No valid GPS Signal on HP 4700 with TT Cable GPS

[mramessa]

I have been using TT5.1 for the last year with a TomTom wired GPS with no problems.
This week out of the blue the front screen said no GPS so looked at Show GPS Status and on the top left it says "No GPS valid Signal!" however there are a number of satillites coming up with the bars in grey rather than blue.

The GPS device was in the sun on a very hot day and am wondering if something inside has melted

I have tried resetting with a soft boot, changing the GPS to other cable and choosing Baud rate 4800 andSerial Cable but no difference.
I have also cleaned all the connections.

I borrowed a cf card gps which works fine so it is not the Ipaq with a problem. Is there a reset button on the TT cabled GPS as I cant see one?

Can anyone advise anything to try next or do you think the Tomtom GPS has had it!

Thanks 8O

[BodgerBaz]

Sounds as though it might have lost the port setting or something.

Most GPS recievers come with a CD containing the driver and some 'GPS Viewer' software. Try starting the PDA then click on GPSViewer in the programs folder.

Make sure the receiver has been running for a while then click on the 'scan' option. See if it finds your receiver and you get blue bars.

If it does, check which port it is using then bootup TTN, then go back in where you were before and use the noted port.

[mramessa]

As the GPS is a Tomtom own brand there is no software in the box and unable to change any settings on the GPS as they are all fixed.

Thanks for your thoughts though, any others?

[lbendlin]

No need to change the settings in TomTom.

What you can try is a factory reset on the wired receiver (use WinFast Navigator or similar). If that doesn't help you may have indeed sent the receiver home to mama.
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[mramessa]

Fixed

Thanks for your heip, much appreciated and saved me buying a new GPS

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