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thrawn
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 Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:43 am Post subject: No GPS signal with Tungsten E |
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Hi,
I have recently bought a Kirrio Tungsten E navigation pack off of ebay and am having some problems. Installation was fine (Although it is only Mapsonic 1.3) and installing the hardware in the car was no problem. After a little bit the GPS receiver went from a solid red light to a flashing red light, which the manual says means it has detected GPS. The only problem is Mapsonic is still saying 'No GPS' on the Tungsten E. I checked that the GPS Parameters are set correctly ('Active' and '4800 bauds') but Mapsonic still says no GPS.
Has anyone experienced this problem before? Does anyone have any ideas how to solve the problem? Would upgrading to version 3.0 be likely to solve this? I don't want to pay for the upgrade until I know for sure this kit works with my Tungsten.
Thanks in advance for any help. |
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Southy
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| Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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Have you tried doing a system reset with everything still attached? I lent my Zire 31 GPS system to a colleague and they suffered the same problem. A couple of system resets sorted this out.
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thrawn
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| Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Southy wrote: | Have you tried doing a system reset with everything still attached? I lent my Zire 31 GPS system to a colleague and they suffered the same problem. A couple of system resets sorted this out.
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By everything attached do you mean in the mounting kit with the GPS receiver plugged in? If so I'm not sure if that's possible with the Tungsten E, as the reset hole is at the back of the unit, and is impossible to get to while the Tungsten E is in the mounting unit. Just connecting the GPS receiver directly to the Tungsten, outside of the mounting kit, doesn't seem to supply any power to the GPS receiver, even if the Tungsten is plugged in.
Or is there a way of performing a system reset via the Palm software?
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Southy
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| Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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Yes i do mean with the GPS still connected. The Zire 31 has the GPS attached on a wire and not as part of the cradle.
You can't do a full system reset from the PDA (not on mine anyway). It is mainly used for reseting when the handheld hangs or when new software has been installed and a restart is necessary.
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| I had the same problem, drove me crazy! It turned out, in my case at least, to be where the mini USB lead plugs into the cradle, at the back and hidden from view. Connection or lead seemed to have a loose connection, I jiggled it a bit and it came up with "GPS 0" in a second, then locked on very quickly. Has worked fine since then even using the wobbly air vent mount. |
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thrawn
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:50 am Post subject: |
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| Zaphod wrote: | | I had the same problem, drove me crazy! It turned out, in my case at least, to be where the mini USB lead plugs into the cradle, at the back and hidden from view. Connection or lead seemed to have a loose connection, I jiggled it a bit and it came up with "GPS 0" in a second, then locked on very quickly. Has worked fine since then even using the wobbly air vent mount. |
That would make sense as the power cable needs to be wiggled a bit some times before that works. I'll give it a try. Thanks  |
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Cob
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| Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:23 am Post subject: |
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| I had the same thing - it seems that the gps lead needs a really good shove in to the base to connect! |
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