*NEWBIE* SPV M2000 Unreliable Signal Problems

Nicho · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 19, 2005 Posts: 14

Yeah, yeah GPS Newbie... get over it.

This might be a really stupid problem to some of you but I don’t know what to do. I've tried everything the TOM TOM website says and I've talked to several TOM TOM technical support ANSWER MACHINES!!! But as yet, I still can’t get this product to work. On the TOM TOM website it says the M1000 is compatible with the TOM TOM 3. It doesn’t list the M2000 but does the XDA25 so I assume that it will work for the M2000 despite it not being listed. I have the fully updated 3.07 for my Pocket PC 2003 OS and I have drove around and left it running for probably around 3hrs. "Unreliable signal" is all I get and I’m getting close to making this GPS system fly. I say it MUST be something stupid that is causing this not to work.

The only other thing I am confused about is when I go into the GPS settings; I’m not entirely sure what port I am supposed to have the receiver on. It is attached to the in car phone holder and the phone holder is attached to the M2000 via the USB/Charger port so I’ve put the GPS on Serial on USB... is this correct? When it first loaded it wanted to be on "serial on COM1" but I got an error that said that port does not exist. Am I using the right com port?

Any help would be appreciated.

iancjc · Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:40 pm Post subject:

try each of the com ports in turn the one you don't want is "GPS on Serial on USB".

serial on com1 sounds right so try serial on com2....3...4...5....etc

when the gps and tomtom are talking the gps status screen should show a constant flow of black dots on the rhs from the sat to the pda icons - if nothing is showing here they are not communicating.

Couple of other questions what make of gps unit are you using?

What gps unit have you selected in tomtom?

And finally does the m2000 have a serial port?

Ian
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iancjc · Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:45 pm Post subject:

sorry one other point - if it says "unreliable signal" it may be connected ok - does the gps status screen bars show any activity (even if only grey bars).

Next question, can the gps mouse see the sky and do you have a coated windscreen?

Try giving the gps a clear sight of the sky outside - it can take upto 30 minutes from a cold start to get the gps data fully loaded - after this fixes should be in seconds.

HTH

Ian
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alix776 · Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:55 pm Post subject:

com 1 is the what the keyboard uses so this needs to be disabled to allow the gps to work also tomtom doesn't recognize the slideout keyboard to input addresses its just an anoying quirk of the xda2s and its varients if you get stuck www.xda_developers.com are a good resoure the forum you need is for the blue angel
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Nicho · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 19, 2005 Posts: 14

Thanks for the help, there are no bars, clear skys, no heat reflective windshields. I have the TOM TOM wired gps reciever and is selected apropiratly in the settings. I guess I'll try and figure out how to disable the keyboard.

plantpot · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 01, 2005 Posts: 4

set to com 1, you also need to disconnect infa red, its in start-settings-connections-beam un tick the box :

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