PPC250 & TomTom5

laserdisc · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 03, 2005 Posts: 35

I've bought TomTom 5 and installed it onto my PPC250. Software installed OK but I can't get Tom Tom to talk to the GPS receiver.

I've tried the option for the Tom Tom Cable GPS, which offers no further configuration and also the "Other Cable NMEA GPS" receiver at various boards rates from 1200 to 115200 on S2410 COM1 which was used with Tom Tom3 without problem.

Does anyone else have TT5 working on the PPC2250, if so can you please advise what GPS receiver settings you are using with TT% and whether you are using the GPS receiver which was bundled with the PPC250 when bought in May 2004 from Halfords.

Thanks.

laserdisc · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 03, 2005 Posts: 35

I fianlly got TTN5 working with the Medio PPC250 and the RoyalTek RGM2000.

The GPS settings have changed slightly over TTN3.

1. In prefernces select the GPS settings.

2. Change the GPS receiver to be a Other NMEA GPS Receiver.

3. Set the COM port to S2410 on COM1.

4. Set the baud rate to 4800.

What confused me was that it took several minutes to pick up the GPS signal but that might have been due to the torrential rain and thunderstorm taking place as I sat in the car trying to get TTN5 to connected to the RoyalTek GPS receiver.

Anyhow it works fine.

elevonic · Regular Visitor Joined: May 19, 2004 Posts: 69

Thanks for the info, I'm about to install tomtom 5 on my ppc250.Cheers

rich2606 · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:43 pm Post subject:

im still having problems. i have the same ppc with the orignal gps reciver (medion?) when i goto gps status it comes up with all the data, but in navigation screen it displays 0 satellites and normal navigation (no planned route) does not work.
any ideas?
thanks

elevonic · Regular Visitor Joined: May 19, 2004 Posts: 69

Hi again, I installed TTN5 and set up the GPs as shown above by laserdisc and it works fine. The only 'problem' I have seen so far (1st day) is that if I go into preferences and set up options, ie poi's the gps is lost for a couple of minutes when I exit prefs,but it does come back on by itself after a short time. I have an Aldi Medion PPC250 with the Royaltek RGM 2000 gps receiver

rich2606 · Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 5:56 pm Post subject:

tested mine today and all works perfect, apart from the satelite signal allways reads zero...strange! Laughing Out Loud

oh well as it navigates perfect i can live without knowing how many satelites i have a fix on!

philip4242 · Regular Visitor Joined: May 26, 2004 Posts: 123

laserdisc · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 03, 2005 Posts: 35

I also don't have the number of satellites or GPS strength indicator working although my cousin who has the same model PDA and GPS receiver works perfectly.

Strange indeed.

dandan · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 30, 2005 Posts: 3

My PNA was having trouble locking to the Satellites too. I folled the above steps and now my TTN5 works with GPS locked satellites!!! Amazing.. thank you very much for this thread.... long live pocketgpsworld.com!

Botty · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 25, 2005 Posts: 5

philip4242 · Regular Visitor Joined: May 26, 2004 Posts: 123

Try this

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=15

There weren't really that many possible candidates on the Leadtek download page ! - 1 that said 'Instructions'; 1 that said 'PC', and 1 which had the highest number of downloads !! Rolling Eyes

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Botty · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 25, 2005 Posts: 5

Thanks Philip Wink

I will have to upgrade my telepathy chip such that "GPS Monitor" is interpreted as "Winfast Navigator" 8O

I am grateful though, I hope it solves it. Will let you know....

garichd · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 28, 2006 Posts: 2

I am using the same fix as suggested by Philip.

But there is one issue. I have to run the winfast navigator every time before running the TT.

If I am stopping for some time (Like moterway services) then before starting again it doesn't work again untill I get out of TT, run the winfast navigator, does the settings, kill the winfast navigator and then rerun the TT, and TT took very long time to run smothely (around 5 Mins).

is there any way around.

Please Help

gari..

garichd · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 28, 2006 Posts: 2

HI,

Can some one help me on my above query..

gari..

topbanana1960 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 11, 2006 Posts: 4

Hi, I'm a newbie on this forum and I've been viewing the forum several times over the last 18 months or so but I need some help now so have 'officially' joined. Basically, I've got the Medion MDPPC250 and I've just installed tomtom software. Everything has installed correctly but I cannot get it to talk to the GPS receiver (Royaltek 2000).

I've followed the guidance as previously suggested as follows;

GPS hardware = 'other cable NMEA GPS'
GPS Baud rate = 4800
Connected to 'S2410 COM1'

I've waited for 5 minutes or so but still 'no GPS device found' message comes up.

Any help would be graetly appreciated. :P

The only other thing I could try is the Leadtek's GPS Monitor application but I cannot find it in the downloads section in order to give it a go. Can anyone supply me with a link? Wink

Thanks in advance

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