Fortuna 2210 - locks up / stops

Jacklad · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 01, 2004 Posts: 54

New iPAQ received, installed TT3 (+3.07 upgrade) ... New Fortuna Clip On arrived (manual says v1.2) .. all fires up OK, and works a treat for a few minutes driving then the map freezes / locks.
Display shows it is still seeing sats .. but if you look under GPS, the Lat ^ Long are not changing - although the sat bars are shown in lock.

On the Fortuna the Blue light is on .. but has stopped flashing, and I have checked a few times it is happily bursting away up until if freezes and at that point just stays solid blue. (even if left for an half an hour)

If I switch off Fortuna and wait a few seconds and then switch back on .. often all works Ok again without restarting TT3 .. but sometimes i have to restart the application.

I have removed and re-installed TT3 and maps just in case but still the same, am I safe in assuming the Fortuna is faulty, or is it not possible to tell from this.

I have been told that it could be the SD card .. a brand new Kingston 256Mb (bought Kingston to avoid cheapy makes).

Anybody suggest anything ? ...

footman · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 7:21 pm Post subject:

maybe this may help you

http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=1&platformId=2&productType=2&productId=96903

Jacklad · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 01, 2004 Posts: 54

It worked ... now just gives a blip every so often ..... ranging form once in 30mins to every couple of minutes.

Display says'GPS position unrelibale' then beeps agian and carrys on .... presume that is as good as it gets ?

footman · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:37 pm Post subject:

if there is no obstruction to a clear view of sky then it shouldnt do even that....I'll have a think.

Jacklad · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 01, 2004 Posts: 54

It's on the dashboard of my car ... (not a metallic screen)

One one occasion during a 110 mile drive today it went "GPS unreliable" for at least 5 minutes ... then beeped and came back OK - during that time looked in 'GPS' screen and zero satts seen, although navigator screen said 8.

On the return journey it did the same thing after about an hour ... but did not come back ... looked in Bluetooth manager, and the 'clip on' shortcut showed not connected (no pair of little arrows) forced connection by tap & hold > connect and all worked OK again.

So assume issue is Bluetooth is losing synch between iPAQ & Fortuna.

Jacklad · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 01, 2004 Posts: 54

Some more information - in case it triggers anything with those in the know.

Installed Bluetooth Tweak and much better ... each loss of synch, just a beep and back in a couple of seconds.
But still get the total loss of synch.

Today happened 5 times in a 350 mile round trip.

On 4 occasions I could restart by opening Bluetooth manager - I could see hat shortcut showed not connected .. tap/hold/connect re-established connection and TT3 carries on OK.

However on one of the occasions (and this has now happened several times) same symptoms .. but unable to re-establish connection.

Either Bluetooth manager goes into "waiting for device" or "unable to establish connection"
Only a soft reset will then recover form this.

When in this 'no signal mode' the Fotuna has a permanent 'on' Bluetooth LED (not blinking) the other 2 LEDs are green.

I have re-installed TT3 (applied 3.03 upgrade) and also re-installed the iPAQ Bluetooth driver.
Fortuna have confirmed I have the latest firmware.

Now had the set up for 3 weeks and not had it stable yet .... any ideas?

Jacklad · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 01, 2004 Posts: 54

Some more information - in case it triggers anything with those in the know.

Installed Bluetooth Tweak and much better ... each loss of synch, just a beep and back in a couple of seconds.
But still get the total loss of synch.

Today happened 5 times in a 350 mile round trip.

On 4 occasions I could restart by opening Bluetooth manager - I could see hat shortcut showed not connected .. tap/hold/connect re-established connection and TT3 carries on OK.

However on one of the occasions (and this has now happened several times) same symptoms .. but unable to re-establish connection.

Either Bluetooth manager goes into "waiting for device" or "unable to establish connection"
Only a soft reset will then recover form this.

When in this 'no signal mode' the Fotuna has a permanent 'on' Bluetooth LED (not blinking) the other 2 LEDs are green.

I have re-installed TT3 (applied 3.03 upgrade) and also re-installed the iPAQ Bluetooth driver.
Fortuna have confirmed I have the latest firmware.

Now had the set up for 3 weeks and not had it stable yet .... any ideas?

footman · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 12:44 am Post subject:

long shot(very)....take the battery out of the fortuna and leave overnight

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