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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.

GPS with a built-in MMC

where can I purchased this . Has any one used the GPS with a built-in MMC with the XDA. see photo below
http://www.zdnet.co.jp/news/bursts/0203/12/10_01.jpg
http://www.excite.co.jp/world/url/?...jp/news/bursts/0203/12/10.html&wb_lp=jaen-ATL
Advice me :?: :?:

Looks like these devices do SD-IO, and the XDA cannot talk to SD-IO cards, only to SD memory cards. So no cigar... Yes, this sucks.

Yes it does suck :roll: .. I'm looking for a cost effective GPS to link up with Microsoft Pocket Street 2003 can someONE let me know what is available in the UK :?:

http://www.royaltek.com/proditem.asp?hotitem=yes&hid=1
RoyalTek Sapphire GPS Solution, which features a full version of Microsoft Auto Route 2002 & Microsoft Pocket Streets 2002 and a GPS mouse that can connect to XDA for £84

Advise for MDA and TomTom

Great site this is, unlocked the mda with succes!
I have:
- a mda (t-mobile MDA 1)
- TomTom 5 software
What do i need more for a GPS system and where to buy? What will it cost me estimated.
All advise is welcome. Thanks anyway.

- SD-Card
- GPS-Reciever
Stefan

I got the sd-card.
Sorry for being a newbie;
but where to hook up to power? how to mount the mda? Will it work on my MDA, do i need to upgrade?
Let me know what the experiences are with a MDA and TomTom. Are there any cathes?
I'll Keep you all informed in this thread along the way building the GPS system in my car.
Will take a little while...

cool stuf found for tomtom
i.e. Darth vader voice pointing directions 8)
Dutch-site http://www.laurusbuth.nl/tomtom/

WallabyTostie said:
I got the sd-card.
Sorry for being a newbie;
but where to hook up to power? how to mount the mda? Will it work on my MDA, do i need to upgrade?
Let me know what the experiences are with a MDA and TomTom. Are there any cathes?
I'll Keep you all informed in this thread along the way building the GPS system in my car.
Will take a little while...
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Get yourself a wired gps, this will come with a cigarette lighter plug that will power the phone and gps, there are many types of mount but the cheapest do the job just as well, you can get one that connect to the heater vents in the car, a suction type that sticks to windshield, a powered version with built in speaker, I found the powered type to suffer from lots of rf breakthrough interference, there is also a magnetic mount where you stick a small metal plate to the back of the phone and a mount sticks to the dashboard. The best place to look is ebay and search for "xda gps:

Just installed TomTom Navigator 5. Bought me a cable (Leadtek/TomTom Nav. Kabel O2 Xda I/II, Qtek) and a gps mouse (Leadtek HS9813 GPS Muis). Will arrive by mail today
Installation hopefully will be ready this afternoon.
Will let you know what the testresults are.

Got the equipment but not yet a working system. GPS mouse cannot fix to a signal.
I have 9 !?! COM-ports to choose from. Tried them all, but none of them give me the result i want.
Led on gps-mouse lights up now and then.
Any suggestions??

Wallaby uses COM 1. Ensure that you have disabled beam for using GPS....
Stefan

Yes, working just fine! :lol:
- COM1 at 4800 baud.
Taken a few roadtrips, about 8 sats and just the right route.
Was a nice little project. To everyone posting reply's,
thanks!

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.

help~!

Hi all!
Tomtom and Garmin not connect GPS on my Diamond still search..... . In setup I use 3 comm. port (soft.)
Thats problem?