cellphone displays?

z999 · Post by **z999** » January 8th, 2007, 3:27 pm

can I use a cellphone display with LCD smartie? I have a few Nokia 5510 phones that I don't use can I use them?
b.t.w. I've never tried connecting external LCDs to my computer. so I'm a newbie

Post by **limbo** » January 8th, 2007, 6:16 pm

Cell phones have graphical displays.
You can't use these

LCDs with smartie since the program can drive character type LCDs

z999 · Post by **z999** » January 8th, 2007, 7:25 pm

well... I'll have to find something else... because I know it's possible I've read about someone who connected his nokia 6600 as another display...
do you know another way I can do it?

_X7JAY7X_ · Post by **_X7JAY7X_** » January 8th, 2007, 8:14 pm

You want to be able to use it with smartie? You would need to use a microcontroller with custom firmware. I dont know what other programs (if any) could use it directly.

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Post by **limbo** » January 8th, 2007, 10:39 pm

There are several software driving graphical LCDs...
but in any case connecting cell a phone's display to a PC it's a real pain! you must have some electronics experience at least on soldering parts!

In the other hand LCD Smartie is the most friendly LCD Software (and it's also open source).

Why don't you try to get your self a character LCD?

z999 · Post by **z999** » January 9th, 2007, 1:27 pm

I know how to solder. and I have the basic understanding of electronics... but microcontroller is too much for me...

SIGINT · Post by **SIGINT** » January 10th, 2007, 8:46 pm

The new LCD-Smartie supports Display-Driver DLLs... so it should be possible to support almost any LCD (graphical and character). Some time ago i tried to figure out howto write such a DLL but i failed... might be a problem with calling-convention. LCD-Smartie just hangs when i try to load my DLL.

Greetings,
SIGINT