mio & tt5 using tomtom gps receiver option in tt5 softwa

bitsandpcsuk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 53

when you setup the tt5 software for the first time, you have to configure the gps receiver. At first i was told to use the other cable nmea gps option, but since have changed it to think it is using the tomtom cable gps, which i find to be more accurrate and faster at finding the satelites at startup.

Does anyone have any more comments????

StevenGourlay · Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:07 pm Post subject:

thats strange is that with the update installed.
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bitsandpcsuk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 53

the software the mio 168 is running is version 5

StevenGourlay · Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:49 pm Post subject:

sorry what i meant was did you use cabled nmea then installed the 5.01 update and changed to the tomtom GPS, as Darren says i would not think that you would see any major difference with what option you select as long as you select the correct com port.
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bitsandpcsuk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 53

the mio 168 is only 2 months old I installed tt5 and used the cable nmea gps option on com 2 and noticed it took a while to find the satalites first thing each day and could not get any signal in the house at ALL, so playing around like you do I change to gps setting to tomtom cable gps.
Now it finds the satelites quicker, and works in the house at verious points.

StevenGourlay · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:05 am Post subject:

thats prob because you have been using it, when you first get a GPS it does take sometime to get a lock and the more you use the GPS the quicker it will get the lock.
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bitsandpcsuk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 53

No

I had been using it on the cable nmea gps for a while b4 i changed it

razor69 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 17, 2005 Posts: 3

hi all,
i have a mio 168 with tt5 loaded, but when i turn on tom tom and add a post code it says that there is no GPS device although i do have one on the back and it is flipped up,

what do i have to do to make it reconise the gps?

thanks

razor

Darren · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:31 pm Post subject:

Have you told TomTom what type of GPS you have? It's in 'Change preferences' 'GPS status' 'Configure'

Set it for 'Other cable NMEA GPS' Baud Rate 9600 & COM1
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razor69 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 17, 2005 Posts: 3

done that i now have the N E S W compass thing and a row of numbers at the bottom but at the top it still says No GPS device!

um what do i do now, have i got to go and stand in the street to get a good signal?

Razor

Darren · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject:

Well it ain't gonna work indoors unless you don't have a roof!
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razor69 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 17, 2005 Posts: 3

so what are you saying i should do then?

razor

as u can tell i am very new at all this

Pocketgps · Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:49 am Post subject:

The settings for a Mio 168 running TT 5 (or) 5.1 should be

Other cable NMEA GPS

Baud Rate 4800

Serial Cable on SP2

The post above said that they where using TomTom Cable GPS, that can not be used on the Mio168, it just will not work at all, wrong baud rate, wrong COM port for the Mio 168.

Pc-Mobile · Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 3:11 am Post subject:

A cabled GPS will work.
You can ignore the internal GPS as if it was not there.

Use com1 if you use external cabled GPS.
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