Modifying Sony Erricson Chatboard for Car PC

**ptk** · 10-05-2004, 02:14 AM

Hi guys
anyone has experience hacking one of these beast
http://www.ebay.com.sg/viItem?ItemId=5722131843

to interface with car PC?

kao

**ptk** · 10-05-2004, 02:47 AM

found 1 link.
anyone else?
can the origial signal be pipe in via USB?

kao

**F4kk3r0** · 10-05-2004, 10:44 AM

I have done it. Currently in CAR I had to teach all the keycodes with GIRDER and also the initializion. But post here if you want more info. Now i'm in a rush gotta go bye.

**ptk** · 10-05-2004, 10:17 PM

Originally Posted by F4kk3r0

I have done it. Currently in CAR I had to teach all the keycodes with GIRDER and also the initializion. But post here if you want more info. Now i'm in a rush gotta go bye.

did u pipe it through serial and use serial plugin from girder?

I am not keen to go down the PS2 way according to the link.

please enlighten

thanks

kao

**Squid** · 10-05-2004, 10:50 PM

I have one of those.. got it for my old cellphone.... saw it laying there the other day
and wondered if it would be compatible in any form....

That would be awesome if there was some way to convert it to ps2 or serial or so...

I have no insight to offer.. but I'll be listening to what you find

**ptk** · 10-06-2004, 07:19 AM

my EPIA TC fried.

now switching to a microATX board. setting up now. will have to wait a short while before starting work on the chatboard.

how's your own project?

kao

**F4kk3r0** · 10-07-2004, 01:15 PM

Yes I used Serial interface and you guessed right Girder and Serial plugin. The initializion sequence is done also with girder. Here is a good link alltough I used a MAX232 IC the pinout was a little different but I still managed to stuff it inside the chatboard

(there is only the cable coming out) https://securehost34.hrwebservices.n...sonChatBoardPC

I'll post the serial config file and some key config file for girder later on. I´ts not totally complete yet but have been enough for me. It's the bomb when using GPS you can actually write the place where you wanna go. Later...