Everybody has been stating that they got GPS to work, but only some left instructions. I hope this helps. Thanks to those that gave me advice on how to get this working.
Make sure unter "External GPS" that the "GPS Program port:" has "COM4" selected. Leave "Hardware" alone which is the next tab over.
Then under "Access" make sure "Manage GPS automatically" is checked
Live Search for some reason wouldnt work until I got in my car and drove away from my house. Right when I drove away, the GPS kicked in, and worked as if I had an external GPS. My settings for Live Search are "GPS COM4".
In order for TomTom to work, you first have to get your GPS location in Live Search, then launch TomTom, and then TomTom will work fine as if you had an external GPS.
My TomTom settings are "NMEA GPS receiver" then "com 4" then baud is "9600".
These are the steps i took to get GPS working with the new ROM update using the internal GPS. Havent been able to test the Rev A yet. But it seems everybody is stating that is working fine, but only some were able to get GPS working.
Hopefully this will help you all to get GPS working with the new ROM. W/o me doing these steps, I wasnt able to get GPS working. Also please note that I had to leave my house for it to work. With my Bluetooth GPS receiver I could get a location in live search or Tomtom w/o leaving the house. But for the internal GPS, i had to leave the house.
Have you tried with google maps. For some reason i can get GPS signal in my house with google, but not with live. Also, under the GPS hardware, does yours say none, and baud 9600 or 4800?
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Never mind, I got it working, live just connected in my house. I have baud set to 4800, don't think it really matters. (anyone know what baud is anyway, and what the best settings are?). I wish there was a way to do this without live though.
baud is just another word for bits per second, its the connection speed of the hardware, since its internal it probably wouldnt make much of a differnce
nuebay said:
Everybody has been stating that they got GPS to work, but only some left instructions. I hope this helps. Thanks to those that gave me advice on how to get this working.
Make sure unter "External GPS" that the "GPS Program port:" has "COM4" selected. Leave "Hardware" alone which is the next tab over.
Then under "Access" make sure "Manage GPS automatically" is checked
Live Search for some reason wouldnt work until I got in my car and drove away from my house. Right when I drove away, the GPS kicked in, and worked as if I had an external GPS. My settings for Live Search are "GPS COM4".
In order for TomTom to work, you first have to get your GPS location in Live Search, then launch TomTom, and then TomTom will work fine as if you had an external GPS.
My TomTom settings are "NMEA GPS receiver" then "com 4" then baud is "9600".
These are the steps i took to get GPS working with the new ROM update using the internal GPS. Havent been able to test the Rev A yet. But it seems everybody is stating that is working fine, but only some were able to get GPS working.
Hopefully this will help you all to get GPS working with the new ROM. W/o me doing these steps, I wasnt able to get GPS working. Also please note that I had to leave my house for it to work. With my Bluetooth GPS receiver I could get a location in live search or Tomtom w/o leaving the house. But for the internal GPS, i had to leave the house.
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I have everything working but tom tom 6. It says no GPS device what gives? Do you have to have Live search running in the background for tom tom to work. I close Live Search after aquiring five satellites then launch tom tom 6 and all I get is no GPS device. hehe I know this is a beta and not a release rom. I have no Idea how people can aquire a satellite in their home. Shesh I have a huge solarium and still have to go outside.
what do u mean you get five satellites? Also to answer your question, what i do is after getting the GPS fixture in Live Search, I just click start and go to Tom Tom, without doing anything to live search. It seems to close automatically when I open Tom Tom.
Does anyone know if the GPS signal comes via the Sprint towers or is my phone communicating directly with the satellites in the sky? I ask because getting a signal inside my house seems unreal.
GPS signals come from satellites which is why the signal degrades when you move inside, eventually becoming nonexistent or unreal.
When someone says they are getting five satellites it means that is how many signals their device is receiving and using to triangulate its position. It requires at least four satellite signals to triangulate a current position and the more signals it can pick up on the more accurate the triangulation.
Ks.
when i said "unreal" i meant unbelievable i have a globalsat BT308 (which is kind of old, i bought it in 2000 or 2001) and theres no way i would ever get a signal inside.
so even if i go out of sprint reception area i can still communicate with the satellites right?
For some reason I always have to setup the GPS device in TomTom. It works but as soon as I close TomTom it looses the GPS settings. Then I have to run through the setup again...
Anyone else having the same issue?
My GPS wasn't working at all until I turned on GPS location under the phone menu. Location Settings under services.
Once I turned that on my GPS started picking up satellites with in 5 seconds sitting in my house.
Does Anybody know how to get the GPS to work with iGo 2006? I am having no luck at all getting iGo to recognize the GPS device.
TomTom appears to have a bug where it does not see the port windows gps port sharing is showing because the hardware port is set to none (I think it's actually com1 for the real hardware). As a result until something OPENS the port for tomtom, it's unable to attach to it. Until this is fixed you have to launch some other program that does work first and leave it open for tomtom to open the port.
Shadowmite said:
TomTom appears to have a bug where it does not see the port windows gps port sharing is showing because the hardware port is set to none (I think it's actually com1 for the real hardware). As a result until something OPENS the port for tomtom, it's unable to attach to it. Until this is fixed you have to launch some other program that does work first and leave it open for tomtom to open the port.
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Thanks for the update. =)
Cheers!
Livesearch.
Hey guys,
Does anyone have the latest livesearch.cab
I tried to download it right now, but it keeps getting stuck.
Probably microsoft servers.
Thanks
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when i said "unreal" i meant unbelievable i have a globalsat BT308 (which is kind of old, i bought it in 2000 or 2001) and theres no way i would ever get a signal inside.
so even if i go out of sprint reception area i can still communicate with the satellites right?
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Theoretically, you should be able to get a GPS signal anywhere in the world.
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Theoretically, you should be able to get a GPS signal anywhere in the world.
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I understand that they can selectively disable regions now. (read about it in the paper when they unfogged the signals) so conceivably,we wouldn't be able to use our moguls in iraq or afganistan.
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I understand that they can selectively disable regions now. (read about it in the paper when they unfogged the signals) so conceivably,we wouldn't be able to use our moguls in iraq or afganistan.
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I think what they do is place devices selectively in those locations that send out false GPS signals to confuse the NAV devices. (probably from ground based stations or on moving convoys that are trying to NOT be detected)
mshnayde said:
Hey guys,
Does anyone have the latest livesearch.cab
I tried to download it right now, but it keeps getting stuck.
Probably microsoft servers.
Thanks
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http://mobile.search.live.com/client/download_manual.aspx
the automatic download from live.com hasn't worked for me for a while either. it gets to around 15% and stalls...
Has anyone gotten Garmin Mobile XT to work with the internal GPS?
I am going to hold off on Flashing and give DCD some time to mature the release since I already have a G10 bluetooth reciever and have no issues but it would be nice to be able to leave that in my car and use internal when I'm not in my own car.
As far as i know...these are govt sats that are "open to the publuc." In a state of emergency or other situation, they can be blocked or certain areas can be blocked so only, say, certain govts/military could use them. This was the only way the us govt was willing and able to let the gen pop use the sats.
HELLO I HAVE X7500 WITH Athena Project Black Dual by PK 3.0 BUT BEEN OVER A LOT OF POSTING BUT STILL CANT GET MY GPS TO WORK ON GOOGLE MAPS OR TOMTOM 6.03 CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP THANKS
For me the GPS setting that works is "Other NMEA GPS receiver" using COM4 - TomTom 6.010.
Hope this helps.
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HELLO I HAVE X7500 WITH Athena Project Black Dual by PK 3.0 BUT BEEN OVER A LOT OF POSTING BUT STILL CANT GET MY GPS TO WORK ON GOOGLE MAPS OR TOMTOM 6.03 CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP THANKS
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For Tom Tom, go to main menu /change preference/show GPS status/configure. Select Other NMEA GPS receiver, baud rate 4800 and Com 5:
Then wait for the signal. It may say "No valid GPS signal" for a while, but it will come later. How soon depends on whether you're indoor, outdoor, and how clear the open sky is.
To get Google Maps working, go to Start/Setting/system/external gps,
In the program tab, enter Com5. In the hardware tab, enter None in the hardware port and enter 4800 in the Baud rate. IN the access tab, tick manage GPS automatically.
Then, go to google map, Go to Menu/Option/GPS settings and choose Set by Windows (Via Start --> Setting).
After that, use go to Menu/Use GPS, then stand under open sky for a while. In about 2 minutes, I get a blinking blue dot showing your current location, and the map refreshed from wherever you were to your current location.
There are other possible settings, such as using com 4, 9600 baud rate, etc, but the above would work, and is what I'm using without any problem.
Good luck.
One tip I've discovered is to install VisualGPSCE (Freeware IIRC) and try the com ports till you find the right one - the main satellite tab will show a list of satellite numbers after a few seconds if you're on the right port, Zero's if you're not. I would recommend making sure your clock is set correctly, you've got an upto date quickgps file and are stood outside/near a window if you're setting up for the first time!
Also, My Settings are Com5 (True Hardware), Com4 (Software Multiplex (is that the right word)) and 57000 baud is good.
Use Destinator (get a trial edition if you can) just to get the "RIGHT GPS Port"
Seems It uses the port which WM6 doesnt automatically detect (atleast for me)
Regards
thanks to all
i have at last manage to work thank u all
anybody from the philippines who's using gps on their athena?
may i ask what your gps settings are?
i'm using x7501.
ciao!
Your location is irrelevant as far as picking up GPS signals is concerned. You just need to ensure any GPS aware program is pointed at the correct COM port.
The hardware COM port is COM5, so pointing a program to COM5 @ 4800 Baud ought to work OK.
By default, the WM GPS Driver is active- Start/Settings/System/External GPS, and this may have the port settings changed, typically to COM4. This is only useful if you plan to use more than one GPS program concurrently. Personally I don't, so I have the Access tab's Manage Automatically unchecked.
Pinoy X7500 Toronto Based
Yes just use COM 5, 4800 Baud and you're all set to go. This is also the settings Im using on mine with iGuidance v4.
Im just curious, what GPS software & Maps are you using there? So that just incase I'll go "balik bayan" next year, I'll know what to use.
Here is a Philippine based Windows Mobile Forum:
http://www.pinoywindowsmobile.net/
While com 5 does work, it is not the fastest that will get the GPS lock.
For the absolutely fastest way to get GPS fix, see this thread (see post #51)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=375959&page=10
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While com 5 does work, it is not the fastest that will get the GPS lock.
For the absolutely fastest way to get GPS fix, see this thread (see post #51)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=375959&page=10
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Thanks for that link Steve- the whole concept is fascinating I've seen similar problems using different Radio ROMs and I suspect some of these lock differences may be Radio related to an extent.
To put my logical hat on, I can't see how you can ever get a lock with any software port faster than using the hardware port, which on the Ameo/7500 is COM5. Maybe using the WMGPSID and a software port activates the GPS in the background (at intervals?) to get a quicker fix?
In like manner, I also find that using QGPS actually takes longer to get a fix than just opening the port directly- this may be a function of the Orange SIM I use, or the ORange service itself, as of course QGPS is carrier dependent on getting a good SIM location.
But the most confusing thing in my Ameo is that Radio 1.50 simply never gets a satellite lock (at least it takes 25-40 minutes) where 1.47 gives me a lock in 1-3 minutes regardless of whether I use COM5 or software COM4 or 8. I've tested, upgraded, downgraded and reupgraded to no avail. 1.47 works and 1.50 doesn't This is the same whether using TTN6,m iGO2006 or iGO2008 (which I suppose would be expected)
thanks for ap4 havent had a problem but i have gone and found so many settings for gps can any one give me a default or a list to have my gps work thanks
Theres a lot of advice here about getting a decent fix. The bottom line is your best bet is to use the physical GPS COM port unless you need to run more than one GPS app simultaneously . A software port cannot be more efficient than the hardware port unless it is opened regularly in the background to maintain a current fix.
The hardware is COM5 and Baud can be left at the NMEA standard of 4800.
Remember to go outside for a 1st fix
Hi all,
i think i have a big problem with my gps modul and hope someone can help me.
As i used tomtom, sometimes tomtom hangs and the screen freeze. ANd sometimes the device restarts, when i navigate with tomtom 7. But i can navigate most of the time, even more than 2 hours. So I thought the freezes or restarts is caused of one of the custom rom i used.
But when use IGO Primo, i can't navigate with Primo more than 30 min. After start, Igo propertly get the gps fix is very quick, but after navigating for a while, 15min, 20min or max. 30min. igo tells me that gps signal is lost and can't get a fix anymore. In sys.txt i have the right setting (com 4, etc.).
The strange thing is, when igo lost the gps signal, after closing igo, other programs can't get gps fix either (tomtom, htc gps tool ...) so i have to make a soft reset to get gps works again.
how can i find out, if my gps modul is ok or not? I don't like to send it to repair, if i'm not sure is not a software problem. Hope you guys can help me.
thanks in advance.
John
Try to post in the right section and you will more than likely get the help you are needed... sorry if I'm not more of help.
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is "htc general" the right section? ok than i try there. thanks
THread moved..
Hi NRG
thanks for moving to the right place and thanks for the great rom.
I have one question:
As i have problems with my gps, i tried your gps tool "chartCross GPS test" in the rom and have change the baud to 38400.
with the automatic gps search under iGO My Way, the setting is known as com 4 and baud 38400. But as i know, the baud from the hd2 is 57600, right? how can i change back? there is not baud setting to 57600 in the gps tool "chartCross GPS test".
Or it doesn't matter which baud is setting? someone said the baud 9600 is also ok?!
thanks