1 day old MDP PC 150 no satalites? Tomtom

chav · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 24, 2006 Posts: 8

Hello well this is my first post, i have just bought the mdppc150 and purchased a copy of tomtom 5.21,
it is about 2 days old now and when i click on satalites i can see about 8 usually at varying strengths usually at least 2 are above the line at the top. the problem is onmy friends dell his are blue and "locked" mine are all grey, but i can still use the sat nav. why wont mine lock on to the satalites? also what baud should i use? i am currently set up to use:
other nmea gps
baud 4800
serial cable on sp2

Thanks guys.
also at the top it says 23:59:16 UTC what does that mean?

Border_Collie · Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:56 am Post subject:

atomic time (UTC) it is still widely regarded as the correct time for every international time zone. ...

Stop all programmes running in the background.

Then try setting it to TomTom Cable GPS, go outside and stand in the open.The first lock can take 20 minutes or more so be patient.

Once you have the first 'lock' you will find it locks on faster next time, unless you haven't used in for several days.

If your car has an athermic windscreen then stand outside your car until you have a lock before setting up in the car.

Also don't try driving off before lock as you'll be lucky to lock on before your destination.
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chav · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 24, 2006 Posts: 8

when you say set up again you mean just reconfigure,9choose gps antena and port again? thanks again.

Darren

chav · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 24, 2006 Posts: 8

Mine is slightly different setup, i have the option for a cold start hot start or a warm start or a factory start i cant see any nmra or whatever info coming in. aghhh

chav · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 24, 2006 Posts: 8

Ok i have just updated my firmware to the latest lets hope that will make a diff, on your post about using the navigator program i tried that and it made tomtom not work at all, i had to do a hard reset to get it working again.

Really need to lock on as i am having trouble with accuracy of the sat nav.

chav · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 24, 2006 Posts: 8

Ok Latest firmware on no probs tomtom 5.21 on no probs but low and behold, one week later still no lock on. i looked at the guide you gave me and i followed it to the T but some of the options that you wrote simply were not there, i did what i could went back to the satalite tracker and no sats at all! i had to do a hard reboot to get them back.

Really would like to lock on to some satalites. any one that has a MDPPC 150 and has a lock can you let me know? thanks

alix776 · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:13 am Post subject:

you are winfast navigator to set this up and not tomtom also when youve finshed try a softreset as if you leave winfast runing in the back ground then tomtom will not pick up the gps remember if you tap the x it only minimises the program it doesnt close it
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chav · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 24, 2006 Posts: 8

alix776 · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject:

leave tomtom installed then install winfast navigator use this to set up the gps as per darrens instructions then exit winfast navigator make sure you have stopped winfast from running then run tomtom and set tomtom up as in darrens instructions ie sp2 and baud rate of 4800
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