Re: i-mate pda with Bluetooth GPS
From: Chris Butcher (chrisbutchernospam_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 10/21/04
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:47:34 +0100
Yup, same experience here. All the documentation talks about COM4 or COM7.
But in fact you use COM5.
Mauricio, have you tried using 512MB/1GB SD cards with the NavMan
application? What is your experience of this?
-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIGHT BACK AGAINST SPAM! Download Spam Inspector, the Award Winning Anti-Spam Filter http://mail.giantcompany.com "Mauricio Freitas [MVP]" <dr.emailposter@nowhere.invalid> wrote in message news:uAvOWsotEHA.2804@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl... > Kath, I've actually tested a BT GPS last month, and didn't have to use > anything on the i-mate (besides the Enable Char Pin tweak) to use the GPS. > It was a NAVMAN. The default Bluetooth software was offering COM5, without > using anything else. > > My device is running 1.72.00WWE, downloaded from Club i-mate > (www.clubimate.com). You need your IMEI handy to sign up to the website, and > once registered you can check if they have an updated ROM for your country. > > > > -- > Mauricio Freitas, Microsoft MVP Mobile Devices > Bluetooth guides: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=449 > Geekzone Software Store: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/store > Our RSS feeds give you up to date information on new software as soon as > they're available: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=3344 > > > > "Kath" <kathhawkes@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:1c65ea1c.0410200149.4d339313@posting.google.com... > > Hi, > > > > A while ago we bought an O2 XDA - we chose this PDA because it's one > > of the few PDAs that has both GPRS and Bluetooth. We are using a BT > > GPS (a Fortuna Clip-On), and after using the bios update from the O2 > > site and downloading Bluetooth Tools, we were able to use the BT GPS > > to communicate with the PDA. > > > > We recently bought an i-mate PDA, which is exactly the same hardware > > as the XDA2, just with a different label. The hardware info is: > > ROM version : 1.66.00WWE > > ROM date : 02/02/04 > > Radio version: 1.10.00 > > Protocol version: 1337.18 > > ExtROM version: 1.66.131 > > > > As this is a newer machine, we don't want to 'downgrade' by installing > > the old BIOS update. We have installed Bluetooth tools, but cannot get > > the GPS and PDa to 'talk'. Bluetooth tools tries to create allocate a > > serial port for the GPS, it offers port 7, but using this port (or any > > other) we cannot communicate with the GPS. On the older PDA, Bluetooth > > Tools offers port 5, over which we can communicate with the GPS fine. > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions how to get the new PDA and GPS to > > talk to each other? I think we might try an HP device next time, they > > seem to offer much more support for bluetooth devices. I'm not sure > > whether the XDA3 will solve this problem, but at the moment we're > > stuck with a BT-enabled i-mate that can't talk to our BT GPS! > > > > Thanks, > > > > Kath > >
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