help needed please

Griff · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 12:32 am Post subject: help needed please

Hi to you all great site Thumbs Up

my question is this I have an ipaq 3850 and an ipaq gps sleeve which is made by navman however the software (pocket co pilot is about 2 years old) and I have decided to upgrade to tom tom 3 will i need to install drivers for the jacket and if so where can i get them and how/where are they installed many thanks Mr. Green

Dave · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 7:37 am Post subject:

I believe so, my memory's getting a little vague with the CoPilot sleeve but from what I recall you do need to have CoPilot installed and then install TomTom and you should be good to go, if you uninstall CoPilot then you will need to install a driver.

Darren · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 10:01 am Post subject:

If you remove CoPilot then you will need to install the CoPilot GPS Jacket Driver. This is available in a 'GPS Jacket' folder on the CoPilot install CD, alternatively you can download it here.

Once this driver is installed (and it must be the CoPilot version not the Navman one) you can use any GPS Application that can accept data from a NMEA compatible GPS such as your jacket including all flavours of TomTom Thumbs Up

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Griff · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 4:09 pm Post subject:

:D Many thanks for your help Thumbs Up

Griff · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 5:43 pm Post subject:

sorry to sound thick but where do i install the co pilot driver Embarassed

Darren · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 6:07 pm Post subject:

Not thick at all, it's not obvious to the uninitiated. Copy the .cab file contained in the .zip file to the 'My Documents' folder on your PPC using Active Sync.

Then using Explorer on the PPC, locate the .cab file and double-tap it, this will launch the installer and at the end auto delete the .cab file (these instructions apply to any PPC installation that comes in .cab format) Thumbs Up

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Griff · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 10:00 pm Post subject:

Ok got it up and running and so far I think ttn 3 is so much better than my old copy of pocket co pilot as I am a heating engineer with up to 8 calls a day all over london i will let you know what I think just one more thing what add ons would you reccomend?? Thumbs Up

Darren · Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 6:57 am Post subject:

Two, Niels UKPostCode utility, a superb free download that allows you to input a Post Code and select 'Navigate To'. It's a plug-in for TomTom, available from www.digitools.co.uk and ideal for you with your job and CheckPOInt with our Safety Camera database, again both free Thumbs Up

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Griff · Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 2:46 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the advice seemed to have real problems today picking up sats
every thing was fine this morning then around 1 oclock went into london and no signal only when i came out of london did i regain the signal my ppc is mounted in the same place that it was when using co pilot and I checked to make sure the ir port was off tried moving it to different places in the van but no joy any thoughts? could it be the driver for the jacket? Confused

Darren · Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 5:31 pm Post subject:

The jacket has always suffered from poor performance in Urban canyon environments, when you get these situations it is useful to look at the number of sats being received in the GPS status applet as this will give an indication of the cause.
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Griff · Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 10:33 pm Post subject:

Darren I really cant thank you enough for all the advice you have given me do you think it wise to upgrade my jacket? Will I get better performance the only reason I use a jacket is I have a 2 gig microdrive in it and if I changed to another type of gps I would have to buy a jacket to use the micro drive
Thanks again Thumbs Up

Griff · Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 11:20 pm Post subject:

Just done a little testand was getting 4/5 sats outside and only 2/3 in the van think maybe one of those re rads may be the answer?

Darren · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 7:36 am Post subject:

What van do you have as you should see more sats in normal use unless you have a coated windscreen, common in Citroen/Peugeot and some others which block the GPS signal.

If this is the cause then a re-rad antenna could well be the solution tour problem Smile

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Griff · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 7:38 pm Post subject:

I have a merc vito don't think the screen is heat reflective used my set up today and the sat signal was between 0 sats and 5 didnt go into central london today have to say when I was using copilot the sat fix was hardly ever at zero think I will uninstall the gps driver and reinstall copilot and see if the co pilot driver improves things

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