C500 TomTom and Fortuna Clip On

[dectomax]

Hello all,

I have recently had my C500 running TomTom mobile which with the Traffic update worked fine. I have also recently had my car broken into and the BT GPS unit knicked , although they did leave my C500 Anyhow, my friend has a Fortuna Clip on BT which according to some posts here should work. My problem is I cannot get it to. I have removed the previous BT GPS unit and re-named the Fortuna one to 'TomTom Wireless GPS' as suggetsed. I have reset and re-activated the Com port 7 but nothing seems to work. I have read a post where somebody has got a Fortuna Clip On working. If this works I can buy this GPS unit off my mate and jobs a gudun.

Any help much appreciated.
Thanks.

[Dave]

That's where your problem lies. You should have just left it as it was and not renamed or tried to de-activate/re-activate the Bluetooth settings. Just powering on the BT GPS without creating a bond would have worked.

I believe now you'll probably have to go through the same process with the TomTom BT GPS, then just power this off and then power on another BT GPS like the Fortuna and it will then work.

[dectomax]

Wahoo I've figured it out. :D

I removed all bonded bluetooth devices, turned off Com 6 and 7, rebooted phone, activated Com 7 and bonded with Fortuna Clipon ONLY when it told me to after activating COM7 and not before. Bonded with the Clipon and ran TomTom. Lo and behold it worked.


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