Fortuna GPS & updated rom

[sundownerspars]

My blue tooth fortuna clip on will not respond to the XDAII with the updated rom, which suports serial ports. has anyone else had this problem, do I need to down load the BT tools patch again & if so can some one remind me of the web address
Ta

[pjcltd]

HI i have the GPSmart BT verision
and i have alos updated the ROm on my XDA II
all i can say is it works very very well i did have a delay when using
TOMTOM and that has now gone

Hope this help you out

[captin]

I am also using the BT GPS Clip-on with the XDA II. Works perfectly after the O2 update. I'm using Tomtom 2 with the 2.09 GPS update from their website. Im not using it with the com port option, I'm using it as a Tomtom BT device.

[sundownerspars]

I still can't get the tom tom gps driver to recognise / show information from the Clip on BT gps. I downloaded the latest driver from the tom tom site but still no luck. tom tom's gps drivers do not show the fortuna clip on. I have tried rebonding it with and without the serial port option. When I'm in the tom tom GPS page what GPS driver do I need and what com port do I select and do I need to set it up as com port 5 when I bond the gps???????? :cry:

[pjcltd]

Well if you have the rom upgrade installed and you are using V 2.09 of the TOMTOM GPS drivers you can select
the device a TOMTOM Wireless GPS
and set the com port bit to Bluetooth GPS
I use this setup and have never had a problem


Hope this helps

[sundownerspars]

I tried that but no luck, it would not show any satelite info on the gps pages. I notice in the blue tooth settings you can select com ports 4 & 5 for recieving and transmitting , what should these be set to? also when you bonded the fortuna, did you select the serial port option ?
Ta :x

[pjcltd]

Hi
It souds like you dont have the latest ver of the gps drivers fromtomtom installed

on V2.08 there was no mention of Bluetooth so i think you have that ver installed

And yes when i bonded with the GPSMART it asks me if i want to use the serial profile


Do you have ver 2.09 ? if not i can post it on here for you

[riiidaa]

Do you have ver 2.09 ? if not i can post it on here for you

Please do :lol:

[pjcltd]

OK here is the GPS Drives as from the TOMTOM website

[riiidaa]

And yes when i bonded with the GPSMART it asks me if i want to use the serial profile

Do you have ver 2.09 ? if not i can post it on here for you


Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 20:38


I tried that but no luck, it would not show any satelite info on the gps pages.

what should these be set to? also when you bonded the fortuna, did you select the serial port option ?

I too have same problem - have 2.09 gps but now not getting info, it bonds ok, but won't display any tracked sats, do i need to say yes to serial when bonding?

[pjcltd]

Yes you must say to to it or it will not work
(that is if you have the updated Rom installed)

[riiidaa]

Yes you must say to to it or it will not work
(that is if you have the updated Rom installed)

All working now :lol:

[sundownerspars]

I have tried reloading the ROM upgrade and reloading the Tom tom 2 software and latest drivers from the Tom Tom site (ver2.09GPS driver)
I still am having problems with the fortuna GPS. In tom Tom GPS it does not show any satelites and the little sat dish to PDA legends on the right hand side show no communication :cry:
Now the Back light drops out without warning and when I check the back light settings it has reverted to no back light on the battery power! (yes the battery is fully charged) and I keep getting a communication error popping up saying (cannot start communications with desk top computer" and the XDA 2 is not even in it's cradle
HELP!!!
I'm tempted to send it back to O2 for them to sort it out. :evil:

[cruisin-thru]

I have used fortuna gpsmart with xda2 with standard rom and had no problems, is it possible for you to download the launchrom from the O2 site and see if that will get you back where you started. You could also try unbonding everything then after loading the latest bthtools rebond and try that.

[sundownerspars]

It worked fine with the original ROM & BT tools patch. I cant find the original rom on O2's site. May be I downloaded a corupt version even though it said updated ok? It took so long to down load on a dial up connection ( Damn XP at work on a broad band connection wont let any one apart from the administrator download programs!!!)
Do O2 send out discs with the rom update on them?

[sundownerspars]

Also just noticed, when I try to turn it off on the power button all that happens is that the backlight turns off and the isplay is still there allbeit very faint. Still at least my BT200 works now!

[coercri]

I had the same problem for a few days after I got the Fortuna, but all went OK, not sure how I did it really, just kept, trying

I wonder if anyone can help me with a problem, sometimes I want to start TomTom2 with no GPS, just to do a quick route for someone, but when I start it, it locks up (presumably cause it cant find Bluetooth), I cant go into the GPS app to turn GPS off with the tick. The only way I can do it is turn on the Fortuna, THEN untick in the GPS app - very messy. Is there anyway to start TomTom without GPS/Bluetooth active?