Charging & Communications - CipherLab 8600 Reference Manual

1.7 CHARGING & COMMUNICATIONS
Normally, the mobile computer ships with a USB or RS-232 cable for charging and
communications. A variety of cradles are available to meet different requirements.
If you are using USB Virtual COM for the first time, you must install its driver from
the CD-ROM. Driver version 5.3 or later is required. Please remove older versions!
The virtual COM port will not be assigned until the USB port is in use.
If you are using USB Virtual COM_CDC for the first time, you must install its driver
from the CD-ROM. USB CDC driver installer is available in the "Windows" folder,
where a vendor-supplied INF file will be copied to Windows.
For Standard USB cable, it will release COM port in the following conditions:
(i) The cable is detached from the mobile computer directly.
(ii) The cable is detached from the cradle directly.
(iii) Take away the mobile computer while the cable is attached between the cradle
and the host computer.
(iv) The mobile computer is turned off.
(v) No application is running on the mobile computer, or COM port is shut down.
For applications that require COM port to be occupied all the time, it is suggested to
use Fast VPort cable instead.
USB Interface Cable
Task
Charging
Communications
Cable Attached
USB direct charging
USB icon and Battery with flash icon
5V charging from the adaptor
Plug icon and Battery with flash icon
USB Virtual COM — If using FORGE Application Generator software on your
PC, you may use the included download utility to transfer data from PC to
your mobile computer; or alternatively, run HyperTerminal.exe to receive
data directly.
USB HID — Run a text editor on your PC to receive data from the mobile
computer directly.
USB Virtual COM_CDC — If using FORGE Application Generator software
on your PC, you may use the included download utility to transfer data
from PC to your mobile computer; or alternatively, run HyperTerminal.exe
to receive data directly.
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