TomTom & Traffic with GPRS

HowardC · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 1:02 pm Post subject: TomTom & Traffic with GPRS

I have an Ipaq H2210, CompactFlash GPS adaptor and Sony Ericsson T630 bluetooth phone.

Now I can connect to GPRS fine from within WM2003, but TomTom seems to refuse to actually start a connection via bluetooth when it updates traffic / weather info.

It works if I connect from within Windows and leave the bluetooth manager open, then TomTom can happily download the info, but is there any way of making it connect itself when it updates traffic, and not having to leave it connected all the time?

Also, how do I change the font size of things in the status bar? And make it display only POIs such as speed cameras on my route?

Thanks for any help Smile

BudgieUK · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 07, 2005 Posts: 31

Im pretty new to this, so dont necessarily take my answer as gospel, but there should be no problem leaving the GPRS connected as you do not pay for connected time, only for data transfered.
As TT only sends data when it needs to, there should be no need to disconnect.
I have been using TT3 and now TT5 for about 6 months, and the maximum data transfered in a month was just over 1MB... this is based on 6 x 1 hour trips per week, with the data updating every 6 minutes, during peak commuting hours.

By the way, I use a H2210 with a 1GB SD card and a Siemens S65, and (since upgrading to TT5) have no problems with Traffic

HowardC · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:16 pm Post subject:

HowardC · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:18 pm Post subject:

HowardC · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:18 pm Post subject:

HowardC · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:42 pm Post subject:

HowardC · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:43 pm Post subject:

Oh nuts. Sorry. THat wasn't meant to happen. Lol.

HielandLad · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:15 pm Post subject:

I had the same symptoms with a Motorola V3. I could get emails using it with my 2210 and surf the web but TT refused toi initiate a connection. I went to the O2 site and set up a new connection. Thereafter, everyhting worked perfectly. Might be worth setting up a new mobile internet connection. Turned out (I think) that O2 settings had changed and alhtough it was still working with old settings I think it was using WAP not mobile internet.

Hope this helps.

Alastair

	PocketGPS
	Web