Hi
I intend to purchase those GPS map navigation software.
Do I need to purchase anything else?
Which gps navigation maps are you referring to, there are many different options, if you want just maps then you need nothing more, however if you want navigation guidance and your position on screen then you will need a gps system as well.
Those that can help you to navigate the road type.
Just found out that I might need to get a GPS reciever. It is true?
Which type is the best for our phone?
Lazibone,
If you have a maping software but do not have a gps hardware then you can use the map to get directions, search for plances, intersections and such. A GPS hardware would tell you your position on the map continuously and will guide you on the road through visual and voice prompts. a stand alone map without a GPS is useful but you have to find out where you are. I use mapopolis platinum without gps in the united states and it works great. I can get point to point detailed directions, search for places, intersections, points of interests, bottom line: I am never lost. If you want a gps hardware for your XDA II you have two options: wired mouse gps and bluetooth. Beware that Bluetooth gps are being reported to have serious problems with the XDA II bluetooth and most of them do not funcion on the XDA II. as a wired GPS well, I think they work fine. I suggest you go to www.pocketgps.com or visit some of the threads on this forum that disscussed gps systems soroughly.
Hope that helps.
Bohs
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if i have htc universal w/ tomtom 6.0.10 on it & it works great....but I dont want to always connect to the BT GPS receiver....I just want to use it kinda like a typical here to there map but w/out the instant GPS updates & locations & stuff....how can I turn it off?
if i just leave the BT gps out of range, TT6 won't work...it continually trys to searc for my device....
any advice would be great.
thanks,
GMP
I guess you are out of luck. The program simply wasn't designed to be used in that way.
thats ok....i just thought in the website info it was saying u could use it in a non-gps way......& i just couldn't figure out how.
so thanks for the reply,
gmp
I'm not sure about TT6, I'm still using TT5.
I use TT5 that way sometimes by going into the menu (just tap the screen)
then select the next arrow to browse the page.(i'm using a Dutch version, so I have to translate the best I can).
Then I select view map, top right option. I'm then presented with a map view on which I can zoom in/out and scroll. Als you can set waypoint or search streets by selecting the magnifying glass.
Hi,
Don't connect your bt gps like another bt gps but like a wired gps with right port com. And TT doesn't manage your bt anymore...
Can anyone recommend GPS software for locating selected points
eg Going to the Air Show where there were thousands of cars.
I would like to set where I parked and then be able to find my car again by GPS. I have TomTom though this doesn't seem to work where there are no roads ie in a big paddock.
Any help would be appreciated.
Note I don't want to use GPRS, just GPS
try freewareppc.com
try freewareppc.com. I have found lots of useful software there. You might find one that will do what you want..
frigit said:
Can anyone recommend GPS software for locating selected points
eg Going to the Air Show where there were thousands of cars.
I would like to set where I parked and then be able to find my car again by GPS. I have TomTom though this doesn't seem to work where there are no roads ie in a big paddock.
Any help would be appreciated.
Note I don't want to use GPRS, just GPS
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Did you try to add GPS position to favorites in TomTom?
Yes I tried tomtom gps position. It saved the location, though when I tried to navigate back to the GPS position (favourite) it could not trace the position.
It would probably work if you were somewhere in a street, but doesn't work when you are somewhere else such as offroad. If anyone else has managed to get it to work, please let me know. thanks
www.gpstuner.com
This will do it
i have gpstuner but it severly slows the trinity down, as the app never terminates, even with memMaid you can't kill it. Got to the point where i just uninstalled it as it was that bad, mad the device virtually unusable for me.
i have gpstuner v5.1. it works !
i tried the 2weeks trial version, and paid 48USD for the GEO version.
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I'm using BeelingGPS and it is doing great for me as I'm also a geocacher.
Simple GPS software
You may want to try NoniGPS or ODGPS (both simple and free, no map - just tracking).
Any success anyone in using the built-in GPS with Google maps? No problem with TomTom, Copilot or Pocket streets, but the darn google maps (that obviously has the best maps), won't use the GPS. I set the Hardware port to COM4 and tried every speed possible (the others seems to work fine at 115200). Any tips anyone?
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Any success anyone in using the built-in GPS with Google maps? No problem with TomTom, Copilot or Pocket streets, but the darn google maps (that obviously has the best maps), won't use the GPS. I set the Hardware port to COM4 and tried every speed possible (the others seems to work fine at 115200). Any tips anyone?
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Nope. I've searched everywhere and there was one hack but I never tried it. I just downloaded Microsoft's Live Search, which is free, and this works perfectly and is just like Google Maps....and arguably better. Easily configured to your built in GPS and you're on the way. Hope this helps.
I have to agree Microsoft's Live Search is great !!!
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Nope. I've searched everywhere and there was one hack but I never tried it. I just downloaded Microsoft's Live Search, which is free, and this works perfectly and is just like Google Maps....and arguably better. Easily configured to your built in GPS and you're on the way. Hope this helps.
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After trying to get Google Maps to work for a while with obviously no success, I ran across this post (thank you!!!). I just installed it from (http://mobile.search.live.com/about/default.aspx) and it works incredibly well.
FYI, these are the settings I have that work (after reading the GPS posts) for the GPS Settings tabs:
• GPS program port - (None)
• GPS hardware port - COM5 with 9600 baud rate
• Access - Manage GPS automatically is CHECKED
This really is going to make me wonder how Navigation companies like TomTom are going to survive in the future. Why will people pay for something when they have the wireless internet and programs like Live Search for free. Anyways, the GPS worked perfect and even get's a signal inside my office, which was impossible with my bluetooth GPS I have.
Yep, Windows live! is the way forward until GoogleEarth Mobile gives you an option to tell you where the GPS is, rather than trying to auto find it, and doing it rather badly. Especially when Live!, TT and Reperion have no difficulty locating the signal via the GPS applet. But then you can point them at the comport, unlike Gearth.
As for these systems replacing personal nav systems, I still use TT for my navigating to places I need to get to. I find its features far easier to use than Windows Live! and also TT doesn't fail when I'm outside a 3G or GPRS connection! But perhaps in 5 years time, server based navigation will be the future - its just to immature at the moment though.
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After trying to get Google Maps to work for a while with obviously no success, I ran across this post (thank you!!!). I just installed it from (http://mobile.search.live.com/about/default.aspx) and it works incredibly well.
FYI, these are the settings I have that work (after reading the GPS posts) for the GPS Settings tabs:
? GPS program port - (None)
? GPS hardware port - COM5 with 9600 baud rate
? Access - Manage GPS automatically is CHECKED
This really is going to make me wonder how Navigation companies like TomTom are going to survive in the future. Why will people pay for something when they have the wireless internet and programs like Live Search for free. Anyways, the GPS worked perfect and even get's a signal inside my office, which was impossible with my bluetooth GPS I have.
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Glad it worked for you. Live will work well with most configurtions, thank goodness. Not sure what the fellas as Google were smoking when they developed an app that uses GPS and left the manual config option out. Especially with a new and not throughly tested app. I hate to admit it but Microsoft saved the day on this one.
Have a look how it responds with Fransons GPS Gate installed or the other free to use GPS Port splitter software, I have no way of testing this at the moment as no "real" PC connection to use, Franson sorted out a similar issue with certain software problems on the P3300 and sound similar - Mike
Well, i got a Holux GPSSLIM240 bluetooth GPS device that i use with my Touch Dual. I Have TomTom 6 and Google Maps installed. It works great with Google Maps, but TomTom 6 doesnt detect it unless Google Maps is using the GPS device.
However, i want to be able to track my movement. Ive tried a few GPS tracking programs, such as TrackMe, and 3dTracking. However, they dont detect my GPS device properly. The ideal thing would off course be if Google Maps could do what i wanted, but since it cant, i have to keep searching.
Anyone out there that have actually made tracking work? I want to see my trip on Google Earth\Maps.
Cheers!
have you tried GPS Tuner? the newest version supports downloading/using google maps, and I'm pretty sure it'll do all the tracking you need...
I've only yet tested it to see if my BT gps receiver worked, so haven't really tried any of it's features, but have look here... http://www.gpstuner.com/
dont know if this will help, but I paired mine to my gps reciever, the first thing I done was to create an outgoing com "6" if i remember, I had to do that with my wizard, so automatically done it with the dual. but maybe thats just my reciever
same problem here,
tried a thousand times how to paired it and after i chose the coms tomtom6 never recognize the bt antenna, untill i start working w google maps, i close it and then tomtom worked perfect. wierd uh? maybe creepy. but thats how it works for me.
hope to be helpful.
In Google Maps when a user of a non GPS android tablet selects driving or walking navigation a pop up screen saying "Show Location Settings?" appears. Clicking OK is the only action that can be performed which leads to the Settings/Location and Security screen. Normally the user would select Use GPS satellites and click the Back button. On tablets, that can connect to external Bluetooth GPS, there is no Use GPS satellites to enable and clicking Back brings you to the same pop up screen while voice guided navigation is being performed. Navigation is working but the map is hiding behing this screen. What can I do to bypass or remove this pop up screen?
Mock locations in Settings/Applications/Development is enabled as well as Use wireless networks. The bluetooth GPS location of the tablet works. Apps like Bluetooth GPS Provider, BlueGPS4droid and Bluetooth GPS Mouse work beautifully connecting to any external bluetooth GPS.
You can install your app as a system app. But this will require root..
I have root. My tablet is 99% stock rom and alot coming down the pipeline are stock and rooted out of the box. The problem is there's no embedded GPS but stock roms include things like telephony, etc.
I have moved Maps among all other gapps into system/app which work great. The navigation can be done w/ 3rd party apps like Telenav using external bt GPS but for some reason Maps is looking for the internal GPS. I just want to fool Maps into thinking my tablet has GPS or edit the condition for the pop up to happen.
why would you want navigation without GPS. just use the directions feature in google maps, its the same thing, without spoken directions.
why would you want navigation without GPS. just use the directions feature in google maps, its the same thing, without spoken directions.
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i have external GPS, Maps sees my location, i just want navigation too. if i actually used it for driving the directions feature wouldn't give me voice guidance. that only comes from Driving or walking.
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I, too would like a solution for this. I'm using an external bluetooth GPS unit and the app "Bluetooth GPS Mouse" for navigation in place of the crappy internal one that the Samsung Captivate provides. If I leave the internal one enabled, Maps repeatedly jumps between the two different locations from the two GPS units. If I try to disable the internal one, however, Navigation just prompts me until I enable it again.
How can I bypass this?