Using GPS brings machine to crawl

[palmop]

I have a HTC Tytn II Pro. Everything works great, except GPS.

The CDs did not have any Tomtom application, but I had my own copies of Destinator, Igo 2006 Plus and Mapopolis, along with Map4Pda.

When I try to access the GPS via any of these apps using COM4:, the machine slows down terribly. I haven't been able to get a fix so far either. This morning Quickfix GPS was downloading fine, now it gives connection errors.

I haven't messed with GPS Control Panel yet, but I am wondering if I have a faulty unit, or does the Tomtom 6.032 unlock/change something to make it work.

Has anyone used the unit's GPS without any Tomtom install first? Did anyone experience any slowness using GPS?

Any suggestions? I tried a hard reset and just installed Map4Pda after that, still no luck.

[gogol]

That strange if you dont have TomTom6 in the Application CD.

It is called:

Installer_Kaiser_ttn_6_032_8351_HTC_WWE_20070716.e xe

Check your manual, is TomTom6 mentioned there?

If it is, why dont you contact your supplier and ask?

Btw, I use TomTom6 from CD and it is running fine. Got fix pretty quickly under 30 seconds.

[nukenine]

Seems like TT is not on CDs in north america.
Get it - TT6 works like a charm, fix in less then 7 secs here (use the gps quickfix download) and very responsive - even at high speeds.
No complaints on TT for TyTNII

[zetajunkie]

my app cds had the tomtom app.... bought in vegas (uk plug though)

[gogol]

Please test, some reports the gps lost signal after 1 hour.

Seems like TT is not on CDs in north america.
Get it - TT6 works like a charm, fix in less then 7 secs here (use the gps quickfix download) and very responsive - even at high speeds.
No complaints on TT for TyTNII

[palmop]

my app cds had the tomtom app.... bought in vegas (uk plug though)

My app cd says MEA, so it must be from Middle East/Asia. And manual does not refer to TomTom at all. I bought it through SuperiorGadgets. I don't think it is their fault though, it appears devices from certain regions don't have Tomtom.

With that said, I made another hard reset on Friday evening, first installed Beeline GPS, which got a lock after a minute and QuickGPS was updating fine too. Then I installed my apps, after installing several I checked it again, Beeline was fine. Finally I installed Igo 2006 Plus (June 2007 version) and that is working fine and slowness with GPS is gone away. It makes me wonder what caused it in the first place. I'll install couple more GPS apps and see what happens.

[badrello]

Hi Guys,

I just bougth this HTC TYTN 2 and it seems ok.

For the GPS, I installed Google maps which did not find any satellites either.
I then copied visualgpsce.exe ( in the attachment) on the kaiser and ran it from there, it got 7 sattelites in less than 10 seconds. after that, google worked like magic. I did not have TOMTOM on my CD either so i could not try it and I am in an area that is not covered by maps from TOMTOM, but i think it will work just fine after this nice warmup.

It seems that the first connection require some clear skies, nice warm up software and some patience.

Thanks and good luck.

[greg3d]

I'm in the states, got it from Mobileocity. Came with TT6 on app disc. Works like a charm, finds location within 10sec, no slowdown on system.

[PhilipL]

Hi

Please test, some reports the gps lost signal after 1 hour.

No problems here, been working perfectly on journeys of 3 and 4 hours.

Regards

Phil

[gogol]

Yeah, it worked perfectly on my last journey too (each 1.5 hour).