Firmware upgrade fro Xtrac v2???

simkna · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 12:47 pm Post subject:

Still no good. Sad

However, I notice that the two successes mentioned have both had the GPS appear on COM4. Wonder if this is related. Anybody had any success with GPS on any port other than COM4?

Si.

2800gt · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 30, 2003 Posts: 3

Does the 4 in the command line correspond to com port ?, the b parameter looks like baud rate.
SirFFlashcl A:\FortunaXTracV202.s -l 4 -b 38400 -c 0 -sr > ConsFile
If so I expect mine would have a 6 in it for Com 6 but I can't try it till I get home.

edelf · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 13, 2004 Posts: 3

Answer from fortuna:
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Dear Sir,

Sorry for your inconvenience. We found a bug on the firmware and our R&D is working on it. It will be ready by Wednesday. Please check again.

Thank you and have a good day.

Best regards,
Kathy Lu
Fortuna Electronics Corp.
Tel: +886-22581-8373 #114
Fax:+886-22581-8379
email: kathy@fortuna.com.tw

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grtz edelf

nightfly85 · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 4:39 pm Post subject:

Hacking the runexe batch file doesn't work for me either. Following all steps as described. Guess I'll have to wait on the official version to get it to work.

I did notice something interesting:
1)Running the edited runexe.bat just after running btclipon app, it took longer to error out, and in fact I thought it was working - but it didn't.
2)Some sort of state is attained so that I have to switch to ST and back to XT to get it to work ok. I now do this between runexe.bat attempts and I got similar behavior as in 1 above (the day before I was getting quick error outs).

francesco · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 11:26 pm Post subject:

Hi all

I have bought fro semsons fortuna clip-on with xtrack v2.02.
I would like to know if someone could told me how I can see the version of my firmware truth ppc...
..so I could tell how it appears Smile

Tnx
Cya

jlw · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 11:30 pm Post subject:

My XT mode is not working at all for me. Sad

(((( But ST works fine.
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nightfly85 · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 12:08 am Post subject:

francesco - trey gpstweak from the downloads section here on this site. There's also several other threads along this topic in this forum. I am heading to italy in sept for a couple of weeks - that's why I bought the clip-on.

jlw - unplug your battery from the clip-on over night and that's your best chance of clearing the device if it's a state issue. I hope you didn't foobar your XT firmware!

simkna · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 9:31 am Post subject:

Fortuna have posted new files on the support page. :P

However, for me it still gives the FAIL Target not responding errors. Crying or Very sad

It looks as though all they have done is change it so the resulting RunExe.bat script is in the format discussed above.

Si.

toast666 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 14, 2004 Posts: 2

The new firmware is back up on the Fortuna site. I've just flashed mine and its worked perfectly!

Laughing

simkna · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 10:26 am Post subject:

I just tried again on a different PC and with different BT dongle, and having made sure I took the battery out for a good 10 minutes first.

Result.......SUCCESS!!! Thumbs Up

Si.

drummer · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 11:24 am Post subject:

Tried the new software, left the battery out for 10 minutes, but still get fail.
It did seem to take longer to fail this time (about 30 seconds instead of 5 seconds). Confused

francesco · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 11:25 am Post subject:

Choc · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 18, 2004 Posts: 21

I'm very impressed with the firmware update. The sensitivity of this thing has just gone through the roof! I can pick up 7 satellites from inside the house no problem, not that I need to navigate in the house Laughing Out Loud

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I also tried to use GPS Tweak but could not get any readings.

A highly recommended firmware update.

Regards Choc Mr. Green

Jawa · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 13, 2004 Posts: 3

I did update with success also, with the new Flashing prog from Fortuna (Looks like the firmware itself is the same than the previous one posted early this week)

To check if the update is Ok you can use also Crux View for Windows
I found it here

http://www.gpsoz.com.au/bluetooth_crux_pc.htm

"Open" the port to your GPS. Then you must press "Reset" to cold reset it (logical isn't it ?) and very quickly go to the "message" tab and press "Stop" so it stops the message at the just beginning. It should show something like:
$PSRFTXT,Version: 2.4.13.01-XTrac2.0.2-C3EVAL1.0*05
$PSRFTXT,TOW: 0*25
$PSRFTXT,WK: 1265*65
$PSRFTXT,POS: 6378137 0 0*2A
$PSRFTXT,CLK: 96250*25
$PSRFTXT,CHNL: 12*73
$PSRFTXT,Baud rate: 38400 System clock: 24.553MHz*45

Confirming that the firmware is 2.0.2 now !

Good luck to all

toast666 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 14, 2004 Posts: 2

Does anyone know what application I can use to view the firmware version?

I've tried the apps above but they just show the gps data and not any internal information.

Thanks.

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