How To get GPS working

[ahmadfarid]

can anybody tell me how & what is the step to get the GPS works ?

thanks..

[alanplum]

Put some GPS software on your Ameo and point it to COM4.

[fpbiii]

what are some of the best gps software for ameo?
I would think google maps with the ability to real time track your location would be great. Anyone try that?

[Pantaloonie]

Tomtom Navigator 6.
Coz it's free.
;)




Edit - I in no way condone the use of pirated software, and I'll no doubt burn in hell for my sins....

[wagger]

Hey!
I have an Dopod U1000, which is the Advantage/X7500/Athena but on the Asian market.

THe first and biggest problem I have is that the GPS is not working. I cannot get a GPS-fix, but I have contact with the actual GPS-unit.
It doesnt matter where I am or for how long I wait - I have never got a fix and once every now and then I get 1 or 2 satellites with very bad connection - but never a fix.

I talked to HTC about this and they didnt know anything about it.

I then, when I asked around, got a weird answer from a company here in Sweden. They guessed that since U1000 is for the Asian market they may somehow have "preprogrammed GPS" information, so that they use Asian satellites. Sounds very strange to me - as far as I know they are not geo-stationary so the satellites goes around and thus there are not specific Asian satellites.

Anyways, anyone know about this issue? Suggestions?

Thx!
Regards
Ted

[wu5262]

Hey!
I have an Dopod U1000, which is the Advantage/X7500/Athena but on the Asian market.

THe first and biggest problem I have is that the GPS is not working. I cannot get a GPS-fix, but I have contact with the actual GPS-unit.
It doesnt matter where I am or for how long I wait - I have never got a fix and once every now and then I get 1 or 2 satellites with very bad connection - but never a fix.

I talked to HTC about this and they didnt know anything about it.

I then, when I asked around, got a weird answer from a company here in Sweden. They guessed that since U1000 is for the Asian market they may somehow have "preprogrammed GPS" information, so that they use Asian satellites. Sounds very strange to me - as far as I know they are not geo-stationary so the satellites goes around and thus there are not specific Asian satellites.

Anyways, anyone know about this issue? Suggestions?

Thx!
Regards
Ted

i got my DOPOD U1000 from Taiwan, and GPS works great. you need to set the post to COM4, signal is much better then the BT device i got before. It doesn't matter where you buy your device

[ice_coffee]

Hey!
I have an Dopod U1000, which is the Advantage/X7500/Athena but on the Asian market.

THe first and biggest problem I have is that the GPS is not working. I cannot get a GPS-fix, but I have contact with the actual GPS-unit.
It doesnt matter where I am or for how long I wait - I have never got a fix and once every now and then I get 1 or 2 satellites with very bad connection - but never a fix.

I talked to HTC about this and they didnt know anything about it.

I then, when I asked around, got a weird answer from a company here in Sweden. They guessed that since U1000 is for the Asian market they may somehow have "preprogrammed GPS" information, so that they use Asian satellites. Sounds very strange to me - as far as I know they are not geo-stationary so the satellites goes around and thus there are not specific Asian satellites.

Anyways, anyone know about this issue? Suggestions?

Thx!
Regards
Ted

the Global Positioning System is global, and should work anywhere on the globe !! apart from in war zones (and near US military bases) where the signal is sometimes deliberately degraded so enemies cant use satellite guided missiles.

[ahmadfarid]

i got my DOPOD U1000 from Taiwan, and GPS works great. you need to set the post to COM4, signal is much better then the BT device i got before. It doesn't matter where you buy your device

should i install any third party software beforehand?

[edintao]

My Device can find the GPS on com 4 but it will not work with Google maps or pocket streets can any one help?

Thanks

Ian

[dalelane]

I've got Tom Tom Navigator 5 working (using COM 5), but I've also not managed to get Google Maps working.

[Teja]

My Device can find the GPS on com 4 but it will not work with Google maps or pocket streets can any one help?

Thanks

Ian

This is also a big problem in Germany - it's not possible to get it working with Google Maps. We tried everything (also to disable the GPS-Splitter and use Com5 which helps with some programs, but not with Google Maps).
So we gave up for the moment waiting for an update (maybe Athena, maybe Google).

Teja

[shockboy2000]

Put some GPS software on your Ameo and point it to COM4.

Got mine working in TT6 by doing:

Other NMEA GPS Receiver
GPS Baud Rate: 4800
Com4

Is this what everyone else is doing ?
is the Baud rate correct?

Its quite chuggy/slow compared to tt6 on universal. i.e. 2-3fps as opposed to almost smooth on universal

Also, is it possible to change that tomtom icon thats on the today screen ? its so ugly and blocky - really detracts from the otherwise lovely Ameo screen

[chtan]

Mine is working great. By the way, i'm using MapKing10. When setting the port just select auto and the software should be able to detect the port in use. My unit can lock on into the satellite signal in less then 5s, thats impressive.

[firedup]

Hi

Does anyone know where to get a copy of the aforementioned TT6 for free? I had just bought TT navigator 6 with GB + Western Europe for my Mio A701 about 3 months ago but was gutted to find I couldnt transfer the licence to my new Ameo so i sold the boxed product with the Mio.

Anyone know where I can get one (strictly for "backup" purposes of course).

Cheers

:D

[Pantaloonie]

Very easily found on torrent sites.
I won't give a link here as I assume that would be frowned on by the management....

[firedup]

ok, will have a look. not that familiar with all this torrent stuff!

ta

[QAN]

I looked in the registry and I found that com 5 is the official port. Strange enough com 4 and 5 work.

[falconers]

I purchased an A701 last week and had one hell of a time tring to get TT6 to work, even though MM worked fine. It appears that some software originally designed for ealier MS does not like Com4. I loaded a program called VisualGPSse, a freedownload, and set that to com 4 and bingo TT6 spang into life. Before using TT now I lauch that small app and it works fine. I,ll try and find the link if Google doen't find it for you.

ps. Does anyone know of an app that will allow me to use hands free, my Mio Rom R65 seems duff in this area.

[eaglesteve]

I've installed my vehicle navigation software (copilot live v5) without any problem twice.

But when I tried to instal another GPS-based application called MobileGolfScorer, the system was simply unable to sense any satellite signal. Not only that, the system became extremely slow to the point of freezing up and not responding.

Then, I read about the post that says com5 is the default, so I said to myself may be I should use com5 instead of 4 in my start>setting>GPS.

After changing to com5, my MobileGolfScorer was able to recognise signal although the signal was extremely weak. Also, it was no longer freezing up. I thought that may be I've at least solved the problem and the weak signal may be due to the fact that I was not directly under the open sky.

The new problem is that after changing to com5, my copilot stopped working! When trying to reset GPS within copilot, it just said that I either did not have the GPS connected, or I was having the wrong com selection and/or baud rate. I tried all possible combinations of com and baud rate (including letting it find automatically) but unfortunately the results were the same.

Then I thought to myself may be copilot can only use com4. Since vehicle navigation is a more important application to me, I may have to sacrifice MobileGolfScorer until the problem is resolved. So I went to start>setting>GPS and reverted to com 4.

I then tried to get copilot to work but now it would not. MGS also would not work. So now I have two GPS applications that are not able to sense any signal. I can see the gsm led orange light(GPS) and green light(phone) alternating, which means that the GPS is supposed to be working, althoug the orange light disappears by itself after a while. The thing is, with or without the orange light, the software were not able to sense any GPS signal.

What do all these suggest? Any idea???:confused: :confused:

Chapter 2 to my story:

Since I'm also experiencing MD lost cluster problems, I had wonder if it could be that some system files used by the copilot program is corruptted. So I decided to hard-reset the unit and reinstall everything from scratch again. The first thing that I did after hard resett was to instal MobileGolfScorer. It did not work when I used com4 and baud rate 4800. Could not detect any GPS signal although the orange light was blinking. Then I installed Copilot live Pocket PC v5. This software has no problem detecting the signal right away. In my mind, it seems to suggest that the reason for copilot to have stopped working could be due to file corruption, while MobileGolfScorer still for some reason could not detect it. What I also failed to understnad is why for a very brief period it did detect very week signal (see chapter 1 above).

My fear: Once I was so confident that com4 and baud rate 4800 solves all problems. Now I'm less sure what is going on. If you're lucky, it works; if you not lucky it does'nt seems to work. You could be doing exactly the same thing entering the same setting but you could get different results. Is it due to file corruption? Why does it get corrupted so easily?

Let's hope some smarter mind could figure this out for us.

[Pyrofer]

Its all about the sucky comport management in windows.
If one app is accessing a com port, no others can.
If windows GPS management is accessing the GPS on com5, then you shouldnt connect to com5 yourself. The whole point of the windows management is that the software port (often port4) it creates is meant to be able to be read by multiple programs.
However, most programs dont seem to like the software port. Eg, googlemaps.

I just turned off the MS GPS management and only use apps that directly attatch to com5, and only one app at a time.

[fards]

I set both software and hardware port to none in the gps control panel, set baud at 9600 (seems quite low, I'm sure my bluetooth one runs at 57600) and turned of let windows manage gps. All software set to pick up on Port 5.

Does take a few minutes to pick up satellites, but works after that, it does seem to have a low scan rate, looking at my tracks in Memory map it's logging a position every few seconds or so, which isn't very accurate, as I've supposedly gone across corners of fields and the wrong way around traffic islands.

[lbendlin]

fards, your five second interval is from memory map, not from the GPS.

Even a 300 baud speed would be sufficient for 1 Hz updates.

COM5 at 9600 is the correct setting, but it doesn't seem to be the AGPS port. there must be one more port.

[findus]

Hi,

I have been messing around with loads of different settings and I can confirm that COM5 at 9600 seems to get the best results.

[Pyrofer]

fards, your five second interval is from memory map, not from the GPS.

Even a 300 baud speed would be sufficient for 1 Hz updates.

COM5 at 9600 is the correct setting, but it doesn't seem to be the AGPS port. there must be one more port.

The com port has nothing to do with AGPS. The Quick GPS prog downloads the sat data into the GPS chipset, the port has nothing to do with it. Its just for quicker startup time.

[fards]

fards, your five second interval is from memory map, not from the GPS.

Even a 300 baud speed would be sufficient for 1 Hz updates.


mm thats odd 'cos it never happened on my mda pro with bluetooth gps, tracks would follow around corners not cut them.

[lbendlin]

The com port has nothing to do with AGPS. The Quick GPS prog downloads the sat data into the GPS chipset, the port has nothing to do with it. Its just for quicker startup time.
That's different from the iPAQs then. Those have two COM ports for the GPS.

[Pyrofer]

are you sure your not confusing the actual hardware gps port with a software port from the windows GPS management and thinking there are 2?
The AGPS is just a way to get almanac data into the GPS unit and makes no difference to the actual GPS tracking or the way software talks to it. Its no more or less accurate, just quicker to find the Satellite when powered.

[lbendlin]

Given my background I _should_ know what I am talking about. But it's not relevant to the discussion here. What's more important is that the Athena seems to cold boot the GPS each time the COM5 port is opened, resulting in longer than usual fix times.

I was also pretty surprised to see that the indoor performance is not nearly as good as what you could expect from a SiRF III or MTK chipset. I wonder if the AGPS feature is making sense at all on the Athena.

[flexidos]

Hello. i've recently been searching for a solution to this GPS problem. I hsve also managed to get it working on com port 4, but that doesn't seem to make sense seeing as the gps chip is built in. Doing it this way also renders any bluetooth hands free devices useless if you receive a call whilst travelling. After some experimenting I Have managed to get the gps working as a built in device therefore removing the need to activate bluetooth on com4. It woorks seemlessly and quickly allowing you to take full advantage of using tomtom and a blutooth headset at the same time. Here are the settings;
under settings,system, gps set up as follows
gps port Gpd1
hardware gps port Com9
baud rate 115200
tick manage automatically

Once you load tomtom make sure under preferences, gps, you configure it for the built in gps receiver.

Everything should now work fine. Hope this helps.

[lbendlin]

flexidos, you are confusing a few things here. Neither COM4 nor COM9 have anything to do with the GPS. By telling TomTom to use the internal receiver you will, however, circumvent all these settings (which is good), and use COM5 directly.

Do the Litmus test - use a different GPS program, and try to set that to COM9. Won't work.

[moh6299]

done wat u said but what do you do in tomtom.i go to gps configure choose other nmea gps reciever, gps baud rate 115200,but i dont get what com port to choose i have
ril on com 6
com7
com5

[flexidos]

Thanks for correcting me on the bluetooth port error. I wasn't sure what made tomtom turn on the bluetooth and assumed it was the port number.

Number 2. In tom tom itself use the first setting for built in gps not other nmea or equivalent.

hope this helps

[apd]

Number 2. In tom tom itself use the first setting for built in gps not other nmea or equivalent.

hope this helps

I don't have that - I have TT B/T GPS then TT Wired GPS then Other B/T GPS then Other NMEA receier. Which version of TT are you using?

[flexidos]

I have 6.03

[apd]

I have 6.03

That explains it - I am on 6.010. will have to find an update.

Edit: found 6.030 update and have extra option for Internal GPS. Thanks

[flexidos]

I'm happy you got it sorted. like i said most people seem to be connecting through the bluetooth port but I think this is the correct way.

how is your connection?

[eaglesteve]

I've installed my vehicle navigation software (copilot live v5) without any problem twice.

But when I tried to instal another GPS-based application called MobileGolfScorer, the system was simply unable to sense any satellite signal. Not only that, the system became extremely slow to the point of freezing up and not responding.

Then, I read about the post that says com5 is the default, so I said to myself may be I should use com5 instead of 4 in my start>setting>GPS.

After changing to com5, my MobileGolfScorer was able to recognise signal although the signal was extremely weak. Also, it was no longer freezing up. I thought that may be I've at least solved the problem and the weak signal may be due to the fact that I was not directly under the open sky.

The new problem is that after changing to com5, my copilot stopped working! When trying to reset GPS within copilot, it just said that I either did not have the GPS connected, or I was having the wrong com selection and/or baud rate. I tried all possible combinations of com and baud rate (including letting it find automatically) but unfortunately the results were the same.

Then I thought to myself may be copilot can only use com4. Since vehicle navigation is a more important application to me, I may have to sacrifice MobileGolfScorer until the problem is resolved. So I went to start>setting>GPS and reverted to com 4.

I then tried to get copilot to work but now it would not. MGS also would not work. So now I have two GPS applications that are not able to sense any signal. I can see the gsm led orange light(GPS) and green light(phone) alternating, which means that the GPS is supposed to be working, althoug the orange light disappears by itself after a while. The thing is, with or without the orange light, the software were not able to sense any GPS signal.

What do all these suggest? Any idea???:confused: :confused:

Chapter 2 to my story:

Since I'm also experiencing MD lost cluster problems, I had wonder if it could be that some system files used by the copilot program is corruptted. So I decided to hard-reset the unit and reinstall everything from scratch again. The first thing that I did after hard resett was to instal MobileGolfScorer. It did not work when I used com4 and baud rate 4800. Could not detect any GPS signal although the orange light was blinking. Then I installed Copilot live Pocket PC v5. This software has no problem detecting the signal right away. In my mind, it seems to suggest that the reason for copilot to have stopped working could be due to file corruption, while MobileGolfScorer still for some reason could not detect it. What I also failed to understnad is why for a very brief period it did detect very week signal (see chapter 1 above).

My fear: Once I was so confident that com4 and baud rate 4800 solves all problems. Now I'm less sure what is going on. If you're lucky, it works; if you not lucky it does'nt seems to work. You could be doing exactly the same thing entering the same setting but you could get different results. Is it due to file corruption? Why does it get corrupted so easily?

Let's hope some smarter mind could figure this out for us.

Hi Ibendlin,

Could I trouble you to make your best guess on what causes the behaviour I described above, and what else to try out?
Thanks a million.

[lbendlin]

if you really, really must use two GPS programs at the same time you should employ Franson GPSGate (or a similar port splitter), point it to COM5 at 9600, and then point your programs to the virtual port(s) provided by GPSGate.

[Abram]

I'm happy you got it sorted. like i said most people seem to be connecting through the bluetooth port but I think this is the correct way.

how is your connection?

I found out today that I can connect by 'Other Bluetooth gps', then switch off bluetooth once I've got a signal. I played with 'Other nmea gps' settings and played with the baud rate from 4800 to 57600(?) or so. It doesn't seem to make much difference to the system at all. I know it should because I found this:-
" baud rate baud rate a measure of the speed of serial communication using a modem or null-modem, roughly equivalent to bits per second. "
but................

Maybe time for upgrade to TTN6.03 or higher

[lbarouf]

Is this an issue only with TomTom 6? Have you tried other software, such a Microsoft pocket streets? NMEA support should be easy you would think...BTW, does Pocket street run on WM6? That would be nice if it supports the huge screen of the Athena. I'm wondering if I should get an Athena now, hoping the WWE edition of WM6 gets on it soon. Does anyone know when this is slated to be released? Or... keep my TyTn for now. GPS is real nice to have, especially on the screen of the Athena, but otherwise, my bluetooth GPS on the TyTn and the features of WM6 i'm good. The Athena is double the price, but has 8Gb of HDD (no TransFlash of 8Gb that I know of...) Anyhow, anyone else used other wares on the X7500?

BTW, it's a real bummer no video telephony on the X7501, what the heck? I hope the WM6 ROM won't have it disabled, that would suck big time. I don't know about you guys, but since I tried VT, I'm hooked. Just too bad most the people I call don't have the device or access to the service. :-/

Cheers.

[eaglesteve]

if you really, really must use two GPS programs at the same time you should employ Franson GPSGate (or a similar port splitter), point it to COM5 at 9600, and then point your programs to the virtual port(s) provided by GPSGate.

I don't actually use two GPS program at the same time. One of them is for vehicle navigation while the other is for playing golf (to tell me my position and distances to green/bunker/lake, etc) So far, I've never been driving and playing golf at the same time yet:D

Anyway, with my old MIO168 PDA, I had no problem getting both the programs to work (one at a time. Have'nt tried using both simultenously yet, and there will not be any need for that). I'm hoping to get it working on Dopod U1000 also.

My problem is that one of them can't work even if it is the only GPS program installed.:mad:

[eaglesteve]

. I'm wondering if I should get an Athena now, hoping the WWE edition of WM6 gets on it soon. Does anyone know when this is slated to be released? O


I got the impression that all existing owners with WM5 will get free upgrade to WM6.

Why not just get a Dopod U1000 with WM5 and get the free upgrade to WM6 in July? There you have the camera in front for video telephone if you're into this :)

[eaglesteve]

I don't actually use two GPS program at the same time. One of them is for vehicle navigation while the other is for playing golf (to tell me my position and distances to green/bunker/lake, etc) So far, I've never been driving and playing golf at the same time yet:D

Anyway, with my old MIO168 PDA, I had no problem getting both the programs to work (one at a time. Have'nt tried using both simultenously yet, and there will not be any need for that). I'm hoping to get it working on Dopod U1000 also.

My problem is that one of them can't work even if it is the only GPS program installed.:mad:

I finally got both programs working, but using a feature within Mobile Golf Scorer that automatically finds the GPS settings (ie determining the port and the speed by itself). This setting was listed last in the pull down list and I had never seen it in the past untill just now. It does its own determination and found the value for me automatically.

So my problem has been solved. I can now use my copilot when driving and Mobile Golf Scorer when playing golf.:)

[lbendlin]

I played with 'Other nmea gps' settings and played with the baud rate from 4800 to 57600(?) or so.

Why ?!? The baud rate is 9600. No need to play around.

[Abram]

Why ?!? The baud rate is 9600. No need to play around.

9600 was no different than 57600. Both work equally well.

[Moskus]

That's because the limitation is 9600 even if you set it to 57600. If a car can't go faster than 150 km/t it doesn't help that the speedometer goes to 220 km/t... ;)

[lbarouf]

I prefer the black unit from HTC and with HTC I get support, where Dopod is a bit far from me, and probably won't cover my warranty. I would be surprised the HTC branded device won't get the free upgrade. Are you using CoPilot, the GPS spftware on it?

I got the impression that all existing owners with WM5 will get free upgrade to WM6.

Why not just get a Dopod U1000 with WM5 and get the free upgrade to WM6 in July? There you have the camera in front for video telephone if you're into this :)

[Kurvenal]

I used Memory Map's Pocket Navigator on my Hermes last year with an i-Blue external Bluetooth GPS with good results. I have tried to use it with my Athena, but always get a communication timeout when I try to use the internal GPS as well as the i-Blue. I have also occasionally been getting the "Failed to terminate RS232 thread error message" in Pocket Navigator. I installed GPSView on the Athena, and was able to get a fix with that once, but after the RS232 error message appeared GPSView would search for the Athena but not find it. When I try to connect the i-Blue the i-Blue LEDs do not seem to indicate that a Bluetooth partnership exists although if I refresh the i-Blue in Bluetooth Settings then I see a response on the LEDs.

I would like to be able to use Pocket Navigator with both the internal GPS and an external Bluetooth one if possible. Has anyone been able to get Pocket Navigator to work with their Athena? If so, what settings did you use? Any other advice would be appreciated.

[fards]

'I used Memory Map's Pocket Navigator on my Hermes last year with an i-Blue external Bluetooth GPS with good results. I have tried to use it with my Athena, but always get a communication timeout when I try to use the internal GPS as well as the i-Blue. I have also occasionally been getting the "Failed to terminate RS232 thread error message" in Pocket Navigator. I installed GPSView on the Athena, and was able to get a fix with that once, but after the RS232 error message appeared GPSView would search for the Athena but not find it. When I try to connect the i-Blue the i-Blue LEDs do not seem to indicate that a Bluetooth partnership exists although if I refresh the i-Blue in Bluetooth Settings then I see a response on the LEDs.

I would like to be able to use Pocket Navigator with both the internal GPS and an external Bluetooth one if possible. Has anyone been able to get Pocket Navigator to work with their Athena? If so, what settings did you use? Any other advice would be appreciated.
As i said earlier in this thread, I've been running memory map poket nav on my ameo, but as of today I've been getting the same messages you are.
In every gps prog I've got the prog is finding the port and recognising the gps is there but not acquiring any birds.. even when left under a clear sky for half an hour.
Tried using gpsce and forcing a default and cold boot, with no success.

Have tried all combos with the control panel (soft reboot after each change to no avail), before it stopped working i had both soft and hard ports to none, baud 9600, automatic handling of port off.

[Kurvenal]

'
As i said earlier in this thread, I've been running memory map poket nav on my ameo, but as of today I've been getting the same messages you are.
In every gps prog I've got the prog is finding the port and recognising the gps is there but not acquiring any birds.. even when left under a clear sky for half an hour.
Tried using gpsce and forcing a default and cold boot, with no success.

Have tried all combos with the control panel (soft reboot after each change to no avail), before it stopped working i had both soft and hard ports to none, baud 9600, automatic handling of port off.
It seems that even though the inbuilt GPS is using a SirF chipset setting it to SirF in Memory Map will disable the GPS and can only be fixed by doing a hard reset. Memory Map must therefore be set to NMEA. Note that if you plan on restoring from a backup afterwards it is probably best to uninstall Memory Map first. Memory Map uses the GPS Hardware port, which I have now set to COM5. It works on both 4800 and 9600 baud. Other port settings are COM4 for the GPS Software port and COM9 for the Outgoing Port of my external Bluetooth GPS, which also now works with Pocket Navigator. Automatic handling is on. Fingers crossed, everything now seems to work fine.

[fards]

I ended up doing 2 hard resets, first one brought the gps back up but the phone stopped working! (oddly even though I couldn't receive calls, and kept getting a no service message, I could connect through gprs).

After another hard reset (didn't bother backing everything up) it all seems to be working fine which is good. visualgpsce picks up several birds very quickly.

Haven't installed pocket nav yet, as my own personal OS2005 is on my laptop, whereas I'm still on 2004 at work.

[firedup]

Anyone got GPS working with Google Maps yet?

[latino_rex]

:confused: i've got agisNavigator comes bundled with the ASUS P535.
i've already tried setting it to com port 02 and baud rate 4800 and it doesnt work... :mad:

perhaps anybody willing to help a newbie in here? :o
Million thanks in advance. :)

[lbendlin]

latino_rex - it is COM5 at 9600

[latino_rex]

it is COM5 at 9600

thanks mate. but the problem is I can't set/ see any com 5. I have com 1-9 except 5... :(
its either the bundled software sucks I simply I suck. :D
lastly, I will try reinstall again. I might not installed the software properly. ;)
hope it works.....

[lbarouf]

How about using a bluetooth and Google MAPS. I can do it with a Hermes, a Cheetah, but not an Athena. I set the software port to NONE, the hardware one to the serial port of the bluetooth GPS one, 9600 all the way to 115200, nothing works. I'm stumped... the automatic detection is off. Anyone had success with a bluetooth one?

[lkwq]

H, who has the solution for google maps and gps?
Lucas

[fearfactory]

i got my DOPOD U1000 from Taiwan, and GPS works great. you need to set the post to COM4, signal is much better then the BT device i got before. It doesn't matter where you buy your device

I'm almost close to tearing the hair off my head.
Me also got a Unit from the asian market and I seem to be having the exact same problem.
I cannot get a satellite fix, no matter what program for GPS I use.
I locates one or two satellites but never gets a fix.
And to think I bought the U1000 mainly for its built in GPS.

HELPP!!!

[ahmadfarid]

I'm almost close to tearing the hair off my head.
Me also got a Unit from the asian market and I seem to be having the exact same problem.
I cannot get a satellite fix, no matter what program for GPS I use.
I locates one or two satellites but never gets a fix.
And to think I bought the U1000 mainly for its built in GPS.

HELPP!!!

how long do you wait to get the gps fix? my first time is about 30 minutes. you need to go to open air area..

and update quickgps regularly

cheers

[AGosch]

I have a X7500 and can't get out flight mode in Tom Tom. any suggestions for step by step for dummies to set up the GPS function on this thing. Have heard read the port comments and set them in HTC settings, but also read there are Tom TOm port settings as well?
Any help is appretiated.
:confused:

[apd]

I have a X7500 and can't get out flight mode in Tom Tom. any suggestions for step by step for dummies to set up the GPS function on this thing. Have heard read the port comments and set them in HTC settings, but also read there are Tom TOm port settings as well?
Any help is appretiated.
:confused:

If you search this forum it has been dealt with at least twice already, if not more. You have to be on the most recent version of TT6. Set the GPS on WM to Port 5. In tomtom configure the GPS "other NMEA", Port 5 and 9600 baud.

[lkwq]

Ok, WM5 and TT6 is clear. But how can i connect gps and google earth? I`ve tried a lot, but no result. Tnx.
Lucas

[Pyrofer]

you need the latest Google Maps Mobile, or it wont work.

[lkwq]

you need the latest Google Maps Mobile, or it wont work.
@Pyrofer
tnx, i've downloaded the latest version (in dutch) and i will try tomorrow (it's raining now), Lucas

[Digital.Diablo]

My Ameo works quite happily with Com1, 115000 (tomtom wants 56000 (or something like that)) if people are struggling with Com5.

[Rambler358]

That explains it - I am on 6.010. will have to find an update.

Edit: found 6.030 update and have extra option for Internal GPS. Thanks
Would you mind sharing where you got the TT6 update? I'm also on 6.010 and TT Home says there are no updates available.

[victoradjei]

Would you mind sharing where you got the TT6 update? I'm also on 6.010 and TT Home says there are no updates available.

Install Tom Tom Home on your desktop. When you sync your athena, click update device, and you will have the option to update the TT software on the top left panel :)

[Rambler358]

Install Tom Tom Home on your desktop. When you sync your athena, click update device, and you will have the option to update the TT software on the top left panel :)
I get the message that no updates are available. :(

[victoradjei]

I get the message that no updates are available. :(

Wanted to show you a screen capture of my pc but snagit is expired:(

Log into your Tom Tom account and after connecting your device. When you click update device and there are no updates for your device pops up, you still can see Tom Tom application for pocket pc shown on as first item on top left of your screen. Tick it and continue with the update. Make sure you are using the version 6 of Tom Tom.

[lkwq]

@Pyrofer
tnx, i've downloaded the latest version (in dutch) and i will try tomorrow (it's raining now), Lucas

I have Google Maps, the newest version 1.2.0.4. Manual com5 and 9600 filled in. It works. Tnx for the help.
Lucas

[azcaddman]

to save double posting this, heres a link to x7501 forum (http://www.x7501.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1184315093/0)

[killershot20]

Just a little experiment with the Athena that I'd like to share with everyone.

I installed x7500's WM5 on x7501 and I noticed that it installed the GPS on Com 4, and google maps stopped working until I manually set the gps port from under Menu-Options-Track Location Settings.

After reinstalling WM6 it put it back on Com5.

I didn't have to do anything with the GPS applet in control panel to get TomTom/Telenav or GoogleMaps to work.
I thought that was for external/Bluetooth GPS anyway.

I used the Pocket device manager to check the com ports.

However I think the following registry key shows the gps com port, but I could be wrong about this.
HKLM/Drivers/BuiltIn/Serial_GPS/index

[mobiles]

hey all
I am still not able to get the GPS to work on my Ameo, Unlocked and with WM6. I tried many progs such as OziExplorer, GpsTuner, BeelineGPS and Googlemaps and none of these can find a satellite. I am only half a meter from the window and can't beleive there is no signal. Any suggestions would be grateful

[LTxda]

hey all
I am still not able to get the GPS to work on my Ameo, Unlocked and with WM6. I tried many progs such as OziExplorer, GpsTuner, BeelineGPS and Googlemaps and none of these can find a satellite. I am only half a meter from the window and can't beleive there is no signal. Any suggestions would be grateful

What COM portS are you using on the device and what COM port did you designate for any of the software used?

I ran into an issue yesterday with TomTom where it couldn't find any satellites. I waited and the did a soft reset...still nothing. So I went back into TomTom's config and once again configured it to use the "other" device, if i remember correctly, on the appropriate COM port and it started picking up satellites without any problem. Not sure if this forced the initialization of the GPS radio or what happened here but it worked for me.

[Ninja1]

You can also try this trick (from xda-orbit.com):

Perform a soft reset and don't connect to activesync, to ensure quickgps isn't running
Delete \Windows\ephdata.clm
Delete \Windows\packedEphemeris.ee
Connect to Activesync or connect to web with wifi/gprs
Run QuickGPS and let it download a completely new set of data.

This has worked for me in the past when the lock on takes too long. Also be sure to have your gps software connect directly to the hardware port, not the software (WM managed) port for all testing. Once you have it working then you can try to configure the software port.

[mobiles]

I tried your method and set all settungs as shown on this site http://www.x7501.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1184315093/0
and f.e on Google maps it just shows "Seeking GOS satellites (0)"
On the BeelineGPS I get "Fix not available" and a red circle blinks.
I really don't know what to try more. Maybe should I flash another Radio ROM or get back to WM 5.0? Any other suggestions?

[mobiles]

WOOehooo I get one satellite on Ozi Explorer (22) but no coordinates. It needs 2 or more at least to position, right? And now on GpsTuner I get 3 satellites but none of them as active. Maybe the signal is too low?? I should go somewhere out of the city these days to try it more.

[Rambler358]

Wanted to show you a screen capture of my pc but snagit is expired:(

Log into your Tom Tom account and after connecting your device. When you click update device and there are no updates for your device pops up, you still can see Tom Tom application for pocket pc shown on as first item on top left of your screen. Tick it and continue with the update. Make sure you are using the version 6 of Tom Tom.
Maybe it has something to do with what country you're in? And I also have a X7501. I'm in the US and have TT6 installed. I have TT Home automatically set to check for updates when it detects my device, and I've also manually tried to update but keep getting the Note dialog saying "There are no udpates.", and I can only click OK to exit the dialog.

I've tried what you suggested above, but I'm leaning more towards that TomTom will update based on location.

[thomas_pieps]

just download Jal port splitter. Install it and type in the top COM4, set the baudrate to 4800 and the virtual com to COM6.
then in any other program then tomtom6 you use com6

[lubmarinov]

I have a HUGE problem with getting my GPS running on my Orbit2. It came from O2 with CoPilot7 preinstalled with the maps of UK and Ireland, which I dont use, because I am not located inthere, nevertheless Copilot detects GPS signal and shows positioning, but i dint have the maps for the area that i am in.
I tried to install IGO6 and then IGO8 but I have the same problem-- it cannot detect GPS device, no matter what which COMM Port and BAUD Rate I select.

How come CoPilot detects, and IGO does not? I read that Orbit2 is not locked?!?

Should I boot the whole device using some other ROM.

[techntrek]

Sounds like the settings in IGO are wrong. Install Google Maps and see if that works for you.

[lubmarinov]

GPS is also active in GoogleMaps.....

[raskell]

I have a HUGE problem with getting my GPS running on my Orbit2. It came from O2 with CoPilot7 preinstalled with the maps of UK and Ireland, which I dont use, because I am not located inthere, nevertheless Copilot detects GPS signal and shows positioning, but i dint have the maps for the area that i am in.
I tried to install IGO6 and then IGO8 but I have the same problem-- it cannot detect GPS device, no matter what which COMM Port and BAUD Rate I select.

How come CoPilot detects, and IGO does not? I read that Orbit2 is not locked?!?

Should I boot the whole device using some other ROM.

You are in the wrong forum area if you have an Orbit2. You should be in the Polaris forum I believe. However, you need to check which comm port is used by default with CoPilot and set IGO to the same port. I believe the port is comm 4 by default, but that may vary regionally, I am in the USA. the Auto detect does not always work in some of these NAV programs. I usually set mine up to comm 7 for all GPS programs, you may need to assign a port or try them one at a time, but it will configure.

[lubmarinov]

Thanks for the feebback. I have the same post in Polaris section.
I tried all the ports and baud rates combination, but IGO freezes the device.
in CoPilot it is Auto everywhere, but Auto setting does not work in IGO.
Should i try to istall Jal port splitter?

[wafun21]

I get IGO8 worked by choosing baudrate 57600 and port 4.. Work so fast and correctly..
I also get Garmin XT worked by choosing built in GPS but I could not get my tomtom TomTom v7.450.9028 with USA.v720.1802 Map worked...

[eaglesteve]

I get IGO8 worked by choosing baudrate 57600 and port 4.. Work so fast and correctly..
I also get Garmin XT worked by choosing built in GPS but I could not get my tomtom TomTom v7.450.9028 with USA.v720.1802 Map worked...

TomTom7 does'nt let us set the por6 anymore. I think it assumes it to be comn4. For it to work, we must use the default external gps setting of sw4, hw0, auto. It will work.

[lubmarinov]

i solved the problem:
i installed "GPS Test" program that detects satelites.
After I start the orogram and it finds satelites, I minimize it and then just start IGO and it workks fine. All you have to do is keep the GPS Test program running while you are using the navigation

[lakeman]

TomTom7 does'nt let us set the por6 anymore. I think it assumes it to be comn4. For it to work, we must use the default external gps setting of sw4, hw0, auto. It will work.

Hi Eaglesteve,
I get TT7 working with the com9 setting by using the "Other NMEA GPS receiver" setting in "select your receiver"

Com 6 seems to be for RIL receiver , whatever that is.

but I still like IGO8 better!

[eaglesteve]

Hi Eaglesteve,
I get TT7 working with the com9 setting by using the "Other NMEA GPS receiver" setting in "select your receiver"

Com 6 seems to be for RIL receiver , whatever that is.

but I still like IGO8 better!


Lakeman,

Thanks for the tip for providing another way to make it also work.

Are you still using the same iGO 8 version as the one you told me or are using a newer version now?

One of the nicest things about winmo platform is that there are so much software choices. Can't say the same about iPhone or other platform. :-)

[lakeman]

Lakeman,

Thanks for the tip for providing another way to make it also work.

Are you still using the same iGO 8 version as the one you told me or are using a newer version now?

One of the nicest things about winmo platform is that there are so much software choices. Can't say the same about iPhone or other platform. :-)

Hi eaglesteve,
I am using the same version but igo8 ultra skin 2.5 which gives nice warnings for speedcameras but only says "you are over the speed limit" with schoolzones.
I installed TT7 as I am going to NZ soon .Is there a skin or pack which customises the interface like Igo8.I am sick of the alarms in the database

[cktlcmd]

i solved the problem:
i installed "GPS Test" program that detects satelites.
After I start the orogram and it finds satelites, I minimize it and then just start IGO and it workks fine. All you have to do is keep the GPS Test program running while you are using the navigation

All you need to do to self activate GPS using iGO8 is after plotting the address, just tap on the mode, and tap on the very first street direction. As soon as you do it, you will see a blinking arrow indicating the GPS is now active. You can now go back to the original screen.