Thank you for selecting Motorola as your mobility solution tool provider.
Simple COM Port Emulation is one of
the USB (Universal Serial Bus) interface modes supported by Symbol scanner
devices. In this mode, a Symbol scanner device connected to a PC via USB cable
behaves as if the device is connected via a COM port. This driver creates a
virtual COM port in the PC corresponding to the device attached through USB.
Advantages
Application developer can use
Serial APIs to write custom application to interface with the scanner connected
via USB and read the scanned data. Existing applications meant for serial
attached scanners can work with the device connected through USB with little or
no modifications and easily take advantage of the speed and ease-of-use of USB.
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Software Downloads.
Thank you,
The Motorola Enterprise Mobility Software Development Team
Changes from 1.8.5 to 1.8.6:
1. Microsoft
Windows 7 support.
Changes from 1.8.4 to 1.8.5:
1. WHQL
certified driver.
2. Read
total timeouts monitoring issue fixed in the driver.
3. Improvement
in re-enumeration of device driver at the time of installation.
Changes from 1.8.3 to 1.8.4(Beta):
1. Fix
issue of missing data while doing event based read with Microsoft Communication
ActiveX control.
Changes from 1.7 to 1.8.3:
1.
WHQL certified drivers
2.
Option to change port number using 'Advanced Setting'
of 'Port Properties' in system 'Device Manager' is supported in Windows 2000
and XP.
3.
Bug fixes in Windows 98 driver
Changes from 1.6 to 1.7:
1.
Fixed compatibility issues with Windows XP SP2.
2.
Virtual COM port number assignment behavior has changed
in v1.6: Device will be assigned the same virtual COM port the next time the
device is plugged into the system or after a restart. Behavior in pervious versions was to assign a new port if the previous
port used by the device is taken up by another scanner or some other resource
in the PC.
3.
Option to change port number using 'Advanced Setting'
of 'Port Properties' in system 'Device Manager' is not supported, and hence
disabled in this version.
Changes from 1.5 to 1.6:
1.
Virtual COM port was not removed if device is removed
with an application opening a handle to the device in v1.5. This behavior has
changed in v1.6. Now, the virtual COM port will be created when device is
plugged in and removed when the device is detached, irrespective of its usage
by application.
2.
Virtual COM port will be created under HID Class
instead of PORTS class. This does not affect the functionality of the device,
and it will be visible as serial device from legacy applications. The device
will be enumerated under HID devices instead of Port devices in Device Manager.
Changes from 1.4 to 1.5:
1.
Fixed issue in handling IOCTL_SERIAL_PURGE for RxQueue.