TomTom Navigator 7 on trinity

[MistahP]

Ok, so i installed TomTom navigator 7.450 on my P3600.
The program works fine, i can change settings, add maps,...
The only thing it won't do is find my GPS device. Whenever I want to view the GPS status, it just sais it can't find the GPS device.

Anyone know how to fix this? Or should i just go back to navigator 6...

Help would be greatly appreciated!

[chimpsinties]

Have you flashed it's ROM or Radio?

If so what versions? Earlier Radios didn't have the GPS enabled.

[MistahP]

I just have the latest ROM from the HTC website.
Tomtom navigator 6 works fine so i guess there is no support for navigator 7?

[chimpsinties]

Did you remember to point the device at the internal GPS?

It's probably under settings somewhere. usually you select 'Other devices' then look for 'GPS on COM9'. with baud rate 9600.

[MistahP]

what do you mean?
when tomtom said i didn't have a device, i selected internal, but it wouldn't do anything...

if it's a general setting, tomtom 6 works, so i guess that's ok there

[chimpsinties]

When I first install TomTom6 On my Trinity I had to manually select which GPS device to use. I select 9600 baud rate and the device 'GPS on COM9'. This was under the 'Other GPS devices' menu. I can only assume you're going to have to tell it which GPS to use. Or it might think you've got an external TomTom bluetooth dongle or something.

I haven't actually got TomTom7 yet, I'm just trying to suggest things it could be. :eek: :D

[MistahP]

wow, it worked :|
thanks a million!

[chimpsinties]

Glad I could help. :D

Now you can do me a favour and tell me how TomTom7 behaves on the Trinity.

How fast does it tend to get a signal?
Is there much of the dreaded GPS lag when you're driving along causing you to miss exits?

I might upgrade if it's any good.

[MistahP]

Well, i haven't driven around much using it yet (just went on my motorcycle and had a little spin) but it reacted quite fast.
The first time it took less then a minute to get a signal.
I drove to a friend's place to drop some stuff off and turned off my pda while i was there. When i turned it back on, it almost instantly found my location! (must have saved the positions of the satellites or something)

It works quite fast and even tho there aren't allot of big changes, i noticed it worked allot smoother.

I mainly upgraded so i could use the new maps. I don't know if it's really worth the upgrade when you don't need new maps, but this made my day.

[carkev]

hi,
I to use Tomtom 7, and have used it on various Trinity's .... and it runs flawlessly.

the settings that never fail for me are:
'other NMEA receiver'
baud 4800
GPS on Com 9

my Tomtom version is 7.450 (9028) with UK v7.20.1802 maps

[MistahP]

Yep, I used 9800 because of chimpsinties tip. Works flawless until now.
Going on a road trip next week, so I'll notice if it doesn't obey my wishes :)

[staffann]

Has anyone gotten mapshare to work with Tomtom 7 on Trinity? I just get a message that the device or map isn't supported. Of course, Trinity isn't in the supported devices list... but is there a workaround? I use TT7.450 and map WCE8.35.

[MistahP]

i don't use any of the tomtom services, so i wouldn't know :)

[Mattster_spv]

Did you remember to point the device at the internal GPS?

It's probably under settings somewhere. usually you select 'Other devices' then look for 'GPS on COM9'. with baud rate 9600.

9600? I always thought the recommended baud rate on Trinity was 57600?

Mattster.

[chimpsinties]

Well it works perfectly on 9600 for me and has always done. :D

[Mattster_spv]

Well it works perfectly on 9600 for me and has always done. :D

Interesting to know. I guess I'll try it and see what happens! To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure what baud rate even does!

Mattster.

[chimpsinties]

Basically by setting the baud rate, you are letting the computer know how many signal's the device is going to be transmitted per second so they can understand each other.

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

If you set it higher than it needs to be it probably doesn't make any difference, It will just be processing a lot of blank signals and thus possibly wasting effort. :confused: