My gps system stopped working today. Is there any way of diagnosing to see if its the connector on the phone thats gone tits-up?
I don't know anyone else with an XDA2 you see...
When you say it has stopped working, do you mean no signal, gps not found error or light not illuminating?
I run Tom Tom with a cabled GPS receiver which doubles as a charging cable.
I still get the green charging light, but no GPS signal.
It was working fine. Go into a service station for a bite to eat, and unplugged the receiver. Come back after being fed and watered plug it in again - nothing... No settings have changed, which makes me think its something to do with the connector - either the XDA or the gps receiver.
...but how do I rule out one or the other?
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hey guys,
i have a little question,
i just bought a haicom gps receiver and use tomtom 2 software. When i get out of my garage, it takes always more than 15 minutes to get a signal. sometimes during driving i also lose it. How comes?
when i connect my device to the receiver and power, i get something like "connecting to t-mobile MMS"...
oh, btw i have a MDA II with latest NL t-mobile rom. 1.60....
if anyone could help please...
thanks!
The gps should only take this long when first used, after that it should lock in a matter of a couple of minutes, to test the gps properly it is best to test it outside the vehicle, I think most Haicom mouse gps come with magnetic base so stick it on the roof and drive around, if it works better it is probably becuase your car has a metallised windscreen which blocks the signal. The message about connecting to the service provider is an error due to the com port being accessed i think, mine used to bring up activesync every time but once I canged my activesync settings on the xda to manual instead of auto sync it solved the problem.
so i should always drive around with my window open?? and stick the receiver outside the car?
I would agree with Crusin Through - I think your car may well have some form of heated windscreen or heat reflecting windscreen. What car do you have.
If when you do place the receiver on the outside of the car you do get good signal you can get a special anntenna that had an outside part and an internal part that you can fit permanently to the car so you can still move the thing about. Bit like a mobile phone antenna.
Alternatively as you have the XDA II you can get a bluetooth receiver an place it on the rear parcel shelf (I think the wider heating strips won't affect it - but can't confirm it.)
John, I wasnt suggesting you drive around with your window open, I was suggesting a way to ascertain if your windscreen is the problem regarding your blocked gps signal, by the way I have used a gps on the roof and the window will shut almost all the way however as the last post mentioned you can obtain a re-radiating antenna, this will solve your problem if indeed the windscreen is the culprit.
Re-rediating antenna - that's the word I couldn't remember :lol:
ok guys, thanks. i'll try with such an extern antenna.
thanks for your help
Before you spend your money on the re-rad antenna - try the thing on the roof - if this works then the antenna is your only real option if you want to continue with the thing in the front windscreen.
I'd hate you to buy the re-rad and then find it doesn't work.
Incidently what car do you have? (Does it have a heat reflecting or headted windscreen)
And if it works outside,
you still don't have to buy an external antenna, as normally the windshield have an area where is not metal coating...
try to check the manual of your car..
i own a toyota Camry 2002 model, it has indeed a windscreen etc...
I am finding it very difficult to to get the Fortuna GPS to lock on to staelites, bluetooth bonding fine, (I have the lates rom) but the fortuna never locks on, even though it sees 6-7 satelites. Could this be the London Weather (Heavy grey coverage) Has anybody else had this and is there a GPS testing tool besides tomtom gps 3.03 in case it is a software issue?
Living in London, it onlyh works in Xtract mode, never in the ST, does anyone else have this problem?
It could be your windscreen, have you tried it outdoors. I have a fortuna gpsmart and it is brilliant at locking on to sats. Some windscreens have an ingredient that blocks signals, try it in the back of the car instead of the front too. I have driven in London and the only time I lost lock was when I mistakenly drove into a bus terminus which had a roof.
No windscreen yet
I walk around town for now. COuld that be it? lack of motion?
Lack of motion shouldnt affect it, but accuracy is increased if moving as far as I know.
How long are you giving it to lock? If the batteries die I think it resets and has to download a whole new almanac, if you still arent getting a signal after an hour then it may be a faulty unit, I had a faulty haicom gps that displayed the same problem.
Speed
On Xtract it's fast, on the other mode, barely ever, this is the second one I get w/ the same problem from Vivo/ off ebay...Beginning to wonder. Is this a GPS issue or a TomTom one? WHat would you guys guess?
try this
This one doesn't work, only com ports 1-4?
I tried to use this but it only offers com ports 1-4, and I was unable or could get the Fortuna to work with these. right now, it only works on three ports, either :
-com 5
-BT Port
-the Fortuna Clip On Port
Yesterday, it worked very well on ST mode, then i turned it off and came back an hour later, it couldn't get a fix again. This morning it got a fix in 5mins. Could this be London weather???? Or thdo these things reset in some way that causes them to need to relaod an 'Almanac'???
The topic titels says enough. I have got a cheap SMB connector wired GPS antenna, I can plug it in the PDA, but my GPS program can not find any GPS signal. Are there any settings I need to change or is this simply a mission impossible to make it work?
what is this about, if gps is not working, why do they sell it::
http://cnn.cn/shop/8525tytnhermes-antenna-p-1615.html
ya, this doesn't make much sense.
Looks to me like a TYPO that should read GPRS or external antenna for car with the connector on the cable. BUT it would get a few buying it first and finding the mistake afterwards wouldn't it!
Yeah, it won't work although it is a GPS booster. I use the same make with my tomtom. It would only help plugging it into a GPS receiver that in turn is connected to the TyTn by cable or bluetooth - not as they show it directly to the Hermes.
Mike
I know this might be stupid question to some of you, and I've been searching through threads the last two days, non-stop, but I can't find anything about getting my GPS to work with my Wing. They have the antenna plug in on the back side, and so I bought a wired antenna to plug into it, but it won't work. I'm trying to use Google maps, and I've also tried to use LiveSearch and Nav4All... Is there something I need to do? I've literally gone through every single setting (com ports and baud rates) to try and figure out which one it was, but it's not working. HELP PLEASE! I'm so frustrated. If someone could either point me in the right direction or help me figure this out, I would really really appreciate it. Thanks so much in advance!
Justin
smithjustin8 said:
I know this might be stupid question to some of you, and I've been searching through threads the last two days, non-stop, but I can't find anything about getting my GPS to work with my Wing. They have the antenna plug in on the back side, and so I bought a wired antenna to plug into it, but it won't work. I'm trying to use Google maps, and I've also tried to use LiveSearch and Nav4All... Is there something I need to do? I've literally gone through every single setting (com ports and baud rates) to try and figure out which one it was, but it's not working. HELP PLEASE! I'm so frustrated. If someone could either point me in the right direction or help me figure this out, I would really really appreciate it. Thanks so much in advance!
Justin
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I'm not 100% sure but the antenna connection is for a GSM antenna for boosting the reception while in a car it's not for GPS.
GPS connections a set thourgh bluetooth via a "GPS mouse".
i believe you have to get a bluetooth GPS receiver, they are pretty small and you can just put it on your dashboard or something. i don't know the pricing though
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I'm not 100% sure but the antenna connection is for a GSM antenna for boosting the reception while in a car it's not for GPS.
GPS connections a set thourgh bluetooth via a "GPS mouse".
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Well, Poopoo. I could have sworn I read somewhere that it was for GPS. Darn it all. Well, guess there's $30 down the drain.
I can confirm that, its for GSM, using it on the external antenna of my car.
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Well, Poopoo. I could have sworn I read somewhere that it was for GPS. Darn it all. Well, guess there's $30 down the drain.
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If your looking for GPS for your Wing check out this site. www.buygpsnow.com
Fair warning tho, there are plenty of people that have gotten there GPS from there and had no problems, but I ended up having to shop mine back becauise it was faulty. There CS is so-so. good luck
it probably said it's for GPRS... not GPS.
Antenna connector on back of Wing
Using the right cable, antenna and booster, you can boost the signal to a full 3 watts like the old bag phones. I've got mine hooked to a wilson and a yagi -- when I'm home I tether to my Laptop and use Internet Sharing and its as fast as T-Mobile allows.
http://www.wilsonelectronics.com/
I got a bluetooth gps from ebay, its a Holux m1200, around 50 bucks and it works great along with iGo program on my phone, its awesome!
Wow, didn't even know I could turn my phone into a GPS piece. So if I get the bluetooth GPS piece and a program, I can have it? How's the accuracy and how well is the software updated? I know there's a lot of new development around and wasn't sure if it's like Mapquest where it's a crap shoot if it'll find where you're going.