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antispam Occasional Visitor
Joined: Apr 14, 2005 Posts: 48
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject: Ipaq H2200 And Bluetooth GPS |
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Trying to get TomTom 5 running on a friends Ipaq H2200 Using a bog standard 16 channel BT Bluetooth GPS Receiver.
I simply cant get the Ipaq with TT5 to get a sat fix.
I have paired the Ipaw with the GPS unit fine and showing in bluetooth manager as paired.
I go to tomtom and Show GPS Status - Configure - Other Bluetooth GPS - Then it says Pair the Bluetooth GPS with your PDA which I have done - Then I am offered the following ..... GPS IS CONNECTED TO -
COM 3
INFARED PORT
COM 6
SERIAL CABLE ON COM 1
SERIAL CABLE ON BT
SERIAL ON USB
BLUETOOTH SERIAL PORT
BLUETOOTH SERIAL PORT
I have tried all of the above and left for ten mins to try and get a sat fix but with no luck ?
I have done this before for myself without problems so i dont know whats going on ? ?
Any ideas ?
Cheers
Paul |
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mikealder Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 14, 2005 Posts: 19638 Location: Blackpool , Lancs
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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Paul, when you go to the Bluetooth Manager on the Ipaq does the GPS icon show up with two small green arrows under it? - if not it needs connecting, tap and hold the icon and from the pop-up box select connect, then try again within the TomTom application - you need the outgoing Bluetooth port, to be sure of a connection to the device have a look at the yellow/ blue disk in the top right of the screen (Change Preferences/ Show GPS Status), if its spinning you have the correct connection.
Once the connection/ comunication is sorted take the whole lot outside, away from buildings and wait, it could take up to 30 mins to acquire the signal, but if the little yellow/ blue disk isn't spinning you won't get anything - Mike |
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antispam Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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I did everything you said to do but could i hell get the spinning disc thing to spin :-) I tried every available option...... BUT..........
I thought to hell with it ill try EVERYTHING even GPS Devices that are not Bluetooth..... these are the settings that i got everything to work with and I think they are a little crazy but hey it works.........
Other cable NMEA GPS
GPS Baud Rate 9600
COM 6
How can It be that Tomtom recognises the Bluetooth GPS Device as being Other Cable NMEA ? ? Wierd !
One more thing though.............
I notice that after a short space of time when i look in the Bluetooth manaer.... The bluetooth GPS unit is no longer connected .... kinda disconnects itself......Is there like somekind of inactivity timer hence it disconnecting itself ?
Paul |
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gpsn3wbie Regular Visitor
Joined: Apr 05, 2006 Posts: 176
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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make sure the v5.21 update is installed for TomTom or it won't work. |
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antispam Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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gpsn3wbie wrote: | make sure the v5.21 update is installed for TomTom or it won't work. |
didnt need the 5.21 update....got it working without. |
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