ipaq HX2750 NMEA bluetooth GPS receiver & tomtom connect

blade12568 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 06, 2005 Posts: 5

ok bit of a newbie to GPS satnav

here is my issue
it seems tomtom software wont try to connect or cant connect to the bluetooth GPS receiver

the simple compass like software that comes with the gps works fine on the PPC

i have paired the gps to the PPC obviously also i can get the PPC to connect to the GPS on the phantom serial port.

now in the settings of the tomtom i have selected 'NMEA **** Bluetooth' for the GPS reciever & com port 5 (which is the only bluetooth port available)
but yet tomtom doesnt seem ot be able or try to connect or is there something simple im missing?

had a resonable quick look round the forum but looked lots via google!

anyone else had this issue or knows what im missing to get it working?

lbendlin · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 2:17 pm Post subject:

Have a look at the BlueTooth serial port settings of your Pocket PC. There must be two serial ports, one incoming, and one outgoing. You need to use the outgoing one.

If your simple GPS app works - can't you just use the same COM port in TomTom?

By the way, you need a task manager to make sure that only one program is accessing the COM port. Otherwise you may run into a situation when your simple app is running in the background and TomTom is unable to connect. To test this do a soft reset before starting TomTom
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blade12568 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 06, 2005 Posts: 5

you are correct there are 2 ports but i cant seem to change either tomtom (from the drop down list in the settings were the port is

the bluetooth port inbound is 5 outbound is 8 that was from the bluetooth settings screen when i clicked on serial port.
which makes sense as tomtom is connecting to 5 but i dont have the option to connect to 8?
am i still missing something?
is there a reg hack i can do to change the ports over? or force it to look for port 8?

also as a matter of course i uninstalled the simple gps compass to eliminate that!

as far as im aware there is no other app's grabbing the bluetooth ports as ive now (well last night) done a hard reset on my pda so the only thing installed is the tomtom software & the default stuff that comes with the PPC. (hard reset might sound extreme but ive only just got it last week so my data hasnt been moved across yet so not bothered)

thanks for you quick answer btw
hope i can resolve the issue

lbendlin · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:07 pm Post subject:

You may want to read through this

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/tomtom-navigator-bt-dummy-guide.php
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blade12568 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 06, 2005 Posts: 5

Hi Thanks for the link however it didnt quite solve my problem
the way it read
i didnt have the GPS driver after the uninstall but the install of the GPS 2.06 driver enabled me to select either port 5 or 8
which when i selected port 8 it worked spot on

hope this helps other people now!
regards,
B

lbendlin · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:06 am Post subject:

well it does work now, so the link did actually help, or? 8)
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blade12568 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 06, 2005 Posts: 5

i never said the link didnt solve my problem just not in the way it is meant to

but yes it did help

no i wasnt saying the link didnt help

i was pointing out you might have to try a variation of what was written there

as when i removed the ~gps driver it wasnt there afterwards till i installed the 2.06 drivers.

Thanks Again
B

lbendlin · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:06 am Post subject:

FlantheMan · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 08, 2004 Posts: 3

Hi Blade.
I have a HP HX 2110 and seem to be having the same problem can you tell me were you installed the 2.07 file as i dont seem to be able to get mine to see the coms port 8 in the GPS drop down menu.

Many Thanks

Steve F

blade12568 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 06, 2005 Posts: 5

Hi did you get this sorted on yours ?
if not let me know ill talk you through it
B

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