Newbee with probs

tactile · Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:34 pm Post subject: Newbee with probs

Having been away for the last 3 days travelling up and down the country, I used my new TOMTOM 3 Navigator for the first time.
Having gone down with this flu virus I was under the weather and really did not want to navigate the conventional way with hard maps.
Anyway first day from Hull to Carlisle and then to Liverpool brilliant. Second day at 8 oclock outside the hotel , I keyed in my next location...............NOTHING . It couldn,t find the GPS receiver. So I contacted the software help line. ( these are a small agent 2 man band.) The answer phone came on saying that they are not open untill 10am. Now I was in liverpool and needed to be in London by 13.00 and it was 09.00 , already lost an hour. So I decieded to navigate by map. At 10 oclock I contacted the agent who tells me his engineer had called in sick and he was able to ghelp me untill the following day. Well steam was coming out of my ears at this time.To cut a long story short a sales rep was using one who was filling up at a service station and help me. Apparantly the PDA's have a bad habbit of changing settings.
Has anyone else had this problem or am I just jinxed ?

Sorry its abit long winded !!!!

MarkHewitt · Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 3:21 pm Post subject:

Hi,
Can you give us a summary of your setup?

My system quite often has a problem of 'forgetting' where the GPS is. Usually a soft reset sorts it out. Other than that try going into the GPS setup menu and make sure there is a tick in the box.

tactile · Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 3:33 pm Post subject:

My PDA is the HP 5550h. Because i got the wired version its trying to resort to bluetooth.
Can you be more specific to the info you require please.
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Privateer · Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 4:19 pm Post subject:

Hi tactile,

It's probably the settings in your TT GPS Driver. Could you tell us what they are set to?

Regards,
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iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 14.0.1: iOS CamerAlert v2.0.7
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Garmin Camper 770 LMT-D

tactile · Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 4:25 pm Post subject:

Thimk thisis what you mean................

TOM TOM NAVIGATOR GPS
SERIAL CABLE on COM1:
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Privateer · Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 4:40 pm Post subject:

Hi tactile,

Yes that’s what I wanted.

You say that your PDA is trying to resort to Bluetooth. Can you first of all switch off the BT manager?

On my 3970, the “TomTom Navigator GPS” and “Serial Cable on COM1:” work well when I use the serial GPS receiver. However I don’t know the 5550.

Try keeping the “TomTom Navigator GPS” and experiment with the different COM settings.

Regards,
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Robert.
iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 14.0.1: iOS CamerAlert v2.0.7
TomTom GO Mobile iOS 2.3.1; TomTom (UK & ROI and Europe) iOS apps v1.29
Garmin Camper 770 LMT-D

tactile · Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 4:56 pm Post subject:

In the box was a normal CD which I down loaded and there is another CD update. People have said to down load the update and that sorts all the probs. So I just have done and see what happens.
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Nomada · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:16 am Post subject:

Hi all

With a wired GPS my suggestion, it works fine for me, is:

Settings->Connections->Beam and then be sure that "Receive all incoming beams" is unchecked.

If it was ckecked it could be very easy why you lost your GPS.

And don't worry for that "Beam" it's only needed if you intend to beam to/from some else PDA and still can be done even when unchecked.

Nomada.

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