Fixed Lifedrive

Fig 1

Its been awhile since ive used one of these things. Palm OS is really old now, i doubt anyone uses it for a primary device anymore but I had this Lifedrive I modded awhile back that the speaker died on me, also I added a vibration feature to it. the vibration motor was from a broken iPhone 3GS that I had lying around, you can see it on the bottom right corner of the device. I hot-glued it down (all the tape is to keep the ribbon cables safe from anything) and got the lead the wires to the connector. The pins its connected to are from a guide to setup vibration on the Palm TX, the pinout is the same here so I just made the insides fit everything properly, you can see in Fig 1. The driver made for the vibration to work on the software was developed by Dmitry G. owner of PalmPowerups.com . It works by sending data though the serial cable which has enough power to run the motor. The negative terminal is the left most wire and the serial or "positive" cable is on the right shown in Fig 2.

Fig 2

So that much was fixed/modded pretty quick but now my speaker had been messed up and the connection I completely burned off when I was a kid so it was really messed up. I had a General Idea where the pinouts were still so i began searching by playing some music and touching wires to the board (which is not exactly recommended). After I got a sound I realized how much power this device had! You see there are two models of this Lifedrive with only one internal change. The newer models has a crappy audio chipset that was very poor sounding and didnt drive as much, I believe it was to save battery life, but I am not too sure. The older model (which I discovered I had) has enough power to push out 5 watts. Now thats not much by many standards of general stereos but for a mobile device, thats quite insane. my 3x2 inch speaker was well beyond loud and not distorted in any way, and even had bass! So I figured, why not replace the built in speaker with something bigger? The original speaker setup is one small mono speaker, no indication of its rating, and it was busted (wonder why? XD ) so I got a speaker from a toy, 2 watts each and were not made of plastic. The pinout i found turned out I can put stereo on this thing so I did. I was bearly able to fit it all together but now I have a stereo Lifedrive with vibration alarm

The stereo pinout