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RoyCruse Occasional Visitor
Joined: Apr 05, 2004 Posts: 9
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Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 10:37 am Post subject: XDA II dropping TomTom serial GPS connection |
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I have the following setup.
XDA II,
Car Kit (From Expansys),
TomTom Navigator 2,
Wired GPS Reciever (Connected through port on car kit)
When ever you make a phone call the GPS is disconnected on termination of the call.
The GPS connection is imediately restored if you either turn the XDA II off then on or if you go to the GPS driver screen and disconect then reconect (by unchecking the tick box then re checking).
I believe this to be an XDA II bug not TomToms but come on TomTom we need a GPS driver with a workarround...
Any body else with the same setup, Your comments please... |
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MikeB Frequent Visitor
Joined: 20/08/2002 11:51:57 Posts: 3859 Location: Essex, UK
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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 9:06 am Post subject: |
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This sounds very interesting, but surely you should be putting that statement to O2 not TomTom.
Are you really sure that you want TomTom to provide a fix?
Remember what they have done with the BT drivers. Because they were having a lot of problems with users not keeping the BT connection to the GPS they used a sledgehammer approach and solved the issue for TomTom but crippled any other application that wants to use a BT serial port. Do you want that on your serial port as well? Bear in mind that you Synch with this port!! _________________ Mike Barrett |
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RoyCruse Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 10:46 am Post subject: |
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You have probably got a good point - but my gut feelling is that this is a hardware issue not a Rom or softrware issue. I will of course be investigating this with o2 but TomTom could put in a simple bit of keep alive code that can be turned on or off from the gps driver page which could detect the gps data stream had stoped and simply stop and start the connection.
Anyway untill such a time as a fix from someone arrives the connection can be re-established in one of three ways.
1. Stay on the phone all the time (the connection seems to be ok whilst the phone is on - but this is obviously not a realistic option)
2. Go to the GPS driver page and uncheck then recheck the tick box.
3. (The easiest workaround) Turn the XDA II off then imediately back on again after every phone call. |
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alix776 Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: 03/05/2003 14:45:49 Posts: 3999 Location: leyland lancs ENGLAND
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 10:16 am Post subject: |
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reconnect the gps but DONT create a serial port for it it will still work will both gps and headset to do this you need to get the updated drivers from xda rom update page for this to work _________________ currently using aponia truck navigation on windows phone. Good bye IOS don't let the door hit you on the way out .
Oh the joys of being a courier.
device Lumia 950 xl |
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RoyCruse Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 11:19 am Post subject: |
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Its a Wired GPS Reciever plugged into the rj11 socket at the bottom of this car kit - not bluetooth... |
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alix776 Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: 03/05/2003 14:45:49 Posts: 3999 Location: leyland lancs ENGLAND
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 11:48 am Post subject: |
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errrrrrrr ooooppps id still do the rom upgrade and see if that works _________________ currently using aponia truck navigation on windows phone. Good bye IOS don't let the door hit you on the way out .
Oh the joys of being a courier.
device Lumia 950 xl |
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RoyCruse Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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I got the rom upgrade from o2 2 months ago (i work for a software company) The behavior is identical on both old and new roms... |
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alix776 Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: 03/05/2003 14:45:49 Posts: 3999 Location: leyland lancs ENGLAND
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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ive just activated tt3 on my xda and ill run it this week and see what its like i have a feeling you may need to go bt _________________ currently using aponia truck navigation on windows phone. Good bye IOS don't let the door hit you on the way out .
Oh the joys of being a courier.
device Lumia 950 xl |
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wizrod Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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Hi, RoyCruse,
Which car kit are you using with your XDA2? Is it the TomTom one for the XDA, or one from a different manufacturer?
I haven't yet found anyone selling a kit advertised to work with the XDA2 and the TTN3. I know TomTom do one for the XDA, bit I haven't found anyone saying it fits the XDA2 as well. I've found others that will fit the XDA2, but none of them, claim to work with the TTN3.
So what will connect my TTN3 to my XDA2..!!??
TIA
cheers
Paul
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RoyCruse Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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The imate car kit from expansys will work with the wired version of tomtom 3 |
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wizrod Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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do you mean the one for £156..? ouch! thats more than the TTN3 cost!!! |
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RoyCruse Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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Yep thats the one |
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wizrod Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the info, but I have to say I think I'll wait for the XDA2 version of the Seidio G2500 GPS to be released (they now reckon the end of next week).....
cheers,
Paul |
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RoyCruse Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 1:29 am Post subject: |
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You dont get the car phone functionallity with that though - Its the hands free that you are paying the money for.
All car phone kits (i mean proper ones not these plug in the cigarette lighter socket jobs) are priced in that ball park.
Good luck with whatever you choose... |
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wizrod Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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I don't need the car-phone functionallity - I have a BT earpiece thinhy for that. I just need to connect the TTN3 'mouse' to the XDA II.
I've narrowed the search down to the TomTom XDA II kit (apparently there IS one) or the Carcomm XDA II car kit, with the TomToM GPS adapter cable.
cheers
Paul |
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