GPS receivers for xda exec

[craigH]

There seems to be lots of questions relating to gps receivers not pairing with o2 xda exec especially with tomtom. Most solutions say you must designate com 6 to work. But I am only offered com 4 amd 8 all others unable to connect. Is there a general problem with bluetooth and XDA? When I load up tomtom under GPS it says I must pair first! which I have done. Is there one easy way to pair bluetooth or is it a case of try lots of different ways to see which works. Any thoughts would help. :!:

[chris_rose]

this always works for my bluetooth gps.

Turn blootooth on.

Start bluetooth manager

Turn on bluetooth GPS

Select NEW from bottom left menu in bluetooth manager

Scroll down to explore Bluetooth device

If keyboard appears type 0000 into keyboard and then Enter.

Once done you should have an icon in BT shortcuts - BUT you need two ICONS so repeat the above actions again.

Now you should have two icons for your BT GPS.

One BT GPS SPP (1)

One BT GPS SPP (slave)

The reason - one is the up channel one is the down channel.

Double tap either one and they go live.

Run TOMTOM and it should work fine.

What a lot of BT GPS users do is establish just one connection Icon which they think will make everything work OK. You actually need two Icons.

This problem drove me nuts for two whole days - my battery went flat and I re-installed Tomtom then the bt gps but didn't realise I only had one BT connection instead of two.

If you have done they above and Tomtom doesn't find the BT GPS try doing a configure within tomtom and select Other BT GPS device - that should fix it.

Cheers

Chris