GPS Help?

[Third]

Forgive my inability to find a solution in search (at least I made the effort).

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Registered TomTom Nav6

GPS worked flawlessly for the past months.......matter of fact, the entire device has been flawless until now.

Tonight when I pulled the phone from my case, I got a pop-up explaining that QuickGPS had expired (or some such silly blue screen). All I could do is close it (I've never launched QuickGPS since I've owned the device and have no idea how it could have activated).

Best I can tell, my receivers are now disabled.

Settings in TomTom still show:
other GPS receiver
baud 4800
comm4

Suggestions?

[bapssystupr3m3]

try opening quickgps ( u'll find under programs") and click download and download the data..then run tomtom again and see if u get a fix

[xconradx]

Yeah download the data from QuickGPS. It takes an insane amount of time to require a fix with any program without a sattelite map in my experience.

You might have never noticed it because it downloads automatically when you connect to ActiveSync or other data networks if enabled.

I'm pretty sure that's your problem. A current sattelite map (I don't really know what it's called) lasts for 7 days.

[Third]

Thanks for the tips.

What seems to have happened was that QuickGPS must have been activated last week at some point (no clue exactly just *how* that occured). The message I got last night was that it had "expired" (I see now that each download lasts for a week then expires).

Nothing I tried would get TomTom receiving again. After reading further threads, I noticed that we should NEVER TOUCH EXTERNAL GPS SETTINGS (which of course I had already done at that point). I figured I was facing a hard reset. ;)

But my solution came as passively as the problem did. In THIS POST (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1783504#post1783504) "ach2" suggests running GPSTest (included in the thread) after a hard reset.

I figured, wtf....why not give it a try before I hard reset? I let GPSTest run for about 30 minutes until it had acquired a HDOP score....minimized it....launched TomTom....and low-and-behold all is working normally again.

I've since disemboweled QuickGPS so as to never bother me or TomTom again.

Thanks for the suggestions and thanks ach2 wherever you are.

[GSLEON3]

Actually QuickGPS is something you want to use. It downloads the Sat. info & saves your device major time in aquiring the sat tracks.

[tkalli]

I use Quick GPS all the time, even if it hasn't expired.