Keyboard options

[ciaopubs]

I just got my N800 a week and a half ago.

I picked up a Targus USB keyboard, but I can't get it to work with the N800. I verified that it will work when attached to the USB port of my Mac. The keyboard comes with a 4-pin male to USB A male, so I had to get an A female to 5-pin male adaptor.

I read one post indicating that I might need to attach the keyboard to a powered USB hub, but I had no luck with that, plugging either the keyboartd or the N800 into the hub's input and the other to an output.

Ideas? Do I need to return the USB keyboard and get a Bluetooth one instead?

[johsua]

I just got my N800 a week and a half ago.

I picked up a Targus USB keyboard, but I can't get it to work with the N800. I verified that it will work when attached to the USB port of my Mac. The keyboard comes with a 4-pin male to USB A male, so I had to get an A female to 5-pin male adaptor.

I read one post indicating that I might need to attach the keyboard to a powered USB hub, but I had no luck with that, plugging either the keyboartd or the N800 into the hub's input and the other to an output.

Ideas? Do I need to return the USB keyboard and get a Bluetooth one instead?

The n800 does not support usb host mode - yet. Get a BT KB. I use a ThinkOutside model that works very well out of the box. Check priceline. There is also a ton of info on this web site - just search:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/search.php

good luck.

[lkravovicz]

yep, running the thinkoutside stowaway + n800 like a charm here.

[DryLand404]

"I use a ThinkOutside model that works very well out of the box. Check priceline."
Do you mean pricewatch.com?
Priceline.com is a travel site.

[joku]

You can connect a usb keyboard to the nokia 770. I saw this at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSMKO_sbncY

and an other interesting link about nokia 770 + usb keyboard, which I don't understand :-)
http://tabletblog.com/2006/01/usb-power-injector-for-usb-host-mode.html

I hope that it is possible to connect a usb-keyboard to a n800. But how?

[Karel Jansens]

You can connect a usb keyboard to the nokia 770. I saw this at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSMKO_sbncY

and an other interesting link about nokia 770 + usb keyboard, which I don't understand :-)
http://tabletblog.com/2006/01/usb-power-injector-for-usb-host-mode.html

I hope that it is possible to connect a usb-keyboard to a n800. But how?

Here's "770-USB 101":

The USB port of the 770 can be forced into host mode (the mode where you can plug all kinds of interesting stuff into your 770 and make it go with it) via a software hack. That's the easy part.

The problem is the hardware: Nokia didn't see fit to connect power to the USB port in the 770, meaning that all that interesting stuff won't go, because there's no power to make it go. There is a hardware hack (that's the second link you referred to) that will give external power to your 770's USB port and make aforementioned interesting stuff go: "Ahhhh -- power! Nice...", but it's not trivial and you need to read the instructions carefully.

[Karel Jansens]

None of the above works with the N800 though.

Although apparently some clever dicks have cracked the N800's USB code:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/maemo/developers/21371

You're advised to consider this even more risqué than the 770 hack.


Edit: 1,100 posts! Jay!
(You'll never stop me, I tell ya'! Mwooahahahaaah!!!!)

[euchreprof]

I came on here back in 2005 when the Nokia 770 launched and ALMOST bought one... fast forward 1.5 years I came back cuz I heard about the Nokia N800 launch... then the first day I came back I remember (like it was just yesterday) you swearing up and down you would never get a Nokia N800 under any circumstances whatsoever... you went on for days about this same topic... until of course... you bought a Nokia N800 one week later. lol

[Karel Jansens]

I came on here back in 2005 when the Nokia 770 launched and ALMOST bought one... fast forward 1.5 years I came back cuz I heard about the Nokia N800 launch... then the first day I came back I remember (like it was just yesterday) you swearing up and down you would never get a Nokia N800 under any circumstances whatsoever... you went on for days about this same topic... until of course... you bought a Nokia N800 one week later. lol

Are you talking to me?

[johsua]

"I use a ThinkOutside model that works very well out of the box. Check priceline."
Do you mean pricewatch.com?
Priceline.com is a travel site.

HAHAHA... yes - pricewatch... thanks... grin...

[helmutk]

I recently picked up a N800 and I really like it. I upgraded the software to the 3.2007.10-7 version.
At first I had some trouble trying to get it to pair with my BT ThinkOutside Keyboard. I found out I had to NOT check the "Trusted" option in the N800 when initially pairing to get it to see the keyboard. After the pairing was successful I was able to go back into the BT Device settings in the N800 and set the keyboard as trusted.
Once setup the BT TO Keyboard works great with the N800.

[euchreprof]

Are you talking to me?


Yeah you were the first one I noticed on here... and that was what you were talking about.

[Karel Jansens]

Yeah you were the first one I noticed on here... and that was what you were talking about.

Okay then: PLONK!

[ciaopubs]

Thanks for the guidance, folks. I got the Stowaway BT keyboard a couple days about and it works fine.