x51v and HAICOM 4 in 1 PDA mount

[Shuei]

Hi,

Has anyone else had an issue with WM5 and tomtom 6 not being able to locate the GPS receiver signal from the serial GPS receiver that comes with the HAICOM 4 in 1 PDA mount?

tomtom responds to com 6, 7, 8, and 9 in the "other NEMEA" GPS receiver settings screens, but this is only because WM5 has routed the signal from the device to this port for the program in the GPS section of the AXIM's system settings. Neither the AXIM or the tomtom software seem to be able to see the info from the serial GPS receiver though. All attempts (com 0 through to 9) in the GPS device settings yield no result for tomtom at all.

I'm about to put the A12 rom update into my x51v. I've never attempted this before, and have only just (today) even used active sync for the first time.

I hope I'm on the right path with the upgrade to the rom.

Thanks for any assistance available.

bye,
Shuei.

[Shuei]

Hi,

HAICOM support was kind enough to provide me with two pieces of software (Hi-Test ppc = GPS info, and SiRFDemoIII) that were able to confirm that the Serial GPS receiver is in fact transmitting its signal to com1 and that the x51v is receiving it and can use it.

One interesting thing, however, is that the simpler prg (GPS info) could search com ports and immediatly located the signal on com 1, but that it also responded to the mapped com port called active device (I chose com 6) thanks to the AXIM's own GPS manager (system). GPS info can locate the receiver's signal on com 1 even with the AXIM's manager dissabled. But, the more complex prg (SiRFDemoIII), while it could register that the receiver was attached to com 1 and then mapped to com 6 could only receive the signal on com1 and then only if the AXIM's manager was active.

At least this all demonstrates that the AXIM and the HAICOM are compatable. YAY!

Now onto why tomtom 6 can't do anything with the signal... My current ROM version is A06 (12190500). Let's see if A12 can help, or if it's all too difficult and I should use Destinator instead.

(Thanks MAHSTAH - different thread - for giving me the courage to upgrade the ROM. Pen and paper at the ready to record all those network settings that will dissappear.)

bye,
Shuei.

[Shuei]

Hi,

I've just located the fix for my issues with the HAICOM GPS.

It appears it was on the site all along and it just took a little more exploring to locate it.

For those that are interested check this thread.

x51 / X50 and Wired GPS

At least my axim has the latest ROM and all available patches in the meantime...

bye,
Shuei.