HP IPAQ H5100 And H5500 Series Pocket PC Users Guide
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User’s Guide hp iPAQ Pocket PC h5100 and h5500 series Document Part Number: 304926-001 May 2003 Note: Model shown in illustrations is iPAQ Pocket PC h5500 Series 304926-001.book Page i Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:02 AM
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User’s Guide 1 Contents 1 Getting to Know Your iPAQ Pocket PC Using the Stylus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–5 Setting the Date and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–6 Setting the Time for Home and Visiting Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–6 Setting the Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–7 Entering Owner Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–7 Resetting the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–8 Performing a Normal Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–8 Performing a Full Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–9 Aligning the Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–10 Routine Care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–11 2 Using ActiveSync Connecting to a Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–2 Synchronizing with Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–2 Using the Serial Infrared (IR) Connection . . . . . 2–3 Changing Synchronization Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–4 Copying Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–5 Installing Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–6 Backing up and Restoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–6 Synchronizing Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–7 Sending and Receiving E-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–7 Requesting Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–7 304926-001.book Page 1 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:02 AM
Contents User’s Guide 2 3 Managing the Battery Installing the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–1 Removing the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–3 Charging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–3 Charging with the AC Adapter and Charger Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–4 Charging with the Universal Desktop Cradle and AC Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–5 Charging with the Optional USB Autosync Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–7 Charging a Low Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–7 Preserving Battery Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–8 Adjusting the Standby Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–8 Changing the Backlight Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–10 Disabling the Application and Record Buttons . . . . 3–10 Manually Monitoring the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–11 4 Learning the Basics Using the Today Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–1 Navigation Bar and Command Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–2 Status Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–3 Pop-Up Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–4 Creating information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–5 Customizing the Today Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–6 Using Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–8 Opening Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–8 Minimizing Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–8 Closing Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–9 Closing with iTask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–9 Closing Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–9 Installing Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–9 304926-001.book Page 2 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:02 AM
Contents User’s Guide 3 Using iPAQ Image Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–10 Locating an Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–11 Viewing Image Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–11 Changing the View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–12 Creating a Slide Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–13 Saving a Slide Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–14 Opening a Slide Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–15 Sorting Image Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–15 Viewing a Slide Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–16 Backing Up Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–17 Backup/Restore using iPAQ Backup . . . . . . . . 4–17 Backup/Restore Using ActiveSync . . . . . . . . . . 4–18 Using iPAQ File Store Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–19 5 Learning Input Methods Changing Word Suggestion Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–1 Using the On-Screen Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–4 Writing with the Stylus and the Letter Recognizer . . . . . 5–5 Writing with the Stylus and Microsoft Transcriber . . . . . 5–7 Writing with the Stylus and Block Recognizer . . . . . . . . 5–8 Drawing and Writing on the Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–9 Converting Writing to Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–9 304926-001.book Page 3 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:02 AM
Contents User’s Guide 4 6 Expansion Cards Inserting a Secure Digital (SD) Expansion Card . . . . . . . 6–2 Removing a Secure Digital (SD) Expansion Card . . . . . . 6–4 Viewing the Content of Memory Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–4 Using Expansion Packs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–5 Using an Optional Single-Slot or Dual-Slot PC Card Expansion Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–5 Using an Optional CompactFlash Card Expansion Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–6 7 Connecting to the Internet Using a Modem Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–2 Connecting to a Private Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–6 Entering an Internet Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–6 Using a Favorites List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–7 8 Using Bluetooth Getting Acquainted with Bluetooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–2 Understanding Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–3 Supported Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–4 Working with Bluetooth Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–5 Opening Bluetooth Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–5 Turning on Bluetooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–6 Setting Accessibility Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–7 Entering a Device Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–7 Allowing Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–7 Enabling Bluetooth Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–9 Automatically Enabling Services . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–9 Requiring Authorization to Access Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–10 Secure Connections using a Passkey or Bond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–10 Setting a Shared Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–11 304926-001.book Page 4 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:02 AM
Contents User’s Guide 5 Understanding Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–12 Creating a Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–12 Activating a Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–13 Saving Bluetooth Configuration Settings in a Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–14 Renaming a Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–14 Deleting a Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–15 Working with Bluetooth Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–15 Opening Bluetooth Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–16 Locating and Selecting a Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–16 Pairing Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–16 Unpairing Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–18 Connecting to Other Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–18 Identifying the Communications Port . . . . . . . . . . . 8–18 Establishing an ActiveSync Connection . . . . . . . . . 8–19 Establishing a Serial Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–20 Dial-Up Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–20 Using Dial-Up Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–20 Join a Personal Area Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–22 Establishing a Cell Phone Partnership . . . . . . . . . . . 8–22 Establishing a Headset Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–22 Working with Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–23 Creating a File Transfer Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–23 Sending Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–23 Creating a Folder on a Remote Device . . . . . . . . . . 8–24 Receiving a File from a Remote Device . . . . . . . . . 8–24 Deleting a File from a Remote Device . . . . . . . . . . 8–24 Using Business Card Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–25 Setting Up Your Business Card Information . . . . . 8–25 Sending Business Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–27 Requesting Business Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–28 Exchanging Business Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–28 Opening a Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–28 Viewing Connection Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–29 Closing a Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–29 Viewing Connection Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–29 304926-001.book Page 5 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:02 AM
Contents User’s Guide 6 Working with Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–30 Creating a Shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–30 Deleting a Shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–30 Viewing Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–30 9 Using the Wireless LAN (h5500 only) Getting Acquainted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–1 Learning the Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–2 Getting Started with the Wireless LAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–3 Powering the WLAN On or Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–3 Automatically Connecting to a Network . . . . . . . . . . 9–4 Manually Entering New Network Settings . . . . . . . . 9–4 Searching for Networks to Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–6 Managing Wireless Network Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–7 Viewing or Editing a Wireless Network . . . . . . . . . . 9–7 Deleting a Wireless Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–7 Monitoring Signal Strength and Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–8 Working with Network Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–9 Looking Up an IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–9 Changing TCP/IP Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–10 Changing DNS and WINS Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–12 Setting Up VPN Server Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . 9–14 Changing VPN Server Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–15 Starting VPN Server Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–16 Setting Up Proxy Server Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–16 304926-001.book Page 6 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:02 AM
Contents User’s Guide 7 10 Using the Fingerprint Reader (h5500 only) Learning to Enroll a Fingerprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–1 Working with Fingerprints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–5 Enrolling a Fingerprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–6 Deleting a Fingerprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–9 Setting Logon Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–10 Setting “No password” for Logon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–11 Setting “Simple 4 digit PIN” for Logon . . . . . . . . 10–11 Setting “Strong alphanumeric password” for Logon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–12 Setting “PIN OR fingerprint” for Logon . . . . . . . . 10–13 Setting “PIN AND fingerprint” for Logon . . . . . . 10–14 Setting “Password OR fingerprint” for Logon . . . 10–14 Setting “Password AND Fingerprint” for Logon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–15 Setting “Fingerprint-only” for Logon . . . . . . . . . . 10–16 Logging On Using PIN, Passwords, and Fingerprints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–17 Logging On with No Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–17 Logging On Using a 4-digit PIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–17 Logging On Using a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–18 Logging On Using a PIN or Fingerprint . . . . . . . . 10–18 Logging On Using a PIN and Fingerprint . . . . . . . 10–18 Logging On Using a Password or Fingerprint . . . . 10–19 Logging On Using a Password and Fingerprint . . 10–19 Logging On Using a Fingerprint Only . . . . . . . . . 10–20 Setting Security Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–20 Setting the Security Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–21 Setting the Maximum Number of Attempts . . . . . 10–22 304926-001.book Page 7 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:02 AM
User’s Guide 8 Contents 11 Troubleshooting Common Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–1 ActiveSync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–5 Expansion Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–7 Bluetooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–8 Wireless LAN (h5500 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–9 A Regulatory Notices Federal Communications Commission Notice. . . . . . . . . A–1 Modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–2 Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–2 Declaration of Conformity for products marked with the FCC logo—United States only . . . . . . . . . . A–2 Canadian Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–3 Avis Canadien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–3 Japanese Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–3 European Union Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–4 Battery Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–5 Equipment Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–5 Airline Travel Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–6 Wireless Notices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–6 U.S. Regulatory Wireless Notice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–6 Canadian Regulatory Wireless Notice. . . . . . . . . . . . A–6 Japanese Regulatory Wireless Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . A–7 Brazilian Regulatory Wireless Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . A–7 B Specifications System Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–1 Physical Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–2 Operating Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–3 304926-001.book Page 8 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:02 AM