ipaq 3630 no good

jaygsi · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 16, 2003 Posts: 46

hello all.

i have been having load of problems getting my gps reciever to work.
i just phoned gps warehouse and they said the 3630 is no good for tomtom because it does not have enough ram to run the program?

is this true?
please help.

lbendlin · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 6:29 pm Post subject:

That's crap. I have been using the 3630 for years now with TomTom without problem. What you need to do is keep your RAM tidy. Move all applications that you have installed to the storage card (including TomTom and the voice files). The only thing that stubbornly wants to be in the main memory storage is the GPS driver.

Don't use GPS 2.09. Version 2.06 is perfect for the 3630.
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phantom · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 12:13 pm Post subject:

lbendlin,

Are you using a mouse or a bluetooth receiver? If bluetooth which jacket are you using with the 3630?

lbendlin · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 2:53 pm Post subject:

With the 3630 you better use a CF sleeve and a serial mouse or a CF GPS sleeve. I use the TomTom mouse, the Royaltek RGM2000 or the CoPilot sleeve - without problems. Bluetooth doesn't help because you need a place to store the maps somewhere
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phantom · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 3:45 pm Post subject:

lbendlin,

Sorry I was a bit vague in my first message. I do in fact have a TDK bluePAQ jacket (with 512MB CF card) and I need to exchange some ideas with a similarly kitted, "expert" user. I am running Kane Car Pilot successfully but have a few issues at the boot up end of operations probably due to my lack of PDA expertise. I need some step by step assistance and don't think the forum is the best method of dealing with it since it would be totally boring to everyone else.

Darren · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 4:42 pm Post subject:

I too still use a 3630 with TTNav2 and an Emtac GPS Jacket. Maps on a 128MB CF, everything else in system memory but I only have one or two other small apps on the device.
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jaygsi · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 16, 2003 Posts: 46

what files /folders should i have where?
in my storage card i have.
great britain navigator map.
tom tom.
tom tom navigator.
tom tom navigator voice.
is there any thing else i should have in there?

lbendlin · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 5:01 pm Post subject:

lbendlin · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 5:10 pm Post subject:

@jaygsi

Looks good. Make sure the voice files are indeed on the storage card. They occupy the most space (of course after the maps)
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jaygsi · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 16, 2003 Posts: 46

no still dont work!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Evil or Very Mad

status screen showing no movement at all Evil or Very Mad

had this system last dec and still not working.

Darren · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 6:29 pm Post subject:

Jaygsi, what GPS do you have?
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jaygsi · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 16, 2003 Posts: 46

its a rikaline 6010,and its the third one that i cant get to work.
i sent it back to pda mods to test and they came back to me and said it works fine we have tryed it on two axims,so they sent it back to me but it does not work.a week earlyer i sent the whole lot to a friend,hear is what he found.

On inspection everything was is perfect condition.
Testing the Ipaq & checking the software found no issues. The Ipaq
slotted
into my own car gps installation and worked immediately.
It detected my Rikaline 6010 and locked on to 7 satelites, navigation
was as
expected.
Trying your power lead again made no differance, everything worked
fine.

Connecting your gps module inplace of mine resulted in the fault you
are
reporting. The GPS fails to initialise and lock onto anything,
resulting
in
the Ipaq not detecting it. Testing it on both mine and your Ipaq
resulted in
the same fault. Switching GPS back to mine immediately saw the ipaq &
tomtom
detect and navigate correctly.

Also testing with Winfast navigator showed the same results. Worked
fine
with my GPS, not with yours. No reseting or messing with config
setting
was
needed, just plug in a go.

The green led on the GPS on my 6010 is solid on initial power on, then
after
a short period it locks onto a satellite and starts to slowly flash.
your GPS the light immediatey starts flashing at a much faster rate
and
does
not appear to lock or become steady etc..

I would suggest returning this GPS and obtaining a replacement - as it
appears this is already a replacement, I would suggest the next
replacement
should be tested prior to shipping incase of the possibility of this
being a
faulty batch.

jaygsi · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 16, 2003 Posts: 46

hear is a couple of my threads.
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=4997&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=&sid=3bf582459fd78db406bd07d78587a960

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=5148&sid=2a046343d80e789a6891ef69144b2d43

lbendlin · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 7:02 pm Post subject:

Why not get a decent receiver instead?

One other thing - have you tried your friend's receiver with YOUR iPAQ?
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jaygsi · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 16, 2003 Posts: 46

yes it fired up straight away and locked on to 4/5 sats straight away.
he has the same system as me apart from a 37 series ipaq.
i was not there when he tested my ipaq as he lives 50 miles away.

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