Wadup /g/ I came across this pocket pc when I was in highschool,

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Pls be upright

>>60601797
>>60601805
This is what I get for phoneposting.

You could try charging it.

>>60601815
Doesn't charge when I plug it into the cradle into my computer

>>60601828
No shit sherlock. It doesn't charge through USB.

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>>60601840
b8

>>60601851
>It has a USB connection! It must charge through it just like my media consuming piece of shit!

>>60601797
If you left it unused for long the battery could get undercharged so that controller thinks it's dead and does not let charge it. In worst case this requires new controller, in best case you can leave it on chager for long and it will eventually start charging, in other case you can forcefully charge battery with external circa 3,5V power supply (chances are that there are + and - marks on battery).

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>>60601893
Or he could just use the DC in barrel connector at the bottom.

>>60601884
Doesn't work when plugged into a wall either

>>60601893
Thanks, I'll leave it charging for a while and see what it does.

>>60601884
http://usbstyle.com/toshiba-pda-pocket-pc/toshiba-e740-e750-e755-pda-pocket-pc-usb-sync-charge-hotsync-cable/

>>60601915
It won't help bypass battery controller protection.

>>60601920
IT
DOESN'T
CHARGE
THROUGH
USB
>>60601923
Exactly. The cable you don't have. You have the sync cradle.
>>60601936
The sync cradle doesn't even get power through to the unit.

>>60601945
I'm fucking retarded. Now I know what you're saying. Sorry for striking a nerve

>>60601952
Find a manual online and see what's the packaging for it and charging instructions. It's totally possible that it does not charge from USB.

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>>60601952
Thank fucking God.
To charge it with the cradle, you need to plug a charger into the barrel jack in the cradle, too. It doesn't get power from USB because USB power was limited to something ridiculous like 150mA when this thing came out.

>>60601893
or you know, you could just change the battery out for a new one.

Are there any screws to open it up?

>>60601920
Well then if doesn't work when plugged in to the wall through the DC jack, there's a good chance it's totally fucked. Your best bet is probably to open it up.

>>60602028
I haven't tried the DC Jack, only cradle -> USB brick -> outlet like the phoneposter I am, so that's probably why. Very easy to open, just 4 screws on the back.

>>60602050
Will post results if this thing works + the thread is still alive

Update: nothing, maybe it's because I used a PSP charger but it was the only one that fit.

NEVERMIND IT WORKED, THANKS /g/

>>60603214
You're welcome m8. Actually, that PSP charger is a perfect match. 5V at a decent amount of current and center positive.

>>60603180
You might've gotten lucky this time, but it's generally a completely terrible idea to try to power things with random chargers from different devices. Back before everything used USB, there really wasn't any sort of real standard for charging devices, different things could have completely different voltage/current requirements despite using the same sort of generic barrel connector. You could easily fry something by plugging it into random shit. It's safe to do if you know that the polarity & voltage are correct and the charger sufficient current though, obviously.

>>60603373
Shit, I had no idea. Got very lucky then. What's the next step? Throwing NetBSD onto it?

>>60603388
You should first unplug it and try to find some spec sheet/manual which mentions its charging requirements. Could very well be 5V (I have a PDA which takes 5V too) and I doubt it would take anything less than that, but you should confirm it just to be safe. If anything feels like it's getting too hot (PDA or charger), definitely unplug it.

After that I doubt you'll be able to find any OS for it other than the Windows which came with it. Maybe some newer version, but not something completely different. There's probably not much real use for a PDA these days, everything has become so grossly bloated that it probably can't do much at all, even if it's one of the later (and fastest) models. I dug up my old PDA a few months back and tried it out, it couldn't even connect to my WiFi because it doesn't support WPA2 and it's one of the later models. Older ones may not even have WiFi built-in at all. You can fuck around with it and maybe try some games/programs if you can still scrape any off of the modern web, or find your own use for it and write a program. I played around with mine and development was surprisingly easy and painless, if you can program that is.

>>60603492
yep, it's 5V. I'm going to try to write my own stuff, see if I can actually get something to work for the fun of it

>>60603566
If it has WiFi or you can somehow get it on a network, you might do something useful with it. I wrote a resource/performance monitor for mine, it pulls data from my PC and displays it as nice, easy to see bar graphs.

>>60603627
That's a pretty cool idea, I think it has wifi there's definitely internet connectivity

Trying to find a manual now

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>>60603653
I had to bust out an old router and set up a separate TKIP-secured network in order to get my PDA to connect. It wouldn't connect at all to my modern router unless I completely disabled security, which I didn't want to do. Keep that in mind if you can't get it to connect to a network. Development is actually surprisingly easy, you need Visual Studio and these things support a version of .NET, much to my surprise, so writing software for them is nearly identical to writing any winforms application, with some extra restrictions which kinda need some workarounds.

>>60603805
Sounds like something I'd need to do. Definitely won't connect to my current router. The only connections I can make are IrDA and "Hayes Compatible on COM1"

>>60603805

My old HP iPaq only does WEP.

>>60603864
See how long a charge lasts and just use it as an audio player if it's good enough and has a headphone jack.

Hell maybe you'll even get Winamp running on it.

>>60603864
Have a good look around its settings menu, I only ever used the one I own (a Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket LOOX N560) but the impression I get is that WiFi isn't really properly integrated into Windows Mobile, so each vendor might have implemented it kind of in their own way. That standard wizard for new connections isn't where you'd find WiFi, on mine it has its own separate category.

>>60603878
Mine's "new" enough to support barebones WPA with TKIP, though it seems to be quirky as fuck since it won't connect to my modern router even if I set it to WPA and TKIP, but it does connect to my old one with the same settings. WiFi wasn't as ubiquitous and universally supported 10 years ago as it is now. I remember I didn't even have WiFi when I was actually using it, I'd share internet access over BT from my PC if I wanted to get the PDA online.

>>60604016

Yeah, the shit we had to go through back in the good ol' days...

I miss the Pocket PC. Greatest thing ever. Apple fucked us over and every day I hate Steve Jobs so much for fucking us over so normies could use pocket computers.

>>60604037
Some things were definitely more difficult, but not all progress since then has been for the better as far as I'm concerned.

>>60604105
The UI design is especially noticeable. The fact that PDAs were designed from the ground up to be used with a stylus really shows, you can fit a surprising amount of shit on a small ~3" display when you don't have to design it around being operated with clumsy thumbs.

>>60604105
>>60604200
I wish devices with styluses took off, so much more handy

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>>60604200
>The UI design is especially noticeable. The fact that PDAs were designed from the ground up to be used with a stylus really shows, you can fit a surprising amount of shit on a small ~3" display when you don't have to design it around being operated with clumsy thumbs.
>>60604269

It's fucking bullshit. M$ has a great opportunity to really fix Windows Mobile back in 2009, but they went full retard with the iOS clone. Someone should've been fired for that decision, and to this day they still can't reach their peak of 30 million windows mobile devices being sold a year, even in the age of android and iOS, they still sold over 20 million. Only a drooling retard could see those numbers and tell their core base and core app developers to go fuck themselves and burn everything down to build something exactly the same losing billions in the process.