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0183 standard. Consequently it's unsuitable
for conventional marine NMEA-0183
equipment use. Its intended use is for normal
"terrestrial" mobile users who want to enable
their USB hosting computing devices such as
a PC, laptop or PDA with the phone's highly-
capable GPS functionality.
get connected
1 Slide open the
phone's bottom
connector and
insert a micro-
USB cable into
the phone's
bottom connector.
2 Insert the other end of the micro-USB
cable into a vacant USB receptacle of your
host device. A virtual USB Comm Port will
be created on your host device upon
successful enumeration of the phone as a
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USB Communications Device Class
device.
Note: A mini USB to micro USB adapter
may be required to connect other devices.
3 Ensure no application in your host device
is using the created COMM port. You
may need to ensure that the created
virtual COMM port settings are set as
follows:
• Bits per second: 4800
• Data bits: 8
• Parity: None
• Stop bits: 1
• Flow control: None.
4 Start the GPS application on your host
device. Set the GPS application to start
accepting NMEA-0183 formatted data
from the created Virtual COMM port.
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