Globalsat SD-502 Compatibility

MikeB · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 12:26 pm Post subject: Globalsat SD-502 Compatibility

Please post your success/failures with getting the SD-502 to work with your PDA, and software.

Mine works fine with my XDAII and Memory-map.
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Mehanik · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 3:37 pm Post subject:

Work with iPAQ h2210 and hx4700.
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RW · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 30, 2005 Posts: 1

Working fine with IPAQ 5550 and TomTom v.5.21.
Need to perform a soft reset after inserting SDIO card, then Settings, System, Memory, Storage Card and select GPSDisk Card. Map(s) can the be installed on the card using Active Sync (not card reader).
Specify GPS hardware settings on TomTom to: Other NMEA GPS, 4800 baud, COM4.
Appears to work well; good battery life, in excess of 3 hours.

EasyD2 · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 13, 2004 Posts: 137

The compatibility list has just been updated to include new models that have recently been tested...

http://www.easydevices.co.uk/pp/Receivers/GLOBALSAT_SD502_SDIO_GPS_RECEIVER_WITH_512MB_MEMORY.html
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hacksawbob · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 18, 2005 Posts: 5

Cant seem to get this working with Tmobile MDA compact. Tried several com ports at 4800 baud and cant get it responding with the GPSinfo application, also cant see the storage card anywhere if I try to browse for it. Maybe got a faulty card?

EasyD2 · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 13, 2004 Posts: 137

Have you installed the latest driver (version 1.32)?

It can be found here under the section headed Drivers, Utilities & Setup Guides ...

http://www.easydevices.co.uk/main.asp?sitepages=Downloads
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xda · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:38 pm Post subject:

hacksawbob · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 18, 2005 Posts: 5

Hi thanks for the quick response, I have tried it with the 1.32 driver, and I have also updated my phone ROM just to make sure. Tha manual wasn't clear whether I needed to run GPSinfo on the PPC and the PC at the same time. However I get COM1 and COM2 returning NO DEVICE on the PC. On the PPC I have the following ports
COM1: Serial,
COM2: Serial_CMD
COM3: IRCOMM
COM4: BTIBserial
COM5: BTOBserial
COM9: Serial_Data
I have tried them all at 4800 baud unpluging my card between each attempt to "start GPS". I read in the manual something about bluetooth ports running at 38400 so I have tried this on com4 and 5

XDA thanks for that, I want to run TT5 but I haven't even got that far just trying to get it working with the GPSinfo application. Memory doesn't show up in the system settings memory. i dont suppose any 'round the Bolton area in the UK has a phone I could plug it into to see if its the card?

xda · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:10 am Post subject:

hacksawbob · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 18, 2005 Posts: 5

No joy I'm affraid, did a hard reset, removed the existing SD card so completely clean install of PPC. Installed GPSinfo and then installed driver GPSDisk.v132.armv4.cab ran it , then soft reset, then pluged in GPSdevice still not registering. No memory card showing and NO DEVICE listed in GPSinfo on the PC
GPSinfo on the PPC only shows the same ports
COM1: Serial,
COM2: Serial_CMD
COM3: IRCOMM
COM4: BTIBserial
COM5: BTOBserial
COM9: Serial_Data

I suppose it could be the phone but without another one to test it in All I can do is return it and hope another one works.

Wonderbadger · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 10, 2004 Posts: 16

Got my SD502 this morning and installed it on my Medion PPC200, worked first time with GPS info and nav software so that can be added to the list of compatable devices :D (which is good as I would be rather annoyed otherwise Laughing Out Loud

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Wonderbadger · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 10, 2004 Posts: 16

DOH... above should read PPC250 not 200 Embarassed

teb · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 16, 2005 Posts: 17

Hacksaw you arent the only one with this problem! i have a qteks110 which is essentially the same as the mda compact and i cannot activate com port 7. it appears to be gettin a satellite fix but the pda isnt detecting the sd card. i have pmed xda so hopefully he will get back to me luckily for me doesnt live to far cos i`m useless with pc`s and software.

xda · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:51 am Post subject:

corky · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 31, 2005 Posts: 2

Oh well i got my SD-502 yesterday morning, i had already installed 1.32 driver prior to getting it, my pda is a medion pcc250. Anyway plugged it in and after a few mins it started working, so i installed tomtom 5 to the memory card and took it for a test and it worked fine, even with lots of snow coming down.

But later on in the day when i tested it again i noticed the live map was not updating very quickly as you drive about, so if i went over a roundabout and carried on down the road it was only just mapping the roundabout ! and the signal was not too good either.

So i restarted it all again, and took the 502 out and put it in again and then i got much better signal even though i had not moved, started driving home and then the map locked up solid, i could'nt even turn the pda off !

When i got home to my suprise there was nothing on the 502 memory card, it had somehow cleared everything that i had installed !

So i formatted it and tried to start again but part way through the map install there was no memory card again ?

In the end i got it all installed again, but i'm not really sure if you plug this 502 in while the pda is on, or off. Because i get "no map found" sometimes when i go to run tomtom, but if i unplug the 502 and put it in again then it works, but i am still getting this delayed map update !

So i'm not having much luck anyway Sad

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