Help! RZ1700+TT3 kit. Current Speed and Compass

tester · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 06, 2005 Posts: 6

Folks,

I tried a search but must be completely daft as I couldn't find anything suitable!

I've bought the ipaq1710 bundle and have seen screenshots of TT3 showing current MPH, is this possible with my setup or do I have a cut-down version. (PocketPC device, App version 4.400 (2850), GPS driver v1.20)

I have also seen a compass shown but don't have this either (although not a problem as my Pajero has one as standard!)

Seen several comments about installing POI - I find it dead easy, just copy to the maps folder and away u go.

TIA

Nige

DavidW · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 3:07 pm Post subject:

You have the HP Navigation Pack, which runs the "common platform" software, not TomTom Navigator 3.

David

tester · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 06, 2005 Posts: 6

David thanks for the swift reply

Sorry if I posted in the wrong area then, but this looked like the best forum as i'm using (some form of) TomTom. Do I take it that what I want is actually impossible then?

Nige
rz1710 & 'common platform' TomTom

DavidW · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 5:10 pm Post subject:

For the moment it's the right area - we've contemplated splitting the forum but haven't made any decisions.

I don't know whether or not it's possible; I don't have access to a 'common platform' (Navigator 4.40) setup to check. The features are different, though - don't expect things to be the same as in Navigator 3.

David

ADAM_S · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 06, 2005 Posts: 1

Hi Guys,

I too have bought the HP pack and was looking forward to using exactly the same features.

I guess this cut down version would explain why some of the plugins like Niels' postcode program and checkpoint don't work properly. They load as you would expect and start navigator, but don't interface right.

Looks like I might be upgrading to Nav3.....

By the way you can see a GPS MPH reading by going to Change Pref and then Configure GPS. Obviously you can't see the map, but you do get to see how inaccurate your car's speedo is!!

Adam

DavidW · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 2:35 pm Post subject:

I wouldn't bother 'upgrading' to Navigator 3. Not only are the maps older than those in your HP Navigation Pack, but there is almost certainly going to be a new release of Navigator for Pocket PC in Europe within the next few months. It's near certain that this release will be based on the software in the HP Navigation Pack - TomTom are moving to the "common platform" software on all products, the only one now 'out of line' being TomTom Navigator 3 in Europe for Pocket PCs. The new version of TomTom Navigator for USA and Canada (TomTom Navigator 2004) uses the same program as you have in your HP Navigation Pack.

Hopefully by the time that TomTom Navigator 3 is superseded, most if not all of the functions in Navigator 3 and 'missing' from Navigator "4" will be added in - but there's no promises.

David

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