Darron.Lowe

Hi All,

I am looking to follow others in making my own cradle for connecting my Qtek 9100 (Made by HTC). I am looking for a way of connecting the aerial and power but would like to know what the other connectors are for (i.e. mic would be useful).

Also anyone created one of these yet?

Can anyone (Rudy?) provide these or a link to other forums (sorry i am really crap at searches - can never find wat i need)

If i have to modify a cradle to fit, does anyone know the best one to use?

Cheers for the help.

Rudy

Does this thread help?

http://forums.e60.net/index.php?showtopic=2709

Darron.Lowe

Thats exactly what i mean! Its what i want i just cannot find it! Cheers Rudy.

Darron.Lowe

Rudy,



Do you (or anyone) have the pin outs for the cradle itself? I am sure i could find it by the diagrams provided, but if there is one already, it would save me trying to work them all out as i'd rather butcher a phone cradle than replace or buther the bit the cradle plugs into...



I can see the pin outs for the connector blocks going to the cradle but no further.



Cheers.

bruce_miranda

Been there, done that and helped others too.

http://forums.e60.net/index.php?show...23924&hl=p910i

http://forums.e60.net/index.php?showtopic=28198&hl=v800

Darron.Lowe

I did see these posts previously. You had the added benifit of retrofittig a Sony Ericsson phone holder to a Sony Ericsson Cradle so all connectors are relativly similar. I do not know of anything similar to my phone



I do have a Nokia 6320i Cradle i used to prove a fault with my car kit and i will be dismantling it at somepoint to get some more ideas, but it only charges teh phone as i can see so doesnt provide connections to the mic.



I now have an external arial being shipped as we speak and i will connect that to the aerial mounted in the cradle and i should be able to connect power easily too - it will not be pretty (yours looks good BTW) but it will work at least...

bruce_miranda

There is no point in connecting the mic because when connected to bluetooth you will not have access to the phone mic anyway and the car's mic will take over.

As for your phone cradle all you need to do is find an old phone cradle from someone that outputs the same power needed for your phone. Nokias and SE tend to be around the +5V-6V mark. Wonder what your phone required. Then all you need to do is buy an aerial patch cable and a car phone holder for your phone. Hack the BMW cradle and connect these together. The main reason why you need another BMW Cradle is that the car check that the BMW circuit found in the cradle is connected to it and only then will you be able to use it.

Darron.Lowe

I was planning to use the hardwire connection rather than the BT connection for the microphone to remove any problems with interference (i hate the sound quality of bt connected microphones compared to the hardwired versions) - but this is not too important though.



My phone charges through a USB connection so i believet that it is 5V. I have a cigarette charger which i was going to hack into for this. Didn't realise that the car checked the Cradle also, so thanks for the heads up! that would have been a big stumbling block!

Rudy

Does page two of the .pdf file in this post help? Maybe you're talking about the pins that the phone would connect to? If so, you could probably use a continuity tester and the pinout .pdf file to figure out what's what, I suppose...

Darron.Lowe

It does help and i mean the pins the snap in adapter connects to. I will do a continuity test, i just hoped someone had done it and posted a diagram already oh well.



Thanks for your help and all others too.