Orange SPV M3100 GPS possible?

JamesKBLinton · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 02, 2007 Posts: 2

I'm new to this technology but I need an in-car address finder. I don't really want to have a separate standalone unit and I have heard that it is possible to get GPS onto my Orange SPV M3100. Is this right and if so how do I go about getting whatever is required? Any help muchly appreciated.

Darren · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:37 am Post subject:

You can install a navigation solution such as TomTom. You will need a GPS receiver but TomTom do a bundle of software and receiver.
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JamesKBLinton · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 02, 2007 Posts: 2

7andy · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 02, 2005 Posts: 74

There are Bluetooth GPS devices which you can hide out of sight, and switch on with the ignition. I'm sure the more knowledgeable members hereablouts will be able to advise you further...

Cheers, 7&Y

TheBrit · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 18, 2006 Posts: 111

MikC · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 12, 2007 Posts: 11

I bought Route 66 for £45 from easydevices.com to run on my Orange SPV M600 with a Navman Spin 100 from Totalpda which includes a BT receiver. Then sold the Navman software on ebay. Works like a dream.

Phil-w · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 01, 2005 Posts: 65

I ran TT6 on my M3100 for around 6 months, got totally sick of it locking up at the worst possible time.. Then having to restart it...
Even with only the phones normal software on board plus TT it still locked up. Yes it worked but I had to reduce the POI's on screen i.e speed cams.

You had to sort of "let it settle" before plotting a route or it would lock up at that point as well..

Got so bad in the end (lost in Liverpool !) that I gave up and bought a TT One. That has not been an ounce of trouble at all... I run that with traffic via the 3G phone, very useful..

By the way I did try traffic on a free trial with the M3100, don't even bother, with traffic enabled the software (TT) slowed down to a crawl and then curled it's toes up and died...

Sorry to be the bringer of bad news but I like to say it like it is, I guess if there is a later version of firmware for the M3100 it may now be better but I'll stick with the TT One.

Phil-w

TheBrit · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 18, 2006 Posts: 111

Phil-w · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 01, 2005 Posts: 65

Cheers Paul,

I'll try the update, don't really need it now as such but it would be handy for hols, save having the TT one and the Phone.. (I know, still need the GPS RX but it's not very big!).

Phil

mikealder · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:42 pm Post subject:

TheBrit · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 18, 2006 Posts: 111

Phil-w · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 01, 2005 Posts: 65

I may have mentioned this on the XDA forum but after updating the M3100 with the official orange firmware it all went pear shaped, no longer able to connect to the M3100 from the TTOne, even the SE bluetooth handsfree only works in one direction..

Oh and the phone locks up more than normal... Sometimes it makes you wonder how we got out of the caves...

Anyway, decided to see if I could "Brick" the M3100 by putting WM6 schaps rom in the thing... It works !!, well nearly, at least the TTone now sees it and it looks like I should be able to get it to connect. Will report back. (oh and the BT hfree works OK !)

Phil-w

Phil-w · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 01, 2005 Posts: 65

OK Paul (and anyone else interested !)

I installed the WM6 Schaps rom into the Orange M3100.

It still works as a phone which is always useful Surprised

Anyway it has not crashed since installing and now everything that didn't work with the official upgrade now works including TT traffic to my TT one via BTooth. I have tried my old version 6 TT for the PDA back on the M3100 as well, it never was reliable on it but after around 100 miles of use it hasn't played up once !!! I've now reloaded things like Sky*e and various other progs etc onto the M3100 in an attempt to crash it but so far so good.

I did have to fiddle a little to get the TT one to work OK, just problems with which type of connection to use, I ended up with Orange contract and WAP... all manually selected with the very simple TT prompts.

Anyway cheers Paul for mentioning the WM6 rom on the XDA forum it has solved my issues (hopefully) with the SatNav problems on this forum.

A worth while upgrade, must send the guy a paypal donation...

Thanks again Phil

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