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Tom Tom GPS 3

Just installed and used Tom Tom 3 for my xda, amazing bit of kit. One problem though, if I am navigating around in my car and someone calls me, I answer it and then hang up when finished and the xda says that Tom Tom is running in the header bar but does not show it. Hard restart is the only way back.
Anyone come accross this???

Are you using bluetooth?

The easiest way that I find is to configure one of the hardware buttons (Start | Settings - Buttons) to launch TomTom, i.e. the Contacts Button.
Then when you have finished taking a call simply tap the Contacts button to bring TomTom to the foreground.

This is where mamaich's phone extension comes in handy.
He not only offers a contacts interface from within the phone app that can be accesed with the finger, but also the red hangup button can 'close' the phone app (in call: first button press ends call, second button press 'end' phone app).
Normally then TTN3 come to the foreground again and start talking again.
(I have BT)

cruisin-thru said:
Are you using bluetooth?
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Yes it is the TomTom Bluetooth device, amazing, no connection issues or dropping satalite yet.
Thanks for the advice on the other matter will give it a go.

Well just used it for a couple of hours switching between TomTom and the phone, perfect,,,,,how strange.
It did however lock up mid navigation, bugger

about the lockup: If your maps are on sd card, try to disable all POI.
9-to-1 that it wont lock up again.
has to do with the limited data-transfer rate of many SD cards.

edsub said:
about the lockup: If your maps are on sd card, try to disable all POI.
9-to-1 that it wont lock up again.
has to do with the limited data-transfer rate of many SD cards.
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Will give it ago, all I have on is the fuel stations. Any way in telling what version of TOMTOM I am running, I have just updated it to 3.03 or 3.04 but would like comfirmation that it has done it.

Switch to 'Map' View and click 'File | About' and you will see the current version information.

I noticed the lock-ups (and so have others referring to a certain thread on pocketgps.co.uk) in 3.03
It doesnt matter how many POI categories are 'on'. Just having the file open was enough for my installation to make it lock-up.
Work-around is to disable POI
Solution is buy faster sd card

Used it all weekend, PIO's on, no lock ups. The problem with answering a call and not being able to go back to Tom Tom is due to the fact that after the caller hangs up, the phone app will not shut down. Have used one of the freeware menu/task manager apps, gets round it.

Then the issue for sure is not with your sd card (lucky you!).
Could it be that the gsm was very busy at the time of the lockup (blind spot, getting out of flight mode) These actions can also make your TomTom freeze

TomTom freezes when making a phone call

my tomtom freezes when I make a phone call. when I hang up and start a new phone call tommom starts working again. Does more people have this problem?

Trinity hangs with heavy duty stuff
jjplayground said:
my tomtom freezes when I make a phone call. when I hang up and start a new phone call tommom starts working again. Does more people have this problem?
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Many persons does have this problem too. Switching to the lastest ROM's (DOPOD 1.23.707.6 or LVSW 1.23.800.2) doesn't work either, neither does changing to TomTom 6, 6.02 or 6.03.
It looks like the phone hangs sometime after some heavy duty, like TomTom. It hangs too when you got a monitor tool installed for the flash space for example like BatteryStatus or SPB PocketPlus.
It seems that it's a heavy duty to sync madia files by WMP (Windows Media Player) to the storage card, then it hangs after a couple of songs.
I don't know if this is because of the read/write actions on the storage card (I've got a Transcend 80x miniSD) or because of the floating point of the processor.
Maybe the real experts can figure this out for us ..... ?????
Anyway ... pushing 1 of the buttons on the phone stop the hanging and you can go on browsing through the menu's in TomTom.
By the way .... if the GPS isn't online before you start TomTom, it drives the phone crazy too.

Stingray66 said:
By the way .... if the GPS isn't online before you start TomTom, it drives the phone crazy too.
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Never noticed this on mine... How can you start GPS without using a navigation software?

Fist TomTom than Bluetooth...
It looks like If I first start tomtom and wait until the GPS is working. Then I start bluetooth for my phone connection with the carkit, it works oke...
Or maybe I had just look today.
And pressing the phone key works! TomTom unfreezes then I press a phone button...
Strange!

Start GPS without using Navigation Software
saminegm said:
Never noticed this on mine... How can you start GPS without using a navigation software?
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You could start your camera. Then select the GPS mode and wait for it to get a fix. You might have to start it twice if it does not get the fix the first time.

[Q]GPS dead after hard reset. Whats wrong?

I have now walked around freezing my ass of in 20 minutes. I'm using tom tom 7 and have also tried google maps. Before hard reset everything worked just fine, it had full reception after 20 sec.
What can have gone wrong?

Maby you forgot using quickGPS?

Nope, used it several times

You have to hard reset one more time. I had the same.

ell82 said:
You have to hard reset one more time. I had the same.
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Already did it a second time. Don't know what more to do.

I've had this happen on my Touch Pro and my Kaiser. It takes an obscene amount of time after a hard reset to get a gps signal. Try just leaving it on for a couple of hrs. If it never comes up then u have something serious to worry about

Ok, but you can't catch signal of gps or software can't see any gps hardware?

ell82 said:
Ok, but you can't catch signal of gps or software can't see any gps hardware?
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Well, Tom tom tells me that it has found the hardware. Then it starts to search and I can see in the gps info that it hasn't even found one satellite.
I have contacted the support my mail. If they can't help me the phone goes back to the store.

[email protected] said:
Well, Tom tom tells me that it has found the hardware. Then it starts to search and I can see in the gps info that it hasn't even found one satellite.
I have contacted the support my mail. If they can't help me the phone goes back to the store.
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Here's what I did when I had your problem, I went to the settings of TomTom and then GPS-status > Configuration > Another Bluetooth GPS (Instead of built in GPS) > COM 4. All of a sudden it started working again!

[email protected] said:
Well, Tom tom tells me that it has found the hardware. Then it starts to search and I can see in the gps info that it hasn't even found one satellite.
I have contacted the support my mail. If they can't help me the phone goes back to the store.
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Yes this is what happened to me. It detects the hardware but doesn't find a satellite for a quite a while and then after that first run of the GPS software it works fine.

I did one more hard reset today. Ran quickGPS, walked up a hill and placed the phone on a table for 30 minutes today. I have also restarted the phone and tried wayfinder, google maps and tom tom. At best tom tom gave me 3 gray bars. Wayfinder tells me that the signal is 25% but doesn't gives me a position. Goggle maps gives me a position but not so exact. I give up. Will leave it for service tomorrow. ohh, by the way. The support couldn't help me with any extra information.

GPS dead after hard reset
Hello,
The GPS of my Xperia is also dead after a hard reset.
Before it worked for weeks without a problem. After a hard reset is totally dead.

You should both install Chartcross GPSTest and run it. Set it to Auto. If you have no luck, kill the QuickGPS program from task manager and try again.
NB: When I had this problem, changing the baud rate to 9600 solved it, until the next hard reset when I had to set it back to 4800.

Hi Guys,
I'm having a similar problem with my X1.. I turn TomTom on after a hard reset and after a minute I get a GPS signal which is fine but then within a minute of using the app it completely freezes the phone and then the only way to get the phone working again is to remove the battery and start the phone again.. it seems to only happen when trying to make use of the GPS all other functions of the phone are OK as long as I don’t use the GPS..
Any ideas..?

I had same problem with gps refusing to get a lock so I just returned it to shop as it doesnt work as its supposed to. I think these forums are brilliant with lots of helpful people but at the same time I think £500 is enough money to spend that I shouldnt still have to search for help to get the phone to work as it should.

SonyXperia said:
Hi Guys,
I'm having a similar problem with my X1.. I turn TomTom on after a hard reset and after a minute I get a GPS signal which is fine but then within a minute of using the app it completely freezes the phone and then the only way to get the phone working again is to remove the battery and start the phone again.. it seems to only happen when trying to make use of the GPS all other functions of the phone are OK as long as I don’t use the GPS..
Any ideas..?
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same issue... return device is nonsense, should be a software problem

make sure you set the GPS port as COM4, rather than Intermediate Driver. The latter is supposed to act as a virtual driver above the physical com port (com4), and selecting this "virtual" port will hang (at least on my Garmin MXT). I don't have that in my Touch Pro so I really think this is a Xperia bug.

must I deactivate "manage gps automatically"? can you tell me exactly ALL gps parameters? tnx

so has anyone found a solution to this yet?
SE support say they haven't even heard of the issue despite the number of posts about it around the forums

solution for me was: hard reset -> gps test -> tomtom and all others apps work fine

GPS locking phone up

Drove home tonight and had to avoid an accident, turned on Tom Tom 7 and the phone locked up after a few minutes requiring a reset. Tried again, same thing happened.
Tried google maps, again same thing happened after a few minutes. This happened to anyone else? I have TouchFlow 3d installed (but same happened without it loaded). I was able to use TomTom for half an hour a few weeks ago with no issues.
Anyone else having an issue or know of a problem?

No, I am driving with bluetooth on and connected to my Parrot CK 3100 and Navigation with Navigon MN7. I can make and receive phone calls without problems while navigating. After the phone call the navigation is shown after a few seconds again and at the right place (not where the call started!).
Just as it should be...

This happened to me on Sunday when I was using Copilot 7. I then tried Google maps and it froze again. To solve this I reinstalled Copilot and this seems to have solved the problem.
Only reason I could think of is that I had just transfered the files across to a bigger sd card and thats why it kept freezing. Not sure how it was related to google maps as it was only the copilot files I had on the memory card.
All this could have effected GPS in some way but I'm not sure.
Hope this helps...

mingoid said:
Drove home tonight and had to avoid an accident, turned on Tom Tom 7 and the phone locked up after a few minutes requiring a reset. Tried again, same thing happened.
Tried google maps, again same thing happened after a few minutes. This happened to anyone else? I have TouchFlow 3d installed (but same happened without it loaded). I was able to use TomTom for half an hour a few weeks ago with no issues.
Anyone else having an issue or know of a problem?
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I noticed that if you don't connect to GPS via com4, but rather GPS Intermediate driver, this will hang.
What's the GPS setting of your Tom Tom?

TomTom just shows it as "Built-in GPS receiver". I think the COM4 is only for external GPS?

COM4 can be used for apps which don't realise that there is a built-in GPS. If TomTom is playing up it's worth trying it.

Tried COM4 setting but TomTom still locked up the phone after a few minutes(I'm in the office with poor GPS visibiliy also). Soft rebooted and tried Google maps which wouldn't recognise COM4 so went back to normal setting. Google maps then continued to work with no issues this time. I hadn't yet loaded TouchFlo 3D panel. Could this be a resources issue, is just having Touchflo installed a likely culprit? I haven't made any "tweaks" to performance/memory, was also thinking of installing the custom rom (itje?) with TouchFlo included as I hear it runs better than installing the cab?

gps problems
I have had gps working perfectly with copilot 7 in fact been amazed how fast the lock is etc but now it has stopped worling altogether for no apparent reason. No hang ups or freezes just not getting a lock at all on either copilot or google maps. I have even tried a hard reset and reinstalled everything and despite wandering about outdoors for ages, still nothing. Anyone got any ideas before I have to send my phone back? Thanks.

same problem here, tomtom 7.4 and 7.9 hangs the phone. If i don't activate intermediate driver ("manage gps automatically", I suppose) tomtom can't find gps receiver
also, it isn't a tomtom problem because demo mode withot receiver goes very well (tested 1 night while sellping, no hangs)

Are you using XperiaTweak and changing the graphics and system cache values I had the same problem with tt7 after changing system cache too high, if you are try lowering system cache value.

guap said:
it isn't a tomtom problem because demo mode without receiver goes very well (tested 1 night while sellping, no hangs)
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also, no tweak, so it isn' graphic related. It's a gps driver issue. ****

guap said:
same problem here, tomtom 7.4 and 7.9 hangs the phone. If i don't activate intermediate driver ("manage gps automatically", I suppose) tomtom can't find gps receiver
also, it isn't a tomtom problem because demo mode withot receiver goes very well (tested 1 night while sellping, no hangs)
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although i don't use tomtom, this is consistent with my observation that using intermediate driver will hang the phone (I use Garmin MXT)
did you try using com4 instead? it should work.

hard reset seems to fix the issue... have to test more before declare it definely solved but now seems to work (30 min without freeze...) I pray

guap said:
hard reset seems to fix the issue... have to test more before declare it definely solved but now seems to work (30 min without freeze...) I pray
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have you ever used Advance Config to enable Quick GPS? I noticed that might have created compatibility issue. Couldn't prove it though.

hell I don't think I've seen the GPS get a lock once... on google maps it always had "searching for satellites (0)" and it never increased. I usually found what I was looking for and closed the app by then. I installed Advanced Config 3.3 and saw that it said A-GPS was disabled, so I enabled it and made sure QuickGPS was updated with info and tried google maps again. Still... it can't find any satellites. My HTC touch diamond would get a lock in seconds on the stock ROM, even indoors. I think SE really dropped the ball with the X1 =\

dinan said:
hell I don't think I've seen the GPS get a lock once... on google maps it always had "searching for satellites (0)" and it never increased. I usually found what I was looking for and closed the app by then. I installed Advanced Config 3.3 and saw that it said A-GPS was disabled, so I enabled it and made sure QuickGPS was updated with info and tried google maps again. Still... it can't find any satellites. My HTC touch diamond would get a lock in seconds on the stock ROM, even indoors. I think SE really dropped the ball with the X1 =\
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as I mentioned earlier, I observed that my GPS reception/fix is more stable if I do not enable A-GPS via the Advanced Config method, but just download the data from the program.
now I can even get fix indoor or my underground carpark (not totally covered so signal reception is still possible)!

I had this problem for the first time today.
Both iGO and Tomtom would freeze after a few minutes requiring the battery to be removed to gain control of the device again. I did a hard reset only a couple of days ago so it should be relatively clean.
Eventually I found that downloading the latest QuickGPS file appears to have solved the problem (even though the previous one still had 5 days to run). I wonder if the QuickGPS file was corrupt?
Does the system use QuickGPS only once when starting up the GPS, or does it continue to consult with it during navigation? My experience suggests the latter, or it may just be coincidence...

First, make sure you test w/ nothing being install to make sure no other conflict.
I've been using Igudiance4(w/ GPS gate), Igo8, Garmin Mobile XT 5.020 (TomTom 7 not tested because it's suck compare to others) more than an hour (Los Angeles to San Diego) without issue (and I am using CorePlayer to play music in the background too).

I have nailed down the issue to the GPS setting applied by the Advanced Config Tool (ACT). Will probably have to go deeper to understand the registry value it sets so that I can simulate the same w/o the ACT to prove/conclude the point.
But before I undo the setting by ACT, I frequently have drop GPS signal (Garmin will always complain lost satellite, takes a few minute to acquire before losing the satellite signal again). If I switched to GPS Intermediate driver, instead of COM4, I would get the hung situation.
After I have undone the ACT's GPS setting, my Xperia now has NO drop signal, nor will it hang when I access the GPS through the GPS intermediate driver port, instead of physical com 4.

I am having the same problem again now after I updated the QuickGPS yesterday. And I can confirm this is not related to bluetooth or xperiatweak or TouchFlo 3D or intermediate driver or the navigation softwares.
This is the problem:
Start Igo8 -> GPS gets coordinates -> working fine for 2-3 minutes -> THE PHONE FREEZES
Start Tomtom 7 -> GPS gets coordinates -> working fine for 2-3 minutes -> THE PHONE FREEZES
Basically, after using the GPS for like 2 - 3 minutes, the phone crashed and needed to be soft-reset. I think running the QuickGPS caused the problem. I had the same problem last time I updated the quickGPS. But after like a week the freeze problem had gone. Since then I had not updated the QuickGPS for a long time until yesterday and my igo8 and tomtom had been working fine last week without any freezes.

[Q] Desperate help needed with GPS

Hey to every1
I've got a Dell Streask and I have a very strange problem.
Every few days my GPS stops work.
Say I'm using Navigon or the Navigator that comes with the Dell Streak it start working ok I get satellite position in a few seconds I tap in my destination does not matter if it a few miles or hundread and everytrhing is fine up to here after a while that I'm using it I loss GPS but on the taskbar the GPS shows that it has afixes but Navigon or Navigator depended which one I using at that moment say searching for gps.
I tried a few diffrent thing like disconnecting the gps and then reactivating it no joy still cannot get a fix I then launch the GPS Test that I downloaded from Google market that as well shows no statallite in view I can wait for hours but nothing.
Now I reboot the Dell Streak and now everything goes crazy it boots up ok I launch Navigon or Navigation a the Dell Streak reboots that while happen for like half an hour everytime that it reboot I fisically remove the battery but i keeps do it.
What I've notice if I lauch any software that uses GPS the system reboot if I launch any another application that is not reletaed to GPS thyen it well not reboot if I leave for about 5 minute on that I launch a software that needs gps it might reboot or it might work but not GPS satallite is find I then reboot again and then it is all ok it might work ok for a few days or only a few minute its just all over the place.
Can someone please help me in resolving this problem??????
Another thing I've noticed if I make a call I get buzzy in the speaker and I have end the call redial and it work ok .
The Rom on this PDA id Version 2.1 Update1 its was already unlock when I purchased it.
Please help me if anyone can or I have to through it in the bin.
Thanks
Gigino