GPS and TomTom5 Problems

[DaveJunior]

I recently purchased a bluetooth GPS receiver (branded as Fusion with X70 as the name on the back - purchsed from Polstar) and TomTom5 software but cannot get the two to work together.

I have bonded the receiver and set it as COM7 and I can choose that in TomTom5 as the COM port to use but it always says "No GPS Device!"

I have also downloaded and installed the BlueTooth Tools software but this hasn't helped either. :(

I have an o2 XDA2 and any help with this would be much appreciated.

[twichibi]

I think mine is set to BT on com6. You must make sure the GPS receiver has a satellite signal before you try to configure tomtom (flashing light or whatever). Keep trying different settings, that's what I did

[DaveJunior]

I think I have tried all the settings I can, I am beginning to wonder if i've got the correct version of TomTom5 installed! My device information says my platform is PocketPC and that is the version of TomTom5 I installed.

I have tried various settings and soft-rebooted my phone in the meantime after each change and tried without re-setting too!

This is getting rather annoying now :cry:

[twichibi]

sorry, I'm using com5. Have you made sure you've got a satellite connection first.

Mine is version 5.000

[DaveJunior]

When I turn on my GPS receiver I get two lights flashing, one to indicate that the bluetooth is sending a signal and the other to say that the device is receiving a GPS signal.

[blackfoot]

Hi Dave,

Did you buy this via eBay? Couple of friends have bought from the same guy and neither worked, even though it seemed that they were (flashing lights, bonded etc). Both Polstar/Fuzion.

Anyway, if it won't connect via 'other bluetooth', try selecting 'other cabled device' and then select 4800 baud and your bluetooth com port.

Don't know why, but have had to do this with 3 different PDA's so far (2 XDA, 1 ipaq). It seems to work fine, although the data rate's a bit slow.

[cruisin-thru]

Any bluetooth gps I have has installed as com 5 when bonding, it asks if you wish to install serial profile and allocates com 5. I have noticed however that tomtom is very weird with its gps module, it keeps saying gps not found or signal lost etc and then I have to reselect other bluetooth and com 5 and even then sometimes I have to reinitialize the receiver before it is found. I always advocate the use of a wired gps if it is only required for vehicle use, it is less problematic, easy to configure and works 99.999999% of the time without problems.

[blackfoot]

If you run BT Manager and then check settings, it generally sets up as inbound com5 outbound com 6.

I have a Navman that behaved perfectly on Com 5 on TT3, on TT5 still behaves perfectly, but now uses Com 8 instead.

No idea why, don't really care that much -- it works.

[DaveJunior]

I did buy the items from eBay and I am going to get back to the supplier (Polstar I believe) to see what I can fathom out.

Many thanks for all your advice, I have tried all options but still cannot get it to work so I will post a reply with the solution that works for me and hopefully it will work for others too.

[marcusmodestus]

Hi

the TomTom 5 has a new implementation, from the the TT3. It can manage the bluetooth connection. When you creat the connection with your pocket pc, by serial port, you must creat one connection of paired devices, as you created to your headset, bluethoot, of course. By the way, usually tt5 uses com 6 to connect with gps receivers.
The first time you configure your connection you must stay in position to receive signal from satelites, because its important to record all information from your gps receiver.

Regards

[DaveJunior]

With regards to that marcusmodestus I think tonight, I will try and remove TomTom5 and delete my connection to the receiver and try installing again, from fresh.

Should I bond my reciever before or after I install? And should I run TomTom5 only with the bond in place?

[andycl85]

I bought one of these
set up as other cable on com5 but set baud rate at 38400 works fine 4 me

[DaveJunior]

First, thank you all for helping me with this!

I have managed to successfully set it up now and here is the process...

Install TomTom5
Bond the device (I only had the option of Serial COM 7)
In TomTom5, change the preferences to use "Other Cable" and set the baud rate to 4800.

Magically I then get 5-6 satellites, a signal and an annoying American (which I will change to a nice english lady)

Thank you all again! :) :) :)

[peter_altherr]

after hours of trial and error with tomtom5 and buzzmobile5.0 together with a xaiox wonde-xl bluetooth gps mouse (nemerix chipset) i learned the following:
it is recommended that you disable the gps manager of buzzmobile5.0 (not doing this has caused my device hang and auto soft reset some times). after that the following procedure worked for me:
1. pair your bluetooth gps device with your xda
2. assign a free outgoing com-port to that device (what com-port is best? please read text below.)
3. go to tomtom gps settings screen choose other bluetooth gps device
4. the assigned com-port number should appear in the next tomtom screen.

usually you should be done now and the connection should work, but i always had to delete the gps device in buzzmobiles bluetooth connection manager and had to re-pair it again, re-assign the com-port and re-start tomtom in order to get it work.

for any reason i then choosed to assign com8 as com-port for my gps mouse. and from this moment on tomtom5 was able to re-establish connections after switching of and on the gps or after switching xda on and off. i don't know what the exact reason is but choosing com8 was my solution to get tomtom5 working together with my gps on a comfortable way.

hope this helps others


regards

peter

[pug]

I had this problem with Tomtom 5. No matter what I did it wouldn't work with my receiver.

I found that when I downloaded the 5.1 patch and installed it it worked fine with the GPS receiver set to COM6. Usually takes about 30 secs for the receiver to be found though. I think the update sorted out the Tomtom bluetooth support to a later version.

[mtc]

hi ...

how can i disable the gps manager of buzzmobile5.0?


thx mtc

[pleun]

settings --> system --> GPS

On the access tab uncheck the box

btw : I just saw that GPS hardware port shows com5 now. I'm sure I set both hard and software port to none cause somebody adviced this.
Anyway last week I didn't have to re-pair my gps in order for tomtom to find it ( which before I had to do every time I closed tt5). I've been messing in the registry to create extra com5 ports, maybe that's what caused it.

Anyways I now only have to switch on the gps and fire up tomtom and it immediately shows my position. Hope it will last..........