Ok so I have upgraded from my old herms to a Touch Pro, however I cant let go of my hermes was an awsome phone.
I want to use it for a dedicated GPS. I have tom tom 6 installed and a BT GPS reciver all which work perfectly when the phone is turned on (sim card inserted) but when the phone is turned off from comm manager or the sim card is removed the GPS wont lock on for whatever reason.... this is crazy as BT on the phone seems to work fine I can pair it with the BT GPS reciver but wont lock on. As soon as the phone is on bang gets a lock and it all works as it should.
Is there any way around this?
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You know sounds that come out of a radio when you put a phone next to it??
Well my xda2i makes the sound when running tomtom and it then freezes and needs a reset.
It does it every 5 minutes!! and i cannot use my XDA2i in the car!!
Any solution to this?
Also if i could switch on flight mode and have bluetooth ON as well would be great. I do not use the phone for calls as its on the data tariff
Anyone know how to use bluetooth in flight mode?
Please help..
I appreciate
Cheers
DJ
anyone as i got a road trip later
DJ
Hi the way I turn on the flight mode is thru the profiles option under the tools tab on th o2 today screen, then i turn on the bluetooth and it works fine. If you turn on the flight mode by taping on the signal meter and then select flight mode you cannot activete bluetooth.
Hope this helps.
with the xda2i you need to apply the tom tom upgrades for use with the phone - also worth turning of any email dial up programs.
I also found Tom tom did not like my maps being on the SD card (I had a cheap unbranded one) - kept hanging..
Flight Mode seems to ease the hanging, but at least once a journey it hangs. How do you install maps onto the memory, they are MASSIVE. I've heard installing TomTom on memory and maps on SD card works, just not sure how to do this, anyone know?
Perhaps dj swift should ask the wikids!
Can anyone help with this,
I have an O2 Exec (Latest O2 ROM etc)
I have a Bluetooth GPS & Bluetooth Headset, when using the GPS, if a call comes in I can answer it on the headset, but the GPS goes all screwy, starts losing position, even after the call is ended the GPS is erratic
I have installed Buzzs Bluetooth Patch, and no effect,
Its a bit of a pain if I can't use a Bluetooth headset and GPS at the same time.
Anyone had this and found a cure?.
EXEC, Details are
1.13.82 WWE
11/30/05
1.04.02
42.37.P8
1.13.118 WWE
Help appreciated
Thanks
Richard
Richard im on the same rom as you but without the bt patch and ive no problems
alix776,
I will try it again later on, I had the problem before I installed the patch, so I installed it to see if it cured it, but it didn't
I will do a hard rest later and start from scratch again, see if that helps,
I didn't have any problems using the same BT Headset on an XDA 2i, so assumed it would work ok on the EXEC, the only change to the setup is the GPS unit, I am using a really cheap and cruddy £30 jobbie off ebay (Its only 8 Ch, and seems a bit flaky!),
I will have a new Sirf3 unit arriving in a few days, so can try that to see if the problem is with the cheap BT GPS!.
I need to get a solution sorted in the next 10 days before going back to work in the US, or I will have to take the TTOne with me if I can't get this setup working 100%
Cheers
Richard
Alix
I just tried it again from a hard reset and the same problem
GPS works fine till I answer a call, then It stalls and loses GPS Position till I hang up, then GPS connects again but there is massive lag and the Map is nowhere near its true position,
Not cured until you exit TT and restart,
How did you install TT, I copied the cabs across and installed from the SD, I paired the GPS and set it to COM0, then in TT5 selected Other Bluetooth GPS and COM0.. am I doing something wrong with the way I am trying to get it installed
This has always worked on all the other systems I have used!
Cheers
Richard
I have the same problem and other...
I have the same problem when using Tom Tom ,if I pick a call with my BT headset the gps lost the position and when I close the phone call TT says No GPS device.......it restarts by himself after few mins , but the position is uncorrect, it has like a sort of delay, the arrow on the display "follows me" 2 or 3 Km behind.
So, mi car is quite fast..but be faster than a navigation device is very funny...
Btw my gps antena is an Hamlet HBTGPS
Other problem I have is that Tomtom 5.21 don't allow me to use my TT5.00 maps,it only see Italy ,Iberia and UK...
I think I will get Navigon asap....
Bye...
just a thought have you tried formating the storage card and reinstalling the map just back it up first in using a sirf3 apos and jabra 250v headset ive also used a ttmk2 bt receiver with no probs either
Same here
I am also getting this issue on an SPW M5000, flashed to the Imate test rom. I don't know if it was happening before on the original (crappy) orange rom that it shipped with as I had to upgrade my GPS to a bluetooth from a mouse.
It is a real pain not being able to use them both together and I'm tied to the phone with a wire at the minute.
Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated.
Before anyone says anything, yes I have tried looking.....
I have a problem with TT5.21 where I can connect to the BT GPS several times but then all of a sudden TT won't connect again. The only way I can do it is to delete the pairing with the GPS reciever and re-pair it setting up the COM ports again. It will then work fine 3 or 4 more times and I have to do it again.
I know the GPS works fine as it works perfect on my Alpine (believe it or not).
Has anyone any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Yes, I have this problem too, no set times or obvious reasons as to why tomtom loses gps, still appears in bluetooth device list, but tomtom cannot see it, only way to get tomtom to recognise the gps is to delete pairing and re-pair gps.
Eventually figured it out. When setting up the initial pairing (or was it com port), I cleared the use secure connection radio box and it seems to be fine now.
Thanks for your response though and I hope this works for you too.
Is it possible to use both TomTom (with a bluetooth GPS node) and a bluetooth headset at the same time?
I've managed to do it although that was on an old O2 ROM, not the new one.
I have a problem with my MDA Vario and TomTom Navigator 5.21.
I got it working with my GPS receiver (Holux GR-230) via Bluetooth COM 7.
But I have a second phone with car kit. So I switched the GSM/Phone function off on my MDA Vario and wanted to navigate. But TomTom indicates that it couldn't find a GPS device. So I removed and paired my Holux receiver again. 'New Partnership' could find my Holux receiver. But TomTom again couldn't find my GPS device. I checked if Bluetooth is on.
When I switched the GMS/Phone function on on my MDA Vario everything worked well again. TomTom can find the GPS.
So it seems that if you switch off the GSM/Phone function TomTom can't find the GPS device.
What can I do to get it working without het GSM/Phone function on?
I take it you had switched it into "Flight Mode".
This disables ALL the radio functions and as a result, you are left with a PDA that has no GSM, BT or WiFi.
I suppose the only way to use the unit without any GSM is to take the SIM card out.
I am sure someone will come along and correct me on that, LOL
If you go in the communications manager, you should be able to shut off just the Phone and keep bluetooh and/or WiFi on. I have not tested the ability to use bluetooth in this fashion, but I can't imagine why you couldn't.
Workaround found
Thanks for the reactions.
I am able to shut just the Phone off and keep bluetooh on (by using the communications manager). I even swithced off the Phone and left Bluetooth on and then started TomTom. But it can't find the GPS device anymore.
Luckily I remembered that with a dual SIM only the first SIM that connects with the GSM network has the connection.
So my workaround is:
1. Switch off the Phone off my MDA Vario
2. Turn my other GSM on
3. Switch the Phone on off my Mda Vario
And so I can use my other GSM for phone calls (via my carkit) and use my MDA Vario for Navigation.
Still curious though about how I could get it working otherwise.
When i start IGO With bluetooth on, it wont find automatically or something so how get it work :$