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digital Regular Visitor
Joined: Nov 29, 2004 Posts: 88 Location: Leeds, UK
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:44 am Post subject: TTN on Samsung i900 Omnia? |
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I've just got a couple of Samsung i900 Omnia phones which run on Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro. Anyone able to tell me whether or not TTN will run on them (and also see the built in GPS receiver)?
I've tried loading up TTN 5 that I've been running on my Ipaq hx4700 but the installation drops out at a very early stage without any error messages.
TIA _________________ Frank |
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mikealder Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 14, 2005 Posts: 19638 Location: Blackpool , Lancs
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:59 am Post subject: |
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How are you trying to install it the CAB file method generally provides the best approach when trying to load to an unknown device. Although I am not too sure it will work on that phone - Mike |
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digital Regular Visitor
Joined: Nov 29, 2004 Posts: 88 Location: Leeds, UK
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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I've got it running after a CAB install (thanks) but adding a voice by transferring engf.cab and then clicking on it stops it running at the Welcome screen (although) I did, at one stage, hear Jane's dulcet tones!). _________________ Frank |
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aquaboy Occasional Visitor
Joined: Sep 01, 2008 Posts: 1
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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Gi,
Did you ever get TTN to receive an actual signal on your Omnia? When I choose other GPS receiver and select COM3, it looks like TTN actually finds the GPS, but keep on reporting that it receives a weak signal. Even though Google Maps works perfectly using COM3.. Any thoughts?
Kind regards,
AB |
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digital Regular Visitor
Joined: Nov 29, 2004 Posts: 88 Location: Leeds, UK
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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aquaboy wrote: | Did you ever get TTN to receive an actual signal on your Omnia? When I choose other GPS receiver and select COM3, it looks like TTN actually finds the GPS, but keep on reporting that it receives a weak signal. |
It's picked up a signal and planned a route based on that. Signal strength/number of satellites seems to vary quite a lot from one weak satellite up to seven with quite reasonable strengths. I just wish I could find a way to load up a voice and not have TTN then fail to run.
aquaboy wrote: | Even though Google Maps works perfectly using COM3 |
Care to explain a little more about how to use this? The phone's manual is hopeless! _________________ Frank |
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AlexB1 Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jan 07, 2007 Posts: 4
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:14 am Post subject: |
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digital wrote: | I've got it running after a CAB install (thanks) but adding a voice by transferring engf.cab and then clicking on it stops it running at the Welcome screen (although) I did, at one stage, hear Jane's dulcet tones!). |
Which version did you install - 6.01 or 6.03? I have tried installing via Tom-tom Home without success.
Can you run through the process? |
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LT Regular Visitor
Joined: Nov 02, 2005 Posts: 76 Location: Lancashire
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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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I've just got the Omnia too. Great phone overall, but the GPS Signal appears weak. Are we saying that we need to choose com 3 rather than let windows choose automatically? |
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digital Regular Visitor
Joined: Nov 29, 2004 Posts: 88 Location: Leeds, UK
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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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COM 3is the only one I get any response from. _________________ Frank |
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Graculus Lifetime Member
Joined: Mar 07, 2006 Posts: 51
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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Experiences not too good so far.
1. Cannot get it to use the built-in GPS. It seems to think it's connected via the COM port, but get zero signal for any satellite. Other applications (e.g. MemoryMap) work fine. Therefore I have to continue to use the bluetooth GPS.
2. It will only work in landscape mode with the action/phone buttons on the right. Anything else results in it throwing errors all the time.
3. There's a screen size mismatch. This results in the TomTom screen appearing on the left of the physical screen at, presumably 320x240 pixels, so the remaining 80 pixels on the right are a duplicate of the leftmost 80 pixels. Somewhat annoying. |
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Mullet Frequent Visitor
Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 1051
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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Been reading up on this PPC recently and it appears there are a few hoops to jump through. Some are saying a GPS port splitter is necessary, and most seem to be running TomTom v7. There are several YouTube GPS setup tutorials you may want to check out.
Port Splitter freeware is also reported to work as an alternative to GPSGate.
I was hoping TomTom GPS would be the usual straight forward setup |
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