I've had my diamond for a year. I've been running TomTom 6 or 7.0
The nav's been working fine. My last mod was an updated Radio 1.25 and the best of my knowledge, it's been working fine.
However, now all I get when I start TomTom up is "waiting for a valid GPS signal"
I went into config and I've got other NMEA GPS receiver selected, 4800 baud and COM 4.
The same settings I've been using except now it doesn't work.
I hate to bother ya'll but I put my phone on ebay and I was making sure everything was working before it got sold and discovered this.
I don't want to sell it without it working correctly.
Thanks,
Mark
I actually had the same thing happen to my 8925 Tilt. and recently getting the Fuze I have yet to have it continually get a good gps lock. One day it will find 10 satellites and the next 8 days it wont find any. It is very annoying and not something I expected out of a brand new phone.
Well, I did a little searching and apparently it seems a lot of people download a gps fix update directly from tomtom.
I'll call them monday. I checked their site and even installed tomtom home but was not able to find anywhere to get a download.
I'll post back Monday.
Thanks,
Mark
Just a quick update: I had left TomTom running for 15-20 minutes each time I had tried to use it with no avail.
Then before I went to bed last night, I just left it on (and plugged in.... damn battery drainer) and when I woke up this morning, it had found it's satellites.
I'm still going to call TomTom Monday but apparently it's working, it's just slow.
Mark
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The GPS on my Tilt had been working fine since day one (when the Tilt came out). However, since yesterday, the GPS is giving the wrong location...it is WAY OFF, as I am in Miami, and it is telling my that I am near Turks and Caicos!!!! I've been using the GPS through Google Maps, Live Search and GPS Tuner (for geocaching), and it worked an all. The only thing that stopped working some time ago was the QuickGPS, but it didn't affect the GPS from getting a fix.
Today, I followed the registry tweaks to get QuickGPS working again and it did the trick (it downloaded the latest satellite information), but GPS is still telling me that I'm nowhere near South FL.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
I think that's the "old" bug that was mentioned a long long time ago by Paul from MoDaCo.
I got that issue as well yesterday
Dont panic, just try to find a place to stop your car then do SOFT-RESET.
Then start TomTom again.
That will fix the problem.
uhm.... "mentioned a long long time ago by Paul from MoDaCo." -> could u supply any more information about this one? May this explain my problem here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=352747
?
Thx for any hints....
Well, it was long time ago, when the Kaiser was newly released.
You can try to search in the MoDaCo website.
At least I got this issue more than once since early September 2007.
Not serious problem though, but annoying.
yeah i had this issue last night, i didnt have to do a soft reset though, i just shut down TomTom and relaunched it...and i was up and running...annoying, but at least its nothing that occcurs ALL THE TIME..
Forgive my inability to find a solution in search (at least I made the effort).
Stock Tilt
Stock AT&T ROM
Registered TomTom Nav6
GPS worked flawlessly for the past months.......matter of fact, the entire device has been flawless until now.
Tonight when I pulled the phone from my case, I got a pop-up explaining that QuickGPS had expired (or some such silly blue screen). All I could do is close it (I've never launched QuickGPS since I've owned the device and have no idea how it could have activated).
Best I can tell, my receivers are now disabled.
Settings in TomTom still show:
other GPS receiver
baud 4800
comm4
Suggestions?
try opening quickgps ( u'll find under programs") and click download and download the data..then run tomtom again and see if u get a fix
Yeah download the data from QuickGPS. It takes an insane amount of time to require a fix with any program without a sattelite map in my experience.
You might have never noticed it because it downloads automatically when you connect to ActiveSync or other data networks if enabled.
I'm pretty sure that's your problem. A current sattelite map (I don't really know what it's called) lasts for 7 days.
Thanks for the tips.
What seems to have happened was that QuickGPS must have been activated last week at some point (no clue exactly just *how* that occured). The message I got last night was that it had "expired" (I see now that each download lasts for a week then expires).
Nothing I tried would get TomTom receiving again. After reading further threads, I noticed that we should NEVER TOUCH EXTERNAL GPS SETTINGS (which of course I had already done at that point). I figured I was facing a hard reset.
But my solution came as passively as the problem did. In THIS POST "ach2" suggests running GPSTest (included in the thread) after a hard reset.
I figured, wtf....why not give it a try before I hard reset? I let GPSTest run for about 30 minutes until it had acquired a HDOP score....minimized it....launched TomTom....and low-and-behold all is working normally again.
I've since disemboweled QuickGPS so as to never bother me or TomTom again.
Thanks for the suggestions and thanks ach2 wherever you are.
Actually QuickGPS is something you want to use. It downloads the Sat. info & saves your device major time in aquiring the sat tracks.
I use Quick GPS all the time, even if it hasn't expired.
Help! Only had this a couple of weeks and it's starting to drive me nuts. When I first got it, Google Maps had no trouble finding satellites but now it comes up with 'No GPS receiver was found' screen over and over. I did switch QuickGPS off for a bit and I think it's since then it's not worked right. Does anyone have any idea what I can do? It's a UK branded Orange TytnII (Kaiser).
*I really want to start messing about with ROMs too but have a Mac and don't think there's a way I can is there?
Have you tried going outside? Line of sight sometimes will work!
Yes I have, hasn't worked. It wasn't working when I was walking round London yesterday but I assumed the tall buildings were causing the problem but now I'm in exactly the same place I was when I first got the phone and then it was was picking up 4/5 satellites. Now it's just coming up with a screen telling me I have no GPS receiver. Could the receiver in the phone have been damaged? I haven't dropped it or anything and have been pretty careful with it.
Reinstalled Google Maps. Now seems to be working. Grrr. Sorry to have bothered everyone.
Read this thread for a possible fix; http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=333275
You probably need to run quick GPS and get the download.
I have this set automatically now and it usually downloads weekly. I often wonder what I'd do if I needed the GPS somewhere where there was no phone signal to download the updates!
Hi, I had the same problem, and all apps GPS don't work !
Hard reset no change the problem.
I sent htc support, Finally they changed the motherboard !
Ok, so I been looking at the htc titans registry, and the entrys for the gps (hklm/software/htc sup gps). It seems a lot more emmaculate than ours.
Anyway, I noticed that there is a server, so I typed in the server address on my pc, and it ask for credentials (user name password). I believe thats why some of us cant get a fix.
The tilt's gps does work(communicating with satellite and towers), its just not getting the info from the towers/satellite to the phone! I assumed that what it is because I played around with several settings and finally got it to say "seeking position".
So if we can please get this thread going to fix the gps.
I LOVE MY TILT AND WOULD HATE TO GET AN IPHONE (EWL I HAVE TO WASH OUT MY MOUTH NOW)
GPS
GPD4 ???
My Gps is being found on GPD4 not com4, dont think its the same!
I have an ATT Tilt running on tmobile. I have everthing working 100% perfectly.
If you're trying to setup AGPS with t-mobile you'll need to determine if t-mobile has an AGPS server (IPort). I've disabled my AGPS since I could never find this information anywhere. T-Mobile clains that the G1 has this feature, but nobody has been able to determine an IPort for configuration for AGPS.
Instead, use "SeaGee Quick Position", it's based on the packedEphemeris.ee data download instead of realtime. Read my responses in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3065747&postcount=197
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3076268&postcount=203
Good Luck,
DJC
Thank you djcasual for the Quick Position Tip,
My gps aquires a signal much faster now...especially with TomTom 7
Thanks,
DJcasual, I am not worthy! Mines too is working with Tom Tom 7!
Thanks a million!
Yesterday reminded me why I don't use the built-in GPS..
First off, I use a bluetooth GPS with my Tilt because it's faster, more accurate, doesn't use any of the Tilt's battery, and doesn't *continue* to use it even after shutting it down.
I was out geocaching.. I was parked 300 feet from where I knew a cache was, so I didn't need the GPS.. And I knew another cache was about 600 feet from it, away from the car.. So I hit one cache, got about 400 feet towards the next one and went to start homing in on the cache to make sure I was going the right direction and realized I'd left the bluetooth GPS in the car.
So instead of sloshing back to the car, I waited for about 10 minutes for the Tilt's GPS to finally warm up only to be driven crazy by it's slowness and tendency to bounce around making caching impossible. I eventually gave up and went back to the car for the bluetooth GPS.
Then when I got home that night I had about 60% battery.. 4 hours later I went to grab the phone and it was at 5% and was warm. Stupid GPS was still running.
I have a cross-country road trip coming up and I'm hoping to use TomTom on my phone as my navigation. Problem is, it only seems to work half the time. Sometimes it takes forever to acquire satellites, sometimes it doesn't at all, and sometimes it pops up fine. I'm always either outside or in my car, too. Are there any special settings I need to mess with? I see there's an "external GPS" setting on the Tilt, but I thought the GPS is built into the phone? I've searched around and found people changing the baud rate and COM number, but these don't seem to work for me. Any tips would be GREATLY appreciated.
EDIT: My apologies, it's TomTom 7.
Destinite said:
I have a cross-country road trip coming up and I'm hoping to use TomTom on my phone as my navigation. Problem is, it only seems to work half the time. Sometimes it takes forever to acquire satellites, sometimes it doesn't at all, and sometimes it pops up fine. I'm always either outside or in my car, too. Are there any special settings I need to mess with? I see there's an "external GPS" setting on the Tilt, but I thought the GPS is built into the phone? I've searched around and found people changing the baud rate and COM number, but these don't seem to work for me. Any tips would be GREATLY appreciated.
EDIT: My apologies, it's TomTom 7.
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I use tomtom 7 on my kaiser with no problems at all. You shouldn't need to play with gps settings. so long as quick gps app downloads its stuff every 7 days. It should work fine on standard install. If still problems you could try using a different radio as some are better that others for phone signal and gps locks and battery life. Which radio is best for you will depend on where you are and can be a bit of a black art to find the right one. I am in UK and use 1.70.19.09 and its fine. Check out the radio thread in the rom development section.
All the looking I did for a fix and I never heard of radio settings...will look into that, thanks.
The day I posted this thread, I left work and TomTom worked no problem at all. This morning it worked for 2 minutes then lost the signal the rest of the way.