Can anyone shed some light, I have a Route 66 sat Nav and it will not calculate a route. Have done a hard reset, formatted sd card and re-installed route 66 but still no joy.
Pretty obvious, but presumably it is paired with the gps receiver ok and that is getting a lock with a satellite or two.
What gps receiver are you using?
GPS
The GPS that come with system Star111 and yes it is paired, you can point on map and it will find a route but it just won't claculate a route if you put details in. Post codes or cities, roads.
ericb said:
Pretty obvious, but presumably it is paired with the gps receiver ok and that is getting a lock with a satellite or two.
What gps receiver are you using?
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The GPS that come with system Star111 and yes it is paired, you can point on map and it will find a route but it just won't claculate a route if you put details in. Post codes or cities, roads.
Alan
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Hi,
Have a T-Mobile MDA/HTC Wizard.
Is there some GPS software which can connect via Wifi/T-Zones or Internet and do the same routing/function such as a GPS Device?
I dont want to spend $600 to buy a GPS device and then connect it to my MDA. Rather buy some GPS software which can work on the MDA by itself.
Thanks.
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No GPS software is going to work properly without a GPS receiver from which to extrapolate your current position.
If you want GPS capability of any kind at all, you will need to get a receiver, period. There's nothing GPS related on the phone except for a settings applet that is disabled by default and only lets you set the port of a bonded receiver. There's also no way a network connection is going to be able to determine your position and software that attempts to do so using cell towers are only accurate to within a few miles, if it works at all. There's a bunch of receivers available on ebay (and elsewhere) for cheap...I got a Holux GPSlim236 for a little over $100 and it works great with the wizard via bluetooth. They are your options....getting a receiver or forgetting about it.
Or try Navizon. It was created to do exactly what you want. http://www.navizon.com
Used to be free, now you have to pay for it. But theres a 14 day trial i believe.
B
nextbond said:
I dont want to spend $600 to buy a GPS device and then connect it to my MDA.
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I saw some bluetooth GPS receivers as low as $80. And you can use your GPS receiver anywhere.
If I have the tomtom software, do I have to get the tomtom gps receiver or can I use another brand?
I have TomTom 5.21 and use a non TomTom bluetooth GPs reciever.
Hi all,
Thanks for the responses. Seems I will need a GPS device. If thats the case, why bother with a PDA? Should just buying a Gavin or TomTom GPS device be enough?
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Depends on what you want. If you have the phone already, $100 for a GPS unit and maybe $100 for decent mapping software is a whole lot cheaper than $500-$800 for a decent Garmin unit. Plus you get a phone and a PDA out of the deal. I went on vacation a few weeks ago and the mapping software plotted a route and told me how to get there. Once there, I used slingplayer to watch my home cable channels while sitting on the beach, I used the camera to take pictures of the beach and whatnot, the network connection to upload those pictures to a phlog, IM with friends and coworkers and check the weather and news with IE. Oh yeah...and it rang when I got a phone call or text message. Then it plotted a route back home (presumably the same way backwards but I didn't really check) and told me how to get there. Depends on what you want.
TomTom can work with other bluetooth receivers. Works with my Holux, at least.
I'm interested in buying a bluetooth gps receiver I found a few on amazon but this one caught my attention because of the price
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...6698/ref=pd_bbs_3/102-8138642-5399340?ie=UTF8
is that one any good?
I strongly advise you to check the type of GPS chip used in the receiver. The best one for the moment seems to be the Sirf star 3.
It's not as much of a detail as you may think : older chips can take a very long time to get fixed (which means that you might wait for dozens of minutes before even getting a GPS position), and are usually more power consuming.
Hi, I've got TomTom Navigator 6 installed on my Trinity and it all works fine, except it takes about 5 minutes before it picks up any satellites when I run it - does anybody know if there's a fix to enable to gps chip to pick up satellites a bit quicker than this? Even when I'm outside and away from tall buildings it's the same. Any help or suggestions would be great.
Thanks
Seagee
Did u try that software?
keep QuickGPS updated.
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Hi, I've got TomTom Navigator 6 installed on my Trinity and it all works fine, except it takes about 5 minutes before it picks up any satellites when I run it - does anybody know if there's a fix to enable to gps chip to pick up satellites a bit quicker than this? Even when I'm outside and away from tall buildings it's the same. Any help or suggestions would be great.
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it will save a couple of minutes
aquiring a satellite regardless of whether you're using an internal gps antenna or an external bluetooth antenna usually takes a few minutes when you are booting it cold (ie.. turning it on initally) There really isnt any way around this that I know
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gps antenna or an external bluetooth antenna
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Try your GPS antenna with an other software or with a GPS diagnostic.
I am 99% sure your GPS antenna does not work properly or at least try your tom tom with an other antenna.
Info : GPS antenna have to connect with 3 or more satellite to determine the position.
Tom tom 7 wont lock on to any satellites. I have tried astro gps launcher and others. It shows in Tomtom that it finds satellites but they are not blue like when it locks on, they remain Grey or just don't move at all. Can anyone help me?
Are you using a bluetooth GPS reciever or the internal reciever? I'm not sure if that matters at all but if your satelites arent locking on go to the GPS configuation menu and select whatever option you use (ie internal or external bluetooth) if external bluetooth press select then likely com 2 I would assume.. thats the default setting. Once thats done it should connect shortly after. Sometimes when tomtom starts for me it locks on right away other times it seems to have issues connecting to the receiver. IN order to use the internal gps recevier you have to be running one of the roms thathave activated it. If you havn't (just covering all bases here) then that could be why.. cause your internal gps isnt activated. NOW if it is activated and you still arent locking on make sure you're outside and leave it sitting there for a few minutes. It should lock on as thats what most people have had to do when first getting it to work.
If that doesn't work I'm not sure what else to recommend.
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Tom tom 7 wont lock on to any satellites. I have tried astro gps launcher and others. It shows in Tomtom that it finds satellites but they are not blue like when it locks on, they remain Grey or just don't move at all. Can anyone help me?
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what rom are you running?
There have been a few roms around here that perform terribly with GPS locks, sometimes requiring a few resets for it to lock properly.
Can you get a lock using Windows Live?
I can say that TomTom7 works fine with astro launcher. The settings in TomTom work both for internal gps, as well as other NMEA gps device: com4, baud 4800.
If you're using the internal GPS antenna in the Vogue after using Astrolauncher and letting tomtom load go to your gps setup in tomtom and then choose "other NMEA GPS reciever", then baud rate 4800... then com 2. That worked for me. Took a few minutes the first time it got a lock. watch the satellite status screen, should say poor GPS or something at first... and you should see grey bars at the bottom where its normally blue when you have a lock. Thats when you know the internal GPS antenna is on.
I have the new gps sprint rom WM6.1 and also tried quick gps and it takes like five to ten minutes to connect
Just wondering... when I go camping far up north, there's no reception on my HTC TyTN. But, using a bluetooth GPS receiver I'm able to navigate with my TOMTOM or Google Maps. Now just wondering... since there's GPS reception, any way to use this GPS reception for phone calls? Somehow? There are GPS phones out there right? So what about making this work?
By GPS, I guess I meant Satellite.
satellite phones use different satellites than GPS units.
so...no.
Any way to connect to phone satellites with bluetooth receivers?
Hi - no you would need a completley separate phone to do this. As far as I remember calls are quite expensive.
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Just wondering... when I go camping far up north, there's no reception on my HTC TyTN. But, using a bluetooth GPS receiver I'm able to navigate with my TOMTOM or Google Maps. Now just wondering... since there's GPS reception, any way to use this GPS reception for phone calls? Somehow? There are GPS phones out there right? So what about making this work?
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Just an FYI. Your GPS receiver can only receive signals from the satellites. It can't send them to the satellite, so no two way communication would be possible even if they used the right satellites.
holmanm said:
Just an FYI. Your GPS receiver can only receive signals from the satellites. It can send them to the satellite, so no two way communication would be possible even if they used the right satellites.
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You probably meant that "it can't send them".
So I just got an Elf. I bought it new off of ebay unlocked. I'm using T-Mobile but this phone just has straight WM 6.1, no Tmobile software.
So I was able to put the T-Mobile Settings in and the internet works fine. I downloaded Google Maps and it will give my location but it’s always a bit off from where I actually am. Like maybe it’s getting my location from the cell tower and not the GPS?
I downloaded some other GPS programs like SportyPal and it will say configuring GPS and then just sit there. Do I need to do something to turn the GPS on?
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Elf
it's specs don't mention gps at all
what makes you think it got gps?
Here it says that it has:
I think it is a external Bluetooth GPS receiver.
http://phones.intomobile.com/phones/2176-htc-touch-elf-gsm
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So I just got an Elf. I bought it new off of ebay unlocked. I'm using T-Mobile but this phone just has straight WM 6.1, no Tmobile software.
So I was able to put the T-Mobile Settings in and the internet works fine. I downloaded Google Maps and it will give my location but it’s always a bit off from where I actually am. Like maybe it’s getting my location from the cell tower and not the GPS?
I downloaded some other GPS programs like SportyPal and it will say configuring GPS and then just sit there. Do I need to do something to turn the GPS on?
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elf doesn't have built in GPS
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Here it says that it has:
I think it is a external Bluetooth GPS receiver.
http://phones.intomobile.com/phones/2176-htc-touch-elf-gsm
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External bluetooth GPS reciever.
External means that its outside of the device, and Bluetooth-powered is how it interfaces with it. You'll need to purchase another piece of kit to enable Bluetooth on an Elf - it is not internally native.