A refreshing problem

[+Archer4]

My trusty iPAQ 3630/Navman sleeve took the big drop off the windscreen once too often so we're now using an iPAQ 2790b (Windows Mobile) with a TomTom SiRF III receiver GPSGate V1 (now V2beta) and MemoryMap OS 2004 4.4.3 Baud rate 4800

Works faultlessly in the car, can happily follow the route on OS with TomTom voice directions in the background while the distance to go box ticks down to the mark etc

Unfortunately it has a unique cache protection mode which kicks in as we walk towards a mark and hangs the distance to go & arrow for minutes at a time. It can work perfectly - just not for long. You can eventually triangulate enough brief snapshots to get to a search zone but the novelty has worn off

Tried it with & without GPSGate but doesn't make any difference.

Happened today with 10 or so satellites locked + the signal bars till showing refreshes, with the hung "16.9m" box flickering at each refresh but staying stuck...

I've seen occ comments about some receivers starting to hunt when you stop or slow down but can't find anything to adjust and TomTom Navigator 5 has walking directions as an option so I would have thought that it should cope.

I've posted a query to the MM support forum but wondered whether anyone else had the same problem (& fixed it... )

[+The Gecko's]

I managed to fix this problem with Memory Map, Beeline GPS etc, but I had to buy a Holux236 GPS to solve it

 

If you find a solution I would be very interested. Apart from this problem I find the TomTom receiver is excellent and still use it in the car.

 

Dave - The Gecko's

[+rutson]

Not got a link to hand but you need a program to tweak the SIRF settings to turn off a featire where it ignores low speed motion. Memory map forums are your friend.

[+rutson]

http://www.memory-map.co.uk/board/index.php?showtopic=3048

[+Captain Gore-tex]

At Last! Thanks for the post Rutson. Managed to connect my tom tom gps to the PDA using this forum as a result.

[+rutson]

BTW, full marks to Archer4 for giving us enough information to have a stab at a solution

[+Archer4]

Cured

I'd seen the utility but assumed that it was only to fix skipping around with wrong positions (which mine doesn't) rather than hanging the DTG - but a bit of blurb with it implies that different systems will display the same problem differently. Toggling Static Navigation certainly toggles the problem

I get to switch the Eggnog satellites on + off too with the same utility

 

Many thanks

[+Dr@gOnB@iT]

http://www.memory-map.co.uk/board/index.php?showtopic=3048

 

Rutson, Thank you very much for the link. It's exactly what I was looking for. I had the same problem as the OP and couldn't find a solution. I'd get within distance of the cache and start circling but couldn't get updated coordinates.

 

BTW, I'm using my Sprint PPC 6700, TomTom Nav 6 software for roads, Beeline GPS for caching, and TomTom Nav 6 bluetooth receiver.

[+Stuey]

http://www.memory-map.co.uk/board/index.php?showtopic=3048

 

Rutson, Thank you very much for the link. It's exactly what I was looking for. I had the same problem as the OP and couldn't find a solution. I'd get within distance of the cache and start circling but couldn't get updated coordinates.

 

I wish I' known about this ten 10 days ago. Those Garmin 60CSX's that Wadders and Cachemad had were so much better than my Sirf in the PDA when searching at GZ.

 

Good news, even if I am a little (!) late to this particular party!

Edited February 13, 2007 by Stuey