Hi All,
Could someone please let me know how to use the GPS in my phone. I have tried upgrading the phone to different ROMS that were supposed to enable the GPS and now I am currently using the official HTC WM6 Australia but I cannot get the GPS detected in TomTom or Google Maps. Any help on this would be very, very appreciated since one of the reasons because I bought the phone was because of the GPS...
Thanks in advance
what settings are you using for your TomTom?
Does it say "No GPS Device"?
If it says "Waiting for a valid GPS signal", then you just gotta walk outdoor and wait a few mins...
Note that it takes quite awhile for the first lock.
please state your radio version as well
GPS Problems
Hi,
Windows Mobile 6 Professional (Build 17944.0.3.1)
ROM. 3.00.707.17
ROM Date 06/29/07
Radio Version. 1.38.00.11
I use the "Other NMEA GPS receiver" /115200 GPS baud rate /GPS in COM9
and it says "waiting for a valid GPS signal..." but I have been outside the house waiting for 20 minutes and it doesn't pick up the signal. My TomTom bluetooth GPS used to pick up the signal in 1 minute.
If I get this GPS running, how long will I have to wait everytime I want to use my GPS?
Thanks
Alonso
sounds like a tom tom configuration issue.. .there are threads for this in the forum, cause your radio and rom are up to date.. (although i'd suggest a newer radio to get rid of battery drain). It definitely shouldn't take 20 minutes.. i think within 4 minutes it should be set, most of the time MUCH quicker (2min?)
Where can I get the radios
Sure, where can I get the radios updates?
Are all compatible with all the different ROM versions?
I had similar issue with Tomtom recently. After I have TomTOM software downdgraded back to version 6.010 instead of 6.030 problem is gone.
i9796674 said:
Hi,
Windows Mobile 6 Professional (Build 17944.0.3.1)
ROM. 3.00.707.17
ROM Date 06/29/07
Radio Version. 1.38.00.11
I use the "Other NMEA GPS receiver" /115200 GPS baud rate /GPS in COM9
and it says "waiting for a valid GPS signal..." but I have been outside the house waiting for 20 minutes and it doesn't pick up the signal. My TomTom bluetooth GPS used to pick up the signal in 1 minute.
If I get this GPS running, how long will I have to wait everytime I want to use my GPS?
Thanks
Alonso
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First of all, your GPS device IS detected. There is too steps when Tomtom is trying to make a GPS fix: 1) no GPS device 2) waiting for a valid signal. If you've already reached the second one it means Tomtom can sense your GPS but it cannot aquire the three satelits signal required for a valid location fix.
I would suggest you upgrade your radio. Athough the 1.38 one can work, I didn't have a good GPS with it and it tookme ages for a fix, and sometimes no fix possible.
Besides, that radio wasn't made for the newest wm6 roms.
1.46 will work way better for that.
And since Tomtom is not the lightest application for GPS testing, I would suggest you try other apps such as GPS test (which is free etc.) you'll get a fix quicker, and once you had a fix, all other applications will fix instantly too.
You can try the GPS function in the camera too, which is quite light too and fix quicker than Tomtom.
Ok so I have Tomtom 6.032 and also GPSTEST installed, GPSTEST is using com4 9600baud and it finds the GPS and also the satellites without issue. Now on to TomTom, It finds the GPS using com4 as well as built in, but it will not locate any satellites I left it out side in the bright sun for an hour (plugged in) and it still said searching for satellites. Now its nice to know where I am using GPSTEST, but what I need is to be able to locate a route using TomTom, yet as I said it will not find the satellites (but does find the GPS unit). Quick GPS is up to date and has 4+ days left in the current download.
So I had TomTom working previously at home (so I assumed it would still work), and then needed it to get to a customers location and found that poof it no longer works. One of the major reasons I wanted a Kaiser over the Verizon phone was the GPS unit.
Any idea why 1 GPS program works and TomTom does not? As I said it does not appear to be any issue with connecting to the GPS unit only locating satellites.
Thanks,
ERIC
Try reading through this forum there are plenty of links on fixes like this I am sure you will find what you are looking for.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=330235
hi!
first, sorry for my poor english!
The problem is with QuickGPS and tomtom. QuickGPS is brought up to date without problem, but tomtom don´t use the informacion that QuickGPS has been dischargeed, since before, although when i did not have GPS cover satellites are in gray in the satellite screen of tomtom, but now They not appear, for which the QuickGPS data is no use at all.
Someone knows the soluction?
Many thanks!
Hi,
I have the same kind of problem; I have tested with nothrill 6.1 rom.
Tomtom as well as other GPS tools semms to search for satelite without the use of quickGPS.
No information (no grey satelite bar in tomtom) are displayed during this research; but after 1 to 5 minutes, satelites are found and tomtom is OK.
Is anyody has something to do with quickGPS to work again in 6.1?
After calling TomTom and HTC I understood that TomTom6 won't work properly on the Diamond. Calling my supplier I got the message that it will at least take 2 months before there will be navigationsoftware which will support the Diamond. Meanwhile you don't have an usable GPS. I don't like that and hope that you will share proven settings/tweaks that enable navigation software like TomTom, Garmin, Route66 etc. Please also share solutions for issues like battery drainige and others. Tnx.
There is mentioned how to configure TomTom 6 at least 3-4 times at Diamond - General section of this forum ... what about trying to search or should I do that instead of you ?
Other NMEA GPS receiver
Baud Speed 9600
Com 4
do you mean to tell me, that it is not working on my diamond.?
strange i used it yesterday and everything was fine............
Hi,
I've just got my HTC Touch Diamond, and I can't get it to find ANY satellites in either Google Maps or TomTom Navigator 6. It has worked on a couple of occasions - both programs have been able to locate satellites, but only once or twice, and only after about 30-40 minutes searching.
I've got a Touch Cruise as well, and the one thing that always worked very well on it is the GPS, particularly with TomTom. Within a few seconds, the Cruise ALWAYS finds at least a couple of satellites, even indoors. The Diamond never seems to be able to find any, even when I stood on top of a hill in open ground for 45 minutes yesterday!
I'm guessing it's a configuration problem or conflict of some kind, given the fact that it HAS found 4-8 satellites a couple of times. The GPS settings in Windows are precisely the same as on my Cruise (COM4 and 4800 baud), the QuickGPS is up-to date, and Assisted GPS is active according to Advanced Config.
One thing I did notice is that TomTom Navigator 6.03 doesn't give me the option to select 'Built-In GPS Reciever' on the Diamond (my Cruise TomTom is set to 'Built-In GPS Reciever). I have to select 'Other NMEA GPS Receiver' and set 4800 baud and COM4. It DOES seem to find the GPS device, but it doesn't find any satellites (except once or twice). I thought this might be the source of the problem, until I tried Google Maps and found that that couldn't find any satellites either. Running the Cruise and Diamond side-by-side, the Cruise finds a good number of satellites in just a few seconds, whereas the Diamond is still searching for its first after an hour!
Has anyone else had this problem on the Diamond, or with WM 6.1? Does anyone have any clue how I might be able to resolve it? Right now, I'm feeling that I've been suckered into buying yet another HTC device that simply doesn't work properly. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Rob.
P.S. I can't get SRS WOW to work on the Diamond either. All sound output just disappears completely, and when I launch the SRS WOW application it says that no driver is installed. No amount of soft-resetting has resolved it, and in the end I had to uninstall SRS to get my system sound back. Does anybody know how I can get SRS WOW onto the Touch Diamond?
HTC Touch Diamond:
ROM: 1.37.405.1 WWE (10/06/2008)
Radio: 1.00.25.03
Protocol: 52.26a.25.09H
doesn't the diamond have tomtom 7 built in or something? try the tomtom 7 cab floating around if you don't have it.
Why not post this in the diamond forum.
Or, even better, read the FAQ, search like it says, then get here http://www.google.com/cse?cx=000825...d+gps&sa=Search&cof=FORID:0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Rory
YEAH THE GPS ON DIAMOND DON't WORK!!
Yeah, I was so excited buying my diamond.. I always keep accessories brand new so incase I resell for any reason..so the first time I charged it up w/ a usb cord and it died in a couple of hours. I thought it needed to be charged from its own charger. So I took out the charger that came w/ it, charged it fully and it died again in 3-4 hours of using it. I was super angry. So, finally I am lookin around for the gps ( navigation ) software, only to soon realize that there is none. So, I put in the application cd that comes w/ the phone to find out that there isnt any apps on it. Anyway I install an old version of google maps on the phone that I used w/ my palm treo and realized it only picked me up w/ in 1100 meters of where I was at. I thought it was the old google and the new one would of had better gps locationing, but now that I read your blog and find out that this phone really sucks for real, I am super angry!! I just paid $799 for this crap! I should of stayed w/ my big e90. I even registered a name on this site just to tell you I agree, I will keep bugging HTC until they send me something new and fix it. They can atleast send me that cool dock they have on their website. And how did u get the tom tom for it?????????? Koda
Works with Tomtom 6
The GPS on my diamond works with Tomtom 6. Select "Other NMEA GPS receiver", Baud rate 4800, Com4. It even gets GPS signal inside my apartment, better than my stand alone GPS.
Edit: Just tested with google maps, GPS works well.
Htc Touch Diamond Gps
ISN' THe phone suppose to have built in GPS? As in the NOkia e and N series?
Gps Does Work
I Did Not Have Gps Selected In Pll Up Menu
I finally got it working
I've been having the exact same problem with Tom Tom 7. It would either say "No GPS device!" or it would have terrible signal so I couldn't get a lock. The solution was to Turn off assisted GPS and reset the diamond. Now i get a lock in 10 to 15 seconds when indoors!
And on a personal note, I just wanna say a HUGE thanks to everyone who posts on this forum and the guys who run this (even the guys posting problems and not solutions) it's been a huge help (and good reading) ever since i stubled onto this site.
Thanks, Aaron
HI,
were can I Turn off assisted GPS?
In TomTom 7 do you use internal GPS antenna? Or NMEA?
Guys,i have tried every single way on this page to get a GPS signle on my HTC Diamond but it always says "NO GPS Device" on Tomtom 7 or "No GPS reciever" on Google Maps, ...etc.
And there is no QuickGPS utility or Assisted GPS in my setting,programs, or setup CDs. There is only the External GPS on the Settings-System.
I am afraid that the GPS is actually closed or disabled somehow.
Please if someone has found a solution or knows how to unlock the headset's GPS, post a reply.
I really like tha phone but feel like a sucker because of the GPS thing.
same problem no gps
Have the same problem - baut i have the quick gps program - tried everything but not even after 30 minutes it finds a satelite
Mine never gets a signal inside, but outside it seems fine. Try something like this an go stand outside for a bit
I'm in the same boat as you Europeart.
And it's very frustrating!!!!!
Have a T-Mobile Compact IV with the Tomtom 7 package I found on this forum. I didn't get any voices but after downloading and installing the free map it can't find the internal GPS. I thought this rip was for the diamond, so it should work exactly the same!?
Added to the Google Maps will only triangulate my nearabout position with the use of cell phone towers. I can't find anything to play with the GPS and I've never managed to pick up any satellites even with that little app that downloads their positions.
Has anyone figured this one out?
quickgps
after trying everything I tried to make a hard reset thrue the menu (delete memory - en español borrar memoria) - pero me ha borrado la memoria incorporada (4GB) y no la memoria del movil ni un hard reset. With volume down - enter (round button) and soft reset with the pen (red button in penhole) pressing some seconds until you see a white display I got it - but I had to install everything - contacts, too.
But now it works - first time took 2-3 minutes, second time only 3 seconds!!!!!!!!!!!!
great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hope it don't change again - somebody knows?
thanks everybody for help inhere
Markus, a german from spain
More than one Navigation software!!!
Hi,
I had troubles with HTC Diamond GPS where I had to Hard Reset the phone to get the GPS working.
There is a suspicion on GPS problems with HTC Diamond!!
I have 2 navigation software, TomTom 7 and IGO, and of course the built-in Google Map. However, earlier when I had problems, I used to open tomtom try it, close the problem, and open IGO, play with it and close it.
The GPS then stopped working. I hard-reset the phone, and installed again both software but used only one, IGO and opened Google Maps but didn't use the GPS.
However, today, I opened Google Maps, used GPS and closed it. Now I am trying to open IGO and use the GPS but stopped working. Having the problem again.
Can anybody please confirm my suspicion on the problem which is that you cannot use more than one navigation program on HTC Diamond as somehow it hangs on the internal GPS and maybe blocks it?
Did anybody try it??
Following
Or maybe only between IGO 8 and TomTom 7 when the GPS hangs!
RH Photography said:
Hi,
I've just got my HTC Touch Diamond, and I can't get it to find ANY satellites in either Google Maps or TomTom Navigator 6. It has worked on a couple of occasions - both programs have been able to locate satellites, but only once or twice, and only after about 30-40 minutes searching.
I've got a Touch Cruise as well, and the one thing that always worked very well on it is the GPS, particularly with TomTom. Within a few seconds, the Cruise ALWAYS finds at least a couple of satellites, even indoors. The Diamond never seems to be able to find any, even when I stood on top of a hill in open ground for 45 minutes yesterday!
I'm guessing it's a configuration problem or conflict of some kind, given the fact that it HAS found 4-8 satellites a couple of times. The GPS settings in Windows are precisely the same as on my Cruise (COM4 and 4800 baud), the QuickGPS is up-to date, and Assisted GPS is active according to Advanced Config.
One thing I did notice is that TomTom Navigator 6.03 doesn't give me the option to select 'Built-In GPS Reciever' on the Diamond (my Cruise TomTom is set to 'Built-In GPS Reciever). I have to select 'Other NMEA GPS Receiver' and set 4800 baud and COM4. It DOES seem to find the GPS device, but it doesn't find any satellites (except once or twice). I thought this might be the source of the problem, until I tried Google Maps and found that that couldn't find any satellites either. Running the Cruise and Diamond side-by-side, the Cruise finds a good number of satellites in just a few seconds, whereas the Diamond is still searching for its first after an hour!
Has anyone else had this problem on the Diamond, or with WM 6.1? Does anyone have any clue how I might be able to resolve it? Right now, I'm feeling that I've been suckered into buying yet another HTC device that simply doesn't work properly. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Rob.
P.S. I can't get SRS WOW to work on the Diamond either. All sound output just disappears completely, and when I launch the SRS WOW application it says that no driver is installed. No amount of soft-resetting has resolved it, and in the end I had to uninstall SRS to get my system sound back. Does anybody know how I can get SRS WOW onto the Touch Diamond?
HTC Touch Diamond:
ROM: 1.37.405.1 WWE (10/06/2008)
Radio: 1.00.25.03
Protocol: 52.26a.25.09H
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Hi,
I've just bought an HTC TD too, being the impatient, rather than the academic, type I registered with TomTom and went straight to their support page (shortest distance between two points etc...). There you will find the instructions to configure TomTom/Diamond GPS settings 'Configuring the built-in GPS receiver on your HTC device..'
It works.
I see that, if you haven't done so yet, you need to go to the HTC site and update to the latest ROM too - gives you quad band and a speedup. You have to register there too!
NoData is a useful program.
HTC Touch Diamond
WM 6.1
ROM 1.93.405.1 WWE 07/17/08
Radio version: 1.00.25.05
Protocol version: 52.29.25.12W
TomTom7 (free with 1 city map)
Hope this helped.
I had the same problem...
A-GPS on, with TomTom 7: no fix. When I turned A-GPS off everything was fine.
I would like to know wether A-GPS should be supported by the nav-software in order to work, or that A-GPS isn't well implemented in the Touch Diamond.
Does anybody have a clue about that?
**** EDIT ****
I got this from another forum:
it will work if you set the baud rate in TT to 2400. Otherwise turn agps off and it works at the regular setting. Haven't really notices a difference in performance one way or another.
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I tried this, but it didn't work for me (even other baud rates)...
Hi All!
I have install IGo8 on my diamond. It’s OK. GPS Device founded. But it can’t receive information from satellites. Visual GPS program show me 15 satellites in view but anyone in use. Why? What I should do?
I did HR. Was at the street. Get off battery. But nothing.
Help me please!
RUU_Signed_1_93OliNex_HSPL_UnsignedEdition
Diamond_ASerg.9_RUS
geksone said:
Hi All!
I have install IGo8 on my diamond. It’s OK. GPS Device founded. But it can’t receive information from satellites. Visual GPS program show me 15 satellites in view but anyone in use. Why? What I should do?
I did HR. Was at the street. Get off battery. But nothing.
Help me please!
RUU_Signed_1_93OliNex_HSPL_UnsignedEdition
Diamond_ASerg.9_RUS
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one more time change roms, all ok