tomtom 3 & Ipaq 2210 GPS unreliable

arfurdaily · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 30, 2004 Posts: 8

Hi,
Virgin GPS / PDA er here so please be gentle with me.
I have read loads of articles and it seems as though loads of people have had the same problem as me so how do i fix it?

I have just bought a Ipaq 2210 with Tomtom 3 and car kit, i have loaded it all on, connect the power and the satellite (Silver diamond shape) but no matter what i try it comes up GPS position unreliable, the green light on the satellite flashes on and off, i have left it running for hours and nothing, my patience is slowly wearing thin with the *&^%ing thing, please help or the GPS gets it?

Steve999 · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:10 pm Post subject:

Hi,

Sorry if this is too basic and you are beyond this but here goes:-

Go to 'GPS Status' in TT3 and check the contents on the 'GPS' tab.

In the top menu, you should select 'Tomtom Navigator GPS'

In ther second menu down, select 'Serial Cable on COM1'

You will then see a box on the left - you must then tap this so that a tick appears in it and stays there.

Then go to the Status tab and you should see a dotted line filling in from left to right about half way up (receiver must be connected of course). If so, then you are receiving a signal. It is then a matter of waiting until the vertical bands fill in and change to red. With the TT receiver this should be more or less instantaneous.

If not, then look in your programs installed on the ipaq and see if Tomtom ~ GPS is installed correctly. You will find it in Settings/System/Remove Programs. If not, re-install from the CD.

Hope that is okay for starters.

Steve
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arfurdaily · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 30, 2004 Posts: 8

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the advice, i have tried what you said and i have sat in my car for an hour with the pda in the cradle, power lead in the cigar socket, atenna connected to the cradle and ignition on and there is nothing showing on GPS status no dotted line moving or red bars for signal strength.
I have read a few other articles and they suggest it could be the storage card you use, mine is a sandisk 256mb sd card, am i better using a cf card?
I have tried all the other obvious things and nothing seems to work! Crying or Very sad

Has any one else got any ideas?

Steve999 · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:38 pm Post subject:

What kind of car are you in? Is your GPS receiver looking through a heat reflective coated screen?

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arfurdaily · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 30, 2004 Posts: 8

Hi Steve,
Its a rover 800 with no heated front windscreen apart from the fan, i have even opend the sunroof and sat the antenna on it for ages and nothing.

Steve999 · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:06 pm Post subject:

Sorry - don't know what else to suggest at this juncture other than make sure the connecter is the right way round into the ipaq. Difficult when you are not there to see what's going on!!

I suppose your SD card could be a complete duffer but I would still expect to see a signal in on the GPS status. Try installing a 16mb section of the map directly onto the ipaq main memory if you suspect this.

I would be inclined to remove the four Tomtom elements from the ipaq (make sure they go!), do a soft reset and then re-install them. There may be an element missing from the installation that is causing your problem.

Keep watching the forum - the answer usually comes along before too long.

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Darren

clivers · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:04 pm Post subject:

no mention of the bluelight?
have you paired the bluetooth to the ipaq?
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Darren · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:06 pm Post subject:

clivers · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:11 pm Post subject:

sorry just read that again and noticed it said diamond
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arfurdaily · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 30, 2004 Posts: 8

Hi Darren,
I would be most grateful and forever indebitted if you could work it out.
You are coorect in saying it is a wired gps (should have put that)
The GPS settings are Tomtom navigator GPS
Serial Cable on COM1:

I did have a moment of inspiration and i removed the SD card and did a hard reset, i then reinstalled TT3 to the main pda memory which loaded no problem i then loaded a 16mb into the main memory as well.
I placed the pda into the car cradle connected the power and antenna and went to GPS status and nothing, i placed the antenna on my sunroof and nothing, i drove a few miles down the road and placed it on the sunroof again and waited 5mins and still nothing.
So i am now thinking that maybe it is 1 of the below
i haven't :
loaded it correctly
configured it correctly
the car cradle is knackered
the antenna is knackered
or
something else
Confused

Darren · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:24 pm Post subject:

Do you get any indication from the TomTom GPS Applet that communication between GPS and TomTom is being attempted? You should see a line of dots moving from left to right (or right to left) which indicates this is happening, if not then we neesd to look at the GPS Setup, driver or hardware as this will work even if the TomTom App is not installed.
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arfurdaily · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 30, 2004 Posts: 8

hi Darren,

I get no indication that the GPS is trying to make contact at all, no flasing dots or anything, the only thing that flashes is the antenna

Flat_Eric · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 18, 2004 Posts: 45

Sad to hear, seems you've tried all the obvious things, at this stage I'd take it back to the shop and replace it for a whole new kit, then start again. Was it a TonTom car kit specifically for the Ipaq 22xx series?
Sounds like your serial/com1 has gone awol.

arfurdaily · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 30, 2004 Posts: 8

It was a tomtom kit specifically for the ipaq 2210 from gps.co.uk, i have 1 last thing to try tomorrow, my friend has the exact same set up and his works fine so we are going to try my pdaa in his cradle, his in mine, his antenna in my cradle and mine in his, you get the idea, then its a case of replacing it i think if still doesnt work, atleast i will be able to narrow it down. hopefully.

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