TomTom slows down when I select Haicom receiver

muncy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 2

Hi all.

Completely new to this so excuse ignorance. I have an IPAQ 3900 series with TomTom 3 installed. I have been playing about with it for the last few weeks without a receiver but with the receiver set as a TomTom receiver and it has been performing fine. I have now obtained a Haicom receiver so changed the setting to Haicom on COM 3. Navigator now takes about 5 minutes to load and switching between screens takes ages. I unplugged the receiver and it was still the same. I have tried freeing up memory, all to no avail until I set the reciever back to TomTom again.

Is this normal? Do I need to buy a TomTom receiver in order fo it to work properly? Any advice appreciated.

Talkingbollox · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:09 am Post subject:

The symptoms point to a slow SD card, assuming that you have the map data installed there.

Try defragging the card or install the maps onto another card, and see if it helps.

muncy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 2

Thanks for the advice. i was tinkering today and found it was the port setting that was causing the problem. When I selected Hiacom as my GPS device it defaulted to COM3 and it seemed to work so I left it. When I changed it to COM1 it still receives signals and works fine.

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