TomTom can't find GPS on Dell Axim X51V

[iogikuma]

In my car I have an all-in-one charger/speaker/SIRF3 GPS/PDA holder. The unit has a replaceable adaptor for different PDAs, and so provides a direct wired connection to the PDA rather than using Bluetooth. Until now I used it with an HP Ipaq 5550 (Win Mobile 2003). TomTom 6 was configured to use the 'TomTom Wired GPS receiver' setting. It detected the GPS and worked perfectly.

I just purchased a Dell X51V and a new Axim connector/adaptor for the all-in-one GPS unit. The new connector works OK, as it charges the PDA. TomTom 6 is configured to use 'TomTom Wired GPS receiver', but it refuses to recognise the GPS.

In Win Mobile 5, under Settings, there is an entry called GPS (it does not exist in Win Mobile 2003). The GPS settings include GPS Program Port, GPS Hardware Port and Manage GPS Automatically. Both the Program Port and Hardware Port can be anything between COM0 and COM9.

Does anybody know what GPS settings I should use to get TomTom 6 to recognise my GPS receiver?

[philpugh]

Don't use it (the GPS management ) in the first instance. It's there to allow sharing of a GPS connection between more than one simultaneous application. Settings should be NONE NONE and don't allow management. This will allow you to concentrate on getting TomTom going.

Have you tried the non-TomTom serial setting in TomTom? (I forget the exact phrase it uses but I seem to recall it is something like Other NMEA Device. This should let you manually select the serial port - use COM1: 4800 baud/bps NMEA.

Make sure no other application is using it - ActiveSync can be a culprit here. Close all other apps before starting TomTom - a soft reset wouldn't harm!

Good luck

[Drifter]

I agree, in TomTom 6, the choices are a little confusing, but unless you have the silver TomTom receiver as pictured in the set up, you should always install Other NMEA receiver as Philpugh suggests.