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  • Page 1 U S E R M A N U A L 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: Table Of Contents

    ........29 ON MEMORY OPTIONS LAN ............60 IRELESS Installing SD / MMC Memory Card ....30 PL3000 Wireless LAN in a Nutshell ....61 ............31 ONTROL PANEL Before Starting to Configure WLAN....63 Accessing Control Panel ........31 Choosing WLAN Supplicant ........
  • Page 4 SYSTEM ..............97 ......97 ANAGING EGISTRY ATABASE Making Your Configuration Settings Permanent. 98 Restoring PL3000 to Factory Defaults....99 ........... 100 ONFIGURING EYPAD Adjusting Keys’ Auto-repeat Delay ....100 Adjusting Keys’ Auto-repeat Rate ..... 101 Enabling/Disabling Keys’ Auto-repeat Property ................

  • Page 5: A Few Words Of Caution

    (iii) 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.

  • Page 6: 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.

  • Page 7: Safety Precautions

    SAFETY PRECAUTIONS LASER BEAM The NORDIC ID PL3000 with a laser barcode scanner makes the PL3000 a Class 2 Laser product. The laser scanner uses a low power, visible light diode. As with any very bright light source, such as the sun, the user should avoid staring directly into the light beam.
  • Page 8 Note of caution about the laser beam in European languages DANSK SE IKKE IND I STRÅLEN! KLASSE 2 LASER! LASERLYF! DEUTSCH NICHT DIRECT IN DEN LASERSTRAHLEN! LASERSTRAHL SCHAUEN! LASERPRODUKT DER KLASSE 2! ENGLISH DO NOT STARE INTO BEAM! CLASS 2 LASER! LASER LIGHT! ESPAÑOL NO MIRE FIJAMENTE EL HAZ! PRODUCTO LASER DE LA CLASE 2...

  • Page 9: Battery

    CHAPTER ONE - INTRODUCTION BATTERY Use only original, Nordic ID approved rechargeable batteries being intended for the NORDIC ID PL3000 to avoid serious health hazards to you or to your fellow- men, or damage to the surrounding property and to your device. Cautions: Under no circumstances must you disassemble the battery casing or damage it.

  • Page 10: Rf Exposure Warning Statement

    CHAPTER ONE - INTRODUCTION RF EXPOSURE WARNING STATEMENT This equipment complies with EU and FCC’s RF radiation exposure limits set forth for an uncontrolled environment 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.

  • Page 11: Compliance Statements

    CHAPTER ONE - INTRODUCTION COMPLIANCE STATEMENTS CE Compliance Statement Hereby, Nordic ID Oy, declares that the NORDIC ID PL3000 models and the PL3000 accessories are in compliance with the essential requirements and other relevant provisions of Directive 1999/5/EC EU DIRECTIVE 2002/96/EC ON WASTE...

  • Page 12: Introduction

    Because of its options the PL3000 is also ideal for a niche application; it can incorporate only the parts the application needs. In view of working environment, being tolerant of humidity and splash the PL3000 is suited for diverse conditions, both indoor and outdoor.

  • Page 13: Optional Device Elements And Features

    CHAPTER ONE - INTRODUCTION There are two versions of a basic battery package available for the PL3000. The older one is a 7.4V Li-ion rechargeable battery with the ampere-hour capacity of 2200mAh. The newer one differs from the older one in...
  • Page 14 SIM slot. With the mobile option the add-on memory will be installed during the manufacture of the PL3000, if need be. For further information on the add-on memory options, see the section ‘ADD-ON MEMORY OPTIONS’...

  • Page 15: Getting Started

    CHAPTER TWO – GETTING STARTED 2. GETTING STARTED INSTALLING BATTERY Open the battery cover Step One 1. Loosen the bolt of the battery compartment cover 2. Open the cover on the bolt end by lifting and pulling it Put the battery into its compartment Step Two Before you begin, check that the electrical conductors of the battery will press against their counterparts in the compartment...

  • Page 16: Charging Pl3000

    Note that if you do not use your NORDIC ID PL3000 for a long time, remove the battery from its battery chamber. Never store the battery in the device.

  • Page 17: Charging Battery

    2. Plug the power supply into the mains Phase Two 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...
  • Page 18 Charging annunciator icon on taskbar Windows CE system also indicates battery charging on the taskbar in its shell. A charging icon is shown on the taskbar until the PL3000 stops charging. After that the battery is fully charged and Windows CE replaces the charging icon with an on-AC-power icon.

  • Page 19: 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).

  • Page 20: Pl3000 Basics

    In this chapter, basic elements such as Windows CE shell, touch screen, and keypad are explained. The explanation reveals basic logic of the interactions between a user and the device. Understanding of some facilities on the PL3000 system makes also every day use of the PL3000 more effortless. Those facilities are a database of the system settings, permanent storage options, and power management of the device.

  • Page 21: Taskbar

    CHAPTER THREE - PL3000 BASICS The desktop segment has its own context menu which you can get to appear on the screen by tapping with the stylus in the desktop area. For and holding example, through the properties context menu item you can adjust window elements’...

  • Page 22: Touch Screen

    Note! Nordic ID PL3000 has no Real Time Clock chip, meaning that the system does not maintain the time over the resets other than a warm boot.

  • Page 23: Task Manager

    Windows CE Shell facility ‘Task Manager’ is a way to handle which application has the screen resource of the PL3000 in use. In other words, if you are running at the same time more than one program, only one can...

  • Page 24: Control Keys

    CHAPTER THREE - PL3000 BASICS also programmable if you write your own shutdown utility.) The programmable property means that the effect of a key press depends on the application. In other words, the application program can set how a keypad driver behaves in a keystroke of a particular key.

  • Page 25: Mode Selectors Of Alphanumeric Keypad

    CHAPTER THREE - PL3000 BASICS Mode Selectors of Alphanumeric Keypad There are three dedicated keys on the keypad that are intended to select input mode of the keys on an alphanumeric segment of the keypad. If you need to alter the functionality of these selector keys you are compelled to rethink the use of the alphanumeric keys as well and vice versa.

  • Page 26: Alphanumeric Keypad

    CHAPTER THREE - PL3000 BASICS Alphanumeric Keypad On the keypad an alphanumeric key segment is intended to insert letters, numbers, punctuation marks, symbols, and spaces to an application. The keys can also play the role of function keys. In fact, the alphanumeric keypad works in three different modes.

  • Page 27: Auxiliary Keys

    Windows CE system is up and running. The system resets are explained in the section ‘Rebooting Your PL3000’ on page 25. Be aware that in some PL3000 configurations the power button also has a...

  • Page 28: Stylus And Touch Screen

    STYLUS AND TOUCH SCREEN The simplest way to navigate through the Windows CE desktop and utility windows is to use a touch screen. For the touch-screen navigation the Nordic ID PL3000 is equipped with a stylus, a pen without ink capability.

  • Page 29: Transcriber Input Panel

    CHAPTER THREE - PL3000 BASICS Transcriber Input Panel A transcriber is a handwriting recognizer. Using the transcriber input panel enables you to input by handwriting on the touch screen. The learning curve of this input method is much longer than the soft-key input method.

  • Page 30: Rebooting Your Pl3000

    CHAPTER THREE - PL3000 BASICS REBOOTING YOUR PL3000 The Nordic ID PL3000 gives variety of reboot options. All the options are accessible through the power button with the exception of some PL3000 configurations. There are configurations of the PL3000 that cannot be hard-reset using the power button.

  • Page 31: Registry

    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.

  • Page 32: Flash Directory

    *.PAK files in the ‘Flash’ folder. FLASH DIRECTORY There is a ‘Flash’ directory off the root of the file system on your PL3000. As its name hints, the Flash directory (actually the Flash partition) is on a non-volatile storage device based on the Flash memory technology.

  • Page 33: Add On Memory Options

    However, the mobile option of PL3000 changes that memory card slot to a SIM card slot. If your need is the mobile PL3000 with the extra permanent storage device, in that case, the PL3000 can be furnished with an internal non- volatile storage, a so called ‘factory-installed add-on memory’.

  • Page 34: Installing Sd / Mmc Memory Card

    Prologue Before you can insert your add-on memory card into its slot on the PL3000 you have to open the battery cover and remove the battery from its chamber. In case of the pistol grip you need a special screwdriver called a Torx driver. The pistol grip (functioning also as a battery cover) is fastened to the device body with three Torx- 8 (T8) screws.

  • Page 35: Control Panel

    The control panel is one channel to manage the properties of the PL3000. It may not be the most convenient means to do that, and it is worth considering whether the end user of the device could have access to the device’s system resources through the control...

  • Page 36: Closing Applet

    COM3, COM5, and COM6 • ActiveSync link capability • Discovering the existence of other Bluetooth devices being within range • Assigning the Bluetooth device name to the PL3000 • Whether or not to be available to other device’s try at discovering Bluetooth devices...

  • Page 37: Certificates

    Dialing With the current communication options of the PL3000 a Dialing applet is an oddity. In the future models the applet may be useful, but currently there is no need to set dialing properties for any means of communication on the device.

  • Page 38: Error Reporting

    ‘SDCCF10G1’ icon in the panel window opens a dialog to assign IP-address information to the WLAN interface. With every connectivity option of the PL3000, there is an icon for making a new connection. A double-tap on the ‘Make New Connection’ icon opens the dialog to add a new connection such as virtual private network or point-to-point connection among others.

  • Page 39: Nid Autostart Settings

    <Computer name>’ or ‘COM4:’, respectively. The ‘COM4:’ is a fixed logical port name of the USB interface on the PL3000. On the contrary, the ‘COM2’ is not a fixed one in the system but you assign the logical port to ActiveSync connectivity when you specify ActiveSync connection over the Bluetooth in the Bluetooth Device Properties applet.

  • Page 40: Nid Key Backlight

    Note! If there is a firewall, a NAT, or both of them in operation between the PL3000 and the computer to which the polls are sent, it might be that the NID link watchdog service is not workable in that case without...

  • Page 41: Nid Power Button

    NID SNTP Service applet makes a Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) client available on your Nordic ID PL3000. The SNTP client can retrieve time value from one source. In addition to the address of a time server, you can specify a destination port on which the service is available.

  • Page 42: Nid Tilt Switch

    ‘Keep alive’ feature is enabled, the signal from the tilt switch functions as a user input. For example, when your PL3000 is running 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.

  • Page 43: Owner

    The PC connection over the USB requires the PL3000 USB driver for the ActiveSync connectivity is installed on your Windows-based computer. The driver is available either through the technical support of the Nordic ID or on the Nordic ID website. The Microsoft ActiveSync is available on the Microsoft websites. Be aware...

  • Page 44: Power

    Bluetooth connectivity does not, there is also another difference between these connectivity types. You cannot plug USB cable directly into your device but you need a device cradle for the PL3000 into which the USB cable can be connected. Bluetooth is a cableless means of communication and there is no necessary need for the device cradle because of the PC connection.

  • Page 45: Stylus

    RAM memory between program execution and storage capacity of the RAM-based file system on the PL3000. The default position of the slider should be fine in normal use, but the occasions can arise e.g. when some maintenance operation can fail unexpectedly.

  • Page 46: Volume & Sounds

    USB socket. What the Windows on your computer sees is the Flash directory off the root of the Windows CE file system on your PL3000.In other words, in this mode you can use your device – your device’s Flash directory, to be precise –...

  • Page 47: Wi-Fi

    ‘third party’, in this text the ‘third party’ is used from the Windows CE 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’.

  • Page 48: Ower Management

    ‘Suspend’ state the PM uses three inactivity timers. If all the three timers expire the PM suspends the PL3000. To put it another way, using the power button is not the only way to switch off the device. By default the PM has always tendency to power down the device to save energy when it is running on battery.
  • Page 49 When you are interactively using your PL3000, the device is in the ‘On’ state. If your PL3000 is in some other power state than the ‘On’, the PM changes the system to the ‘On’ state when you start operating it, for example, by powering it up, if suspended.

  • Page 50: Backup Battery

    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.
  • Page 51 You can replace the dead or low battery on the fly, if you have a charged spare battery available; see the section ‘Backup Battery’ on the preceding page. Otherwise, you may charge your PL3000 by docking it into the desktop charger.

  • Page 52: Data Capture

    ‘NID Scanner’ control panel applet. However, the ultimate configuring should be done in the application software, for example through Nordic ID MHL API. Linear Symbology Reader The bar code reader supports the following bar code types: •...

  • Page 53: 2-D Symbology Reader

    (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 from 5cm, approximately.
  • Page 54 CHAPTER FOUR – DATA CAPTURE • IATA 2 of 5 • Interleaved 2 of 5 • ISBT 128 • • Matrix 2 of 5 • Plessey Code • PosiCode A & B • RSS-14 • RSS Limited • RSS Expanded •...
  • Page 55 PL3000; please contact the technical support of Nordic ID to know how the symbology can be enabled and configured on your PL3000.

  • Page 56: Checking On Symbology Reading

    CHAPTER FOUR – DATA CAPTURE Checking on Symbology Reading There is a ‘NID Scanner’ applet in the control panel which provides a ‘Scan’ page for checking on symbology reading. On the ‘Scan’ page, it is possible to read a bar code or a 2-D code pattern by directing the aimer light (either laser beam or LED light) emitted by the scanner at the tag after pressing the ‘Scan’...

  • Page 57: Configuring Specifics Of Symbology

    CHAPTER FOUR – DATA CAPTURE Before you begin, open the ‘NID Scanner’ control panel applet (see the section ‘Control Panel’ on page 30). To enable decoding of a particular bar code type: 1. Select the ‘Codes’ tab in the NID Scanner applet 2.

  • Page 58: Changing Scanning Timeout

    3. If you want to check if the selected value is appropriate time to wait for the scanner until it gives up trying, direct your PL3000 at some surface so that you can see the aimer/scan light when you press the ‘Scan’ key. Pressing the ‘Scan’...

  • Page 59: Epc Uhf Class1 Gen2 Tag Interfacing

    Having said that, the antennas are designed for the UHF RFID reader on the PL3000 so that the antenna performance is best at the front of the antenna.
  • Page 60 PL3000 can communicate tags at a greater distance than it can do with the linear dipole antenna. Trying out UHF The PL3000 with the UHF RFID reader is furnished with a utility sample to try out the reader’s performance. RFID Reader The utility is called ‘TagRW’.
  • Page 61 If your application uses EPC UHF Class 1 Gen2 tags, you may need the description of Nordic ID’ s MHL for the UHF RFID reader. The MHL is Nordic ID’s formulation of an application programming interface (API) for the system components that Nordic ID’s Windows CE devices incorporate.

  • Page 62: Iso 15693 Hf Tag Interfacing

    The best performance of the antenna is behind the device, about 4 to 10 cm away from the back of the PL3000. This read range is appropriate for applications in which a user needs immediate feedback on the relation between the tag and the item that the tag is attached to, in addition to the fact that those items are easily reachable within the read range.
  • Page 63 CHAPTER FOUR – DATA CAPTURE Note! The PL3000 Advanced HF reads both the ISO 15693 and NXP ICODE tags Integrating the HF RFID reader into your Integrating HF application is possible through the MHL programming RFID Reader interface. What applies to the integration of the UHF into Application RFID reader applies to integration of HF reader as well.

  • Page 64: Connectivity

    Nordic ID (NID) Wireless is a Wi-Fi option of carrying messages over wireless link between the front-end and the back-end system. The NID Wireless is an optional radio system on the PL3000. It incorporates both the WPA and the WPA2 authentication and encryption properties. According to the IEEE nomenclature, the radio of the NID Wireless is an 802.11b/g.

  • Page 65: Pl3000 Wireless Lan In A Nutshell

    Note! In this text, the term ‘supplicant’ may be used in broader sense than the IEEE 802.1X defines the term, meaning that the term ‘supplicant’ is used loosely and it refers to the whole subsystem on your PL3000 being in charge of communication on wireless LAN.
  • Page 66 EAP-FAST Link-layer encryption WEP, TKIP, CKIP (Cisco TKIP), or CCMP 3) Note that the CCMP is an AES-based block cipher protocol specified by the IEEE 802.11i, and in the context of PL3000, AES is used as a synonym for CCMP.

  • Page 67: Before Starting To Configure Wlan

    ‘Enable Radio’ written on it on your Main page in the SCU, then you need to tap on the button to get the radio turned on. It is the second step if you are going to get the WLAN connectivity up and running (of course, assuming that your PL3000 incorporates the WLAN radio module).
  • Page 68 In the following text, the word ‘roaming’ refers to the process of moving a station (PL3000) between access points (APs). The settings described below influence on WLAN roaming on your PL3000, that is, you can adjust how your PL3000 decides to move between APs and how it behaves to address the...
  • Page 69 (AP). When RSS drops below the value of the Roam Trigger the PL3000 starts to scan other APs having the same SSID as the current AP has (referred to as roaming scan). Higher values of the Roam Trigger will tend to result in more frequent roaming scans than lower values (be aware that the values are minus numbers, that is, (-) 70dBm is higher than (-)85dBm).
  • Page 70 WLAN communication. As an aside, WMM (aka 802.11e) provides basic Quality of Service (QoS) features to your IEEE 802.11 network. If you enable the WMM on your PL3000, check that your access point also uses the WMM property and vice versa.
  • Page 71 WLAN frames using WLAN protocol analyzer (of course, assuming that you have an analyzer at your disposal). If it seems that your PL3000 and your access point communicate with each other, and that the analyzer can capture the wireless frames including the EAP request (Header’s Code field: ‘1’;...
  • Page 72 2347 bytes, meaning in practice that the RTS/CTS feature is disabled because the maximum value of the ‘Frag Thresh’ is 2346 bytes. Thus, to enable the RTS/CTS feature on your PL3000 the value of the ‘RTS Thresh’ shall be below the value of the ‘Frag Thresh’.

  • Page 73: Choosing Wlan Supplicant

    SDC Supplicant is selected by default (assuming that the WLAN on your PL3000 is in its factory defaults. If that is not the case, see the ‘Changing Supplicant of WLAN Connectivity’ section on the next page).

  • Page 74: Changing Supplicant Of Wlan Connectivity

    3. Tap on the ‘OK’ button in the notification box to close it 4. Power down your PL3000 by holding down the Power button until the screen goes blank (or warm boot your PL3000, if it is running off mains).

  • Page 75: Radio Settings Relating To Scu Profile

    If you selected the ‘ThirdPartyConfig’ profile, the WZC opens its utility window on screen when your PL3000 is up and running again. A ‘Wireless Information’ page is usually in view immediately, and it starts showing the SSIDs of the access points being within range.
  • Page 76 ‘Maximum’. Be aware that the ‘CCX features’ setting on the Global property page affects the ‘Tx Power’ property. If the ‘CCX features’ is set to ‘Full’ on your PL3000, the WLAN driver expects that your access point(s) controls the transmitting power of the WLAN adapter on your PL3000, - or, to be more precise, the transmitting power is controlled from the direction of your AP(s).

  • Page 77: Configuring Wlan Interface Of Native Wzc

    WZC.) Configuring 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.
  • Page 78 In particular, if DHCP address assigning fails the WZC may assign an IPv4 address with the 169.254/16 prefix to the WLAN interface on your PL3000. The IPv4 address with the above- mentioned prefix is valid for link-local communication only. (The link-local...
  • Page 79 The WZC retains the found SSID information over the sleep/awakening (suspend/resume) cycle. On the other hand, if your PL3000 is up and running and it has a working wireless LAN association, the appearance of a new SSID does not get the Network Status Monitor with its Wireless Information page to show up on the screen.
  • Page 80 WLAN events the WZC has recorded ‘Log …’ since the last rebooting of the device. If you are not attaching your PL3000 to any available network or if the available network access point(s) does not broadcast its SSID, in that case, using the ‘Add New …’...
  • Page 81 Wireless Information tab visible. Interface – SSID Available To attach your PL3000 to a WLAN network, the SSID of which is listed in the network view: 1. Wait for a little while so that the WZC gets the WLAN channels scanned for...
  • Page 82 Windows Embedded CE, for example, manually with the help of the ‘Certificates’ control panel applet before you are able to get your PL3000 connected to the desired wireless LAN. 4. Once you have chosen the other wireless networking options, tap on the ‘OK’...

  • Page 83: Configuring Wlan Interface Of Sdc Supplicant

    CHAPTER FIVE - CONECTIVITY Configuring WLAN Interface of SDC Supplicant In the SCU utility, configuring the WLAN interface for the SDC Supplicant forms a new profile. To end in the new profile may happen in two ways. Either you give a name to profile, which creates a new profile, or the SCU guides you through the WLAN configuration steps, which creates a new profile with a name of the SSID that your access point broadcasts.
  • Page 84 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 with Access Point under...
  • Page 85 CHAPTER FIVE - CONECTIVITY If the guided configuration task is not suitable to configure the WLAN interface of your PL3000, there is an alternative way of configuring WLAN by inserting the required configuration information manually. Before entering an actual configuring task you have to create a SCU profile, a skeleton for configuration data.
  • Page 86 ‘Commit’ button saves your configuration settings permanently. With the finished profile for WLAN connectivity the next step would be to move on to the section ‘Associating PL3000 with Access Point under SDC Supplicant’ on the next page.

  • Page 87: Associating Pl3000 With Access Point Under Sdc Supplicant

    When you have assigned the SCU 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’...
  • Page 88 Note! The assigned IP-address to the WLAN interface may not always be valid in the networking context. In particular, if DHCP address assigning fails, the WLAN subsystem on your PL3000 may assign an IPv4 address with the 169.254/16 prefix to the WLAN interface. With the above- mentioned prefix the IP address is valid for link-local connectivity only.

  • Page 89: Assigning Static Ip Address To Wlan Interface

    CHAPTER FIVE - CONECTIVITY Assigning Static IP Address to WLAN Interface When your network provides DCHP service there is no necessity to configure networking part of the WLAN communication. By default the device expects to obtain IP- address information from the local area network to which the access point is attached.

  • Page 90: Gprs

    ‘NID WWAN’ applet on page 37 in the section ‘Control Panel Applets’. To put the GPRS to use on your PL3000, you need first to install SIM card on your PL3000. Having installed the card you have to configure the GPRS parameters of your network operator for the GPRS connectivity using the ‘NID...

  • Page 91: Installing Sim Card

    Prologue Before you can insert your SIM card into its slot on the PL3000 you have to open the battery cover and remove the battery from its chamber. In the case of the pistol grip you need a special screwdriver called a Torx driver. The pistol grip (functioning also as a battery cover) is fastened to the device body with three Torx-8 (T8) screws.

  • Page 92: Attaching Pl3000 To Gprs Network

    CHAPTER FIVE - CONECTIVITY Attaching PL3000 to GPRS Network When you have installed the SIM in its slot on your PL3000, the PL3000 is ready to be configured for attaching it to your network operator’s GPRS network. If you have not installed the SIM yet, see the section ‘Installing SIM Card’ in the preceding page.
  • Page 93 The checked ‘Enter PIN automatically’ checkbox makes it possible next time as you power up your PL3000 that you need not return to this ‘Security’ page for PIN code insertion but PL3000 inserts the saved PIN code for you. However, these two settings are not yet stored permanently.
  • Page 94 PL3000 has connected to the ‘State:’ packet network, meaning in practice that whether or not your service provider’s network has issued your PL3000 with an IP address information. In this particular case, the ‘Disconnected’ state is a sign of the uncompleted configuration task.
  • Page 95 ‘Connected’. If you want to detach your PL3000 from the GPRS network, tap 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.

  • Page 96: Bluetooth

    Bluetooth stack configuration through the ‘setsockopt’ and ‘getsockopt’ calls. Turning on/off Bluetooth Radio The first step to bring Bluetooth into service on the PL3000 is to turn on its radio. In the similar way you can shut down the Bluetooth. Before you begin, open the control panel ‘Bluetooth Device Properties’...

  • Page 97: Setting Bluetooth In Non-Discoverable/Discoverable Mode

    Setting Bluetooth in Non- Discoverable/Discoverable Mode Non-discoverable mode means that the other Bluetooth devices cannot discover the existence of the PL3000 being within their range. Similarly you can make the PL3000 discoverable if it is in non-discoverable mode. Before you begin, open the control panel ‘Bluetooth Device Properties’...

  • Page 98: Establishing Activesync Link Over Bluetooth

    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 PC before pairing can occur.
  • Page 99 The previous steps got your devices paired; the following steps are required 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.
  • Page 100 ’Close’ 8. Now the PL3000 is connected to the PC over the virtual serial link; you can close the applet and the control panel. There is no ActiveSync connection available yet, but there is an ActiveSync icon in the desktop area of the Windows CE shell.

  • Page 101: Configuring And Administering System

    ADMINISTERING SYSTEM MANAGING REGISTRY DATABASE On your PL3000, there is a simple facility for making the changes in the registry permanent, and on the other hand, for removing the permanent changes from the registry. The facility for managing the registry database is called ‘Registry Backup’.

  • Page 102: Making Your Configuration Settings Permanent

    CHAPTER SIX- CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING Closing Registry If you want to exit from the Registry Backup utility: Backup Press the key. ‘esc’ Making Your Configuration Settings Permanent If you want to make persistence of your configuration changes, you may use the Registry Backup to store them permanently.

  • Page 103: Restoring Pl3000 To Factory Defaults

    CHAPTER SIX- CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING Restoring PL3000 to Factory Defaults If your PL3000 does not operate as you may expect, or if you just want to start from scratch, in that case, the Registry Backup utility gives an option to clear all the changes you or your application have made permanent in the registry database.

  • Page 104: Configuring Keypad

    CHAPTER SIX- CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING Hint: There are two different ways to remove the registry settings in a *.PAK file from your PL3000 registry. You can remove the *.PAK file from the ‘Flash’ folder (see the section FLASH DIRECTORY on page 27), or you can remove the registry settings from the *.PAK file using a special...

  • Page 105: Adjusting Keys' Auto-Repeat Rate

    CHAPTER SIX- CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING Adjusting Keys’ Auto-repeat Rate The auto-repeat rate has an influence on how quickly the symbol is repeated on the screen while the key is held down. Before you begin, open the control panel applet (see section ‘Keyboard’...

  • Page 106: Mapping Key's Functionality Onto Another

    CHAPTER SIX- CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING Mapping Key’s Functionality onto Another Before you begin, open the control panel applet (see the section ‘NID Keypad’ ‘Control Panel’ on page 30). To illustrate a simple mapping case, in the first example, the key ‘0’ is configured to act as ‘tab’ key. To map key’s functionality onto another one: 1.
  • Page 107 CHAPTER SIX- CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING In addition, the ‘Mappings’ tab makes it possible to assign some action to a key, meaning that the keystroke starts an executable, an action, that you have assigned to the key. The following steps illustrate the mapping case in which the ‘F10’...

  • Page 108: Setting Default Mode Of Alphanumeric Keypad

    CHAPTER SIX- CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING Setting Default Mode of Alphanumeric Keypad The factory default of the alphanumeric keypad mode is numeric, that is, every keystroke of the alphanumeric keys enters only numbers on the display by default. In this context the default keypad mode means that after rebooting the device (warm, cold, hardware, or reloading the system) the alphanumeric keypad is in its default mode.

  • Page 109: Confining Alphanumeric Keypad To Function Keys

    Enabling / Disabling Backlight of All Keys If you use your PL3000 in dim light, you may turn on the backlight of the keypad using control panel applet. ‘NID Key Backlight’...

  • Page 110: Managing Touch Screen

    Using the keypad to uncheck the ‘Touch screen lock enable’ checkbox Cold-booting your device, assuming that you have not made the change permanent Resetting your PL3000 to the factory defaults, if you have made the disabled state permanent. Before you begin, open the control panel applet (see the ‘NID Touch Screen’...

  • Page 111: Recalibrating Touch Screen

    CHAPTER SIX- CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING To enable the touch screen using the keypad: 1. If the tab is not shown on the ‘Misc‘ display, set first the input focus the label of the currently visible tab by pressing the key, and then ‘tab’...

  • Page 112: Managing Screen Backlight

    Nordic ID repair centre to be checked for the hardware of the touch screen.

  • Page 113: Selecting Operation Mode Of Screen Backlight

    In the ‘Auto on/off’ operation mode (default mode; for further information, see the section ‘Selecting Operation Mode of Screen Backlight’ above), the screen backlight is turned off when your PL3000 remains idle without any user input either a key press or stylus tapping on the screen for the specified ‘User Idle Timeout’...
  • Page 114 CHAPTER SIX- CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING friendliness of your PL3000 yet being a little bit in contradiction to each other, that is, battery lifetime and keeping readability of the screen. Before you begin, open the control panel applet (see the section ‘Power’...

  • Page 115: Setting Timeout For Automatic Screen Blanking

    SETTING TIMEOUT FOR AUTOMATIC SCREEN BLANKING Your PL3000 turns off the screen after the specified periods of the ‘User Idle Timeout’ and the ‘System Idle Timeout’ has elapsed, if there is neither user nor user application activity during those timeout periods. The ‘System Idle Timeout’...

  • Page 116: Setting Timeout For Automatic System Suspension

    SETTING TIMEOUT FOR AUTOMATIC SYSTEM SUSPENSION The Power Manager suspends your PL3000 after the third inactivity period has elapsed. In fact, after the three inactivity timers have expired in succession. The third inactivity period is called ‘Suspend Timeout’. The other twos are ‘User Idle Timeout’...

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