Pleading for help -Tosh e330 & Haicom 203

[GICarey]

OK, I don't have a toshiba, but am using a ViewSonic V37 Pocket PC, the Haicom 203E GPS box (cheapy from Ebay, seems to be working "OK" for now, i'll keep you posted) and TomTom Navigator 2 (updated to 2.24 and GPS driver 2.09).

Installing the driver:

<LI>Take CDROM out of box</LI>
<LI>Put Pocket PC into sync cradle</LI>
<LI>work through CDROM, copy the driver .CAB file from the PDA directory onto the "My Documents" folder on the Pocket PC</LI>
<LI>On the Pocket PC, open "File Browser" and find the CAB file, run it, it will install a Pretec Driver on your Pocket PC (confirmable from the Remove Software screen, but don't remove it).</LI>
<LI>Soft Reset your Pocket PC if necessary</LI>

Installing TomTom Navigator 2:

<LI>Put the Pocket PC in the sync cradle</LI>
<LI>Put the TomTom CDROM in your PC</LI>
<LI>Run Setup.EXE</LI>
<LI>Install the software to your pocket PC</LI>
<LI>Install a map to your pocket pc (i installed a small local map to start with, followed by the full 98mb GB maps to an SD card once i'd confirmed everything was working). This can take a while.</LI>
<LI>Download the v2.24 software and v2.09 driver updates from www.tomtom.com</LI>
<LI>Ensure you're PDA is still in its cradle</LI>
<LI>Run SETUP.EXE from the two updates one after the other. You'll be told (on PC and/or Pocket PC) that the software is already installed, do you want to replace it? Say Yes!</LI>

Now, grab the pocket pc, the GPS reciever, and leg it down to your motor.

Configure TomTom Navigator 2:

<LI>Switch on the ignition, or start the car.</LI>
<LI>Plug in the GPS reciever to your cigarette lighter</LI>
<LI>Place the GPS box somewhere it can see the sky</LI>
<LI>Plug the cable for your PDA into your PDA.</LI>
<LI>Run TomTom, the first time round it'll take you through the wizard, showing you two pictures and asking if your GPS looks like either of them, it won't, so say "no".</LI>
<LI>It'll then load up the "tomtom fudge driver" driver configuring screen.</LI>
<LI>Uncheck the grey checbox, top left.</LI>
<LI>Drop down the first dropdown box and select "NMEA 0183v2 4800".</LI>
<LI>Drop down the second dropdown box and select "Serial Cable on COM1.</LI>
<LI>Recheck the big grey checkbox in the top-left to lock & save your settings</LI>
<LI>At this point you may want to set Mph as the default speed, unless metric floats your boat?</LI>
<LI>Hit OK at the top right OR, click the STATUS tab (bottom left) and watch in there, as your GPS reciever sights the satellites, they'll appear in the empty white bars on the bottom left, I think grey means that it can see them, but not well enough to use them, red means all is well and it's using them to get a fix. I think you need 3+ to get a decent fix, the more the merrier. Once you're happy, OK out and go into TomTom</LI>

I won't explain how to use TomTom as people can read their instruction manuals!

Gav.[/list]

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