imate jamin / Prophet - Holux GPSlim 236-Connection Problems

[William Richardson]

Hi all, Thanks for reading. I have been using my Jam for years until it flew out of my pocket into an on coming car! I bought the upgrade. Fantastic peice of kit by far exceeds the jam by such along way. BUT having problems with the TomTom and GPSlim 236. I am not able to connect them! I never had a problem before, anyone else had similar problems?

Please Help?

[dannyoneill]

Mine works fine with my jamin.

The only time I had a problem was when I connected the slim to the PC and switched to SIRF mode, I forgot to switch back to NMEA and that caused problems.

Try linking it to your PC and using the SIRF tool factory reset it.

[alvannim]

Hi,
it works for me too.

I paired it with my JAMin, and in Bluetooth settings now I have HOLUX GPSlim236 in "Devices" tab, and "HOLUX GPSlim236 (COM6)" in "COM Ports tab.
Check if you added the outcoming port, and then use GPSviewer on the same port, 38400 baud.

Bye

[cgrillo]

Try removing the pairing and then re-creating the pairing, but this time ensure the name of the device ends in "GPS"....

Charlie Grillo

[NewSPV]

Hi all, Thanks for reading. I have been using my Jam for years until it flew out of my pocket into an on coming car! I bought the upgrade. Fantastic peice of kit by far exceeds the jam by such along way. BUT having problems with the TomTom and GPSlim 236. I am not able to connect them! I never had a problem before, anyone else had similar problems?

Please Help?

Hi there.

I have a different GPS to you, a BT74R, but I had the same problem.

I followed exactly the instructions supplied with my unit, the instructions downloaded from TomTom and instructions from other forums but I could never connect.

Then I stumbled on this http://www.bbits.co.uk/blog/archive/2006/02/28/7210.aspx

I followed the instructions and my GPS has been working perfectly ever since, as we have the same phone I guess it will for you to.

Try it and let us know if it works.