Stopping during a route

eqcons · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 28, 2005 Posts: 17

This is driving me mad - anyone know of a solution?
Setup is:

iPaq H6340
TTN3 3.07 (working once I got my COM7 back! Thanks for nothing, TT!)
CheckPOInt 3.2 with appropriate overlays
Parrot CK3300 car kit which includes a BT receiver

Had some initial difficulties, but in general it works, once I persuade the iPaq that there really is data coming from the satellites (which can take several restarts of the iPaq and the car kit). However the problem comes where lets say you plan a journey, and off you go. All is well, but you have to stop for fuel half way through the route. The car has to be turned off, of course, which cuts the car kit, and both BT connections (to the phone and the GPS receiver). Fill up, back in the car, the BT to the phone generally re-connects, but nothing seems to tell the BT to the GPS receiver to reconnect, so TT says, quite rightly, that the GPS position is unreliable. I then have to faff about manually re-making the BT connection to the GPS again - which generally means a warm reboot of the iPaq - before I can carry one. Fair enough, the route starts up again from where it left off, but it's a real pain in the butt-ocks, and a waste of 5 or 10 minutes. Anybody know a solution?

DavidW · Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 3:39 pm Post subject:

Get the car kit rewired so that turning off the ignition doesn't cut the power - that's probably the easiest. Simply powering down one side of a Bluetooth connection is never a good idea.

David

eqcons · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 28, 2005 Posts: 17

alix776 · Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 5:41 pm Post subject:

no is good idea the battery would only go flat if thbe car was left for 4 or days as the power used is very small only just above the memory for your cars radio if you wired the car kit to a switch then the battery draining would not be a problem at all
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eqcons · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 28, 2005 Posts: 17

spile · Regular Visitor Joined: May 08, 2004 Posts: 163

TT3 often locks up if the PDA is turned off. I therefore recommend, exiting TT3 if you need to turn off the PDA or disconnect from external power.

It is not obvious, but when the application is restarted (after power has been resumed) the route is preserved.

alix776 · Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 11:47 am Post subject:

jim if you wired a switch in line then it would be ok you car battery will take it for a couple of days of being stood
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Oh the joys of being a courier.
device Lumia 950 xl

MarkHewitt · Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 3:28 pm Post subject:

That sounds strange as the power to my cig lighter is maintained no matter if the ignition is on or off.

The best solution is to leave it switched on. My wired GPS is always powered up. Remember an ipaq can run for many hours using it's own tiny battery, compare that to a car battery and you'll see how much power is in reserve there, I wouldn't worry about it going flat unless you are going to leave everything powered up for about a week. However even when I'm only a few metres away, and in a locked car, I don't like to leave my ipaq on show!

Such as it is, have you tried switching your ipaq off *before* you switch the ignition off? It may be that will enable a 'clean' shutdown of the bluetooth link then make sure you restore power to your bluetooth receiver before powering the ipaq on again..

As for the route being preserved, that's not my experience, whenever I choose "exit application" and restart you have to plot the route again.

xda · Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 11:21 am Post subject:

virtualm · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 01, 2005 Posts: 1

The bluetooth link between your PDA & GPS does not rely on the cigarette power as BT runs using the battery. It sounds as if your timeout when running on battery is low, try changing it to 10-15 mins that should do it!

Some cars don't allow the cig lighter to have power permanently but some do, such as Ford.

dick27d · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 03, 2005 Posts: 1

I have the same iPaq H6340 and have the exact same problem. When I leave the car for more than 5 minutes, my ipaq turns off and returning in the car he doesnot connect with my BT globasat!!
I have to reboot!!! my ipaq or he won't connect with BT.
(The BT-mouse is still on power.)
Please help

xda · Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 11:33 am Post subject:

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