 with all available options other than the NordicID mobile In the case of the NordicID mobile th...

Page 15: ...artment conductors press against each other Close the battery cover 1 Put two protruding parts at the top of the battery cover into their hollows on the device 2 Settle the bolt end of the cover into its place and fasten the cover to the device by tightening the bolt of the battery compartment cover ABOUT LITHIUM ION BATTERY Note that the lithium ion Li ion rechargeable battery included in the box...

Page 16: ...hat if the battery runs down do not leave the device with the flat battery or the battery which has run down lying idle without recharging the battery because the battery may be overdischarged due to self discharge After overdischarging the battery does not preserve its performance properties In the worst case scenario the battery is damaged and cannot store energy any longer Note that if you do n...

Page 17: ... of the charger body through the hole in the device slot Charging Battery 1 Connect the lead from the power supply to the power socket on the back of the desktop charger 2 Plug the power supply into the mains 1 Put your Nordic ID PL3000 into the desktop charger 2 Power up the PL3000 by pressing the Power button Once the operating system is up and running the PL3000 starts charging the battery in i...

Page 18: ...harging low power indicator see the section Charging Low battery Indicator on page 45 If there is no discernible enough difference between yellow and green light indication you can also find charging indication on a taskbar see below for more information about the taskbar see the section Taskbar on page 16 Charging annunciator icon on taskbar Windows CE system also indicates battery charging on th...

Page 19: ...he right side of the cradle at the same time 2 Hold the buttons pressed against the cradle while lifting the PL3000 out of the cradle CHARGING PISTOL GRIP BATTERY If your PL3000 incorporates the pistol grip with or without the battery inside you can charger the PL3000 in its desktop cradle in the same way as the PL3000 with the basic battery package see the section Charging Battery on page 12 Phas...

Page 20: ...eas to show different things such as time and active input method being available on the touch screen by keystroke The taskbar is explained in more detail in its own section on the next page The other segment occupying the main part of the screen is the area in which it is possible to have an access to facilities and applications e g with a double tap on their symbolic icons By default this so cal...

Page 21: ... you can also get that dialog window through a Start menu item Settings Taskbar And Start Menu This icon also known as Start button symbolizes a Start menu an application and system facility menu on the taskbar Tapping on the icon with the stylus the Start menu opens on the screen You can also open the menu using the keypad as follows Before you begin minimize all the application and utility windo...

Page 22: ...ave open on the screen apart from the control panel applets having NID as part of their name In an annunciator area on the taskbar the various subsystems running behind the scenes notify you of their status by showing the icon being appropriate at a particular moment Tapping the announciator icon you can get further information about the status and even more However not all of the background servi...

Page 23: ...gram window will be displayed on the screen Note The window having the keypad focus can be also changed by holding down the alt key while pressing the esc key to switch between running programs However there can be programs such as Internet Explorer that put a stop to this functioning of the alt esc key combination KEYPAD The PL3000 s keypad can be regarded as four functional areas the control key...

Page 24: ...ich is intended by default to set off optically visible identification code label reading when pressed In addition the control keys include an ok key and an esc key These two keys are considered operational ones The ok key press accepts or activates operation you are selecting In the text editing context the key advances the cursor to the next line The esc key press cancels the operation being und...

Page 25: ...acklight suggests which one of the cases is enabled By default the brighter light denotes the upper cases Be aware that there is a shift key on the bottom key row of the keypad when held down while being pressed a letter key a capital letter is inserted As you would expect if the alphanumeric keypad is caps locked the effect is reverse Pressing the F key overrides the effects of the abc and 123 ke...

Page 26: ...phanumeric mode You may switch the keys into this so called text writing mode by pressing the abc key be aware the overriding capability of the F key see the section Mode Selectors of Alphanumeric Keypad on the preceding page In this text writing mode repetitive pressing a key enters next character if letter in the alphabetical order in the place of cursor until the number printed on the key appea...

Page 27: ... conventional use see the section Mode Selectors of Alphanumeric Keypad on page 20 if you hold down the key while pressing the ok key you can toggle between locked and unlocked keypad state Windows CE shell uses an alt key as a shortcut one For example pressing the key you can access the File menu of an application In addition you can switch between programs with an alt esc key combination and an ...

Page 28: ...he alt key while tapping on the taskbar So it is up to Windows CE application to choose a sequence as a right mouse click TOUCH SCREEN INPUT METHODS Windows CE provides two controls that can be used for inserting text numbers and symbols through the touch screen One control simulates a keyboard on the touch screen a soft key input panel and the other one makes it possible to utilize the touch scre...

Page 29: ...icon on the taskbar the Start menu opens on the screen 2 Tap the Programs menu item the submenu opens on the display 3 Tap the Microsoft WordPad menu item the Microsoft WordPad application opens its window on the display 4 Press the square key to trigger the transcriber 5 On the button bar of the input panel tap on the forth button on the left hand side to select whether you are going to insert up...

Page 30: ...es and the device stays running 2 Select among the options using the arrow keys 3 Press the ok key to launch the selected option Be aware that through the shutdown dialog you may also place the device in the suspended state Although the suspend resume sleep awakening cycle is not an actual reboot option some drivers unload and reload on resume Hard resetting your device PL3000 has two options to h...

Page 31: ...system This matter has consequences for the persistence of the registry keys and values if changed deleted or created Although the RAM device on the PL3000 is battery backed meaning that the RAM is being refreshed when the device is turned off the registry data does not persists on cold boots without mentioning the hardware resets It s also possible that the device remains lying idle for long enou...

Page 32: ...tain if need be either customization or system maintenance PAK files or both If you ever receive files being intended for your PL3000 and the extension of the file names is either PAK or pak put those files into the Flash directory After you have cold booted your device the content of the PAK files is enabled in your system On the other hand if you remove a PAK file from the Flash directory and co...

Page 33: ...e name Windows CE does not use drive letters but represent such as partitions and separate flash file systems as directories off the root of the file system Thus the SDMMC as a storage volume can be also repartitioned if need be In a Control Panel there is an applet called Storage Manager with which you can repartition the SDMMC storage For more information about Control Panel see the section Cont...

Page 34: ...over by thumb on its edge on the side of the battery chamber 2 Insert the memory card into the slot as the adjacent figure shows 3 Press the card that is inserted in its slot so that the lock mechanism of the memory slot clicks then the card is locked in its slot If you need to remove the card from the slot in the same way you release the locked memory card by pressing it a little bit inwards so t...

Page 35: ...anding the features the system allows to enable disable to adjust etc Accessing Control Panel There are two means of accessing the Control Panel either using the keypad or tapping the touch screen with the stylus The following instructions are based on the use of the keypad Before you begin close all application windows on the screen To open control panel using keypad 1 Press the tab key so that t...

Page 36: ...ntrol Panel 2 Select the Close menu item by the down array key 3 Press the ok key the Control Panel closes CONTROL PANEL APPLETS Bluetooth Device Properties A Bluetooth Device applet gives the configuring options and other Bluetooth related features as follows Turning on off the Bluetooth radio Information on the device s Bluetooth MAC address among other hardware details Making available RFCOMM s...

Page 37: ...et you can choose from those three text display technologies to find the best possible look of a font on the display In addition the applet gives you possibility even to fine tune the ClearType and Font Smoothing rendering methods to get the rendering of your chosen font yet improved Be aware that the font rendering technology of your choice is enabled for all fonts in the system meaning that the ...

Page 38: ...ctivity panel that may be expected to be a center of all the means of connectivity in the Windows CE system In some senses the Network and Dial up Connections panel could be considered to be a control center but in reality it does not play its role unambiguously Further you may need this sub control panel only to assign static IP address information to a WLAN interface DHCP is set default to the i...

Page 39: ...nc on COM2 icon COM2 in this particular example in the connections window NID AutoStart Settings Using a NID AutoStart Settings applet you can enable disable a service having control over the system when the device is about to be up and running after it has been powered up The purpose of the service is to launch your application after the network connection has been established while keeping user ...

Page 40: ...ronment in which the loss of connectivity may happen on a daily basis because the device goes out of range of the WLAN coverage or bad quality of signal transmission path persists for long enough So the user can receive information about the loss of WLAN connectivity which may be otherwise difficult to notice among other hitches such as slow response time and accordingly it is possible take right ...

Page 41: ... applet is not so much a control panel applet as a sample utility to demonstrate the configuration options being available on the scan engine on your PL3000 NID SNTP Service If your business application requires keeping the PL3000 s in synch with your servers time a NID SNTP Service applet makes a Simple Network Time Protocol SNTP client available on your Nordic ID PL3000 The SNTP client can retri...

Page 42: ... in one of its two intermediate power saving modes the quick flick of your wrist energizes your device by turning on the backlight of the screen and the screen itself depending on the power saving state in which the device was before the tilt switch trigger NID Touch Screen Using this applet you can disable also enable the touch screen device NID Trigger Button If your PL3000 is furnished with the...

Page 43: ...lows When the screen has gone blank in the case of a user or system activity the screen or the whole device is turned on Before a user gets into the system again he she has to enter the password When you specify password use the soft key input panel to make certain of which characters your password actually is composed If you mix for instance numerals lower case letters and upper case letters ente...

Page 44: ...ased on the adjustment of three timeout periods that are applied either to AC powered or to battery powered mode For each of the periods the system has to remain idle until the change in lower power state can happen and finally after three idle periods in succession gets the system suspending itself In addition to controlling the power management of the device the Power applet provides information...

Page 45: ...fail unexpectedly In that case the adjustment to the usage of the RAM between the file system memory space and the execution memory space may help Windows Embedded CE supports dynamic name registration with a WINS Windows Internet Naming Service server For the registration the device has to have a unique name on the network On the Device Name page you can specify your device name Be aware that the...

Page 46: ...llow for a strong authentication Volume Sounds Windows Embedded CE uses sound effects to indicate diverse occurrences in the device to a user The occurrences are classified into five categories application sounds system events and warnings alarms and remainders keystrokes and touch screen taps With the help of a Volume Sounds applet you can allow or prevent the sound effects on a source by source ...

Page 47: ...E perspective So the Wi Fi is a third party utility to configure to monitor and to manage WLAN interface and communication on the PL3000 The actual name of the applet is Summit Client Utility If you select the Default profile in the Summit Client Utility SCU your supplicant configuration utility is the SCU and WLAN 802 1X stack is based on OpenSSL Toolkit On the contrary if you select the ThirdPar...

Page 48: ...ended Note In this manual both Suspended and Sleep is used to refer to the OFF state of the device that is to refer to the situation when the device is switched off By default if your PL3000 remains idle for a while it reaches the Suspended via the UserIdle and SystemIdle states For this transition from the On state to the Suspend state the PM uses three inactivity timers If all the three timers e...

Page 49: ...ntil you power down it using the power button The UserIdle is a transitional power saving state The point to enter this state is nothing but power saving In this power state the device gives impression that it is still powered Typically you notice the change to the UserIdle state when the backlights of the screen and the keypad are turned off but the display remains on Tapping the screen or pressi...

Page 50: ...e situations when the main battery on your device is running low and you have a charged spare battery available for there is a backup battery on the PL3000 In the same way as the main battery the backup one is rechargeable Being fully charged the backup battery is able to power the critical electronics of the system for the time to replace the dead or low battery with a charged spare one Once you ...

Page 51: ...ever when the battery is running low the LED starts flashing yellow light You can still use your PL3000 but be aware that the operating time being left is short After having flashed yellow for a while the power indicator starts flashing red light and the Windows CE displays a warning message Main Batteries Very Low on the display Discharging of the battery has reached the point when your device ma...

Page 52: ... is used for aligning the reading device to the symbol The handling and applicability differences between the readers results from the above mentioned technology difference between them For example the name bar code reader implies that the laser beam is convenient for reading linear one dimensional symbologies but not two dimensional ones In addition the bar code reader is an orientation dependent...

Page 53: ...both bars and spaces The width is measured in mils thousandths of an inch For example 40 mils in inches are 0 04 in millimeters it is 1 01 The bar code scanner on the PL3000 is capable of reading all the supported barcode types of any mils from the shortest distance of 5cm approximately The longest read distance varies according to the size of a bar code The distance ranges from 14cm with the 4 mi...

Page 54: ...Code 39 Trioptic Code 39 UPC version A UPC version E0 E1 Height Modulated Linear Symbologies Postal Codes Australian Post British Post BPO Canadian Post Chinese Postal Code Japanese Post KIX Netherlands Post Korean Post Planet Code Postnet 2 D Stacked Symbologies Aztec Code Codablock F Code 16K Code 49 MicroPDF417 PDF417 2 D Matrix Symbologies Data Matrix MaxiCode QR Code ...

Page 55: ...s with the depth of field effect In photography the depth of field effect refers to plane of focus from near to far within image With the imager it means the range in which a symbol remains in focus if the reader draws away from the symbol or draws closer to the symbol As a rule of thumb the larger is the size of the symbol in mils the wider is the range in which the symbol is in focus that is the...

Page 56: ...AIMSI When the scan operation succeeds the combination of three characters is shown in this field The first character is a flag It informs that AIM code follows next in the character string received from the scan engine The character after the flag tells the type of the symbol and third one is a modifier character 2nd field Mod char The modifier character out of the three character AIM symbology i...

Page 57: ...ogy the result of the change by pressing the scan key The applet displays the Scan page and the scanner starts reading If you aim the reader at a symbol tag of that particular symbology you can see the result on the Scan page Configuring Specifics of Symbology Before you begin open the NID Scanner control panel applet see section Control Panel on page 30 To set optional features of the bar code ty...

Page 58: ...wo RFID reader options The dividing line between the readers is what type of RFID tags they are able to read For example a tag s coupling mechanism determines one of the main fits This coupling mechanism has also an influence on reading operation in general such as on the read range between the reader and the tag Along with range the coupling mechanism strongly affects which frequency the tag can ...

Page 59: ...form of shorter operational distance The power level that the reader uses for tag communication has also an influence on operational convenience of the reader Depending on the application for example from time to time there can be too much RFID tags within range of your reader as background noise In that case if the reader used less power for tag reading the situation would be more convenient The ...

Page 60: ...y is called TagRW When you open the TagRW it instructs you in its use by showing the available options in its window as well as turning on the backlights of the keys that are in use in the utility To open the TagRW 1 Press the tab key so that the input focus is set to the Start menu icon on the far left of the taskbar in the bottom left hand corner on the screen 2 Press the ok key to bring up the ...

Page 61: ... the bar code scanner into your application but with the UHF RFID reader you do not manage to do that without software work For example just to satisfy a read command of the EPC Class 1 Gen2 protocol the tag requires the following information A handle to be identified as the particular tag that shall reply to the read request A piece of information on the memory bank so that the tag can read the p...

Page 62: ...reader to the tag through the magnetic field the read range is directly linked to the size of the antenna in use Typically the read range of 20 cm antenna design is 20cm and the read range of 40 cm requires a 40 cm antenna The PL3000 with a HF RFID reader uses internal antenna for tag reading It is not possible to recognize externally whether or not the PL3000 incorporates the HF RFID reader The c...

Page 63: ... interface What applies to the integration of the UHF RFID reader applies to integration of HF reader as well There are code samples available how to control the reader using the MHL For more details about the software development support to incorporate the HF RFID reader in your application see the corresponding section of the UHF reader on page 56 Integrating HF RFID Reader into Application ...

Page 64: ...s and it includes both the cipher suites specified by the 802 11i Second radio of the PL3000 being optional is for a GSM mobile network access with its GPRS extension This Nordic ID Mobile option is targeted at the application environment where it is not reasonable to establish an infrastructure for short range wireless connectivity assuming that there is a cellular data network available The NID ...

Page 65: ...tecture on the wireless LAN uses three components to implement a network access control Supplicant is one of those components It runs on the end user stations and it seeks access to network resources In other words once there is an association between a station and a WLAN access point the supplicant attempts to get the station become authorized in the WLAN context Note In this text the term suppli...

Page 66: ...P or CCMP 3 SDC Supplicant WLAN Security Options WEP with manual shared key Pre shared key PSK according to either WPA or WPA2 Authentication with keying non EAP authentication options Manual CKIP Cisco TKIP PEAP MS CHAPv2 PEAP EAP GTC EAP TLS LEAP EAP authentication methods EAP FAST Link layer encryption WEP TKIP CKIP Cisco TKIP or CCMP 3 3 Note that the CCMP is an AES based block cipher protocol...

Page 67: ...strates the situation in which the PL3000 includes the radio with its default options It takes the SCU utility a little while to receive information about the radio s existence If the WLAN radio is not included in your PL3000 the status of the following three fields on the Main page remains unchanged as follows Status Down Radio Type Reg Domain There is a button identified by the text Disable Radi...

Page 68: ...t value If you want to change the value of the property a tap on the value field opens the list of the values available for selection If there is no set of values available you may enter the value of your choice in the field depending on the actual property Be aware that changing the value in the field without tapping the Commit button does not get the change to come into use A tap on the Commit b...

Page 69: ...r AP but PL3000 starts to monitor RSS again after the Roam Period has elapsed The point of the Roam Period together with the Roam Delta is to prevent the ping pong effect You can set the Roam Period in five second increments in the range of 5 to 60 seconds BG Channel Set PL3000 searches for the APs within range by sending probe requests To be successful in searching the PL3000 probes the set of th...

Page 70: ...ccess points no matter which manufacturer To disable totally the features of the CCX there is a settings value of Off If your WLAN network is based on the concept of Cisco wireless LAN infrastructure you may set this parameter to Full Be aware that the Full setting overrides the settings as follows all the roaming parameters see above and a Tx Power setting of an active profile see a Profile prope...

Page 71: ...pace diversity If you change a RX Diversity parameter it may be reasonable to change the value of the Tx Diversity as well Otherwise it is recommended that the radio uses Tx diversity because it typically guarantees best performance of the WLAN connectivity RX Diversity Radio signal s quality at the receiver end is very vulnerable to variations in the signal transmission path especially when the a...

Page 72: ... in the SCU so that the SDC Supplicant verifies the validity of a server certificate By default the SDC Supplicant does not prove WLAN trustworthiness on an EAP based port authentication Miscellaneous Global Settings Assigned to SCU Utility Tray Icon This is an on off switch to enable or to disable whether or not the SDU Supplicant icon is in view in the annunciator area on the taskbar Hide Passwo...

Page 73: ...ne of reasoning as follows 1 If your WLAN connectivity is based on some EAP method advance to the step 2 Otherwise the SDC Supplicant is a good starting point for your WLAN connectivity If you decide to select the SDC Supplicant you need not do anything in this phase the SDC Supplicant is selected by default assuming that the WLAN on your PL3000 is in its factory defaults If that is not the case s...

Page 74: ...you begin open the SCU utility see the section Before Starting to Configure WLAN on page 62 and select the Main page if not selected If the Active Profile field has ThirdPartyConfig written on it the WZC supplicant is in charge of WLAN connectivity Other profile names in the Active Profile list refer to the SDC Supplicant Before any SDC profile creation the list includes only ThirdPartyConfig and ...

Page 75: ...ngs that the SCU makes available for each profile before continuing the configuration of the rest of the WLAN in the WZC With the Default profile the line of actions is different Usually it is not reasonable to tweak the radio settings of the Default profile but the final one that you specify when you are attaching your PL3000 to your WLAN under the SDC Supplicant Before you begin open the SCU uti...

Page 76: ...thing that is optimized between the power consumption and the WLAN throughput in that case the Fast is a selection It is a factory default and it can be recommended in most cases Tx Power If you need to reduce the radio s transmitting power on your PL3000 you may use this parameter By default the transmitting power is set to Maximum Be aware that the CCX features setting on the Global property pag...

Page 77: ... WLAN Interface of Native WZC When the ThirdPartyConfig profile is set active in the SCU and the PL3000 is working again after power cycle the WZC utility called Network Status Monitor opens its window on the screen It may also be that the Network Status Monitor does not show up if the WZC can associate with the network for which it has configuration in the WZC terminology configurations for 802 1...

Page 78: ...e as your PL3000 has gained full access to wireless LAN network On the other hand if you select the DHCP option the pages show the IP address information once the device has received that information from the network after the completion of WLAN authentication and association In a sense the IP and IPv6 Information tabs are mutually exclusive because the IP networking is typically based on either t...

Page 79: ...uality the WLAN adapter sees from the other end of the established wireless link The checked Notify when new network available enables unchecked disables the Network Status Monitor to appear on the screen for example after the warm boot provided that you have not specified the preferred network If the Notify when new network available checkbox is checked the appearance of the Network Status Monito...

Page 80: ...o set the configuration from scratch meaning that you have to know beforehand a network name SSID the type of network authentication and encryption used by the WLAN network By default the Add New suggests you the highest level of security being possible in the wireless LAN standards If it should happen that you have to specify EAP TLS 802 1X authentication type you may first require using a Certif...

Page 81: ...tor with its Wireless Information page on the screen by tapping first on its icon on the taskbar and after that tapping on the Wireless Information tab If the Wireless Information tab is not in view use the arrow buttons on the right hand side of the tab row for getting the Wireless Information tab visible To attach your PL3000 to a WLAN network the SSID of which is listed in the network view 1 Wa...

Page 82: ...an Internet Explorer or a ping utility in the command prompt window the connectivity test may fail because your PL3000 has not the IP address being valid for networking To check which IP address and network mask are assigned to the WLAN interface open the IP Information pages either IP Information or IPv6 Information page depending on the addressing scheme in use For further information see sectio...

Page 83: ...tive Profile on the Main property page in the SCU When the profile is selected the active one the SDC Supplicant operates according to the profile rules Configuring the WLAN interface under the SCU guidance requires that your AP broadcasts its SSID Before you begin open the SCU utility see the section Before Starting to Configure WLAN on page 62 and select the Main page if not selected Check that ...

Page 84: ...ton saves your configuration settings permanently Now you have the new profile with the configuration for your WLAN connectivity meaning that your PL3000 is ready to get connected to your access point However the guided configuration did not necessarily take the Radio properties on your WLAN network into account with the exception of the SSID So before you move on to the section Associating PL3000...

Page 85: ... connectivity in the SCU 2 Enter the name of your choice in the field in the window opened on the screen 3 Tap on the OK button in the window the profile is created Before you continue with the WLAN interface configuration on the Profile page make yourself familiar with Radio properties of the profile see the section Radio Settings Relating to SCU Profile on page 70 Be aware that there is only one...

Page 86: ...he section Associating PL3000 with Access Point under SDC Supplicant on the next page Note If you want that the SDC Supplicant verifies the validity of a server certificate meaning that the supplicant validates that it connects to the network that is what it claims to be you have to check the Validate server checkbox If you do that there are two possibilities where to put a CA certificate The CA c...

Page 87: ... profile of your WLAN connectivity to the SDC Supplicant the Active Profile the SCU remembers it over the different reboot types until you assign a new profile to the SDC Supplicant When the PL3000 is rebooted or powered up the SDC Supplicant starts automatically associating with the access point that it has the profile for of course with the exception of the ThirdPartyProfile in which case the SC...

Page 88: ...e active profile practice so that the SDC Supplicant sees more active profiles than only one In the SCU terminology this property is called Auto Profile There are On and Off spots of the Auto Profile on the Main property page in the SCU 1 A tap on the On spot gets the SCU to tell you what to do if you are enabling the Auto Profile 2 After closing the pop up message window the SCU directs you to se...

Page 89: ... the Network and Dial up Connections panel you may assign a static IP address to the WLAN interface To assign static IP address to WLAN Interface 1 Open the Network and Dial up Connections control panel applet see the adjacent figure 2 Double tab the SDCCF10G1 icon in the panel window the IP address property sheet of the WLAN interface opens on the display 3 On the IP Address page select the Speci...

Page 90: ...tor Note There is also one thing you have to check out when you put the mobile option to use on your PL3000 If your device uses the basic battery package check that the battery package is 2600mAh in capacitance because the 2600mAh battery is designed in particular for use on the PL3000 with the mobile option If the battery is not 2600mAh or greater in capacitance you can temporarily use the older ...

Page 91: ...side of the battery chamber 2 Insert the SIM card into the slot as the adjacent figure shows 3 Press the SIM card that you inserted in its slot so that the lock mechanism of the slot clicks then your SIM card is locked in its slot If you need to remove the SIM card from the slot in the same way you release the locked SIM card by pressing it a little bit inwards so that lock mechanism clicks 4 Clos...

Page 92: ...ned on check the Enabled checkbox in the Radio area on the Service page The configuration is an interactive operation in a sense that after you have entered and applied the PIN code of your SIM card the PL3000 starts synchronizing with a cell of your cellular carrier s network Thus the following configuration task is divided into two sections Synchronizing PL3000 with Base Station and Accessing Ex...

Page 93: ...wo settings are not yet stored permanently If you want to do it now close the NID WWAN applet and see the section Making Your Configuration Settings Permanent on page 97 After that you can return to the NID WWAN applet and check if your PL3000 has synchronized with your service provider s cellular network 5 If the Connection page is not in view on the screen tap on the Connection tab to see whethe...

Page 94: ...oint the name APN of which you should have received from your service provider Getting your PL3000 GPRS attached the PL3000 requires at lest an access point name APN In addition to APN some service providers may need some further information on establishing the GPRS connection such as a user name and a password Even so for example in the case of Internet access the user name and the password are n...

Page 95: ...p on the Disconnect button However when you power down the PL3000 the GPRS modem detaches itself from the network and indicates it to you with a notification sound There remain two optional completion tasks before trying the connectivity 1 If you want to get your PL3000 automatically to connect to your service provider s network after powering it up check the Automatic connect checkbox on the Conn...

Page 96: ...suming that you have assigned RFCOMM to some virtual serial port COM port for ActiveSync in the Bluetooth Device Properties applet Hint Windows CE has two application programming mechanisms to use Bluetooth connectivity above RFCOMM protocol Winsock API and virtual serial ports API The preferred method is to use Winsock API to access Bluetooth stack for the simple reason that the socket interface ...

Page 97: ...coverable mode 1 Select General tab if not selected 2 Tap on the Advanced button to open the Advanced Configuration dialog box 3 Tab on the Discovery check box Let other Bluetooth devices discover this device so that the tick the check mark disappears from it Note The manufacture and the address information may be confusing because the manufacture is unknown and the address is zeros Yet next time ...

Page 98: ...equests If that is the case you have to add one click the Add button on the same page On the Options property page make sure that your PC can be discovered and it allows Bluetooth connections In establishing a connection your Windows PC is a slave and your PL3000 is a master in Bluetooth terms meaning that the PL3000 initiates connection establishment and it must know the Bluetooth address of the ...

Page 99: ... to browse services on your PC Furthermore the following steps instruct you to link your PL3000 to the ActiveSync service on your PC but not yet to establish the actual ActiveSync connection between the PL3000 and the PC Before you continue you need to start up the ActiveSync on your Windows computer so that there is a service to associate with Be aware that in the ActiveSync the connection shall ...

Page 100: ...the dialog box window tap on the Create ActiveSync link checkbox so that the tick the check mark appears in the check box 5 Select the local virtual serial port COM2 by default of your choice if need be in the Map to COM port field to assign a logical port to the service 6 Tap on the Activate button at the bottom of the page to enable the point to point serial service over Bluetooth 7 Tap on the C...

Page 101: ...base through the PAK files in the Flash folder Using the Registry Backup utility to reset your device to the factory defaults does not affect the PAK files stored in the Flash directory for further information see the section FLASH DIRECTORY on page 27 There are two means of accessing the Registry Backup either using the keypad or using the touch screen and the stylus The following instructions ar...

Page 102: ...n applet are not persistent However there are applets such as the Wi Fi and the Bluetooth Device Properties that incorporate setting features that makes the changes permanent when the value is changed in the registry for background information see the section REGISTRY on page 26 To make the changes in Registry permanent 1 Set keypad focus on the Backup Registry button if not set by using the up ar...

Page 103: ...lts 1 Set keypad focus on the Restore Factory Registry button by the down arrow button 2 Read WARNING the Registry Backup utility shows in the window 3 Press the ok key the Registry Backup gives you the last chance to go back on the operation by pressing the esc key 4 Press the ok key the Registry Backup removes the persistent add ons from the registry and cold boots your device After your PL3000 ...

Page 104: ...uence on how quickly the repeat property takes place after the first symbol the key press generated is shown on the screen if the key is held down Before you begin open the Keyboard control panel applet see the section Control Panel on page 30 and check that the alphanumeric keypad is in the numerical mode see the section Alphanumeric keypad on page 21 To shorten auto repeat delay Move the Repeat ...

Page 105: ...p the left arrow button at the left side of the trackbar To have a quick check if the adjustment is OK 1 Tap the test entry field at the bottom of the applet window 2 Press some numeric key and hold down it for a little while to check the repeat rate 3 If the result is satisfactory tap the OK button on the title bar Otherwise repeat the operation Enabling Disabling Keys Auto repeat Property Before...

Page 106: ... virtual key code is selected 4 Tap on the Apply button at the bottom of the Mapping page 5 Tap on the OK button on the title bar the key 0 acts now as a tab key The next mapping case illustrates when TAB functionality is assigned to the F11 key To map key s functionality onto another one with modifier property 1 Select the Mappings tab in the NID Keypad applet 2 Select Key you want to map onto an...

Page 107: ...Tap the button to browse the executable the desired key will launch In this example the AskTime in the Windows folder is selected Now the action id is linked with the executable 4 Select Key you want to map onto the action id in the Mappings area In this example the key Period is selected 5 Select Modifier in the Mappings area In this example Function is selected 6 Select VK Virtual Key code you w...

Page 108: ...ic keys 1 Select the Misc tab in the NID Keypad applet 2 Select Input mode of your choice 3 Tap the OK button on the title bar the task is finished Enabling Disabling Backlight Indication of Alphanumeric Keypad Selectors By default the mode selectors of the alphanumeric keypad for more information see the section Mode Selectors of Alphanumeric Keypad on page 20 communicate in their backlights to a...

Page 109: ...y function option on its Misc page When the Sticky function checkbox is checked the alphanumeric keypad is forced into the function key mode Enabling Disabling Backlight of All Keys If you use your PL3000 in dim light you may turn on the backlight of the keypad using the NID Key Backlight control panel applet Checking the Enable keyboard backlight checkbox on the Misc page turns on the backlight o...

Page 110: ...just double tapping sensitivity 1 Select the Double Tap page in the Stylus applet 2 Follow the instructions on the page to adjust and to check the double tapping sensitivity 3 Once you are satisfied with your adjustment tap the OK button on the title bar Disabling Enabling Touch Screen Be aware that after disabling the touch screen you cannot enable it any longer by tapping a checkbox with the sty...

Page 111: ... twice to uncheck the Touch screen lock enable checkbox 5 Press the ok key the touch screen is enabled To disable the touch screen 1 Select Misc tab 2 Check the Touch screen lock enable check box by tapping it with the stylus 3 Press the ok key the touch screen is disabled Recalibrating Touch screen It should be rare to recalibrate the touch screen but in some cases it could be reasonable to recal...

Page 112: ... screen needs to be calibrated on a regular basis due to fact that tapping objects on the screen does not seem to result in success in the desired function until the recalibration it is strongly recommended that you send your device to Nordic ID repair centre to be checked for the hardware of the touch screen MANAGING SCREEN BACKLIGHT Adjusting Screen Brightness There is a trackbar slider called B...

Page 113: ...tant on mode links the backlight blanking to the SystemIdle state In practice the Constant on mode means that the system turns off the screen backlight and the screen at the same time An Auto on off mode links the backlight blanking to the UserIdle power state For further information on the power states see the section Power Management on page 43 Setting Timeout for Automatic Screen Backlight Blan...

Page 114: ... AC Power That is a source of electricity on which the device is running determines when the setting is in use 3 Select the User Idle Timeout value being appropriate for your needs for more information on Never settings value see section Power States On on page 44 4 Press the ok key new timeout value is set Note Three timeout values for transition from one power state to another which can be speci...

Page 115: ...u begin open the Power control panel applet see the section Control Panel on page 30 To set timeout for automatic screen turning off 1 Select Schemes page by tapping the Schemes tab 2 Select Power Scheme to which your timeout change applies either Battery Power or AC Power That is a source of electricity on which the device is running determines when the setting is in use 3 Select the System Idle ...

Page 116: ...dleness in this context means that neither a user operates the device nor a business application prevents the device from powering down Be aware that application traffic over the wireless link does not stop automatic suspension from occurring but ActiveSync does Hint You can disable automatic suspension by setting the Suspend Timeout to Never Before you begin open the Power control panel applet se...

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