background image

Nordic ID Morphic User Manual 

Nordic ID International Headquarters 

Myllyojankatu 2A 
FI-24100 SALO 
FINLAND 

Phone: 

+358 2 727 7700 

Fax: 

+358 2 727 7720 

Email: [email protected] 

www.nordicid.com 

Summary of Contents for Morphic

Page 1: ...Nordic ID Morphic User Manual Nordic ID International Headquarters Myllyojankatu 2A FI 24100 SALO FINLAND Phone 358 2 727 7700 Fax 358 2 727 7720 Email support nordicid com www nordicid com ...

Page 2: ... Scan Key 20 3 2 10 Power button 20 3 3 Stylus and Touch Screen 20 3 3 1 Input Panel Soft Keyboard 21 3 4 Rebooting your Nordic ID Morphic 21 3 4 1 Soft resetting your device 21 3 4 2 Hard resetting your device 22 3 5 Registry 22 3 6 Non volatile Storage 23 3 7 Control Panel 23 3 7 1 Accessing Control Panel 24 3 7 2 Opening Applet 24 3 7 3 Closing Applet 24 3 7 4 Closing Control Panel 24 3 8 Contr...

Page 3: ...tabase 47 6 1 1 Accessing Registry Backup 47 6 1 2 Closing Registry Backup 47 6 1 3 Making Your Configuration Settings Permanent 47 6 1 3 Restoring Your Nordic ID Morphic to Factory Defaults 48 6 2 Repartitioning Non volatile Storage 48 6 3 Configuring Keypad 49 6 3 1 Adjusting Keys Auto repeat Delay 49 6 3 2 Adjusting Keys Auto repeat Rate 50 6 3 3 Enabling Disabling Keys Auto repeat Property 50 ...

Page 4: ...by visiting Nordic ID s web pages ii Trademarks All designations mentioned in this User Manual that are either trademarks or service marks are the property of their respective owners Where those designations appear in this manual and Nordic ID was aware of a trademark claim the designations have been written in initial capital or in capitals Microsoft Windows Windows Embedded CE Windows CE Visual ...

Page 5: ...en the laser beam is aimed even indirectly via a reflecting surface e g mirror at the eyes So always 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 Scan ...

Page 6: ...YON FIXEMENT PRODUIT LASER DE CLASSE 2 ITALIANO LUCE LASER NON FISSARE IL RAGGIO PRODOTTO NEDERLANDS LASERLICHT NIET IN STRAAL STAREN KLASSE 2 LASER NORSK LASERLYS IKKE STIRRINN I LYSSTRÅLEN LASER KLASSE 2 PORTUGUÊS LUZ DE LASER NÃO FIXAR O RAIO LUMINOSO PRODUTO LASER DA CLASSE 2 SUOMI VARO LASERSÄDETTÄ ÄLÄ SUUNTAA SÄDETTÄ SILMIIN LASER LUOKKA 2 SVENSKA VARNING LASERSTÅLNING STIRRA EJ IN I STRÅLEN...

Page 7: ... not use the battery any longer and dispose of it Do not put the battery into any liquid Care shall be taken to handle or to store the rechargeable battery so that the battery s electrical conductors do not short circuit The short circuit causes damage to the battery Do not expose the rechargeable battery to direct sunlight or to other heat sources The battery temperature cannot go up over 60 C 14...

Page 8: ...Nordic ID approved wall charger being intended for the Nordic ID Morphic device Do not use the wall charger for any other purposes than for charging the rechargeable batteries on the Nordic ID Morphic or on its docking cradle The wall charger and your Nordic ID Morphic are designed to charge the Nordic ID approved rechargeable batteries INDOORS ONLY at normal room temperature or at temperature nea...

Page 9: ...s device may not cause harmful interference and 2 this device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation Changes 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 Nordic ID Internat...

Page 10: ...es and the business applications running in the edge or data center systems For automatic identification needs it provides 1 dimension barcode reader 802 11b g wireless communication with strong encryption and authentication and user interface with alphanumeric keypad touch screen and 2 2 320 by 240 pixel resolution backlit color screen It supports wide range of technologies to build up client ser...

Page 11: ...rket both at the Continental and the UK and at United States market So before you can use the wall charger you have to assemble the wall charger by fixing the AC plug part applying to your location to the power switching unit according to the following picture Be aware that you can plug the lead from the power supply into the power socket being either on the Nordic ID Morphic or on its docking cra...

Page 12: ...our capacity is still more than two thirds of its original one However the charge discharge cycle is a conception being not unambiguous Accordingly between short operating periods it is not reasonable to recharge the battery Note that ambient temperature has an effect on how long the fully charged lithium polymer battery is able to power your device A rule of thump is that the colder is using cond...

Page 13: ...m of the device is up and running the LED in the bottom right hand corner of the device s keypad area indicates charging status that is when the battery is being charged and when it is fully charged Red light indicates that charging is in progress When light changes from red to orange the battery is charged approximately 80 of its total capacity After that the Nordic ID Morphic keeps on charging t...

Page 14: ...docking cradle into the mains see the booklet included in the cradle box To charge the battery on the docking cradle 1 Place the contacts end of the battery in the slot so that there is approximately 3mm space between the battery and slot contacts 2 Press the battery and slot contacts against each other by putting the battery at the back end into its slot 3 Check that the indicator in the front ri...

Page 15: ...ctories off the root of the device file system A hidden directory to which the shell moves files and directories when you delete them A short cut to Microsoft Web browser Taskbar Double tapping the icon on the desktop you can launch the application or the other facility which the icon represents 3 1 1 Taskbar Start menu icon The start menu icon is also known as Start button Tapping on the button w...

Page 16: ...en on the screen Annunciator area In this area on the task bar 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 services provide dialog for user Time On the taskbar there is field showi...

Page 17: ...her one by configuring the keyboard driver in response to the keystroke of the key to send another key code than the key s default one to an application Related information Section Mapping Key s Functionality onto Another Section Specifying Default Mode of Alphanumeric Keypad Section Enabling Disabling Scan Key 3 2 1 Activator Key With the activator key an operation is accepted or activated In con...

Page 18: ... ALT accesses various window menus 3 2 5 F mode Keypad Function mode Selector Key The key is a multi mode selector By means of the F mode key it is possible to change alphanumeric keys either functioning as numeric or as alphabetic and numeric keys The key also switches between lower case and upper case letters In addition by this key the numeric keys operate as function keys and tab alt key as an...

Page 19: ...y before stopping repetition stays in the entry area Note that the key printed zero on it enters either space or zero only Note that when the key is pressed and held down in the text writing mode the character sequencing property is skipped and the key enters the number only At the same time cursor advances to the next position Switching between upper case and lower case In the lower case mode two...

Page 20: ...r instance the first time use is an exception to the above mentioned awakening then the Nordic ID Morphic boots up its system after power button press Switching OFF your device Assuming that your Nordic ID Morphic is running on battery and its operating system is up and running To switch off your device 1 Press the power button without holding down it the device shows a Shutdown dialog window on i...

Page 21: ...ar in the entry field in the same way as if they were inserted by means of the alphanumeric keypad Note that on the task bar there is the icon of the soft keyboard showing its availability Tapping on the icon toggles the soft keyboard as well Related information Section Input Panel Input Panel control panel applet 3 4 Rebooting your Nordic ID Morphic The Nordic ID Morphic gives variety of reboot o...

Page 22: ...dware resets It s also possible that the device remains lying idle for long enough so that all the batteries on the device run down and the registry settings vanish However so called factory settings in the registry does not cease to exist because the system image of the CE windows includes a file containing the registry settings generated during the build process of the Windows CE image The Windo...

Page 23: ...able to reallocate two times the size of the Windows CE system image for the first partition that is about 30 40 megabytes or at least 20Mbytes so that your application could use the persistent storage freely within its own partition s In the Control Panel there is an applet called Storage Manager with which you can repartition the persistent storage Note that you can create only FAT file system p...

Page 24: ...far left of the taskbar in the bottom left hand corner of the screen 2 Press the Activator key to bring up the Start menu 3 Select the Settings menu item by the up arrow of the Navigation ring 4 Press the right arrow to bring up the Settings submenu the Control Panel submenu item is selected 5 Press the Activator key to open the Control Panel 3 7 2 Opening Applet To open an applet 1 Select the app...

Page 25: ...ting as a supplicant uses the store if EAP TLS is selected as the authentication method for the wireless access So the Certificates applet is the instrument for i Viewing certificates in the store as well as their contents i Deleting certificates from the store i Adding certificates to the store 3 8 3 Clear Type Windows Embedded CE provides support for three different types of text display technol...

Page 26: ...change the appearance of the soft keyboard 3 8 9 Internet Options This is a utility to configure Internet Explorer The Internet Options is also available on the view menu in the Internet Explorer 3 8 10 Keyboard The applet makes it possible to enable disable the auto repeat property of the keys on the keypad and to adjust the following auto repeat parameters repeat delay and repeat rate Related in...

Page 27: ...trol 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 business application after the network connection has been established and to keep user friendliness both by hiding unnecessary displayed information on the screen and by hindering the user from interfering with the connection establishment phase by pressing ...

Page 28: ...computer being reachable through the wired backbone network of the WLAN infrastructure Monitoring does not require any special software on that computer just its IP address and a TCP port number to send polls are set in the applet However the polling requires that the TCP port is open in the computer Additionally the machine must respond to TCP connection initiations from the Nordic ID Morphic One...

Page 29: ...applet is not so much a control panel applet as a sample utility to demonstrate the configuration options being available on the scan engine equipped with your Nordic ID Morphic Related information Section Bar Code Reader 3 8 19 NID SNTP Service If your business application requires keeping the Nordic ID Morphic s in synch with your servers time a NID SNTP Service applet makes a Simple Network Tim...

Page 30: ...e password protection is applied when the system powers on or when the blank display is turned on again Actually both of the situations refer to the transition from lower system power state to the highest possible power state the On state So if you enable password protection for screen saver in the Password applet it means in practice that when the screen has gone blank in the case of user or syst...

Page 31: ...ormation on battery status and on the power status of the sub systems such as wireless LAN adapter audio system and barcode scanner Related information Section Power Management Section Setting Timeout for Reduction in Screen Brightness Section Setting Timeout for Automatic Screen Turning off Section Setting Timeout for Automatic Suspension 3 8 25 Regional Settings The Regional Settings applet cove...

Page 32: ...he same device name and that the device name is also possible to specify on the General tab in the Bluetooth Device Properties applet Related information Section Bluetooth Device Properties 3 8 29 USB Profile The USB Profile applet can be seen as a selector by which you choose an operational mode of your device across the USB link You can put Nordic ID Morphic into operation across the USB as foll...

Page 33: ... and to the alarms and remainders as notifications To the keystrokes it refers as key clicks With the help of the applet you can allow or prevent the sound effects on a source by source basis However the sound effects of keystrokes and touch screen taps have three level volume control of their own and when you disable their sound effects you actually mute their sound The Volume Sounds also provide...

Page 34: ...t is either in the On or in the transitional states Suspended When Nordic ID Morphic is switched off it is said that it is suspended For the simple reason that the device cannot be turned off completely but the critical parts of the system s electronics remain powered after powering down the device So setting the device to Sleep through the shutdown dialog window suspends the device The PM suspend...

Page 35: ...ing to this state requires that a System Idle timer expires The System Idle timer has also a settings value of Never If set the device does not shift to SystemIdle state but remains in the UserIdle state until user operates the device It might happen that it is not easy to make difference between the SystemIdle state and the Suspend state because those power states resemble each other on the outsi...

Page 36: ...r the system in the suspended state for the time to replace the flat battery with the fully charged one The backup battery is charged by means of the main battery For example during the charging of the main battery in its chamber the backup battery is being charged as well Note that when the main battery is not being charged nevertheless it charges the backup battery if need be ...

Page 37: ...ault all the bar code types are enabled Although the scan engine makes it possible to be configured by means of specific bar codes it is strongly recommended that the changes to the configuration are made with the help of a NID Scanner control panel applet However the ultimate goal should be that the configuration of the scan engine is in command of the business application software by virtue of N...

Page 38: ...ent to the symbology type AIMSI AIM Symbology Identifier Bar code type When the scan succeeds this tells the type of the decoded symbology in an understandable form 4 1 2 Enabling Disabling Bar Code Type On the Codes tab the NID Scanner control panel applet lists all the bar codes the device supports Each list item has a check box telling whether or not the reader decodes the bar code type when th...

Page 39: ...ect the Trigger Mode of your choice 3 If you want to check on how the selected triggering works select the Scan tab and read some sample bar code by pressing the Scan key and directing the laser beam emitted by the scan engine at the bar code 4 Press the Activator key the selected trigger mode is stored in the registry Related information Section Making Your Configuration Settings Permanent Sectio...

Page 40: ...ordic ID Morphic can also be put into operation by using a WEP security Even so note that the WEP is no longer expected to be reliable security method In addition to the infrastructure networking an ad hoc networking is an option to establish direct communication without WLAN access point s between your Nordic ID Morphic and some other device supporting WLAN For peripheral wireless communication y...

Page 41: ...icon has two forms The point of the two icons is to communicate the wireless LAN networking status on the taskbar Both the icons do inform that the WZC is up and running but the difference is whether or not the TCP IP stack is ready to communicate as follows TCP IP stack has no IP address for networking TCP IP stack has an IP address for networking However this does not necessarily mean that the a...

Page 42: ...ountry or geographical region in which all the 14 channels specified by the IEEE 802 11b g standards may operate ETSI regulation is mainly followed in European countries the exceptions are Spain and France If the default value ETSI is not appropriate specify the regulatory domain followed by your country with the Hardware tab If you change the values on the Hardware tab you need to reset to warm b...

Page 43: ...nly if a new SSID is found out by sweeping from channel to channel the WZC shows up the dialog box as long as there is not the preferred network s assigned to the WLAN interface Note that the WZC retains the found SSID information over the sleep awakening cycle On the other hand if the device has a working wireless link the appearance of the new SSID does not get the Wireless Information tab to po...

Page 44: ... for manual certificate enrolment Before you begin open the Wireless Information tab on the screen see section Introduction to managing Wireless LAN interface To add new preferred network 1 Double tap on the Add New list item in the network view window a Wireless Properties dialog box opens 2 Enter the network name in the Network Name SSID text field 3 Select the Authentication used by the network...

Page 45: ...ote that in the case of configuration for the network SSID the This is an ad hoc network check box is leaved unchecked Note that if the network uses PEAP 802 1X authentication you do not need to set its properties but using EAP TLS 802 1X authentication you have to select appropriate certificates In case you cannot find the required certificates you have to import enroll the certificates into the ...

Page 46: ...ty to configure networking part of the WLAN communication However if the static address assignment is preferable to your networking then the Network and Dial up Connections is used to assign the IP address to the WLAN interface To assign a static IP address to the WLAN Interface is a straightforward operation 1 Open the Network and Dial up Connections control panel applet see section Control Panel...

Page 47: ... 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 of the screen 3 Press the Activator key to bring up the Start menu 4 Select Programs menu item by the up arrow of the Navigation ring 5 Press the right arrow to bring up the Programs submenu NordicID submenu is selected 6 Press the right arrow to bring up the NordicID submenu 7 ...

Page 48: ...key the calibration is completed Note After your Nordic ID Morphic is up and running all the changes to the default contents of the registry are gone except the registry settings in pak or PAK file s in the Flash folder on your device So even though you restored the contents of the registry to the factory defaults the registry settings specified in the pak file s remain in the registry after the c...

Page 49: ...our choice like pFlash1 or Part01 in the Name text field 3 Tap the OK button on the Create New Partition title bar the second partition is created Note that the Use All Available Disk Space check box is leaved checked v Close the Storage Manager by tapping the OK button on the Storage Properties title bar two partitions are created Now there should be Flash and Flash2 folders off the root of the f...

Page 50: ...the direction of the right side or tap the right arrow button at the right side of the trackbar 2 Tap the test entry field at the bottom of the applet window to have a quick check how adjusting the rate has an effect on symbol repeating on the screen 3 Press some numeric key and hold down it for a little while to see the repeat rate 4 If the result of the quick check was satisfactory tap the OK bu...

Page 51: ... 0 is selected 3 Select Modifier in the Mappings area In this example Function is selected 4 Select VK Virtual Key code you want the selected key to generate In this example the TAB virtual key code is selected 5 Tap the Apply button at the bottom of the tab 6 Tap the OK button on the title bar the key 0 as an F10 key acts now as a tab key In addition the Mappings tab makes it possible to assign s...

Page 52: ...lect 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 Related information Section Making Your Configuration Settings Permanent 6 3 6 Enabling Disabling Scan Key Before you begin open the NID Keypad control panel applet see section Control Panel To disable the Scan key 1 Select the Misc tab in the NID Keypad applet 2 ...

Page 53: ... States Section Setting Timeout for Reduction in Screen Brightness Section Setting Timeout for Automatic Screen Turning off 6 4 Managing Touch Screen 6 4 1 Adjusting Double tapping Sensitivity of Touch Screen Before you begin open the Stylus control panel applet see section Control Panel Be aware that double tapping sensitivity is measured against the maximum time between two screen taps in succes...

Page 54: ...djusting Double tapping Sensitivity of Touch Screen 6 4 3 Disabling Enabling Touch Screen Be aware that after disabling the touch screen you cannot enable it any longer by tapping a check box with the stylus If you want to enable the touch screen again you have the following choices Using the keypad to uncheck the Touch screen lock enable check box Cold booting your device assuming that you have n...

Page 55: ...ile until the UserIdle inactivity timer expires assuming that the timer expires within a minute or less 4 Press the Activator key the brightness adjustment is finished Related information Section Making Your Configuration Settings Permanent Section Power States Section Setting Timeout for Reduction in Screen Brightness 6 6 Setting Timeout for Reduction in Screen Brightness The backlight of the col...

Page 56: ...e you begin open the Power control panel applet see section Control Panel To set the timeout value for the automatic screen turning off 1 Select 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 Timeout value being appro...

Page 57: ...rom occurring Be aware that you can disable automatic suspension by setting the Suspend Timeout to Never Before you begin open the Power control panel applet see section Control Panel To set the timeout value for the automatic suspension 1 Select Schemes tab 2 Select Battery Power from the Power Scheme list 3 Select the System Idle Timeout value being appropriate for your needs 4 Press the Activat...

Page 58: ...the battery and this product in an ecologically sound manner according to the regulation governing your location EU directive 2002 96 EC on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment WEEE Nordic ID International Headquarters Myllyojankatu 2A FI 24100 SALO FINLAND Phone 358 2 727 7700 Fax 358 2 727 7720 Email support nordicid com www nordicid com ...

Reviews: