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XDA1 accessories on XDA2: 1200m AH Piggyplug batterypack

Geenraly speaking, i think that the XDA 2deplets very quick, but nether as quick as when you use GPRs or the phone portion. After having payed a visit to Tmobile's website, i was quite surprised to see that they offer the XDA1 batterypack to XDA2 users and so give the impression that is is usable and compatible on the XDA2; As this additionnal external baterry is 1200mah it could be quite interesting to buy one to supplement the XDA2's power Is this true and has someone already experienced with it?
Do you have any information or tweaks to share in order to have a decent batterylife time for the XDA2 even in phonemode or gprs?
Awaiting your input, i remain, Brgds, ARNAUD

For Sale - XDA2 + Full GPS SatNav Kit, (Best Offer)

Hi
I have decided to sell my XDA2 as I am now using built in SatNav in my car, and that was all I ever used it for!
So the package is
XDA II, Fully Unlocked to all networks, Boxed as new, no marks or scratches etc, (Really does look like brand new) (Was actually purchased about 8 weeks ago), all the accesories in the box are still sealed complete with books software etc
256Mb SD Card for GPS Map Storage,
Rikaline 6010 GPS Antenna with Car Power lead for GPS and XDA
Suction Windscreen mount for XDA
TomTom USA Mapping Software
TomTom3 UK Mapping Software
TomTom3 European Upgrade Mapping Set for TomTom3
Not looking to exchange for anything else, just a cash sale, looking for offers, will take a reasonable offer from members here, otherwise I will stick it on Ebay next week
Email me @ [email protected] if you are interested
Regards
Victoria

Now Listed on Ebay
Hi
I have now listed the kit on Ebay, here is a link to it
Will sell to the highest bidder
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6307729045&sspagename=STRK:MESE:IT&rd=1

DCONNEX DC-230 Bluetooth GPS

After looking for a wired GPS (just because of pricing) I found (&bought) this DCONNEX DC-230 Bluetooth GPS.
They sell for around 80 euros (ex 28 euros shipping).
It very complete:
BT GPS (charge/data-connector/ on-off switch / external antenna connector and three leds to check operation)
Charging cable (USB)
In-car charger (12-24V)
Mains charger (100-240V), US style
Mains adapters (three, but useless for me)
CD with manual
From the manual I found out this BT GPS is in fact a Rebadged Holux GR-230!!! This makes it even better.
Only drawback is that the case looks a bit cheap (well; it is cheap so what) and the connectors are not covered like they are with the Holux.

I have one too.. works great.
I would recommend it.

May I ask where you bought the unit and how much you paid for it? Dconnex is a Singapore firm and the local pricing is way above the 80 euros mentioned above. Go figure! Thanks for the information.

I picked mine up on Ebay, I brought it using EUR's as the auctions in other currencies had a reserve.
All up including deleivery I paid $149au which is about $87eur
A bargin I think.

I bought mine on eBay too: EUR 78 (EUR 28 for shipping/insurance must be added to that).
As far as I could see the lowest price until that moment :lol:
Of course the actual price depend on the popularity of a particular aution.
It costed me 2 days trying to get one for the price I had in mind.
The seller is called techworldsg (aka Jason Wong, the owner of DCONNEX)

Thanks for your replies. Given I am local to Jason, I will try to contact him and see if I can buy direct and avoid shipping and eBay waiting hassles etc. Will let you know how it goes. Regards
Update : After a search on the net I came accross an email address for the eBay supplier of this BT GPS unit... [email protected] . Seems like Dconnex website and their proper emails are not involved in eBay trading. Nevertheless, I sent an email and asked for a S$ based price... To my suprise, I was quoted S$590 which translates to about US$350.-... And that is self collect by the way! Unbelieavable. Seems like I will end up doing the eBay order after all.

Yeah, I investigated importing a few to sell locally, the cost price was well above what I ended up paying on ebay.

I reckon what he sells on eBay goes out-of-band as far as local taxation is concerned and whatever he sells locally is legit business and pays taxes on etc and hence the higher price. This is the only reason I can think of for such a price hike...

Dconnex GPS and TomTom
Hi Guys,
Just got myself one of these. The unit seems to be working fine but the CD I got with it is cracked down the middle and unreadable. I have asked the supplier to resend the CD but that could take another 10 days from Singapore.
Questions:
How do I get TomTom 3 to work with it. This GPS doesn't seem to be on the list. What settings need to be in TomTom.
If a driver is required please could one of you kind people send it to me?
Thanks a lot.
Mike Halleron
([email protected])

For TomTom just configure the GPS as '[email protected]' and the relevant Com Port.

This is my config with this GPS:
(I use rom 1.72)
Bond the DC-230
PIN is 0000 (the manual is wrong on this!!)
Answer yes to the question to create a COM port to support Serial Port Profile
In TomTom
Select "NMEA xxxx Bluetooth" (in fact any NMEA or SiRF will do) in upper combo
Select "COM5" in lower combo (even better: "Bluetooth GPS", but that seem impossible for some of us, like me ;-(
Tick the blue-ish box
Off you go.
Beware: If you use COM5 keep in mind what is said in
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=11674&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
No driver required.
The manual is on cd as well, but rayher useless since our BT Stack is different from the widely used (and documented) Widcomm stack.
I could email the Cd contents to you.

Thanks for the replies guys. That seemed to do the trick.
It definately works better outside than inside.
Any suggestions about positioning it in a car? Does it have to be line of site or something?
Thanks again!
Mike

With me it works behind every window.
BUT:
It wont perform well behind a windscreen with heat-resistant coating
The beter the view of the sky is the better the performance. (ie behind windscreen or back-window get best results)
I have such a heat-resistant windscreen. On my windscreen there are two places (left & right of mirror) that are coating-free. I put my DC-230 inside a black plastic box and taped that on the windscreen just inside the coating free area. Work super. Plus the plastic box makes it invisible for possible thieves.
I also connected it to a permanent power lead which has the advantage that I constantly have a fix.

gps reveiver

hi ive just bought an spv m1000 i have tomtom navigator 5 and im looking for a gps receiver any recommendations wired is fine aslong as i can charge the phone aswell and ive seen a few cradles with built in gps that would be ok aswell anyone point me in the right direction for good deals.

cant recommend this site enough: www.pdamods.com
i got the Globalsat BT 338 which is hard to find faults with....there are a few options if you want to spend less but the prices on this site are very competetive.

personally id steer clear of pda mods having heard a quite a few horrror stories try totalpda or expansys gobal postioning systems easy devices are all companies id remoned having delt with them before holux themselves are pretty good to id look at the new 231 slim from holux

i can only speak of a companies i've used....horror stories are to be found with many out there....but that's another matter.
i will say PDAmods are not to good when accesing using Firefox...definitely not optimised for other browsers aside from IE.
is that Holux model the one with the same chipset as the BT-338? it also has roughly half the battery standby time but costs about a fiver less.....what does it do better than the 338 why people are choosing it instead?
do they have any good reviews available online about that one? i for one cant see any plus points.
before deciding, check this site for reviews on a few models: http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/item-menu.php?idSubCat=5

thanks for that ill look into it.

just had a look at holux and wondered if i got the gm-210 and a cable adapter is the cable adapter so that i can power the gps and xda at the same time im new at this can you tell

GPS Software Included?

Hi folks:
There is no information on software included on the HTC Touch Pro. I assume that GPS software (and maps) is probably not included, but am wondering if the GPS can be used with google maps (as is done in the iPhone 3G).
Any info on this will be greatly appreciated. I am on the fence between the iPhone and Raphael...
Thanks.

You can use every navigation software like Google Maps, Navigon, TomTom etc. with the integrated GPS.

Thank you, although that makes the choice so much harder

Google Maps is delivered as part of the base ROM, same as for iPhone.
But of course for a Windows Mobile device you have more choices with several 3rd party GPS software packages (both free ones and chargeable ones).

Handtec sell a version shipped with Tom Tom Navigator 6. As you can see from the link it's a bit pricey! The thing is, about a month ago the "Premium" version - as they call it - was actually cheaper than the standard one , that was when I placed my pre-order for a "premium" one they will have to honour it now!
I'm hoping that since they are shipping it with the Tom Tom software, there will also be some sort of cradle in the box to mount it to the windscreen or dashboard. Anyone know if this is true or am I hoping for too much?

ukdj78 said:
Handtec sell a version shipped with Tom Tom Navigator 6. As you can see from the link it's a bit pricey! The thing is, about a month ago the "Premium" version - as they call it - was actually cheaper than the standard one , that was when I placed my pre-order for a "premium" one they will have to honour it now!
I'm hoping that since they are shipping it with the Tom Tom software, there will also be some sort of cradle in the box to mount it to the windscreen or dashboard. Anyone know if this is true or am I hoping for too much?
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I doubt they will ship a cradle, they only come with the tomtom software and not the maps, you have to purchase the maps to work with it.
Its the same deal as with the diamond, so its unlikely you will get a cradle in the box.

mrvanx said:
they only come with the tomtom software and not the maps, you have to purchase the maps to work with it.
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No, they definitely come with maps on that site. If you click on my link you'll notice a drop-down menu under the picture where you can choose to have UK/Ireland maps or the full Western European maps for an extra £19.99.
I chose the Western Europe one, £20 didn't seem like much to pay to me. I don't know what tomtom's map prices are like, but at the moment I'm using a Navman sat-nav system in my car and I've never upgraded the maps for that because their prices are horrendous! Having said that, I've never actually done any sat-nav assisted driving outside the UK so I don't know if I'll ever take advantage of the extra maps - I have used my Navman on holiday in Majorca to help me find a McDonalds on foot though lol so I expect I will use them at some point even if I'm not driving at the time!

I thought the diamond came with TT7 application to which you had to buy maps. As TT6 is an old version and the maps are out of date, i would suggest we wait to find out if HTC are shipping the TT7 application on the software disk. There has been a lot of discussion on the Kaiser forum regarding TT7 from the Diamond.
I have used both TT6 and TT7 on my Kaiser. The latest TT6 maps are version 675, whereas TT7 can use the same maps as the Go910 - with map versions in the 700's. These are much more upto date and support the map share feature.

To be honest I don't really mind if the maps are out of date, I'm not going to be using it as a sat-nav much anyway - once or twice a month if that!
I'll be sure to post back in this thread though and let you know what version of maps I get and whether I get my beloved cradle or not

I just noticed that Handtec also sell the tomtom software on its own. It says on the info page that the maps included are version 6.75, so I'm pretty sure that that is what I'm going to get.
On the plus side, when I deduct the price they're asking for the European map version of Navigator 6 from the price I paid for my Touch Pro premium pre-order, it works out that I'm only paying £460 for the hardware! I'm pretty happy with that, considering the cheapest price I can find for a Touch Pro on it's own is currently £499.95. As I said earlier though, when I placed my order the premium version was cheaper than the standard one - I'm sure they've made a mistake there but I ain't complaining!
I also just looked on Kelkoo, Froogle, and uk.shopping.com and I couldn't find a single website selling version 7 of the tomtom software, so I don't think that it's actually been released as separate software yet - maybe it just comes with certain devices at the moment

ukdj78 said:
To be honest I don't really mind if the maps are out of date, I'm not going to be using it as a sat-nav much anyway - once or twice a month if that!
I'll be sure to post back in this thread though and let you know what version of maps I get and whether I get my beloved cradle or not
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As promised, I'm just posting to update everyone. I didn't get a cradle, just got the standard Touch Pro kit that everyone else got.
The software was in a separate anti-static (metallic) bag pre-loaded onto a Kingston 2GB micro SD card (would only be a 1GB card if you only buy UK maps), which comes with adaptors for mini and full size SD and there was also an A4 sheet of paper containing my TomTom product code and installation instructions.
I don't actually know what version my maps are... it doesn't say anywhere on the A4 sheet and I can't find any way of getting the software to tell me. Anyone know how I can find out? (not that I'm really bothered by it as I said before, but someone might want to know! lol)
I already have an in-car charger from my Vario II days, so all I need now is the cradle. Best deal on that I could find was a universal one from mobilefun which looks like it will do the job. It was only £7.45 including shipping. I've ordered it and got an e-mail within the hour saying it has been shipped.

Does anyone have a link where I can download TT7? or can someone mirror it

Touch PRO TT^
The touch pro does not comes with TOMTOM, and the TT6 that came with the TYTN II will not install on the T-PRO does not like the rom.

picasa99 said:
Does anyone have a link where I can download TT7? or can someone mirror it
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Take a look at this thread here. I installed the VGA version on my Raphael and it's working fine
Offcourse, it excludes the maps, you'll have to get those yourself.

I got my cradle in the post this morning (VERY fast service from mobilefun - 16 hours from order to delivery!).
Just tried it out and it fits the touch pro perfectly - doesn't cover the volume buttons, microphone or speaker. The mounting arm is flexible yet firm, so it's not likely to suddenly bend itself out of position when you go over a bump. Seems to be ideal for the job, there's even a photo frame built into it so you can put your favourite photo behind your device (a bit pointless I know, but still... )

ukdj78 said:
I got my cradle in the post this morning (VERY fast service from mobilefun - 16 hours from order to delivery!).
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Which cradle did you get?

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