Hi,
First post, but I have been around for some time.
With 1.52 everything worked, with TOWA bt tools. (the first version)
1. Now with the new 1.72 when I bond the GPS it crate a serial profile on com 5. (No bt tools)
2. Vitonavigator detect the gps in 2 seconds, and works perfect.
3. Destinator 3 however con not find the gps, and on com 4 or 5 (tried all possibilities) it freezes, requiring SR. sometimes even reinstallation of destinator 3.
4. I tried to checked out com 5 on Bluetooth settings- now vito can not find the gps and D still hangs on search for gps (com 4 and 5)
5. With BT tools installed (tried first and second version- same affect) it seems to have no affect- although I select “NO” on the serial profile request and select serial profile com 7 in BT tools- the results remain like before; NO GPS FOUND on D and vito
Any ideas how to make Destinator 3 work?
Because of all the expected mssing around with my original T-Mobile 1.60.00 ROM combined with a Bluetooth GPS, I decided to upgrade. It all works now, just let me share my findings with you:
I wanted the 1.72WWE and 1.14 Radio ROM, no Beta, but also wanted to keep my Dutch T-Mobile custumisations.
I took the recently released QTek 1.72 ROM
Unpacked it
Threw the extende rom file away
Changed the 'country code' from qtek to tmobile (see link on xda-developers mainpage)
Backed up my device using Activesync backup
Started the upgrade
UhOh: 'USB 1.03' on screen and nothing happening
Restarted upgrade
Went smooth all along
Hard reset: YES!! 1.72.00WWE / 1.14.00 radio with all my beloved Dutch T-Mobile customisations (ext rom 1.60.38)
Performed restore. THIS probably wasnt the smartest idea, because right after that my device was quite unstable. '
So: Did a 'permanent save' backup
and a Hard reset again.
Rock steady since then!
To get Bluetooth & BT GPS working frightened me a bit: getting that to work should be proof of the pudding to justify my upgrade.
Fiddled around 2 hours (com ports, gps viewer software that accompanied the GPS and what have you got . . .), until I tried the simple stupid method:
Switch on Bluetooth
Bond the BPS
Start TomTom GPS
Select NMEA 0183v2 9600 and Bluetooth GPS
I am very happy!!
For those that are still lokking for a decent cheap BT GPS: Search on ebay for DCONNEX. They sell for around 80 euros + 28 euros shipping. The DCONNEX DC-230 is in fact a rebadged Holux GR-230. Works like a charm, and for the price of a wire solution!
Works!!!!!
even imat v1.72 works great with BT GPS with no added BT tools
gazzaman2k said:
even imat v1.72 works great with BT GPS with no added BT tools
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Is the same ROM.
Eelco is right
As long as you look just at the os & radio roms both QTek 1.72 and IMate 1.72 are the same.
Difference is withing the extended rom.
because I liked to keep the Duthc T-Mobile customisations (well not all, but most of them) I re-used my old extended rom.
Hello,
Help with 1.72 ROM set up.
I'm very excited about how you have set up your device, but I'm not fully certain how to do the same.
I have looked for the ROM unpacker, but the only thing I see on this site is the ER-Edit.
I currently have the T-Mobile UK Beta 1.72 on my device, and I'm not real happy with it.
If you can and if it is not too much trouble, could you please provide me a little more specific directions on how you accomplished your set up. I'm in the USA, and I upgraded from 1.60.36, which I was not very happy with either. I liked 1.60 better.
My major concerns lie with the country id error, and using parts of different extended roms and radio stacks, but I'm willing to try.
Thank You, Ed
Well since you now have 1.72 on the device its really quite simple.
(You might as well consider upgrading to the non-beta 1.72 from imate or Qtek, i used Qtek)
Foor the external rom customisations:
Unpack an update (like the 1.60 you mentioned) using winrar
Using the directions on thsi site determine your current çountry id FOR THE EXTENDED ROM
using the directions on this site (xda2nbf) change the country id for the extende rom file (ms_.nbf)
remove the other .nbf (nb and radio) files
Upgrade your device
Cold reset
Yopur device should now be a bit in the right direction
Install the extende rom-unlocker found in this forum
unhide & unlock the extended rom
Now you can add/remove programs from the extended rom.
adding goes like:
1. place .cab file of program to be installed in extended rom
2. add CAB line in config.txt just before the current last line
removing goes like:
1. remove cab file of program you dont like
2. remove accompanying line in config.txt
Dont forget to lock you extended rom afterwards so the contents is kept during any reset.
hope this helps.
also : search the forum on the topics extended rom unlock
edsub,
Thank you very much. Your response is very helpful, and sends me in the right direction. The winrar was the missing peice that I did not have.
I'm familiar with the extended rom part, but I have not played around with the .nbf, nor the rom locking.
The UK beta 1.72 I have does not seem real stable to me. I'm thinking of going with the iMate or Qtek 1.72, as you suggest.
Thanks again I'll see what I can manage.
Ed
hey all, im on o2 in uk, my current settings are :-
Rom version :- 1.60.00WWE
Rom date :- 12/03/03
Radio version :- 1.10.00
Protocol version :- 1337.18
ExtRom version :- 1.60.50
i knw this mite sound abit basic...but what difference would it make in me updating to this 1.72 rom ?
is there any point ?
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i used Qtek
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Maybe off topic but where did you get the QTEK ROM from?
Can you share the URL.
Thanks,
Mark
Hi all,
I've recently bought a DC-230 GPS BT, but I cannot use with TomTom3
I have:
ROM VER 1.72.00WWE
Radio 1.14.00
Ext 1.72.104 (with some cabs added by me)
And a XDA 2 (rom is a Qtek 2020)
I've tried:
Hard reset - no BT Tools - Bond GPS - Success with GPS Viewer (that is in boundle with DC) on COM5 9600
Started tomtomGPS, no success (with or without START GPS with GPS Viewer).
I've tried
- NMEA 0183v2 9600 on COM5 and on Bluetooth
- NMEA 0183v2 Bluetooth on COM5 and on Bluetooth
- SiRF 9600 on COM5 and on Bluetooth
- SiRF Bluetooth on COM5 and on Bluetooth
I've removed bond with GPS.
So i've installed BT Tools 1.1. Bondend and added profile on COM7
GPS View didn't see the GPS
TomTom the same (i've tried the same drivers)
Any suggestion?
Thanks
Fabio
try changing to nmea 4800 on the same port that the gps view is showing, make sure gps view is closed when starting tomtom. Alsi instead of choosing from the upper drop down box in tomtom, look in the lower drop down, you may find your gps is announced/listed there.
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try changing to nmea 4800 on the same port that the gps view is showing, make sure gps view is closed when starting tomtom. Alsi instead of choosing from the upper drop down box in tomtom, look in the lower drop down, you may find your gps is announced/listed there.
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no success
I don't know why doesn't work
GPS View found my GPS... TomTom GPS no
Is the right version of TomTom GPS? (down right i see V2.09 305/393)
In the lower drop down box I see only com/irda/bt ports...
Thanks
You should have totmtomgps V3.02. It is available on their site.
Downloaded TomTom GPS 3.02...no success
But is correct that GPS Viewer when i push on Start GPS show
Date: 2002/11/10
Time 01:01:xx
Long:
E: 0'0'0.0''
Lat
N: 0'0'0.0''
Dop: 50.0
Aciring: no fix
Direction NE 0
Alt 0m
Speed 0km/h
PDop50.0
And i get a red point on the N on the map...
news...
With BT Tools installed i've tried GPSDash and MapSonic...
They connect to com7, but I get Satellites in use: 0 of 1 sats
Quality of Fix: no fix / n.a.
What's meaning?
Thanks again
I cannot use any sats..whats wrong ? is the gps broken ?
Aehm....uhm...
Er...is possible that it is low of battery? I put on charge and now I see 7 sats..
Bluetooth authomatic activation problem
I am sorry to jump in this discussion, but I had a BT problem, I couldn't connect to a GPS (Leadtek), and I did almost the same thing you are talking: I upgraded my QTEK2020 to 1.72.00WWE/1.14.00/1.72.602.
After the upgrade I installed the Pocket Bluetooth Tools and after some bondings/"unbonding", the COM7 profile appeared and everything worked fine from that moment on.
Now, there are 2 things I want to share:
- first, in order to have a diferent Bluetooth serial connection to the same or another port, I had to kill the the bond I created with the Leadtek GPS, then bonded again without activating the serial profile and then killed that bond again. Only after this series of actions, with a soft reset between all of them, I was able to bond with a diferent GPS bluetooth (I think it was from Globalsat), using the Com7 serial profile.
- second: my Qtek activates randomly the bluetooth by itself...
Does anyone know how to solve the authomatic random activation of the GT?
Try to activate in start/settings/system/bluetooth settings the extended port com 5. This helps with leadtek and emtac bluetooth antenna's for tomtom, and alturion.
Cheers
Why are you using Pocket Bluetools with rom 1.72??
NO NEED TO!!
Just use native MS BT Stack.
Bond the BT GPS, say yes when asked to assign COM port.
Let GPS software use COM5
Settings for TomTom3: NMEA Bluetooth GPS / COM5
Works flawlessly
Hi,
I am trying to use my XDA SPV m1000 with my leadtek Bluetooth GPS receiver. I was using this http://www.tomtom.com/support/rightnow.php?ID=4&Language=1&M=0&Page=std_alp.php guide to set it up.
I got through all of the stages except the last one. It won't let me put a tick in the box.
I'm guessing I need a newer firmware version. The current version I have now is 4.20. Or it may be because I have version 3 of tomtom. Either way this is pi$$ing me off something chronic.
Thanks for any help.
MDA-Vario (T-Mobile) Pocket Wind. 2005
All,
I tried to install a Bluetooth-GPS-Antenna (Mod. Xaiox -Skysurf V3) - this seemed to be partially successful. The GPS-device was identified - but with a ?-Mark - so I don't know the status as such. Just 2 references were given - incoming-port COM6 and outgoing COM7.
Second I tried to activate the GPS-Antenna with the Navigon 5.1-Software - this program normally identiefies the GPS-Antenna automatically - didn't work. Optionally the user may define ports being scanned ond the MDA. There were only the ports
COM1(ser), COM2(Xpanel), COM3(IrCom), COM4(Infrared), COM8(Serial USB) an COM9(QDATA).
The ports 5, 6 an 7 are not listet and shown.
Finally I have not been able to install the application with GPS-support.
I would like to find out who has similar experiences and possibly found solutions to it.
Thanks in advance.
Prima
bluetoouth GPs antenna issue
hi,
I add a similar trouble with my niki100.
I just boot a niki100, with orange provider in france. I'm tryng to use a bluetouth gps antena.
both equipement (phone & antenna) are copled but when I'm launching the navigor software then the gps peripheric is shown. that it good but this is only during approximatively 10 seconds.
I checked all configurable possible, including the verification of the saving alimentation rule.
withou success, all is working well but onlyfor a very short period.
I tried the antenna with another pda, it is working well. all tests were done with success. I don't understand whynot with the niki.
I did a complementary test, I tried the niki with another gps antenna and it is working well too.
I conclud about a compability issue between my antenna and the niki. maybdo to the bluetooth version.
is it existing a .cab to update the bluetooth driver?
thank you.
after to have tried many rom and radio without success I finaly booth a new antenna buetooth v2.0
I will sale my old antenna to someone having a older phone.
I recently got a Navmav Spin 100 which is actually the Navman 4400 receiver plus SmartST software. I seem to be able to pair successfully but I can not get tomtom 6 to talk to it, it just doesn't see the device ("no GPS device"). I have tried the SmartST software but can't install it as I need to transfer it over to mini-sd and it insists on checking the original sd card which I obviously can't plug in.
Anyone ever got this Navman 4400 to connect to an O2 XDS Mini-S or similar? I have flashed to WM6 but I don't think that should be a problem as I tried it on a friend's Vario unflashed and had the same problems.
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I recently got a Navmav Spin 100 which is actually the Navman 4400 receiver plus SmartST software. I seem to be able to pair successfully but I can not get tomtom 6 to talk to it, it just doesn't see the device ("no GPS device"). I have tried the SmartST software but can't install it as I need to transfer it over to mini-sd and it insists on checking the original sd card which I obviously can't plug in.
Anyone ever got this Navman 4400 to connect to an O2 XDS Mini-S or similar? I have flashed to WM6 but I don't think that should be a problem as I tried it on a friend's Vario unflashed and had the same problems.
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Did you try the GPS manager? The GPS needs to be on a COMM port, or example I set mine to Comm 6. GPS manager will then allow you to set a different comm for other programs to use it. For example, I set that comm to 7, so the GPS device is actually using 6, but the software is connecting to it via GPS manager on 7. You should already have GPS manager if your running WM6. It should be somewhere in your systems menus.
yes I did try that and I have tried various combinations, e.g. hardware on COM 7 and program on COM 9, it doesn't seem to make much difference. On one setup with hardware on COM 7 and getting tomtom to connect to a generic GPS bluetooth adapter on COM 7, bypassing the GPS manager it looks like the spinny circle turns 1/4 and swaps between no gps device and no gps signal.
In this scenario the blue flash LED stops flashing twice quickly onto a slower single flash, I think this means it is conencted?? it only does this for a short period of time though before going back to the double flashing.
im using a bt-gps(nokia) receiver and tom tom 6.
i set up a new partnership between the receiver and the phone via bluetooth first. then set up the bt-gps as an outgoing comm port (com6).
then restarted.......then installed tomtom6.......found and connect to com6 no problem.
I ended up getting a navicore really small unit (rebadged holux 240) and it worked first time. No idea why the navman wouldn't work.