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Digitraveller settings for tomtom2 ??

Has anyone got the radioshack digitraveller working with the tomtom 2 navigation software?
What settings are you using? I have tried NMEA 0183v2 driver and NMEA 0183v2 : 4800 and the light comes on but it just sits there and doesn't get a fix
Cheers
Neil

tomtom gps or nmea at 4800 will work, I used mine today, however it takes a loooooooooooooooong time to get first fix, make sure under settings/connections/beam, that the box to accept all incoming beams is switched off, also if you have the driver for the folding keyboard in rom, it will need disabling after EVERY boot or it will snatch the com port and tomtom wont work. Go to tomtom properties, go to gps and look to see if a signal is being looked for, you will see a line of dots from the dish icon running left to right.

WOOHOO!!
Its working now, it just took AGES to get a fix, drove round in the car for about 15mins then it found some. So I setup tomtom to take me home, which it did, but I noticed the voice prompts were quite late, ie. i would turn the corner, then it would say "Turn Left.." after i had gone round it.
Also now I have just got back, exited tomtom, nothing is running gps not plugged in, and the phone is CRAWLING!! there is about 15mb of mem free so no probs there...
This is in WM2003 4.0.11, would PPC2002 be any better? less resource hungry maybe ?
I'm not too bothered about using WM2003 anymore, it seems more trouble than its worth at the moment... especially seen as it has soft reset its-self a couple of times... just waiting for my new SD card to erase spontaniously (sp?) now :roll:

I went back to 2002, I had far to many problems with wm2003, its up to you, but at least give it a try as I find it far more stable. By the way, did your sd card have a hardware switch to prevent erasure, I seem to remember you thought it lacked that feature when you ordered it.

No the SD card has no lock on it thats kind of whats worrying me about WM2003, don't really want it blanking the card when i'm out somewhere because i'd have no maps then so GPS would be useless :roll:
I think I'll try it on PPC2002 later, until a more stable version of WM2003 is around.
Cheers

I have found that if you use external power with the digitraveler but have no batteries in the unit, you have to wait for ages for the gps to lock on, however if you make sure that batteries are present it reduces the initialisation times dramatically. Maybe it stores an almanac and needs a little power to keep the memory, I dont really know, but try it and see if you get the same results as me. In tomtom when starting up without batteries I get one sat then wait ages for another, when batteries are left the unit it finds lots almost immediately then gets a 3d lock a little while later.

Been playing around with it a bit more today, put PPC2002 back on everything seems to run better... might just be because its a fresh install.
At the moment I'm running it just off batteries, and it does say GPS fix unreliable sometimes but I'll see what happens with power cable connected to it aswell.
I want to try and sort it out so that I can put the XDA into some sort of car cradle, and it will link up the GPS receiver, charge the XDA, output voice prompts to the Aux-In on my car stereo.
Would be awesome if it works, but i'm just a bit worried about the sturdyness of the xda when its in the cradle, I don't want to go breaking the connector on the pcb or anything because the phone is rocking around too much...
Cheers

Camera.exe keeps disappearing

Can anyone tell me what's going on with my XDA2i pls. It's been very stable for the past 6 months which is the last time I Sprite backuped. But last week the camera disappeared and Windows media player appeared on the camera button. So I thought I would re-install the ROM then restore from the June Sprite backup - remember I have been using the camera which must have been on that backup.
After the ROM install, the camera is there and working, but if I try to then do a restore from the Sprite backup, the camera is removed.
Thanks
Mike

search it at here, im sure you'll find any camera software to install....
if you need something great camera application, try CoolCamera at www.ateksoft.com
you can do it! Mike!
thanks

Thanks Clustered .... I will definitely try that camera app, - does it improve the quality of the images (I find them much worse than the supposedly poorer camera in my old XDA 2)
I have since discovered that the camera app is not being removed (there are still 4 camera related files in the Windows directory), but all reference to these are being removed somehow, so that the camera program is not visible in the 'Programs' section, nor is it associated with the camera button on soft boot.
I have temporarily got round the problem by placing the camera.exe icon in the SPB Today function, so at least I can get it started with the stylus
Any clues .... should I be looking at some registry entries.
By the way .... ironically I would like to reprogram the default for the camera button to scroll-down which I use in microsoft reader. Do you know how I could do this (tried Vito button mapper yonks ago but it seemed to cause quite a few problems)
Thanks
Mike

I had this, do you find the battery is discharging at a quicker rate??
The history with mine was it lost the cam function swapping to WMP on the button. Only way to cure it was to hard reset.... of course it would go and do the cam fail just when i had got everything set up and running nice for a few months. I found as it went further down the line that using the back up i had would instigate the cam error quicker than if i didnt.
It started to do it more and more. So i sent it back, they said all fixed. of course it wasnt 'cos the internal battery had discharged thus doing a hard reset clearing the error
Finaly on the 3rd return they did a board swap... which meant i had to get tomtom to re do the activation codes for me.
Load of hastle but it hasnt been a problem in 3 months now.

Aaargh ! yes that's exactly what's happening - battery running down quickly, so I just ordered a coupla new ones (fortunately didn't pay the O2 price of £39 and have ordered from Hong Kong at about a fiver).
Sounds like it isn't worth me returning it to O2, as a board swap would cost a lot - it's 13 months old now
Interestingly though ..... a hard reset puts it right, but as soon as I restore data and programs from a Sprite backup, the problem is back. And yet the Sprite backup was done back in June when I definitely wasn't having this problem. And an earlier backup does not cause it. Does it seem possible that one of the applications we are using has a time -related problem? Only thing I can think of recently was the British summer time auto correction.
Thanks
Mike

dont worry bout it being 13months old they got 2 yr warranty!!!! get it down to them now. you will get it sent off, if they dont replace the board, call the number for the repair company as soon as you get it back, tell them its doing the same (as you can tell from my post before the prob clears n they just turn it round) they send you a package and you send it off as a bouncer, give then a fault report, they will swap the board.
make a note of all yer device info, imea, mac address etc. to confirm the board has been replaced.
i put a pen mark on the warranty void sticker under the battery covering the screw to see if they went inside.... they didnt the first times it went back.
if you have tomtom you will need to scan n send them a copy of the board change document to get your codes reset, also send them the device code tomtom gives you when you try to run it. they require that. it took them about 5 days to sort out at tomtom
You know what gets me about this place is i could have just said send it back but i prefer to give folks as much explination... like i would in return.... unlike i have had on posts ive made where folks have said post it in the right section etc.... not telling me where or assuming you understand all about reg editors or rom changes..... following link from page to page is so frustrating... sorry rant over now
hope you get it sorted soon.,... wish i could get my Q's answered.

Thanks mate .... I'll do all that. Fortunately I can afford the time, as I've got a couple of working XDAII that two of our guys ditched in favour of execs, so I'll just set one of those up until they sort the XDAIIi
Thanks
Again
Mike

Me too
Hi Guys
You have described exactly what happened to me. I use a Motorola BT head set (820 I think) and the tom tom navigator 3 with BT satelite reciever.
I gave up in the end. It seemed to be due to the BT stack or somthing to do with the Tom Tom BT drivers. I have 2 xdaIIi's and I now use one as a gps only (does not even have a sim card) and the other one as a phone (with the Motorola head set) I dont have any problems.
If I try to use two BT items together..... with in about one week the moment i loose the camera and the battery lasts about 6 hours from full.
If I remember correctly the head set would stop working or lock up the phone, you then have to do a soft reset then the camera goes etc etc.
I can tell you I am absolutley fed up with BT I am yet to come across a BT anything that works first time every time. Even if it does work today, tomorrow who knows if it will work. The reason i am looking athe postings is because my new £400 Garmin Nuvi 660 wont connect to the XDA!!**!^%$!£"
Any way best ot luck, you are going to need it.

Hmmmmm .... don't think it's bluetooth, as I don't ever have it switched on - I prefer to use the bog standard handsfree speaker kit and don't use GPS/TomTom.
Plenty of things lock up the phone though :-(
I've gone back to my XDA II and ya know what .... I prefer it. The quality of colour saturation on the screen is much better - OK it's not quite as bright as the XDA IIi but the latter is not really any good itrself on a bright day.
.... and the camera in the II is just a gem - OK only 640k but the way it renders the image is just like silk compared to the naff camera in the IIi
... and I'm not really gonna miss the wifi, and I never really bothered using IE in landscape.
So I think I'll stick with the old II and see what you guys think of the Orbit (?) when it comes along
Mike

Well.... great service (eventually) from O2. They sent me a replacement without even waiting for the faulty XDA2i. Bad news is they sent an XDA2s ....but they then sent an XDA2i the next day. It's not brand new but presumably it's been 'reconditioned'.
Charged it up, did a hard reset - camera was there OK. Did a Sprite restore from a known good time (last June). But camera had disappeared again
I guess it's remotely possible that they have sent me the one that Richard (?)returned but I think he said they'd definitely done a board swap on his.
Despite the good advice on here, I'm still inclined to thhink this may be a software conflict problem rather than a hardware issue. And somehow it seems to be connected with time. I had not installed anything new when I suddenly lost the camera about 3 weeks ago. I'm restoring from a Sprite backup that definitely was not displaying any problems when I made it.
Regards
Mike

my cam issue would come back if i used a restore from a good point too. But that was on the old board. Ive just done a full clean install of everything and its seems to be ok. I did wonder is some gimp out there had writen some kind of virus that i had got somehow.

It might be the startup programs/services...
Try checking the Camera_Detect.lnk if it's functioning normally...
Although I'm really not sure if it is the cause but I have a similar problem but not with the camera...
Rather, it's the rotatescreen icon...
I hard reset and the icon is there but when I have installed programs it disappears once I soft reset... not sure which of the programs installed overrides the icon startup...
But I think it's during the startup that somehow make these services (camera, screen rotate, etc.) fail to run because some of the programs might be clashing with them on startups/bootups/soft reset...

I think you might be correct, as the replacemnt XDA2i that O2 sent displayed exactly the same problem when I put all my stuff back on it, but after another hard reset I put just a limited range of utilities back on, and so far in a week or so, it has been faultless
Mike

accelerometer Problem

i tried searching for this but no success so i decide to start a new thread.
i was importing pictures to my diamond as usual, and when i disconected i checked out my pictures and they where upside down :/
and i was sceptical and thought it was a little glitch or something so i reboot my phone. then checked it out again but no cigar. i even went into the teeter game and the ball just goes the top even though it does go side to side, it does not go off the top. I even tried the G-sensor calibrator and no success either. I even did a hard reset just a few seconds ago and still nothing, this is making me sorta mad/sad
now i have no idea what to do, second before this it was working perfect and I didn't do anything but plug it to the computer, import pictures and then disconnect it.
any ideas on what this might be?
any feedback would be appreciated, thanks

aaah man check it out!
so i was sooo pissed off and about to cry, cuz of my diamond accelorometer not working, but guess what?
after a hard reset (which didn't do anything but erase all my programs and things i have to put back in). took of the battery and waited a minute but still nothing. but then, I, in a moment of desperation went to the G-Sensor Calibrator thingy and hit my diamond (a few love taps) and it was sorta working now!!! i just had to calibrate it! WTF!!!???
sorry for a waste of a thread but i guess if anyone else has this problem in the near future, instead of reseting everything in a fit like i did, just go into the Calibrator and give it a few love taps in the direction you need it to go. and see if the bubble goes where it needs too and then calibrate it back to original.
i guess violence and technology sometimes do go togethere

Tomtom really slow to find satellites

I don't get what has changed. Few months ago I was raving about how amazingly fast this phone picked up gps signal in 30 seconds or less compared to the old phone. But now it takes forever, even with the hotfix. Sometimes it's faster, but generally, very slow, particularly from cold, it can take several minutes or sometimes, nothing. Could having both tomtom6 and tomtom7 on phone be causing a problem? Or do you think it's time to format the phone and reinstall everything?

Use your QuickGPS more often to refresh data and it will pick up your sat's way quicker.
Hope I could help ya.

WoGijs said:
Use your QuickGPS more often to refresh data and it will pick up your sat's way quicker.
Hope I could help ya.
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My QuickGPS is always updated.

you're not trying to get it to work in doors right ?
gps don't work well if at all inside the bricks block too much signal
same reason people keep sat discs outside

Rudegar said:
you're not trying to get it to work in doors right ?
gps don't work well if at all inside the bricks block too much signal
same reason people keep sat discs outside
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Nope. In my car.

Anyone else got any suggestions? Haven't really had any as yet.

Roman5 said:
Anyone else got any suggestions? Haven't really had any as yet.
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No suggestions but I'm experiencing the same issue which began about 5 weeks ago.
For no apparent reason tomtom took an inordinate amount of time to find a sat lock. Mid afternoon, clear sky, no hills/tall buildings for miles. I had to pull over and do a quick gps and restart tomtom. Tomtom was ok to the destination. Next morning, same thing. Day later, same thing. Week later, same thing. In (no particular order) North Lincolnshire, Norfolkshire, South Wales, South Coast, London, Derbyshire ... If I really want a gps lock before I set off I have to do a quick gps. Otherwise tomtom can take 5 to 10 minutes to get a fix.
I've been using totmom since version 2 and I've never had an issue like this.

compact_bijou said:
No suggestions but I'm experiencing the same issue which began about 5 weeks ago.
For no apparent reason tomtom took an inordinate amount of time to find a sat lock. Mid afternoon, clear sky, no hills/tall buildings for miles. I had to pull over and do a quick gps and restart tomtom. Tomtom was ok to the destination. Next morning, same thing. Day later, same thing. Week later, same thing. In (no particular order) North Lincolnshire, Norfolkshire, South Wales, South Coast, London, Derbyshire ... If I really want a gps lock before I set off I have to do a quick gps. Otherwise tomtom can take 5 to 10 minutes to get a fix.
I've been using totmom since version 2 and I've never had an issue like this.
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I might try that then. I generally have quickgps updated or maybe a day left before it needs updating again. So maybe updating everytime before I set off and restarting tomtom will get that fix quicker. Thanks.

Had this behaviour too a while ago, after a soft reset or even after terminating tomtom and fire it straight up again solved the issue.
I have no clue or explanation, but you might give it a try.
i haven't experienced this issue since a few weeks; i flash my device on a regular base, (including radio if recommended), let's me think it has something to do with combination radio/rom.

Disable A-GPS
I was having a problem retaining a fix with TT6 on my Diamond. I did a bit of Googling and was advised to disable A-GPS. Despite it supposedly being there to improve things it did exactly the opposite. This might be totally unconnected to your problem of not getting a fix in the first place but I'd give it a go. Nothing ventured, nothing gained ......

No key responce of keyboard and frontpanel or wrong responce

Hi all,
Since a couple of weeks my X1 has the following problem.
- Key on the front do not work
-- Backlight lits up but no responce from key or wrong responce (starts dailing last number)
- keyboard no responce
-- keys lid up but no correct responce
-phone starts dailing last dailed nr automatically (phone laying on table and not touching it, it still dailes the last nr at random times)
-restarting no help.
-soft restart no help
-battery removed and wait >4 days... problem solved but returns after 3 days (give or take)
Had windows 6.1 installed at first when the problem started.
Now I have 6.5 SEX1 version installed but same problem occurred.
anybody ideas?? or even recognize the issue? could not find a simmilar issue
kind regards
Wally

Sounds like you have hardware issues. Still got yer warranty? If so, reflash orignal everything and send it back because its obviously more than a firmware problem

Hmm... sounds bad..... I have no Warrenty anymore.... does this mean my phone will slowly but surely turn into an nice brick.....
any ideas how to fix this... except buying a new one....

You could try disassembling the whole unit, and cleaning all of your contacts and ensuring that all of your connections inside are secure.
No guarantees it will help, but if you are at the point of giving it up for lost then it couldn't hurt.

Cleaned my phone today... took it appart to the last screw, cleaned it..... unfortunately no help.
Responds to the 1st button, then no responce to the following...

Well, if it's only the buttons, you could use an application like AE Button Plus to disable them alltogether. Then you can just only only the screen itself to control the phone.

Thanks for the suggestion, but that is not what I am looking for .... (yet)
I hope there is a way to fix this, hopefully somebody had the same issue and was able to solve the issue.... if not... I can always use that program then.

Wally850 said:
Thanks for the suggestion, but that is not what I am looking for .... (yet)
I hope there is a way to fix this, hopefully somebody had the same issue and was able to solve the issue.... if not... I can always use that program then.
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I've been lurking these forums for a while and I have never had, or seen reports of the problem you describe. I'm assuming you tried the search function (google) as well. If that turns up empty too, you're out of options.

Had a very similar problem when my phone got slightly wet, dropped from ear under tap when washing my hands. Problem didnt show for a few days so didnt think it was the water, but in case it was I heat soaked it by leaving it behind glass on a sunny day while charging. It got very hot but after a few treatments it was cured and has been ok for a year.
It realy was unuseable as the keyboard and all buttons were giving totaly false random responces.
Worth a try.

Yes I searched on Google as well... no help unfortunately.
Although I took my phone appart, and cleaned it so it should be dry.
I can always put in in the oven and heat is up to .. lets say 55 degr.C and leave it for an hour to bake..... need frosting on that afterwards....
tell you more tomorrow

just tried my luck using the oven.... no help.
I am out of ideas....
think I will try that buttonprogram afterall....
thanks for helping

Did you use this tutorial??
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=535664