User's Manual

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8600 Series Mobile Computer Reference Manual
1.7 CHARGING & COMMUNICATIONS
Normally, the mobile computer ships with a USB or RS-232 cable for charging and
communications. A variety of cradles are available to meet different requirements.
 If you are using USB Virtual COM for the first time, you must install its driver from
the CD-ROM. Driver version 5.3 or later is required. Please remove older versions!
The virtual COM port will not be assigned until the USB port is in use.
 If you are using USB Virtual COM_CDC for the first time, you must install its driver
from the CD-ROM. USB CDC driver installer is available in the “Windows” folder,
where a vendor-supplied INF file will be copied to Windows.
 For Standard USB cable, it will release COM port in the following conditions:
(i) The cable is detached from the mobile computer directly.
(ii) The cable is detached from the cradle directly.
(iii) Take away the mobile computer while the cable is attached between the cradle
and the host computer.
(iv) The mobile computer is turned off.
(v) No application is running on the mobile computer, or COM port is shut down.
For applications that require COM port to be occupied all the time, it is suggested to
use 308 USB Virtual COM Interface cable instead.
USB Interface Cable
Task USB Cable
Charging USB direct charging
 500 mA: USB icon
 100 mA: Highlighted USB icon
 0 mA: Disable charging for 8600
5 V charging from the adaptor (Plug icon)
Communications USB Virtual COM — If using FORGE Application Generator software, you
may use a download utility to receive data on your computer; otherwise,
run HyperTerminal.exe to receive data directly.
USB HID — Run a text editor on your computer to receive data directly.
USB Virtual COM_CDC — If using FORGE Application Generator software,
you may use a download utility to receive data on your computer;
otherwise, run HyperTerminal.exe to receive data directly.