TomTom software is driving me crazy

kmmoore1013 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 01, 2004 Posts: 19

Because of the appaling way that Navman are treating its customers, I decided to purchase TomTom v2 instead and have it installed on my system alongside Smart ST v1.91

I cannot get TomTom to get a sat fix though.

I have a Navman 3400 with an Ipaq 3970. Thanks to the anti-static bag trick, Smart ST gets an initial fix in about 40 seconds, usually getting 5-7 sats. TomTom gets nothing. It just sits there mocking me.

I have done a search in the forums and get the impression that I need to set the GPS to NMEA 4800 and Serial cable on COM1. This I have done and TomTom does nothing.

I did notice, however, that when I run Smart ST and check the GPS status on that, it lists the connection via COM6: Navman Ipaq GPS

I'd appreciate any thoughts on how I might get TomTom to work. I'm almost at the stage where I wish I'd paid the extra and upgraded to Smart ST v2.

Thanks,
Kevin.

Nick412 · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:26 pm Post subject:

go through the tomtom wizard, and select your gps receiver and select the com port it is connected to.

the tick the blue square box to the right and click ok.

exit tomtom switch off the pda

switch back on

load tomtom

attach gps.

Hope this help.

Cheers
Nick

kmmoore1013 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 01, 2004 Posts: 19

I have tried changing the COM port to COM6 (this is what Smart ST says it is) but COM6 isn't listed. Only [Serial cable on] COM1, COM3, COM5 and COM7 [BT] and COM8 [BT].

I have tried them all to no avail. Is there some way I can change the COM port of the Navman 3400 from COM6 to COM1 so I can select this with TomTom ? or will this mean that Smart ST won't work then either ?

Thanks,

MikeC · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 19, 2004 Posts: 10

Darren · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:17 pm Post subject:

TomTom dropped native driver support from version 2. You can still use the jacket but you need to install the Navman Serial Driver available from here.

This will give you acces to the correct COM Port as well as adding an entry for the navman Jacket in the GPS Driver list Thumbs Up

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Darren Griffin

kmmoore1013 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 01, 2004 Posts: 19

Isn't it amazing how simple things are when you know what you are doing Embarassed

Downloaded and installed the serial driver and had a GPS lock within 60 seconds with TomTom.

Time to go play now and see if it was a good purchase.

Thanks to everyone for your help.

Cheers,
Kevin.

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