TomTom and BT-338 Connection

[jcramos]

I have been looking around this site for a solution and cant find one.

I have an iPAQ 5455 running WM2003 and TomTom 5.00 with USA Maps and a wired GPS unit. Everything worked fine untill my iPAQ serial connecter died. Will not sync anymore. so I started syncing thur Bluetooth connection.

I went out and bought a BT-338 GPS unit.

My problem is that when I run TomTom it says "NO GPS DEVICE" and I tryed everything and cant get it working. can someone help

[Percz]

Well first thing, go into your bluetooth mananger and delete your pairing to your GPS, then repair it from new. Now if you look in the bluetooth settings window you should see a meantion of "Com Ports". On my BA I have a tab called "COM Ports" buy yours might be slightly diffrent.
If you can, hold down on the GPS device you just repaired and connect it, but if you can't then don't worry it doesn't matter.

What you are looking for is something that looks like BTGPS 2A5BE1 (COM 7)

The wording/letters will be slightly diffrent on yours, but it will likely start BTGPS and should indicate a COM number. In my case the COM is '7'.

Now your done that, fire up Tom Tom. You should now see a signal strength type bar on the bottom left of the screen (wide bar on top, narrow on bottom.) Click this and you will goto into the Status Summary, then click on the bars on the to right just above the "# Satelites" text.

Right, almost there! Now on this fancy screen click on Configure, and goto "Other Bluetooth GPS" using the left/right bottoms, then click Select. You will then get a list of "COM" ports. Remember we found out what come port we have before? In my case it would be "COM7:" but yours might be diffrent.

Wait a second, and on the top of the fancy screen you should see a sign saying "No GPS Signal" or "GPS Found", as long as it doesn't say "No GPS Device" your done it! Just click Done a couple of times and use the device as normal.

Btw, that fancy screen is quite nifty in it's own way. It tells you which GPS satalites are floating above you, what the signal strength is for each one, how many you are connected to, and best of all, it will give you a grid refrence of your location.

[jcramos]

Hey, It didnt work.

I cant change the com port under BT Setting. Its like its locked (greyed out) its set to Inbound COM Port: 5 and Outbound COM Port: 8 and it looks like in connects to the GPS.

Its say: "BT-GPS-3193FC: BT-GPS COM Port" How do you know what COM port it needs.

I really need to get this up and running for this weekend. I have a day trip planned. Thanks

[Percz]

That looks fine, when you goto the bit in TomTom where it asks you for what port you want, you should be able to select "COM:5", then ok everything, wait a bit, and there you go.

Make sure you connect the bluetooth GPS first before going into TomTom, if you can.

[jcramos]

OK, I read that TomTom 5.00 had problems with the BT GPS and that you needed to upgrade. So I updated TomTom to 5.21 and it worked.

But..... Now I get "No Map Found" I heard there are problems with this around can anyone help. Thanks