GPS Position ureliable

joejoe123 · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 12:21 am Post subject: GPS Position ureliable

HI ALL
I looked around but i didn't find an answer.
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I have this little problem
i get into my car turn the gps on and my ipaq , start navigtor ,set my destination and i get my position immediateley and start driving until my destination with no problems at all . but then i leave the car for 5 or 10 minutes with my pocket pc on and navigator on , and when i want to navigate to my next destination i get the gps position ureliable and it stays that way util i turn navigator off ,my ipaq off, gps off and start from the begining then everything goes right and i have gps posisition immediately. where is my problem?
2-i have my 512mb card formated to fat32 and 2 kb cluster , is this wrong? sorry but i have no idea with sd cards ,the other card which i do not use is fat16 and 16kb cluster what is right ?

thanks
josef
ipaq1940 tt3 3.01 gps 3.02 toshiba sd card 512mb

joejoe123 · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 2:12 am Post subject:

Sorry for the few spelling mistakes ("position" "unreliable"), it's late in the night Rolling Eyes

Darren · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 7:38 am Post subject:

What GPS are you using? I ask because if the GPS is a mouse type it may not be powered when you leave the car and this would explain why you get the error when you return?
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joejoe123 · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 12:13 pm Post subject:

Darrn

it is a tomtom wireless gps and it is powered because i can see the blue light blinking.

thanks

DavidW · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 6:54 pm Post subject:

Are you exiting Navigator before turning off the Pocket PC? If not, that could be the problem.

If it's not that, sometimes I find tapping "Turn Guidance Off" then "Turn Guidance On" (in the Navigator menu) solves this kind of problem, though my hardware is different to yours.

David

joejoe123 · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 10:51 pm Post subject:

David

I do exit Navigator before i turn my pocket pc off , but the problem is when i leave everything on and just want to continue and navigate to the next destination then the gps position is unreliable.
with tt2 i did not have this problem

well , it is not that big problem its only 1(annoying) minute waste of time so i guess i have to live with it.

Thanks all
josef

joejoe123 · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 10:55 pm Post subject:

joejoe123 · Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 10:53 pm Post subject:

Here are my Results from today

I drove to 5 places today and after reaching my destination i exit the navigator everytime and leave everything else on and when i navigate to the next destination everything goes ok.
so the problem was leaving navigator on after reaching the destination.
and i have no idea why this is happening.

thanks all for your help
josef

MrT · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 7:25 am Post subject:

TomTom will also give GPS position unreliable if you go off the map such as on a private road.

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