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Number of satellites in tomtom

I have noticed something that worries me a little about the GPS and tomtom. When I have a fix, I notice that I have two bars in the signal status in tomtom. I a press this indicator, I get to the route summary, where it says that I have 3 satellies. The curious thing is that if I press this indicator in this window, I get to the screen where the satellites are shown and I see that I have 6 bars in blue which would mean that I have 6 satellites, not 3.
I know that the GPS is not as good as sirf3, but I don't think this should happen. Apart from that the behaviour of the GPS seems fine. I am using COM4 4800 bauds, tomtom 6.030.
Does this happen to you?
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for your help.

gainasp said:
I have noticed something that worries me a little about the GPS and tomtom. When I have a fix, I notice that I have two bars in the signal status in tomtom. I a press this indicator, I get to the route summary, where it says that I have 3 satellies. The curious thing is that if I press this indicator in this window, I get to the screen where the satellites are shown and I see that I have 6 bars in blue which would mean that I have 6 satellites, not 3.
I know that the GPS is not as good as sirf3, but I don't think this should happen. Apart from that the behaviour of the GPS seems fine. I am using COM4 4800 bauds, tomtom 6.030.
Does this happen to you?
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for your help.
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I use the TC now for 2 months a.o. for navigation (before a MIO A201 with SirfIII) and no problems. The behaviour is a bit different, example: in tunnels I lost all satelite fixes with the SifrIII and my TC kept some satelite fixes. As long as I have enough fixes to navigate it's fine with me.
I had onces that I lost satelite fixes with the TC but I had the same with the MIO A201 SirfIII. Therefore, in general no reason to worry.

Yup, similar here. Works pretty well though.
Anyone know how to update the voice, I've only got one voice, and it's too quiet... I also have a TOMTOM sat nav, but my TomTom Home software doesn't recognise my Touch Cruise...

madinga said:
Yup, similar here. Works pretty well though.
Anyone know how to update the voice, I've only got one voice, and it's too quiet... I also have a TOMTOM sat nav, but my TomTom Home software doesn't recognise my Touch Cruise...
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There are 2. versions of TomTom home, and you need the one for TomTom rider and Navigator 6 (PPC´s)

madinga said:
Yup, similar here. Works pretty well though.
Anyone know how to update the voice, I've only got one voice, and it's too quiet... I also have a TOMTOM sat nav, but my TomTom Home software doesn't recognise my Touch Cruise...
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Voices, some are free other need to be payed for, link:
http://www.tomtom.com/plus/services/voices.php
Alex

Brilliant, and brilliant, thanks!!

iGo problem

I installed Dutty ROM Duttys_Official_WM6.1_Rom_5.2.19716_UC si radio KAIS_Radinly_1.64.08.21, also iGo installed. I can't use my iGo program because when I try do detect the GPS chip from statellits connection page the PDA freeze when discover it (i can see this because the GPS led turns on). I can tell you that I update already the position using QuickGPS and after that GPSTool I can connect to sattelits. What shoud I do?
Thanks a lot

firsthtc said:
I installed Dutty ROM Duttys_Official_WM6.1_Rom_5.2.19716_UC si radio KAIS_Radinly_1.64.08.21, also iGo installed. I can't use my iGo program because when I try do detect the GPS chip from statellits connection page the PDA freeze when discover it (i can see this because the GPS led turns on). I can tell you that I update already the position using QuickGPS and after that GPSTool I can connect to sattelits. What shoud I do?
Thanks a lot
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Search this forum for thread's called iGO and WM6.1.
The answers are in those posts.
Kyphur, use ur hammer...

firsthtc said:
I installed Dutty ROM Duttys_Official_WM6.1_Rom_5.2.19716_UC si radio KAIS_Radinly_1.64.08.21, also iGo installed. I can't use my iGo program because when I try do detect the GPS chip from statellits connection page the PDA freeze when discover it (i can see this because the GPS led turns on). I can tell you that I update already the position using QuickGPS and after that GPSTool I can connect to sattelits. What shoud I do?
Thanks a lot
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Disable the HTC Home clock and see the IGO program work like a charm.

You did not read.
You did not learn.
You started a new thread
And for that you must burn.
This goes in the thread
For the ROM that you mentioned
This thread will be locked
And you sent to detention.
There's a link in my sig
In that nice quote from Alex
You need to go watch it
To avoid violent malice.

jarek91 said:
You did not read.
You did not learn.
You started a new thread
And for that you must burn.
This goes in the thread
For the ROM that you mentioned
This thread will be locked
And you sent to detention.
There's a link in my sig
In that nice quote from Alex
You need to go watch it
To avoid violent malice.
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WTF is up with you. LMFAO. Now you're a poet? LOL

jarek91 said:
You did not read.
You did not learn.
You started a new thread
And for that you must burn.
This goes in the thread
For the ROM that you mentioned
This thread will be locked
And you sent to detention.
There's a link in my sig
In that nice quote from Alex
You need to go watch it
To avoid violent malice.
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Too much thought went into that Jarek.
Still LMAO though.

I searched, and searched again, and again... no fix for me
I don't want to eat your time... but my iGo still not work. I don't have HTC Home active... I tried even to enable and after that disable this function, but... no result...
This is serious...I can't use my GPS with iGo program....Any suggestion or fix?
Thanks again

firsthtc said:
I don't want to eat your time... but my iGo still not work. I don't have HTC Home active... I tried even to enable and after that disable this function, but... no result...
This is serious...I can't use my GPS with iGo program....Any suggestion or fix?
Thanks again
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Go Here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1956279&postcount=2328
And If you have more questions maybe put it in the relevant thread. HERE
Also I think you may have a burned up GPS chip. Try a different GPS program. GPSTest or something. But It would be better if you posted in the Thread that deals with Problems in the rom you are using.

two suggestions:
first: see if u have a-gps enabled. if so: disable and try again
second: try another rom... find one that's best for you.

i dont see how htc home plugin can affect this because i tested all possible combinations w&w/o it enabled and nothing changed. I had the same issue, igo freezing with dutty's wm 6.1 ROM when configuring and turning off assisted gps helped, as stated above.

My GPS worked fine with iGo until I changed the ROM (I had Dutty's ROM nr. 4). And that link that you give me, Jimmy, is related to HTC Home. I don't use it, like I said before.

Help please...
Still no answer... any ideea? Thanks

firsthtc said:
Still no answer... any ideea? Thanks
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I'm not sure it's a ROM problem. iGo 6 itelf seems to have a problem dealing with AGPS. Mine also freezes after a while if AGPS is turned on.
I just leave it off and everything seems to work fine.
/drt

one thing i did was turning off the igo today plugin..and reboot..that should partially remove the conflict..

There are actually three different kinds of iGo problems I've seen with the various ROMs I've tried:
- Installation won't complete. Often, iGo will run anyway if you just do a soft reset when the installation halts. Often it won't.
- iGo runs, but once configured to find the GPS COM port, it hangs and hangs every time it starts after that. It may be related to AGPS, but I've seen this in ROMs that do not have that enabled by default. Also, I have no data plan and, as a result, no data connection with the tower.
- iGo installs, but won't start at all. Trying to start it results in a little screen opening animation, but nothing appears. The device is sluggish for a moment, then it's as if you never attempted to start it at all. This is the problem I have with Dutty's latest ROM. This almost certainly not related to AGPS since iGo has no GPS configuration immediately after installation. I don't believe it is related to the HTC Home plugin, since iGo runs fine for me on the AT&T test ROM, and it has the plugin.

sinanju said:
- iGo installs, but won't start at all. Trying to start it results in a little screen opening animation, but nothing appears. The device is sluggish for a moment, then it's as if you never attempted to start it at all. This is the problem I have with Dutty's latest ROM. This almost certainly not related to AGPS since iGo has no GPS configuration immediately after installation. I don't believe it is related to the HTC Home plugin, since iGo runs fine for me on the AT&T test ROM, and it has the plugin.
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This is definitely a conflict with the music tab of HTC Home, but only on some 6.1 ROMs (curiously not build 716 though). This problem doesn't occur in any 6.0 ROMs that I know of. It's not the plugin per se, but some component of the Today screen configuration that's causing the problem.

rob.ocelot said:
This is definitely a conflict with the music tab of HTC Home, but only on some 6.1 ROMs (curiously not build 716 though). This problem doesn't occur in any 6.0 ROMs that I know of. It's not the plugin per se, but some component of the Today screen configuration that's causing the problem.
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Is it sufficient to uncheck the plugin in the Today configuration and soft reset or is something more drastic required to resolve the conflict? The instructions linked to in an earlier posting seemed more like a series of black magic steps that happened to work.

Not finding internal GPS - whats that?

Just bought my TP and Destinator wont find the GPS.
I go to Extra -> GPS Signal and Find, it keeps looking for some minutes and then "No GPS found" or something like that.
In google maps when I enable "Use GPS" it keeps "Searching for GPS Satellites (0)"
Any ideas why is that?
Already tried hardreset and still the same
rom version: 1.90.405.1 wwe
radio: 1.02.25.19
RAPH100
SPL-1.90.0000
MicroP-Raph (LED) v13
MIcroP-Raph (KEY) v5
PSOC-Raph STAGE_CVT v0x36

installed Olinex + romeos 1.12 and nothing
how do I upgrade radio?
any ideas?

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Raphael_ExtractedRadioRoms

same problem with navigon
1.12 and navigon are not working
The current rom I use, no problem.
If you get it fixed, I like to hear it

onderduiker said:
same problem with navigon
1.12 and navigon are not working
The current rom I use, no problem.
If you get it fixed, I like to hear it
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I was using the original ROM and GPS not working, then I upgraded to romeus 1.12 and still nothing...
these custom ROMs come with new (custom) radios too?
What problem you got in navigon? No GPS lock or navigon didnt find the GPS at all?

XL3N7 said:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Raphael_ExtractedRadioRoms
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thanks for that...
can I flash a radio of any operators in my TP?
That Cingular 1.02.25.31 is the "newest"?
All I have to do is download the RUU and NBH, put them in same folder and run?
I already have HardSPL
thankyou again!

respider said:
I was using the original ROM and GPS not working, then I upgraded to romeus 1.12 and still nothing...
these custom ROMs come with new (custom) radios too?
What problem you got in navigon? No GPS lock or navigon didnt find the GPS at all?
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The last. With the ROMeOS 1.12 navigon finds no gps at all. I have this problem only with this rom.

I had the same issue and it was resolved with the latest cingular radio, before I even flashed a custom rom.
Simply put the custom RUU with the .nbh file in the same folder and run it. Follow the instructions and in a few minutes it will be done. Make sure you have HardSPL, but as you have flashed a custom rom, it means you are good to go. Good luck

XL3N7 said:
I had the same issue and it was resolved with the latest cingular radio, before I even flashed a custom rom.
Simply put the custom RUU with the .nbh file in the same folder and run it. Follow the instructions and in a few minutes it will be done. Make sure you have HardSPL, but as you have flashed a custom rom, it means you are good to go. Good luck
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Thank you, I will try that.

Updated to Cingular Radio 1.02.25.31 and problem persists, any ideas why?
Destinators says "GPS não encontrado" in portuguese which means "GPS not found"
Is there a chance that my TP has the GPS chip broken or something like that?
Have you ever heard something like that?

If you use the stockrom than it should be working.
Did you try to use a manual configuration for the gps ?
select comport 4.

I got the this problem originally in the stock ROM and original radio version
I've never seen GPS working in my TP, I got it 2 days ago
then I tried upgrading ROM and radio to solve and problem persists..
where do I manually configure the GPS? Or do you mean inside Destinator? There I already tried all COM ports (1-7)

I assume that you are OUTSIDE when trying to get a satilite lock? First fix can take 10mins in clear open space.
Appologies - ignore my statment - i've just re-read the title of this thread - sorry!

yeah its not a problem about lock, its about not finding the internal GPS device
at least is what destinator says...
in google maps when I try "Use GPS" it keeps "Searching for GPS satellites (0)"
Already tried outdoors, and I here in my room with window opened my Omnia gets lock in about 15 seconds with cold start
I just flashed DCS v15 ROM and no changes.. also tried flashing Cingular 1.02.25.27 instead of 1.02.25.31 and same problem

I also have the same problem. iGo won't find the GPS, neither will Google Maps. I'm using a DCS ROM. I'm about to try the radio flash suggestion but as I'm not convinced the GPS chip is controlled by the radio I'm not sure what effect this will have.

The DCS v1.5 rom is another fine rom, and the gps should work without problems.
I have the same rom with radio 25.19 and have no problems with navigon or google map, they work perfect.
Try to use another software aplication where you can see the gps situation.
So you are really sure that Destinator is not the problem, because you can't see the GPS situation in GoogleMap.
If another app also can't find any gps device, than, I think, you have a hardware problem

respider said:
Just bought my TP and Destinator wont find the GPS.
I go to Extra -> GPS Signal and Find, it keeps looking for some minutes and then "No GPS found" or something like that.
In google maps when I enable "Use GPS" it keeps "Searching for GPS Satellites (0)"
Any ideas why is that?
Already tried hardreset and still the same
rom version: 1.90.405.1 wwe
radio: 1.02.25.19
RAPH100
SPL-1.90.0000
MicroP-Raph (LED) v13
MIcroP-Raph (KEY) v5
PSOC-Raph STAGE_CVT v0x36
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I had this issue with my TP with TT7 and Google Maps.
I called HTC and they said to remove Google maps - did and the GPS started working again. If in doubt give HTC a call.

LeeJS said:
I also have the same problem. iGo won't find the GPS, neither will Google Maps. I'm using a DCS ROM. I'm about to try the radio flash suggestion but as I'm not convinced the GPS chip is controlled by the radio I'm not sure what effect this will have.
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did you use GPS in the stock rom? it worked?
onderduiker said:
The DCS v1.5 rom is another fine rom, and the gps should work without problems.
I have the same rom with radio 25.19 and have no problems with navigon or google map, they work perfect.
Try to use another software aplication where you can see the gps situation.
So you are really sure that Destinator is not the problem, because you can't see the GPS situation in GoogleMap.
If another app also can't find any gps device, than, I think, you have a hardware problem
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I'm using the same destinator I use in my Omnia, it works ok there
Googlemaps only tries to get signal, it doesnt look for the GPS device like destinator
what software should I use to see the GPS situation?
I hope its not a hardware problem, the seller wouldnt refund me
and Touch Pro wasnt released by HTC here in Brazil, so service center is pointless too

leobalou said:
I had this issue with my TP with TT7 and Google Maps.
I called HTC and they said to remove Google maps - did and the GPS started working again. If in doubt give HTC a call.
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LOL!! This solved! OMG how come??
Destinator found the GPS when I uninstalled GoogleMaps (after a soft reset)
Now why some people can use google maps and some cant??

congratulations .............and happy there is no hardware problem.

Navigon 7 hangs?????

i bought the mobilenavigator7 navigon from the website, and installed succesfull, it works great for 2 minutes, then it hangs,, it says lost gps transmitter!!.
then i use the gps assisten iand the program finds it again and it works for 2 minutes again???, anybody that knows about the problem???
swedish guy

sacke6 said:
i bought the mobilenavigator7 navigon from the website, and installed succesfull, it works great for 2 minutes, then it hangs,, it says lost gps transmitter!!.
then i use the gps assisten iand the program finds it again and it works for 2 minutes again???, anybody that knows about the problem???
swedish guy
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Raphael is not supported by Navigon. For now I used a portsplitter (Franson GPSgate). settings: Input com4, active output: GPSgate direct. Start navigon and use GPS wizzard manuel. After this it works.
By a soft reset you have to do it again. It seems somewhere in november Navigon comes with a update for the Raphael.

thanks a lot!! dude,

anybody heard about when NAVIGON comes with an update for Rafael???
so i dont need the gpsgate!!

Navigon mn7 works for Raphael.

You might also have to make sure aGPS is turned off, sometimes that's makes these GPS apps act up.

I have to say that i have used Navigon 6.5 and 7 without any problems.
I did however have 2 problems small problems after installing:
1. When i tried to start it up that i would only see a white screen, but this was solved by reinstalling.
2. When installing on a ROMeOS custom rom Navigon could not find a gps receiver. This was solved by a patch that ROMeOS made.
Hope it works for you because i personally love navigon

Help no GPS

Hi hope some one can giveme some help bought a second hand htc desire s which has been rooted and ICS been loaded onto it everything seems to work ok apaert from the gps when i tick the box in settings to turn the gps on but when i try to get a gps fix in my mapping software (Viewrwnger maps) it tells me that the gps is not connected it also does not work in google maps, any help would be most greatful thanks for your time.
Nick

nick789uk said:
Hi hope some one can giveme some help bought a second hand htc desire s which has been rooted and ICS been loaded onto it everything seems to work ok apaert from the gps when i tick the box in settings to turn the gps on but when i try to get a gps fix in my mapping software (Viewrwnger maps) it tells me that the gps is not connected it also does not work in google maps, any help would be most greatful thanks for your time.
Nick
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If it has a custom ROM on it that is probably your problem.
Most, if not all custom ROMs have their GPS set to USA.
Download FasterFix and use that to set your servers to the correct region.
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