WM6 occupied COM ports - Help please!

[misi2096]

Hi,
I have a problem with configuring GPSGATE on a PPC.In the BT menu I can select for outgoing COM port only COM 0,6 and 8.GPSGATE sees in the input tab the ports COM 1-4,7,9.When I mamually make it COM8 the app says the port can't be opened.Tried to remove all BT paired devices and com ports from BT settings menu but still the app is not seeing the other ports.
How to "free" up the ports 6 or 8 for gpsgate?
I searched the forum for this but found nothing relevant.

Other info:
HTC Blueangel PPC with WM6 Rom (freshly hard reseted, ROM release from last month by xplode)
GPSGATE 2.6.0.325
Nokia LD-3W GPS receiver

Thank you!

[hyjacks]

Hi,


i have a problem with getting memory map to work! i am running tt7 fine but cannot get memory map to open the port th BT reciever is set to...driving me completely bonkers. I had both working with wm5. I could set a incoming and outgoing port but no such look in wm6.10.00.


any quick solutions would be greatly apreciated...ta.

[misi2096]

Hi,

With tt6 & tt7 I made a little success because if you let these programs for a while after some time (usually 1-5 minutes) suddenly they connect to the Nokia LD-3W and work fine (Outgoing COM port is set to whatever is free and GPS Inter.driver is set to off - if I'm not wrong it doesn't matter at all for tomtom what is set up in the Inter.driver, only the BT setup is important and that the devices have to be paired).

With iGO 6 & 8 I did not manage to connect it to the Nokia LD-3W (I think it's because the LD-3W looks for sats after having a BT connection). I used the iGO8 with my personal Holux M-1000 receiver and it worked, but only if the receiver had a stable sat connection (fortunately it searches for sats when it is switched on, and does not wait for a BT connection so I assume the problem might be with the driver of iGO, but I'm not an expert).

I don't know the Memory Map application but you should give a try to the GPSGate application. Maybe it solves your problem.

Cheers!

PS: I forget to mention that with the WM5 ROM (I don't remember which one) iGO6 worked superb with the Nokia LD-3W but the WiFi was a mess so I had to shift to WM6 and since then it's a never ending story :(
When this worked iGO8 was not available. But I'm a witness it worked...