tom tom bluetooth sirf iii or mark II

jagga · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 09, 2005 Posts: 4

till now i had a wired tom tom attached to my pda. when i was gifted with a hp ipaq hx2415 with bluetooth, i thought of going wireless. so i upgraded my tomtom 3 to 5 and bought a well acclaimed tomtom bluetooth mk II receiver. to begin with i did not get any instructions manual as to how to use it. when i searched the web, i found the instructions in tom tom website under the heading " how to manually configure tom tom navigator 5 bluetooth receiver". i followed all the instructions verbatim and alas at the last step when I had to configure my pda to the gps receiver, i got stuck.
let me explain in more detail. i paired my pda with the gps receiver. now i started tomtom navigator and in menu 2 went to change preferences and chose gps status, wherein I got the screen saying configure. at this point there were 4 options
a) tom tom wireless gps with a passkey of 0000
b)tomtom cable gps
c)other bluetooth gps
d)other nmea gps

as advised in tom tom website, i chose other blue tooth gps and chose configure, when i got a screen message saying
please pair ur bluetooth gps and ur pda/smartphone . for details consult doucmentation for your gps receiver and your pda
as i had already paired my device , i pressed continue
now i got a screen with a heading of gps is connected to and a list of options, I chose blue tooth serial port 8 when i got the message No gps device. now as advised by tomtom again, this time i chose other nmea gps and a gps baud rate of 4800 and tried to configure. alas no luck again. the yellow and blue wheel never spins.
I am stuck here . I tried various combinations for receiver as well as for comports but nothing is working.
as i have looked into the forum and could n't find anyone with this problem, i am getting quite worried. am i missing something sinister? Kindly advice and help
Many thanks
jagadish

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