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Garmin e-Trex GPS -> XDA

Hi,
Just wondering if anyone has successfully hooked up a Garmin E-Trex to an XDA. It should be possible using the serial connector from both (null-modem!?!). If so what software was being used on the XDA.
Cheers
Jeff

Garmin eTrex - XDA
The eTrex and XDA make a great combination even with Pocket Streets: the eTrex gives you the vector to your destination and the XDA shows you where you are on the map at zilch cost. The draw back is that you can find your target destination on PStreets but there doesn't seem to be a way of extracting the coordinates to feed into your eTrex.
So I got the TomTom Citymap of London to try that out and after a poor user experience when the supplied gps driver locked the XDA up and I had to download another, plus no explanations of various 2.06 driver features plus finding that parts of the M25 London orbital were chopped off, I have the best of both worlds. It only cost me 10UKP.
Oh yes, connections. You can buy a TomTom power/gps cable for the XDA that is meant to take the TomTom gps mouse via a 4 connector phone type socket. So all you have to do is come up with a 4 connector phone type plug leading off to you eTrex. If you have the eTrex car cable for power and RS232, which you might want to use with a laptop, you will not want to cut this. So get a cheap RS232 cable and chop the appropriate end off for your phone type connection. Marry everything up, ignore the wife's complaints about wires and delayed departures while you fiddle with the eTrex and XDA, and you are off.
The TomTom cable phone socket housing can be taken apart briefly to check which are the Common, TX and Rx wires, and the tiny circuit board even tells you which is which. If you want I can give you the pin outs but at the risk of misinterpretation.

Etrex GPS
Managed to get it to work with Navigator and am well impressed.
Got a cable from http://pc-mobile.net/gps.htm. However had a few problems to start off with. The XDA ground to a halt (I have updated the ROM to the latest O2 release and apprently TomTom 1.4 has a problem with later version). Updated TomTom to 1.51 and still no joy. Change the interface from Garmin to IMEA 4800 baud on both GPS and TomTom and had a great weekend driving up and down the motorway and country roads in Derbyshire.
Jeff

Jeff,
Cool, isn't it! Perhaps you can enlighten me about Navigator. Not knowing much about TomTom I rather expected voice prompts on the citymap thingy I downloaded. Question: what do you have to do to get the voice prompts invoked (spend more money probably) and can you hear them from the XDA? :?:
Ken

Navigator Talking
I have Navigator 1.51 installed (downloaded from Tom Tom site) only you need at least a previous version as otherwise there are no maps.
When you do a route plan (rather than just have it in map mode), it does the "300 yards turn right......turn right.....find the next convenient place and turn round"
Not sure what happens with previous versions as I had 1.4ish on before and that interfered with Windows as I had upgraded PPC2002 to a newer version and it odesn't like that too well.
Cheers
Jeff

Hi guys, do you know if the connector for the Garmin Geko 201 is the same as the Etrex? I was looking at buying the Geko and the cable from the site listed above but they don't say specifically for the Geko. I put an email question in to the cable guys but you never know how long it will take to get an answer. It's definitely a flat connector and not a round pin type. Thanks - Jim

Hi,
I've bought a Fortuna U2 GPS receiver with an O2 XDA lead.
I've downloaded some software (GPSeasyCE), but when I try and connect to the GPS unit, I get "unable to open COM1".
Any suggestoins please?
I have tuned my keyboard driver to IR & serial, and I think I'm using the correct com port settings (4800bps, NMEA 0183).
I'd really like to just check that the hardware is working.
Can I download some free demo software that will do that?
What's best?
Thanks in advance, for any help anyone can offer,
Muddy

You have to turn off the IR port.
Muddy said:
Hi,
I've bought a Fortuna U2 GPS receiver with an O2 XDA lead.
I've downloaded some software (GPSeasyCE), but when I try and connect to the GPS unit, I get "unable to open COM1".
Any suggestoins please?
I have tuned my keyboard driver to IR & serial, and I think I'm using the correct com port settings (4800bps, NMEA 0183).
I'd really like to just check that the hardware is working.
Can I download some free demo software that will do that?
What's best?
Thanks in advance, for any help anyone can offer,
Muddy
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disable your infra red port under setting, connections/beam, it will then work. A point about cables to work with gps, if you get a serial xda cable, and you also have a pc serial cable that links to your gps, all you need to do is get a 9 pin male to 9 pin male null modem adaptor, or make one, you need to join pin 2 on one to pin 3 on the other, pin 3 to pin 2 and pin 5 to pin 5, plug your xda lead one end, gps lead the other, and away you go.

SPV camera on XDA ?

Hi all !
I have recently upgraded from an SPV to the XDA.
As many of you will know, both are made by HTC, and share many accessories (charger, USB cables, headphones etc).
The connector on the bottom is the same for both items. I kept the camera from my SPV and it connects fantasticly to the bottom of my XDA (although the lens faces the other way round thanks to the connector being the other way round) :wink: .
Is there anyway anybody can get this camera to work with the XDA? I would have thought the XDA would be more than capable of using it as its far more powerful than an SPV and uses a far better version of the windows mobile operating systems?...
I'd rather use this camer than going for one of the SD cameras mentioned (mainly because I already have it, and also so I don't have to keep taking out my SD card just to use it - oh and on the SPV because its not an SD camera you can of course take a photo and save it on to a large SD card rather than the small internal memory..)
any ideas plz?!
cheers !

try www.iastyle.com they make most of the ppc cams.
look under OEM, for a driver or somthin

or do a search because the subject have been up more then once
forget the result

Cheers people.
There has been a few subjects created on this before but it looks like although everybody realises the SPV camera physically connects to the XDAs' interface (not the SD slot, the charger/usb cable connect slot), there is no driver available for it. :?
IA style only seem to make photo software and one compact flash camera.
I'd be really interested to see if anybody has made a driver for the camera for PPC 2002. The pin outs on the connection must be the same as I can charge my SPV and XDA with the same charger and I can also sync data with a USB cable and that works with both the SPV and XDA.
Can any body else help!? :?:
cheers

shakers24 said:
Hi all !
I have recently upgraded from an SPV to the XDA.
As many of you will know, both are made by HTC, and share many accessories (charger, USB cables, headphones etc).
The connector on the bottom is the same for both items. I kept the camera from my SPV and it connects fantasticly to the bottom of my XDA (although the lens faces the other way round thanks to the connector being the other way round) :wink: .
Is there anyway anybody can get this camera to work with the XDA? I would have thought the XDA would be more than capable of using it as its far more powerful than an SPV and uses a far better version of the windows mobile operating systems?...
I'd rather use this camer than going for one of the SD cameras mentioned (mainly because I already have it, and also so I don't have to keep taking out my SD card just to use it - oh and on the SPV because its not an SD camera you can of course take a photo and save it on to a large SD card rather than the small internal memory..)
any ideas plz?!
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=32242&item=3368908114
cheers !
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thanks!
Unfortunatly that camera plugs into the SD slot which isn't want I want as you cant then save the images on the SD card which is much bigger than the phones memory. (plus I already have the SPV camera)
cheers for your help though ! :wink:
Paul

GPS newbie question

Hi all,
I was wondering, what options do I have, when it comes to GPS and my XDA. As I understand I need SD card, because maps take a lot of memory. So when do I stick the gps then ??
I found out that there are so called GPS mouses do they solve the trick? If so, which of them work on XDA? I couldn't found any
I appreciate any help

GPS
I bought Tom Tom Navigator 5 wired version. It comes with a SD card, a CD and the GPS device. I bought the extra connection cable at the PDA-shop in Rotterdam. I placed the SD card in the Wallaby, followed the instructions and it works fine. Unfortunately Tom Tom hasn't waterway maps.

Thanks a lot for the info. I have one question, what do you need the extra cable for?
I've checked tomtom.com, and it says it's only compatible with XDA 2 and up. Is that the reason I need the extra cable?
Thanks a lot, for the help.

Do the check again (see www.tomtom.nl) and you'll find:
TomTom NAVIGATOR 5 – Wired GPS - Compatibility:
Dell Axim X3 , Axim X30 , Axim X5
HP iPAQ H2210 , iPAQ H2215 , iPAQ H3970 , iPAQ H4150 , iPAQ H4350 , iPAQ H5455 , iPAQ H5550 , iPAQ H5555 , IPAQ HX2110 , IPAQ HX2410 , iPAQ HX4700 , iPAQ RX3715 , iPAQ RZ1710
O2 XDA , XDA II , XDA IIi , XDA IIS
Orange SPV M1000
Qtek 9090
T-Mobile MDA II , MDA III
Toshiba E-400
The extra cable is needed for the connection of the GPS device to the necessary 12V DC supply
XDA ------------>|
12 V Supply -->|
GPS ------------>|
It won't work without the extra connection for 12 V DC. (Information from the PDA Shop where I bougt the system. )

i believe that you have to use a wired GPS on the XDA 1, as the SD slot is not a true SDIO slot. Thus SD based GPS receivers will not work with the xda 1
Regards
Chris

Thanks a lot guys for all your help. I really appreciate it.

GPS antenna

I've recently purchased an EverMore GM-R900 GPS receiver, connected to the 750v serial port through a mini-DIN adapter (which also includes power input from the car adapter). The question is : how do I map the serial (data) to make it available to other apps (other than active sync, which seems to be the only user of the serial...) ? I tried with GPS Gate but unsuccessfully, I cant find the correct source. Has anybody experienced something similar, yet? Perhaps with some carholder with integrated gps?

UP! C'mon.....is there a way? I've also tried with gpsgate but maybe I'm using the wrong parameters....... I've tried (from WM gps config) to map every port but I'm not getting a thing on any of them. The antenna itself seems to be working.

Still No GPS Device Found
Hi Guys,
Thanks in advance, i have gone through this site numerous times but still haven't been able to get my TomTom working on my new Treo750 and Ox-XDA IIs both running WM6.
I have GPS receiver in my cradle which works like a jam on my previous Treo650 (Running PalmOS). But since upgrading to this WM device it has become a night mare can't get it right particularly the way windows is handling com ports.
Can any one please guide me on how to get it going as I don't have PDA with in-build GPS receiver nor bluetooth receiver only this serial connected receiver.
Thanks
Nilesh

not sure i understood
If you have the tom tom software from your 650 and you are trying to use it on wm6 ,it is more than liely a software problem.
i have tom tom running on my 750,with a sirfstar 3 bluetooth gps unit, with no problems but the software came with the device.
If I am not mistaken tom tom allow you a device change every so often, in which case you will be able to download the correct software for your device.

Kaiser as GPS device for PC??

Is it possible to use Kaiser as GPS device for the PC.
I dont know if there is any application already does this?

hi
you can use gps2blue, a free program to share the internal gps of kaiser or a good commercial program called gps gate.

Have a read of this thread, there are at least two applications that can do what you want, one is free, the other costs, as long as your laptop has BT it is easy, if not have a look at the active sync connectivity options in the software - Mike
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=354788

GPS2BLUE as stated above, works very well.
Thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=289211&highlight=gps2blue
GPS2BLUE Software
http://www.pocketpcfreeware.com/en/index.php?soft=1488
Cheers,