AO531h Camera And Bluetooth Ports

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    longjohn412

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    Anyone have the pinout to these two connectors?

    Unlike the other Acer One models these use 5 wires instead of the customary 4 wires and I can't find a pinout for them anywhere. Since both devices are USB I suspect the pinouts for both are the same but that doesn't solve the problem of what the extra wire is for and what the pinout is
     
    longjohn412, Feb 18, 2010
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    Anyone?

    Bueller?

    Acer (And most computer assemblers) has some of the worst so-called service manuals, no schematics and no pinouts for the connectors ... Sheesh it's not like a connector pinout is a big Trade Secret ... About all this 'service manual' is good for is telling me which screws go back in where so I don't have to keep them sorted out, I'm sure glad I didn't waste any money on it
     
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    Yup it freakin' figures, I got the model with the Bluetooth port hooked up ass backwards

    And here is an example why many Senior Techs have a disdain for engineers ......

    Apparently the 531's were the first model to use the 5 pin Bluetooth port and the Bluetooth port ended up backwards, probably during the PCB layout process someone screwed the pooch. Lately several other new Acer models have come out with the 5 pin Bluetooth port but since the original 5 pin device, the 531 was backwards they got stuck with that pinout so what did some genius engineer do on the 1410's and 1810's .... He numbered the 5 pin port backwards compared to every other connector. The standard pinout is looking into the connector pin 1 is on the left and the higher pins to the right BUT not on the 1410 and 1810 Bluetooth port, looking into the connector pin 1 is on the right and the the higher pins to the left. Now they can say power is on pin 1 instead of pin 5 like on my 531 ... Now they can say ground is pin 2 where on the 531 it's pin 4. So even though I have ground and power on pins 4 and 5 respectively and the 1410's and 1810's have power and ground on pins 1 and 2 respectively, both the 531's and the 1410/1810 use the same cable and module

    Check it out for yourself, here is a 1410 board, the Bluetooth port is in the upper left, notice the normally enumerated port next to it ... Bluetooth port is enumerated backwards from every other connector http://i.imgur.com/jW2qZ.jpg

    I KNEW something was screwed up when I rang out pin 4 to ground and it's usually pin 2 on every other Acer Bluetooth port in existence including 4, 6, and 8 pin ports .... Except the one I got, the freakin' redheaded stepchild of the Acer line .... Just my luck
     
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