Nokia 6600 running City Maps and Rikaline X7 BT GPS

stevencarpenter · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 23, 2004 Posts: 9

I have a Rikaline GPS that is successfully paired with my 6600.

1, The GPS works fine - tested it with a Mac (Route 66) and my PC at work.
2, The Bluetooth Connection pairs successfully with my 6600.
3, The GPS information can be received by the 6600.
I have another program called PowerNavigator for the 60series phone...
http://www.symbianware.com/product.phpid=powernavigator60&pl=n6600)

PowerNavigator is running at default settings at 4800 baud NMEA and works flawlessly.

My problem...

I still cannot however get the city maps program to recognise the same GPS device.

I get an error when trying to enable the GPS map functionality whilst running city maps software that states

"Cannot Start GPS System error" but it does not say what this is.

I also know that only one Bluetooth GPS can be active so I am deactivating PowerNavigator before I use City Maps.

It is possible to configure the GPS (via a windows program) but as there are no settings in City Maps other than to "enable GPS" and which point I then get the error message and another top box that shows "GPS enabled".

From my point of view I know everything else is fine except the City Maps program.

Can anyone give me an idea as to what is wrong?

Tomtom were totally useless (should have some expletives here) as I have never come across such useless support in my life.
I have yet to get feedback from an email to Rikaline UK support sent yesterday (the site says 24Hour response).

lbendlin · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 8:50 pm Post subject:

not sure how it works on Symbian, but on the PocketPC the TomTom GPS driver is separate from the rendering and calculation engine. Maybe you have to start another helper application first?
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stevencarpenter · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 23, 2004 Posts: 9

Thanks for that piece of information but there is no additional software on to TomTom web site and they do not seem helpful as it is not their own hardware!

Currently there are no settings for GPS (even in the preferences of the application itself).

The only option is to Enable GPS and that is it.

As TomTom are not helpful I am trying Rikaline support in the UK.

The problem is all hardware works its just the software doesn't and the software vendor says its not a problem they want to help me with.

Haw sad is that? Crying or Very sad

stevencarpenter · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 23, 2004 Posts: 9

I had a nice one liner from Rikaline today.

From: Rikaline <support@rikaline.co.uk>
To: 'Steve Carpenter'
Date: Mon Mar 29, 2004 12:07:18 PM BST
Subject: RE: Fw: Guest Book from Steve Carpenter -U.K.

Dear Sir,
Yes, I confirm the receiver is compatible with the 6600.
Thanks
Sam

I am still confused how the TomTom application knows what paired device is the bluetooth GPS as I have anumber of paired devices and none of them define the devices as a GPS they just have various services offered.

The other application I am successfully using (PowerNavigator) actually asks which device I am using and does its own bluetooth scan to confirm the device and speed.

I have reiased another request with TomTom (don't hold much hope though) to find some more answers. Sad

Software support anyone? Thumbs Up

lbendlin · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 3:01 pm Post subject:

The service on offer is not specifically GPS. It is called SPP - Serial Port Profile, or sometimes just Serial Port. Do you see that?
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