Using the iPAQ under Pocket PC 2003 - in pictures

This page focuses mainly on how to use the iPAQ with respect to networking and other tasks that a user is likely to find particularily useful (and different from other Windows® operating system environments). For information about functions not documented here, please see: "User's Guide HP iPAQ Pocket PC h5100 and h5500 series", Document Part Number: 304926-001, May 2003

	The images shown on this page were obtained by running VNC from an linux machine to a Windows® 98 machine running a Remote Display client to an iPAQ (whose name is "gqmjripag2"). This figure shows the VNC window, with a Remote Display window within it, with the information displayed on the iPAQ's screeen inside that. An alternative means of screen capture is to use the built-in iTask Capture function. This has the advantage that you only need to use the iPAQ.
	Note (from left to right and top to bottom): Top line: The Windows® logo in the upper lefthand corner will give you the Start Menu The "Start" label causes the main menu to be displayed the two arrows indicate that there is an active network connection Speaker icon tells us that audio output is enable as opposed to muted 12:48 is the local time and appointments (link) Clock icon (invokes clock setting functions) + date Contact icon (involves functions for accessing contact information) + name of the owner Calendar icon (involves calendar functions) + upcoming appointments Tasks icon (involves task management functions) + list of upcoming tasks Bottom line: "New" label invokes a menu to create various "New" items Remote Display Control logo The Bluetooth® logo which invokes the Bluetooth® manager (described later) is in the lower righthand corner
	Clicking on speaker icon allows the user to adjust the volume or put the device into vibrate mode
	Time and next appointment - bubble which appears if you click on the time
	Clicking on "New" menu allows the user to create a new XXX, where XXX is one of Appointment/Contact/Excel Workbook/Message/Note/Task/Word Document
	Clicking on "Start" reveals this list of operations.
Connectivity
	Clicking on the connectivity arrows with WLAN on; enables you to turn WLAN on or off and change the connectivity settings
	You can also use the "Start" menu item "iPAQ Wireless" to invoke this control panel which lets you turn on and off the WLAN and Bluetooth® wireless interfaces. You may also need to know your MAC address if you are going to setup a DHCP server (with static addresses) or for MAC address filtering in by a firewall, etc. To find the WLAN interface's MAC address you can use the system settings Asset Viewer.
	You can also reach the connectivity settings via the "Settings" menu and then clicking on the Connections icon
	Settings→Connections→Task
	Settings→Connections→Advanced - choosing: Select_Network Network_Card
	This screen (reached from "Select Nework") lets you select which network you want to use for accessing both the Internet and a private network. It is important to note that if you choose "My Work Network" for access a private network that it expects that you will access this network via VPN and possibly a proxy.
	If you have a Wireless network enabled the "Network Card" selection will take you here. Otherwise you will get a screen to enable you to set up your Network Adaptors
	If you have a Wireless network enabled the "Network Card" selection will take you here; where you can select a specific wireless network (here there is only one choice)
	Here you can set the name of the wireless network which you want to access - it is very important that you say that this connects to a "Work" network unless you are using a VPN. Once you do this you should select the Wireless network authentication mechanism.
	Using this screen you can select the appropriate method of authentication; in this case Wire Equivalent Privacy (WEP) using a static password was selected. After selecting this click the "OK" button to return to the Configure Network Adapters screen.
	If you have a Wireless network enabled the "Network Card" selection will take you here. Otherwise you will get a screen to enable you to set up your Network Adaptors. This is also reachable via Settings→ Connections→ Advanced→ Network_card→ Network_Adaptors. We will next select iPAQ_USB_Wireless_Adaptor to continue setting up the WLAN interface.
	Here we can either statically set the IP address of the WLAN interface or we can utilize DHCP to request an address. This screen is also reachable via Settings→ Connections→ Advanced→ Network_card→ Network_Adaptors→ iPAQ_USB_Wireless_Adaptor. You can verify the DHCP address assignment with the PocketDHCP utility program.
	Using this page you can set the DNS address and an alternate DNS address. You can also set the WINS address and an alternate. If you are using DHCP will not need to manually set these values. After you click OK, you will return to the list of Network Adapters. This screen is also reachable via Settings→ Connections→ Advanced→ Network_card→ Network_Adaptors→ iPAQ_USB_Wireless_Adaptor→ Name_Servers
	If you click OK on this page, the adapter will be configured as you request the next time it is used.
	After clicking OK, you are returned to the Configure Network Adaptors page
	After clicking OK, you are returned to the Connection settings Advanced page
	After clicking OK, you are returned to the Connection settings Advanced page (clicking OK from this page returns you to the main screen)
Using Internet Explorer to access network resources
	If from the Start menu you invoke Internet Explorer you get the following default page: "file://\\windows\default.htm". Of course if you would like to have some other page
	You can of course configure Internet Explorer to use a different default page, etc. by tapping the "Tools" label.
	After tapping Tools→Options, you get the General Options configuration page.
	From the General page you can get the Advanced Options configuration page.
	Now that you have your WLAN configured, if you have a connection between this WLAN and the Internet you can go to other locations, such as the Center for Wireless Systems at KTH http://www.wireless.kth.se/ Note that this server is setup to recognize that the browser you are using is operating on a PDA, thus it actually delivers to you information from the root page http://www.wireless.kth.se/pda. These pages are optimized for display on a devices with a small screen.
	You can also go to lots of other locations, such as my home page at KTH http://www.it.kth.se/~maguire/ internet_explorer-kth-imit-maguire.gif
	Just as we can access web pages via HTTP, Internet Explorer can also access files using SMB (for example from a Samba server). Here we have entered the name of the remote file system: file://\\NUCMED30\TMP (where "\\NUCMED30" is the machine name and "\TMP" is the exported TMP directory). Note that the popup keyboard was used to enter the pathname.
	The user is now prompted to enter their user name, password, etc. for access to this remote file server. (This screen shot shows the screen just after the user has entered their name.)
	The user has now filled in their password. Note that the user can ask the system to remember this password. This is very convenient if you are going to return to this file server frequently.
	The user will be ask to confirm that they wish the password saved. Then the user will see the contents of the directory "\TMP".
	Here the user has browsed to the subdirectory "\TMP\20040718". Note that the files are shown with different icons (based on their file extention, not based on the file contents - as can easily be seen from the files which are zero bytes in size).
Bluetooth®
	The Bluetooth® interface can be turned on/off via the Bluetooth® Manager icon in lower righthand corner of the screen.
	The Bluetooth® interface can also be turned on via the Settings→iPAQ_wireless (Wireless Control) page
	Here we assume that the user has selected Bluetooth® Settings, this takes the user to the Bluetooth® General settings page. Note that this page can also be reached via Settings→ System→ Bluetooth®→ Accessibility
	From the Settings→ Bluetooth®→ Accessibility page you can set if other devices can discover your and if they are allowed to connect or if they must be paired. This page also shows the Bluetooth® interface MAC address.
	As an aside it should be noted that unlike the WLAN interface, the Settings→Asset_Viewer does not show the Bluetooth® interface's MAC address.
	Bluetooth® devices can support many different services. Each of these services is part of a profile. Some of these services are controlled by this and the following setup screens. For details of what services exist, what services are required, details of various profiles, etc. see the Bluetooth® SIG site. Settings→ System→ Bluetooth®→ File_Transfer allows you to set the parameters for (OBEX) File Transfer via Bluetooth®, including the name of a directory (folder) which you would like to share with others.
	Settings→ System→ Bluetooth®→ Information_Exchange enables you to setup information for exchanging with others, for example your "vCard" (an electronic business/visit card).
	Settings→ System→ Bluetooth®→ Information_Exchange enables you to setup information for exchanging with others. Here a sample "vCard" is shown.
	Settings→ System→ Bluetooth®→ Serial_Port lets you setup one or two serial (COM) links.
	Settings→ System→ Bluetooth®→ Dialup_Networking lets you set up a dialup connection.
	Settings→ System→ Bluetooth®→ Personal_Network_Server lets you set up a personal network server for use by others.
	Settings→ System→ Bluetooth®→ Audio_Gateway allows you to set up an Audio Gateway (providing remote audio service).
	Here we assume that the user has selected the Bluetooth® Manager. The Bluetooth® manage shows that it knows about two different devices (with two different services being offered by the first device). The devices are: "Chip's Motorola phone" and a MOTOROLA® HS810 (headset). The user taps on "Motorola HS810" headset. palowireless' Wireless Resource Center has descriptions of some of the various Bluetooth® profiles.
	Here we will assume that the user has folded out the microphone boom of this headset (as shown in the picture to the left). This causes the headset to indicate that it is ready to offer Audio service. Note: This picture was actually taken using the Motorola phone's built in camera to take a picture of the headet. The file was transferred to the iPAQ using the OBEX file transfer service. The image was then displayed on the iPAQ using the imageviewer application and the resulting screen captured.
	After the user tapped on "Motorola HS810" headset the user is ask if they want to accept voice gateway services from this device. If they accept this service (and the MOTOROLA® HS810 provides this service), then the user will hear the audio output of the application(s) runing on the iPAQ via this headset. My personal impression is that while this might be suitable for human voice it is quite poor for entertainment audio.
	Using the Bluetooth® Manager we can see that an outgoing audio connection is active to this headset.
	Tapping on this active connection we get a pop up menu which lets us disconnect this connection or can take us to a page showing the status of this connection. Here the user is choosing to disconnect.
	If the user had elected to get the status information, this is an example of what they would see.
	We can try out the audio quality of this headset, by playing an MP3 file. In this case we use the File browser to access an MP3 file called "CosmopolitanGirl.mp3" and shown in the list as "Cosmopolitan...". The file was available as a freedownload from her page http://www.janisian.com/mp3_downloads.html.
	Clicking on the file name above invokes the Windows Media® player application and the audio is delivered to the user via the Bluetooth® headset.
	Using a notebook (called "NUCMED36") with a Bluetooth® interface (and other network connection) for network access.
	We can see that this network access connection via "NUCMED36 is active.
	We can get additional information about the status of this connection, including signal strength, bytes sent/received, and connection time.
	Using the PocketDHCP application we can see that the connection is using an interface associated with the Bluetooth® Personal Area Network (PAN) "BTCEPAN1" and we can see that an IPv4 Link-Local address has been assigned using Zeroconf (since the address is in: 169.254.1.0 to 169.254.254.255 {note: the first 256 and last 256 addresses of 169.254/16 have been reserved}). For more details of Zeroconf see the internet draft Dynamic Configuration of Link-Local IPv4 Addresses. Name resolution is done by sending a packet containing the requested name to the multicast broadcast address (224.0.0.251).
A useful tool is the Cisco (Linksys) BTSpy program. Which can generate traces such as that shown below. 21:15:37.300 BNEP SENT Packet: Compressed Ethernet Dst (0x04) Ext: 0 Len: 337 21:15:37.300 Dst Addr : ff ff ff ff ff ff 21:15:37.300 Protocol : 0x0800 IPv4 21:15:37.300 IP4 Header Len/Ver : 69 (0x45) 21:15:37.300 Type of Service : 0 (0x00) 21:15:37.300 Total Length : 328 (0x0148) 21:15:37.300 IP Id : 42400 (0xa5a0) 21:15:37.300 Fragment Offset : 0 (0x0000) 21:15:37.300 Time to Live : 128 (0x80) 21:15:37.300 Protocol : 17 UDP 21:15:37.300 Checksum : 37893 (0x9405) 21:15:37.300 Source IP Addr : 0.0.0.0 21:15:37.300 Dest IP Addr : 255.255.255.255 21:15:37.300 UDP Header Source Port : 68 (0x0044) 21:15:37.300 Dest Port : 67 (0x0043) 21:15:37.300 UDP Length : 308 (0x0134) 21:15:37.300 Checksum : 0 (0x0000) 21:15:37.300 DHCP Request : 1 (0x01) 21:15:37.300 H/w type : 1 (0x01) 21:15:37.300 H/w Addr Length : 6 (0x06) 21:15:37.300 Hops : 0 (0x00) 21:15:37.300 XID : 3446199400 (0xcd68d468) 21:15:37.300 Seconds : 4608 (0x1200) 21:15:37.300 Flags : 0 (0x0000) 21:15:37.300 Client IP Addr : 0.0.0.0 21:15:37.300 Your IP Addr : 0.0.0.0 21:15:37.300 Next Server IP Addr : 0.0.0.0 21:15:37.300 Relay Agent IP Addr : 0.0.0.0 21:15:37.300 Client Hw Addr : 00 0c 41 e1 f7 a6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 21:15:37.300 Server Host Name : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 21:15:37.300 Boot File Name : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 21:15:37.300 Options : 63 82 53 63 35 01 01 3d 07 01 00 0c 41 e1 f7 a6 21:15:37.300 Next few bytes : 0c 09 6e 75 63 6d 65 64 33 36 00 37 08 01 03 06 21:15:37.300 BTKRNLL2CAPDataWrite lcid:0x42 len:337 21:15:37.300 L2CA_DataWrite() CID: 0x0042 Len: 337 21:15:37.300 L2CAP - LCID: 0x0042 st: OPEN evt: UPPER_LAYER_DATA_WRITE 21:15:37.300 -- 21:15:37.300 SENT ACL Data to HCI. Handle: 0x029 Boundary: 1 Brdcst: 0 Len: 149 Data: 0x00 0x00 0x00 ... 21:15:37.300 Data: 21:15:37.300 0000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 21:15:37.300 0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 21:15:37.300 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 21:15:37.300 0030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 21:15:37.300 0040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 21:15:37.300 0050: 00 00 00 00 00 63 82 53 63 35 01 01 3d 07 01 00 .....c.Sc5..=... 21:15:37.300 0060: 0c 41 e1 f7 a6 0c 09 6e 75 63 6d 65 64 33 36 00 .A.....nucmed36. 21:15:37.300 0070: 37 08 01 03 06 0f 2c 2e 2f 39 ff 00 00 00 00 00 7.....,./9...... 21:15:37.350 0080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 21:15:37.350 0090: 00 00 00 00 00 ..... 21:15:37.350 --
Miscellaneous
	The local storage is divided into several parts. The left most icon at the bottom of the page is for the local directory.
	The local storage is divided into several parts. Another of these is the iPAQ file store. The center icon at the bottom of the page is for the iPAQ file store.
	A third part of the storage is a remote file system, here the user has browsed to the subdirectory "\TMP\20040718". (this example was also shown above) The right most icon at the bottom of the page is for this remote file store.
	In addition to the Windows Media® player, there are other players which are available, such as RealNetworks' realoneplayer.
System Settings
	From the Start Menu selecting Settings takes you to the Personal settings page.
	From the Personal settings page, you can go to the System settings page
	From within the System settings page you can select the Asset Viewer.
	From the Asset Viewer, one can expand the information about Wireless LAN (WLAN)interface, thus revealing the MAC address along with version information about the hardware/firmware/driver.
Remote display usage
	If you want to allow the remote display client to be able to contact this iPAQ invoke "cerdisp"
	The remote display control settings - currently only lets you set the refresh delay
	The remote display control panel allows you to disconnect from the server.

Connection via USB between cradle and a PC
	The window on the left shows Microsoft's ActiveSync® control window. The window on the right shows the Remote Display from the iPAQ, note the third symbol ("USB Connection" symbol) from the lower right; this symbol shows that the iPAQ is connected to the PC via a USB cable. For information on running Microsoft's ActiveSync® over 802.11b, see How-to ActiveSync over Wi-Fi to run it over Bluetooth® see Jeff Marsh's (of Logo Design Works) article Synchronizing HP iPAQ h2210 with Bluetooth (Belkin Dongle) using MS ActiveSync 3.7a
	Clicking on the "USB Connection" symbol, enables the user to disconnect (or connect) this USB connection.
For an example of how to synchronize via WLAN in pictures

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