Imate 8502 GPS Problem

[chintak]

Hi guys,

Recently I bought Imate 8502. Everything works fine. I have installed tomtom 6.01 for wm6 (which works fine on my other htc p3600i)

Now problem in in Imate 8502 when i go in to the settings>External GPS>Hardware... it shows me "gps Hardware port "(none)". If I select any port and press ok and open it again, again it shows "(none)" in gps hardware port. So whts wrong with that.

Also tomtom is not working in Imate 8502. in tomtom software setting doesn't show gps port.(like in htc p3600i gps settings shows that gps in com9). I tried too much to solve this problem but got failure and failure. So I am asking help from any expert here.

Please help me.. I want to run GPS software in Imate 8502


Thanks in advance

[netnerd]

1. u need to turn on gps manually
2. u need GPSgate

[chintak]

Thanks netnerd,

well i turned it on manually as well but same things happens ?
by the way how does gpsgate will help in this problem? I have no idea of this software.. Though i have downloaded demo but I am not getting this software

thanks bro !!
waiting for your reply

[netnerd]

tomtom cant see your build-in gps port
GPSgate will make a virtual gps comm port that gps programs able to see

[ayesha]

Dear Chintak i also have an 8502 but still serching for upgrade as u said u upgraded it with tomtom it realy works and how is the procedure to upgrade

will appriciate help .

[chintak]

hi ayesha,

I didn't upgraded anything in imate, I just installed tomtom for ppc.

but tomtom can't read gps port so m looking for another option

[rathalian]

OK - hope this helps some....

I have the I-mate 8502, and TomTom 6 running fine.

Things I did:

- Installed TomTom...:)
- Went to Wireless Manager and enabled GPS. These are my GPS settings by tab (can get to them via Wireless Manager):
>Programs: GPS program port - COM9 (default setting
>Hardware: No GPS port specifed (not needed) and baud rate 4800 (again not needed) - these are default settings
>Access: Manage GPS automatically is checked (again default)

The only setup in TomTom was to set the GPS device to the IMEA option.

TomTom should see the device, but display a message that no gps satellites found or it searching. It usually takes a couple of minutes for the GPS to pass through satellite information to TomTom first time but it then works great.

Running the Telstra WM6 Rom

[minithommo]

I followed Rathalian's instructions and it worked perfectly for me too.

I did have to select COM9 as the COM Port of the GPS device in Tom Tom Configuration.

I am also using a Telstra WM6 ROM.

[chintak]

Thanks everybody its working now thank you very much everyone