did you try turning up the volume? I read some where that that does
something to the card reader .and helps it take cards.
Hank
On 7/12/2014 9:29 AM, Karl Smith wrote:
Hello Fellow square users or attempted users.
At the NFB convention I spoke with someone who is using Square with a
splitter. It appears that what you need is a 4 pin splitter which in
effect separates’ the microphone and headphone circuits in the iPhone
headphone jack such that you can use a headphone and a separate
microphone rather than one with the single jack. Well, I got one of
these from Radio Shack for about $5.00 and it appears to get me a bit
further down the road to working. I get audio through the headset jack
and plug my card reader into the other jack. The software gets to the
enter credit card number or swipe screen but no matter what I do the
card won’t register when I swipe it. I do occasionally get a card not
charged message and if I unplug the reader the message reader
disconnected comes up indicating that it knew the reader was there.
Can anyone tell me what the secret is to swiping a card? Is there
something I’m not getting? I should also say that I tried swiping the
card with just the reader plugged directly into the iPhone and then
removing it to get audio back to see if maybe the reader really isn’t
connected correctly through the splitter but it still doesn’t work. I
should also say that I know this reader can work as the guy that cuts
my lawn has borrowed it on occasion to use on his own iPhone. Any
suggestions?
Karl
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*From:*viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] *On
Behalf Of *Lois Butterfield
*Sent:* Tuesday, July 08, 2014 12:45 PM
*To:* viphone@googlegroups.com
*Subject:* RE: Square card reader
Yes, and it would not work at all once the reader is plugged in. I
found that the easiest way to handle it was to plug it in to swipe,
then unplug it to get speech back.
I’d love to know if anyone has been successful with a splitter or with
Bluetooth. I found that they did not work for me.
Lois
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[mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Sumana Silverheels
*Sent:* Tuesday, July 08, 2014 1:44 PM
*To:* viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
*Subject:* Re: Square card reader
Lois,
Did you experiment with a splitter to find out if you could use a
headset with the square reader and have speech output through it?
On Friday, April 18, 2014 6:31:48 AM UTC-4, Lois B wrote:
I did some expensive experimenting yesterday to see how the square
reader
worked with blue tooth, etc. Bluetooth headphones do not work
with the card
reader plugged in, even if you turn it off and back on after
plugging in the
reader. The splitter also did not work with regular headphones
even though
the splitter would work if only the reader was plugged in. Maybe,
it is
some sort of security feature that is built in. The only way to
use the
reader is to plug it in to swipe the card, then take it out again
to sign
and finish the transaction. The Bluetooth comes back when you
take the
reader out, likewise the wired headphones.
If you have silence when you unplug the reader, you will know that
the swipe
was successful and you are at the signature screen. After
signing, you wait
until you hear it was successful. Before that, there is no
speech. I will
get used to it eventually.
So, it does work, just has a few quirks.
Good luck,
Lois
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