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How To get GPS working

can anybody tell me how & what is the step to get the GPS works ?
thanks..

Put some GPS software on your Ameo and point it to COM4.

what are some of the best gps software for ameo?
I would think google maps with the ability to real time track your location would be great. Anyone try that?

Tomtom Navigator 6.
Coz it's free.
Edit - I in no way condone the use of pirated software, and I'll no doubt burn in hell for my sins....

Dopod U1000
Hey!
I have an Dopod U1000, which is the Advantage/X7500/Athena but on the Asian market.
THe first and biggest problem I have is that the GPS is not working. I cannot get a GPS-fix, but I have contact with the actual GPS-unit.
It doesnt matter where I am or for how long I wait - I have never got a fix and once every now and then I get 1 or 2 satellites with very bad connection - but never a fix.
I talked to HTC about this and they didnt know anything about it.
I then, when I asked around, got a weird answer from a company here in Sweden. They guessed that since U1000 is for the Asian market they may somehow have "preprogrammed GPS" information, so that they use Asian satellites. Sounds very strange to me - as far as I know they are not geo-stationary so the satellites goes around and thus there are not specific Asian satellites.
Anyways, anyone know about this issue? Suggestions?
Thx!
Regards
Ted

wagger said:
Hey!
I have an Dopod U1000, which is the Advantage/X7500/Athena but on the Asian market.
THe first and biggest problem I have is that the GPS is not working. I cannot get a GPS-fix, but I have contact with the actual GPS-unit.
It doesnt matter where I am or for how long I wait - I have never got a fix and once every now and then I get 1 or 2 satellites with very bad connection - but never a fix.
I talked to HTC about this and they didnt know anything about it.
I then, when I asked around, got a weird answer from a company here in Sweden. They guessed that since U1000 is for the Asian market they may somehow have "preprogrammed GPS" information, so that they use Asian satellites. Sounds very strange to me - as far as I know they are not geo-stationary so the satellites goes around and thus there are not specific Asian satellites.
Anyways, anyone know about this issue? Suggestions?
Thx!
Regards
Ted
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i got my DOPOD U1000 from Taiwan, and GPS works great. you need to set the post to COM4, signal is much better then the BT device i got before. It doesn't matter where you buy your device

wagger said:
Hey!
I have an Dopod U1000, which is the Advantage/X7500/Athena but on the Asian market.
THe first and biggest problem I have is that the GPS is not working. I cannot get a GPS-fix, but I have contact with the actual GPS-unit.
It doesnt matter where I am or for how long I wait - I have never got a fix and once every now and then I get 1 or 2 satellites with very bad connection - but never a fix.
I talked to HTC about this and they didnt know anything about it.
I then, when I asked around, got a weird answer from a company here in Sweden. They guessed that since U1000 is for the Asian market they may somehow have "preprogrammed GPS" information, so that they use Asian satellites. Sounds very strange to me - as far as I know they are not geo-stationary so the satellites goes around and thus there are not specific Asian satellites.
Anyways, anyone know about this issue? Suggestions?
Thx!
Regards
Ted
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the Global Positioning System is global, and should work anywhere on the globe !! apart from in war zones (and near US military bases) where the signal is sometimes deliberately degraded so enemies cant use satellite guided missiles.

wu5262 said:
i got my DOPOD U1000 from Taiwan, and GPS works great. you need to set the post to COM4, signal is much better then the BT device i got before. It doesn't matter where you buy your device
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should i install any third party software beforehand?

Help
My Device can find the GPS on com 4 but it will not work with Google maps or pocket streets can any one help?
Thanks
Ian

I've got Tom Tom Navigator 5 working (using COM 5), but I've also not managed to get Google Maps working.

GPS is not working with GM
edintao said:
My Device can find the GPS on com 4 but it will not work with Google maps or pocket streets can any one help?
Thanks
Ian
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This is also a big problem in Germany - it's not possible to get it working with Google Maps. We tried everything (also to disable the GPS-Splitter and use Com5 which helps with some programs, but not with Google Maps).
So we gave up for the moment waiting for an update (maybe Athena, maybe Google).
Teja

alanplum said:
Put some GPS software on your Ameo and point it to COM4.
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Got mine working in TT6 by doing:
Other NMEA GPS Receiver
GPS Baud Rate: 4800
Com4
Is this what everyone else is doing ?
is the Baud rate correct?
Its quite chuggy/slow compared to tt6 on universal. i.e. 2-3fps as opposed to almost smooth on universal
Also, is it possible to change that tomtom icon thats on the today screen ? its so ugly and blocky - really detracts from the otherwise lovely Ameo screen

Mine is working great. By the way, i'm using MapKing10. When setting the port just select auto and the software should be able to detect the port in use. My unit can lock on into the satellite signal in less then 5s, thats impressive.

Hi
Does anyone know where to get a copy of the aforementioned TT6 for free? I had just bought TT navigator 6 with GB + Western Europe for my Mio A701 about 3 months ago but was gutted to find I couldnt transfer the licence to my new Ameo so i sold the boxed product with the Mio.
Anyone know where I can get one (strictly for "backup" purposes of course).
Cheers

Very easily found on torrent sites.
I won't give a link here as I assume that would be frowned on by the management....

ok, will have a look. not that familiar with all this torrent stuff!
ta

GPS Port
I looked in the registry and I found that com 5 is the official port. Strange enough com 4 and 5 work.

Getting GPS working
I purchased an A701 last week and had one hell of a time tring to get TT6 to work, even though MM worked fine. It appears that some software originally designed for ealier MS does not like Com4. I loaded a program called VisualGPSse, a freedownload, and set that to com 4 and bingo TT6 spang into life. Before using TT now I lauch that small app and it works fine. I,ll try and find the link if Google doen't find it for you.
ps. Does anyone know of an app that will allow me to use hands free, my Mio Rom R65 seems duff in this area.

getting GPS to work
I've installed my vehicle navigation software (copilot live v5) without any problem twice.
But when I tried to instal another GPS-based application called MobileGolfScorer, the system was simply unable to sense any satellite signal. Not only that, the system became extremely slow to the point of freezing up and not responding.
Then, I read about the post that says com5 is the default, so I said to myself may be I should use com5 instead of 4 in my start>setting>GPS.
After changing to com5, my MobileGolfScorer was able to recognise signal although the signal was extremely weak. Also, it was no longer freezing up. I thought that may be I've at least solved the problem and the weak signal may be due to the fact that I was not directly under the open sky.
The new problem is that after changing to com5, my copilot stopped working! When trying to reset GPS within copilot, it just said that I either did not have the GPS connected, or I was having the wrong com selection and/or baud rate. I tried all possible combinations of com and baud rate (including letting it find automatically) but unfortunately the results were the same.
Then I thought to myself may be copilot can only use com4. Since vehicle navigation is a more important application to me, I may have to sacrifice MobileGolfScorer until the problem is resolved. So I went to start>setting>GPS and reverted to com 4.
I then tried to get copilot to work but now it would not. MGS also would not work. So now I have two GPS applications that are not able to sense any signal. I can see the gsm led orange light(GPS) and green light(phone) alternating, which means that the GPS is supposed to be working, althoug the orange light disappears by itself after a while. The thing is, with or without the orange light, the software were not able to sense any GPS signal.
What do all these suggest? Any idea???
Chapter 2 to my story:
Since I'm also experiencing MD lost cluster problems, I had wonder if it could be that some system files used by the copilot program is corruptted. So I decided to hard-reset the unit and reinstall everything from scratch again. The first thing that I did after hard resett was to instal MobileGolfScorer. It did not work when I used com4 and baud rate 4800. Could not detect any GPS signal although the orange light was blinking. Then I installed Copilot live Pocket PC v5. This software has no problem detecting the signal right away. In my mind, it seems to suggest that the reason for copilot to have stopped working could be due to file corruption, while MobileGolfScorer still for some reason could not detect it. What I also failed to understnad is why for a very brief period it did detect very week signal (see chapter 1 above).
My fear: Once I was so confident that com4 and baud rate 4800 solves all problems. Now I'm less sure what is going on. If you're lucky, it works; if you not lucky it does'nt seems to work. You could be doing exactly the same thing entering the same setting but you could get different results. Is it due to file corruption? Why does it get corrupted so easily?
Let's hope some smarter mind could figure this out for us.

Its all about the sucky comport management in windows.
If one app is accessing a com port, no others can.
If windows GPS management is accessing the GPS on com5, then you shouldnt connect to com5 yourself. The whole point of the windows management is that the software port (often port4) it creates is meant to be able to be read by multiple programs.
However, most programs dont seem to like the software port. Eg, googlemaps.
I just turned off the MS GPS management and only use apps that directly attatch to com5, and only one app at a time.

GPS device

Hi
I just bought an GPS-Mouse, in order to make TOMTOM usefull.
It worked a couple of days ago, but TOMTOM can't find the GPS-device now.
Does somebody have some usefull tips for me?
(GPS mouse is a Adapt AD-500 GPS Bluetooth receiver)
Cheers

I only use holux, but try restarting phone that usually helps

xboxhaxorz said:
I only use holux, but try restarting phone that usually helps
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Yup same here, Holux M-1200 with iGo MyWay software. But are you sure you set up a secure connection with the bluetooth and set it as a com port 6 or 7 with the correct baud rate? Did you follow everything step by step in your manual for the tomtom?

Well, I tried to follow the manual, but it didn't really help me. There was very little information in the manual, and the information in it was not very clear. The fact is, that it worked a couple of days ago, and now I cannot connect anymore...

I have a motorola BT GPS, supposedly motorola is rock-solid, but I've had troubles with it at times. Rebooting the phone would work occasionally, turning off the GPS would work occasionally, turning off both would work occasionally, if you get the picture, no ONE thing did it each time.
Recently, I found Franson GPSGate (the full version) This keeps a good connection with the bluetooth GPS better than it ever has been before, even when walking away from and then back to the gps device. It also generates a comport that multiple GPS programs can use at once. Very handy little program.
Hope it helps someone.

itrek bluetooth for me....
Do you know about the settings, External GPS icon on the Wing? Go in there and make sure you've got com port set i have mine at program port 6 which is where most gps like to sit for some reason but if it's not working for you play with that setting unfortunately it's trial and error but play with it. I don't know what you'd need "hardware port" for but since you're using a mouse and not a bluetooth unit can't hurt to play with that too, and in the last screen be sure you've got "manage automatically" checked, or maybe you need to uncheck it. All stuff to play with. Did you put any software on lately that could have hosed something? Did you try reloading tom tom? See if you can find one of those freeware utilities that talk to the gps unit and see if it can find it.

This device doesnt have a internal gps correct ? I always thought it didnt but I see some people talking as if it does. Then again, you all wouldnt be buying externals if that was the case.

GPS seems dead

Hello All:
I've had my X7501 for about 4 months now. I use the GPS very little but decided to test drive some aviation software today and was unable to get it to receive a position signal from the GPS.
I've used Delorme Street Atlas 2008 for handhelds, GPSgate and VisualGPSce. All would find satellites and derive a position at some point.
They only thing different from the last time I used the internal GPS is that I dropped the device from desk height. It was in a metal case and was in standby at the time. It fired right up and seems to be operating normally.
Any other software installs have had nothing to do with GPS.
Now when I launch any of these programs, the GSM LED flashes slowly, but a signal is never acquired by any of the programs, at least for 10 minutes. That's when I figure if it's going to get a signal it would have.
Before I try a hard reset I thought I'd ask if anyone has any ideas?
For those forum members who are familiar with GPSgate, my manual settings are com5 @ 38K. If I run the wizard, when GPSgate gets to com port 5 during the search, it says it's in use and skips over it.
Thanks in advance, Ron

try in settings>external gps
use software port none
Hardware 5 baud 38K
and untick the box.
reboot and try to connect again.

Tried it with those settings for another 10 minutes. No joy.

Try Program 1 / Hardware 5 /19200bps/ Auto manage. Took me forever to find that as mine would not work with the settings given by others here.

GPS

anyone put gps navigation on there phone and if so how did you do it would really love to do and which navigation did you use garmin or tom tom

i have garmin on my shadow but, i can't get it to work......i only have com port 6 and seven showing and i think i need com 4. The garmin works on my Blackjack 1 no problem. I remember having the same problem with some of the other HTC made phones and GPS, I just can't remember how i fixed it or which cab files fixed it! LOL! I'll figure it out and let ya know what fixes it.
I did install a file from modaco and also installed gpsid but my shadow still only shows com 6 &7. I do have both google maps and microsoft live search installed and running nice but, i really want to use garmin as it has the maps on the storage card and don't need to be downloaded from the net.
I don't have any service on this phone as yet, its locked to tmobile and i have ATT so until i can figure out how to unlock it i might just get a prepay simcard, if they have data.
I'll keep ya posted though!

I hope ur talking about a blutooth gps because the shadow doesnt have gps built in.

ya BT GPS, the problem i'm having is the same i had with my 8525, it just won't find the gps reciever. On the shadow i'm just showing com6 & 7 and i tried a file from modaco and gpsid but neither worked. W hat was funny was that when i set the hardware setting to the port i have set for the BT gps and then have garmin scan it finds it for a second and the bt activity light on the gps flashes for a second the stops. It will never fully connect since the gps is not a built in device.

I use a sm bt gps and I do not have any problems at all. It is one that I picked up at buygpsnow.com or something like that. It usually connects to about seven sats and I use windows live search to chart my course. You could also use gmaps both are free. You can change com ports and add them through the activesync panel also. By the way I live in southern NH if that helps give you an idea of the ****ty reception around here and the bluetooth is good enough to drive by.

ya i can use Live search and google no problem but, i installed my Garmin software and it won't find my BT GPS. I had the same problem with another HTC phone and i even have the software to fix it.........i just can't remember what or where it is! LOL!! I use the Garmin on my BlackJack 1 with no problems and i was just playing with the shadow and thought it would be cool to see it run on it.

you can add more com ports through activesync and see if that works otherwise google is your friend. oh i see what your saying. Maybe the garmin only works in windows if it can read the software siugnature?

Well i have the garmin software running on my BJ1 and it works fine but i can set the port for my BT GPS to com port 4 and it works, i had this same problem on another HTC device and i can't remember what i di with the cab file that fixes it. LOL i have slept since then!
I get about 2-3 phones a month and i play round with them, mod them alittle bit then trade for another one, it is just away to keep me busy as i am hyperactive! LOL! I'll figure it out and then post back here with what i find.

i have a BT GPS and use it with google maps, MS live maps, and navizon all the time. no issues at all. (well i did, but now i have my G1, so the shadow has taken the role of backup phone atm...)

The COM port number will not affect the compatibility unless the Garmin program does not support COM higher than 5 for example which is very unlikely just make sure that when you setup the COM port to make an outgoing COM port and not an incoming one
Besides this, you can head to GPS passion, look there for one of the many testing applications and use it to test the GPS, if the programs are able to connect to the GPS then the setup is just fine and the proble might be a compatibility issue with the Garmin program
Also note that the available COM ports will change from model to model, in some cases, COM 4 will be free while other phones may already have assigned COM 4 to a hardware device or OS resource such as Bluetooth for example and the used COM ports cannot be freed this is why it is unlikely that your issue is related to having the GPS on COM 6,7

good info to kn00w

Gps trouble

hi guys
just bought the p3470, and already in trouble =)
i tried the tom tom and first it said that there wasn't any gps device available, now it just says that is waiting for a valid gps signal... forever and nothing...
i have a tom tom one in the car and sometimes this happens but not this long and eventually it works, this one doesn't...
Any thoughts?
I appreciate the help.
Thanks
Nuno

internal GPS of our Pharos is really slow : you must wait more than 10 minutes before having a valid GPS signal.

not on mine .. i dont get a gps fix in my house (only if look for a good spot) but its a question of finding the right settngs. or have it automanaged (ive read on orange roms gps is on com9 ...on my rom its on com4 at 4800 baud)

Here's what worked for me.
Download a free GPS program like visualGPSce. Then turn off the External GPS management in settings, and go outside for a nice walk or whatever.
Then, start up visualGPS and walk through the ports until you find something that works (doesn't complain about no communication). In my case it was COM3. I've seen other reports of COM 4, 2, and 9.
Visual GPS will complain right away if there's nothing on the port so you won't waste too much time. Once you find something, turn the microsoft External GPS management back on (I used COM 5 as the software port) and wait. You might also want to install QuickGPS so that it will find satellites faster.
I had to wait ten minutes outside under full sky for it to work, but that was the longest I ever had to wait. Visual GPS has lots of nice bar indicators and the like so you have something to look at while you wonder if your GPS is screwed.
If that doesn't work, you may be in trouble. Go through all the ports again and be patient if it says it can't lock on to satellites.
It now takes me about 1 minute to get lock on (assuming QuickGPS is up to date). It's a little laggy when driving but reasonably useful.