SYSON GPS CF PLUS II COMPATIBLE WITH TOMTOM 5 ?

plasmadude2000 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 10, 2005 Posts: 1

Hi, I have been using TOMTOM 3 for some time now and have decided to upgrade to TOMTOM 5 - I have an IPAQ 2210 using a Syson CF GPS - a work colleague who uses TT 5 has warned me that there may be some problems using my Syson CF GPS card !!!

I plugged my card into his (he uses a bluetooth device) and after 30 mins of fiddling about - no joy - we selected the Other model NMEA device and baud rate to 4800 i think, but nothing just NO GPS on tomtom - it appears that TT5 only allows me to select ports 3 and 6 - my GPS card works on TOMTOM3 on port 7 - perfectly on NMEA and SIRF.

Anyone help me out here, I'm not going to waste money on TT5 if it cannot work and will stick to my trusty TT3 ?

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Csaro · Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:41 am Post subject:

I'm using a SysOn CF GPS Plus II on an iPAQ 3970 with TomTom 5.1 fairly successfully. Configured as a "Other Cable GPS", 4800 and select SysOn from the list.
If TomTom ever fix their GPS code it will work better, every now and then TomTom decides there's no GPS device/fix when there is, and TomTom occasionally snaps to the wrong roads, but I think most people are experiencing these problems regardless of hardware. Memory Map works flawlessly for me as does TomTom 3, so it has to be the TomTom 5 code.
Make sure the SysOn is set to NMEA mode as TomTom cannot use SIRF.

Flyer5 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 2

I too upgraded to TT5 from TT3 and had a few days of hair pulling. In the end the fix was to revert back to TT3, set the SOC to NEMA / 4800 (it had been set to SIRF etc.) and then re-upgrade. I think there is some legacy problem as TT3 with SIRF worked perfectly yet TT5 would not work until I tried the aformentioned 'fix', then it was fine.
Unfortunately my SOC device has joined the rest by stopping working (check other posts). I am now looking at bluetooth types.

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