TomTom 5 VS XDA2 & Globalsat 388

yossii · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 10, 2005 Posts: 8

Hiya
Ive got a XDA2 and a fab little Glabalsat 388 (bluetooth)
Just got TomTom 5
I cannot get the damn thing up and running.
The software come on fine but under GPS status I get "No GPS device"
I am getting a solid green signal from the satilite (according to my GPS manual that is good becasue the thingie can see the satalite)
I just can't get TomTom 5 to play nice with my BT device

Please help i am loosing my sanity ! Sad

Thanks in advance

Yossii

yossii · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 10, 2005 Posts: 8

For what its worth I used to use TomTom 3 which worked fine.
Also i have done a hard reset on my XDA

Cheers
Yossii

JST · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 36

Hi Yossi,

I guess you mean a GlobalSat BT-338?

If so, then a slid green light means it hasn't locked onto the satellites yet. You need the green light to be flashing. Try standing in full view of the sky for a few moments to give it a chance to lock on.

To configure TT5 I have set the GPS Connection to "Other Cable NMEA GPS", "38400 Baud", Com port 5 (for my Ipaq - may be different for you).

I seems to connect OK. I locked on to 9 satellites this morning. However, I am having a problem with TT5 losing the connection to the GPS after about 45mins. TT3 was fine.

Cheers, Jim

yossii · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 10, 2005 Posts: 8

Ok tried that still no go.
I slapped the tomtom307 to check the bt-388 still worked. Grabbed plenty of satalittes then went to tomtom 5 and still "no gps device"

Any more ideas (well apart from going back to tomtom 3 Wink

)

Cheers
Yossii

yossii · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 10, 2005 Posts: 8

Intresting thing i noticed....
there is a small black and yellow circle which is going round so to speak. Does this mean anything ?

Cheers
Yossii

JST · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 36

If you mean the one on the that has "hh:mm:ss UTC" by it... Yes, that's good! That means TomTom 5 is recieving data from the GPS (on TT3 it used to be a series of dots moving from left to right)

Does the GPS Status page show any vertical bars? If yes, are they grey or blue. No bars means GPS not seing any satellites. Grey bar means seeing satellites, but not locked on. Blue bar means seen and locked on.

Usually you need a minimum of 3 blue bars to get a fix.

Cheers, Jim

yossii · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 10, 2005 Posts: 8

Little circle thing is moving
Nothing in the bars
the message says " No GPS Device !"
Nothing but 0's for lat, long etc....
Thats in TomTom 5
Settings:
Cable device
Connected to com 5

The TomTom 3 thingie shows locked sat's and stuff. and is quite happy. So i know the Hardware is fine and dandy.

Yours perplexed......
Yossii
(thanks for the replys)

sjaddy · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 2:49 pm Post subject:

I had same problem (but with M1000 - the Orange version of XDA2).

To fix I had to connect the bt338 to my pc use SirfDemo and change it from using Sirf to NMEA and then it worked absolutely brilliantly under the NMEA Other cable.

Hope this helps.

If not PM me and I can give you full (hopefully) instructions

junglejim · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 04, 2004 Posts: 7

just to add to the above post:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=23247

may help,

Cheers,

JB

gianpi · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 23, 2005 Posts: 2

remove the battery and replace it.
bye

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