Does anyone know where I can buy a cradle for my XDAII that fixes to the dashboard of a car???
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Anyone have the car kit with the rj45 plug that is suppose to be for a serial GPS?
Know where to get the GPS that plugs into it? :?:
hi,
I got a arkon kit (with powered cradle, loud speaker, and rj input for tomtom wired gps receiver). This means that your gps is always powered, as is your xda, from 1 cable to the cradle from lighter socket. Never run your xda battery low again, or indeed your gps is always on, no charging like the BT models.
Works an absolute treat as a sat nav unit, also listen to mp3's, make voice calls (this is not so clear, but does work, but I have a nokia phone and car kit too for voice calls)
Have a look at this on ebay, like mine, in fact from same seller in uk!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3730&item=5147492679&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
not what I am looking for.... I have the powered car kit and are looking for a GPS reciever with an RJ45 plug on the end of it???
?? HELP
I have never seen a serial GPS that has an RJ-45 (or RJ-11 come to that). They all tend to have 9-pin DIN or 6-pin (keyboard connector-type) DIN. So, why not just buy whichever GPS you like that has a serial port, and MAKE a cable?
Or get a BlueTooth GPS and not use a cable at all?
shawn:
http://www.leadtek.com/gps/gps_9532_1.html
Falcom has one
Falcom Bluetooth Vehicle GPS Receiver NABI-B
http://www.falcom.de/txt-produkte-navib-k.html
Retails for under R 800 in south africa from http://www.rfdesign.co.za/default.asp?pageID=8079672&category=119
I have the Bluetooth one and it works quite nicely.
Also the wired TomTom mice did have such a connector. I believe those are in fact a Leadtek . . .
can anyone give me any idea what's the best car kit to use with my alpine while using tomtom 5 plz thx ............
My XDA IIi Car Set-up
I use the Globalsat BT-338 - Bluetooth GPS Receiver with TomTom Navigator 5.1.
I also use Checkpoint 5.02 (Free Speed camera software) and this is configured to give me detailed voice warnings, it takes a bit of setting up but once done it is the best, saved me a few silly points and fines. I have some very good voicefiles if you want them let me know and I will upload. Link below for Checkpoint.
http://poiplace.oabsoftware.nl/
I use a silmline car holder with addon interchangble functions is here, I have it sucker attached to my corner of side window, rotated to landscape view as I find TomTom better in that view. They even do an extra adapter for my Mountain Bike. I also have the Vent Holder, which is very sturdy, but you cannot rotate to landscape view only portrait view, but still usefully. They do the car charger as well.
http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/product/5827.htm
As far as headsets go I use a Jabra 250v, but it is ugly and I am going to try the new Sony Ericsson Akono Bluetooth Headset HBH-610 with digital noise cancelling, automatic volume control and Echo canceling, looks good too, I hope it does what they promise.
I hope this is helpful
thx daz999
you've been a great help and if its possible i'd like those extra voices ,once again thx
RE: Checkpoint Voices
Hello Scooby,
I have post some info for everyone at this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=161862#161862
I have uploaded the voices to XDA-Developers FTP, link in the above topic shortcut.
If you have any questions about setting up Checkpoint, let me know.
Laters
DAz
Jabra 250v?
Hi Dazz
I notice you're using the Jabra 250v with your 2i - how's the sound quality?
I bought one too, but gave up using it as I couldn't get a decent signal between it and my phone (2i as well).
Perhaps you did something I missed?
Cheers
Re: Jabra BT quality
Hi,
No I agree with you the Jabra doesn't work well with 2i, I've had the same problems myself, so much so I've stopped using BT headset at the moment, I use the loadspeaker function in the car for calls and also wired headset that came with the 2i.
DAz
Just to throw another bit of kit into the pot, my missus bought me a ThinkNavi cradle for my birthday which I find very usefull!
OK, it isn't as portable as a BT unit, but it certainly makes it easier to hear the directions at high speed!
http://www.thinknavi.com/thinknavi/pda_cradle.asp
I have a THB carkit with my 2020i but it suffers from a lot of echo during calls. I also have a BT dongle for this carkit and calling via the dongle and the THB is a lot better than with the fixed cradle for THB.
any knows a fix for the echo effect ?
Hi,
Anyone know if you can get a GPS mouse with a mini-usb connection and if so can it work with teh Wizard? (Thinking Tomtom)
Thank you
Anyone?
Do You realy need wires to connect?
I use Pharos GPS I360 with bluetooth adapter
and it works fine.
As far as i know you cannot use the miniUSB connector for GPS input (I could be wrong but i did a little reading before i decided to trust bluetooth [again])
However as fresh123breeze says just use a bluetooth one, seems to work fine with TTN5 (unlike TTN3 which was cr*p on bluetooth)
Thanks,
I have the Tomtom BT GPS receiver; I just windered if there was an alternate non-BT version
I would like a wired gps also
pre mda vario I used a HP2210 which was wired to a Haicom GPS when in the the car
The benifit was the ability to power the gps and charge the PDA whilst in the car. I never used the mains charger. Never had to worry about flat PDA of Btooth GPS batteries
ern
Hi,
I have TOMTOM installed on my M600 and also have an Erricson HCB-30 Bluetooth hansfree car kit. I want to know if i can get the TOMTOM directions to sound through the car kit rather than the phones speaker.
Any ideas??
i have purchased a car cradle for my pda, my problem is that the pda wont bluetooth the cradle, any help please.