blackest_knight
9th January 2007, 11:56 AM
How can anything this good be this bad?
You can buy TomTom navigator5 for pda for £75 at PC World less on the Net
for this you get a 128meg sd card with tomtom on and a wireless bluetooth reciever and a Car charger.
You don't get a Mains charger but I found a USB hub Psu or my old toshiba pda E740 PSU will do the trick.
With the Universal software set up is a breeze. The trouble comes with the bluetooth gps which isn't adequately documented by tomtom. It is a good GPS receiver so whats bad.
on the Reciever are 2 Leds and a button
the first led has 3 states
Red totally discharged
orange charging
off fully charged (or fully discharged or broken or)
The 2nd Led is green
with 3 states
green - got a lock
green - flashing got a lock and talking to your Pda
off - switched off, or not got a lock and switched on, or its broke.
The button
push for a second on
push for a second off
push for 3 seconds reset
push repeatedly - unknown state (and it can take up to a minute to get a lock)
The problem is that fully charged and indoors you probably will get no lights at all and will not be able to tell if its on or off or broken.
if its not talking to your pda it will turn itself off after 5 minutes also if your stationary.
you can spend forever trying to get it working if you go in under bluetooth you should be able to discover it. but if you start the tomtom software it will tell you no gps.
The only definate way to get it connected is to go outside press the button and then the green led should light letting you know its on and has found some satellites. then if you start the tomtom software and choose tomtom gps it will connect.
you can share the gps using the gps settings in connections and bluetooth
(but someone else can explain that).
if you are indoors and trying to set this up, you will get nowhere.
hope this is useful info.
one more thing each gps has its own mac address as well as its display name so its possible you think you have a partnership but thats a different tomtom wireless gps unit. (the one you took back coz you were convinced it was broken).
You can buy TomTom navigator5 for pda for £75 at PC World less on the Net
for this you get a 128meg sd card with tomtom on and a wireless bluetooth reciever and a Car charger.
You don't get a Mains charger but I found a USB hub Psu or my old toshiba pda E740 PSU will do the trick.
With the Universal software set up is a breeze. The trouble comes with the bluetooth gps which isn't adequately documented by tomtom. It is a good GPS receiver so whats bad.
on the Reciever are 2 Leds and a button
the first led has 3 states
Red totally discharged
orange charging
off fully charged (or fully discharged or broken or)
The 2nd Led is green
with 3 states
green - got a lock
green - flashing got a lock and talking to your Pda
off - switched off, or not got a lock and switched on, or its broke.
The button
push for a second on
push for a second off
push for 3 seconds reset
push repeatedly - unknown state (and it can take up to a minute to get a lock)
The problem is that fully charged and indoors you probably will get no lights at all and will not be able to tell if its on or off or broken.
if its not talking to your pda it will turn itself off after 5 minutes also if your stationary.
you can spend forever trying to get it working if you go in under bluetooth you should be able to discover it. but if you start the tomtom software it will tell you no gps.
The only definate way to get it connected is to go outside press the button and then the green led should light letting you know its on and has found some satellites. then if you start the tomtom software and choose tomtom gps it will connect.
you can share the gps using the gps settings in connections and bluetooth
(but someone else can explain that).
if you are indoors and trying to set this up, you will get nowhere.
hope this is useful info.
one more thing each gps has its own mac address as well as its display name so its possible you think you have a partnership but thats a different tomtom wireless gps unit. (the one you took back coz you were convinced it was broken).