htc hermes has gps?

[Marcello7x]

i always thought that my htc hermes did not have gps and that only the successor, tytn II does (which my brother has)..but then i noticed this in a wiki..

Most recently, it was discovered that the TyTN has an onboard GPS navigation chip, but with the antenna connection shorted out and drivers omitted from the ROM, the chip is rendered useless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_TyTN

is there a way to enable the gps?

[mrvanx]

i always thought that my htc hermes did not have gps and that only the successor, tytn II does (which my brother has)..but then i noticed this in a wiki..



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_TyTN

is there a way to enable the gps?

No, do a quick search and you'll find the thread which discussed the development. As said in the wiki the chip is rendered useless due to the shorts on the board and no antenna.

[ultramag69]

However, with a bluetooth GPS reciever and some navigation software (I've got Tomtom 6) you too can have GPS on your Hermes.....

Cheers...:D

[cyberblue]

i always thought that my htc hermes did not have gps and that only the successor, tytn II does (which my brother has)..but then i noticed this in a wiki..



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_TyTN

is there a way to enable the gps?


people _were_ excited about this a couple years ago, as you could have found in the Hermes wiki, the conclusion is that there's no way to enable GPS, HTC smashed the GPS chip in each Hermes unit with a hammer before they ship it out so it's not usable at all.