wired gps cant connect tomtom5

[kitrider]

I have an SPV M2000 and i have just purchased a wired gps tomtom5. After disabling the IR beam my gps still doesn't connect. i have hard reset the unit to make sure i have no other drivers interfering but it still doesn't connect.

all the help lines tell me to disable ir beam but it still doesn't work.

Does anyone know anything more about this issue?

[jimbo_hippo]

Hey Kitrider, I apologise in advance if I'm insulting your intelligence but have you selected it in the preferences? I don't have a Tom Tom reciever but I still select it and it works with Navigator 5.

In Tom Tom go to preferences, select GPS status, if you have no signal (assuming its connected!) then select configure and select each of the others in turn to see if you get signal. Bear in mind, sometimes it takes 15 seconds or so for it to show.

[cgrillo]

Regardless as to what GPS device you have (wired/BT), if you go to the GPS status screen (from where you can configure the GPS) there is a blue and yellow circular icon in the top right hand side of the screen (below the time), if this is "turning" then you have selected the correct COM port and data is being received - GPS signal or not...

What COM port have you chosen (try saying is is a TT Wired GPS as that defaults to COM1) - or did you say it is a TOMTOM model?

If it is and you can't getthat to work , try selecting other wired...

[kitrider]

Yep i am selecting it in the TT5 preferences i've tried all of them and left it for over 30 secs on each one. The blue and yellow disc never spins though. I get a message which looks like a pocket pc windows alert box (identical to when it connects to activesync) that says it is trying to connect. this flashes up a few times then it comes to a bigger windows message box that says that the device cannot connect to the computer. the port may be busy or unavailable. Restart device and try again.

After restarting (hard or soft) there is no difference.

The gps is not a tomtom version but is one that apparently works according to PDAMODS.com, whom i bought it off. They reckon that there is something wrong with the m2000 and told me to get orange to replace. But orange are being very slow and not forthcoming with this request. basically as i have no proof that there is something wrong.

Any ideas please???????

i'm flumuxed!!

[kitrider]

just to add i#m selecting other wired gps, baud rate 4800, serial cable on com 1.

but have tried all the options