If you do some Google searches you will discover that there is an "Unlock" procedure you need to follow to make Garmin Mobile XT software work with any GPS device. I don't remember the details, but I remember reading about it. If the procedure can be found and followed, it will result in a copy of Garmin Mobile XT that will work with the device in the BlackJack II. It works like a champ on mine.

When you start up GPSTest, you will first see the bars on the screen for the satellites.. That does not, however, mean that your device has a "lock" yet.. Keep letting GPSTest run until the "Fix" field says "3D". That means you have an actual lock and the GPS can tell your position.

Then press the Home button and get back to your Today Screen, while leaving GPS Test running in the background. At that point you should be able to open up the GoogleMaps application and select "Use GPS" and actually get your location updated to within 3-5 meters. When I get a lock in Google Maps Mobile, it shows in a text message at the top of the screen how many satellites it is communicating with.

Hope this helps!

Also, when you are done, don't forget to completely exit both GoogleMaps and GPSTest (using their respective menu optionss or the "Task Manager" application) or else they will keep running in the background and keep your GPS device running as well, and therefore run your battery down more quickly than you want..

I'll have to see if I can get Shozu's reported support working. I have used Shozu before to photo-mo-blog before, but hadn't realized it handled geotagging..

I use GPicSync on my Desktop, but I'm assuming you mean one that would do all the work on your BJ II. That would be cool!

Anyone know of something like that?

Oops. Double post. DOH!

That sounds more like Google Maps "My Location" feature with no GPS support. Where are you seeing this "accurate up to 2800 meters" message?

Download this app called GPS Test and you will be able to tell cery clearly whether or not your GPS is working or not. If it keeps saying "Looking for GPS device" or something like that, then you know you have a hardware config issue. Once it finds the SiRF chipset, it will start saying "GPS is starting up" and that means it is searching for enough sats to get a good lock on your position.

The first couple of times I started it up I had to give it 5-10 minutes sitting on a window sill before it got a good lock. But it seems quicker now that I've used it a few times. Not sure what that is all about.

Under Tools from the main menu, look at "Manage My Data".. There is an option in there somewhere about deleting them all..

I wish it would let you delete all with a certain icon, like my Garmin eTrex Vista HCx device will.



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I use Garmin Mobile XT for navigating me to the general area (with waypoints dumped for GSAK into MapSource) and then use the CacheNav plugin for CacheMate when I park and get out to go look fo the cache. It's this last part that of walking to the cache that the Static Navigation makes nearly impossible.

For the record, a quick hard reset fixed my GPS device, but taking the battery out, and holding the power button in did not.

The last time I had to do a reset I saved onto my microSD card all of the CAB and config files I needed to get my device back to how I like it. It took about an hours after reset, so that isn't too bad.

Well, if not for the Static Navigation issue, I would have been quite thrilled with the BJ2 as a geocaching platform. I mapped CacheMate (with a functioning CacheNav plugin) to my CV hardware button and the Garmin Mobile XT application to the AT&T MediaNet button (with the AT&T logo on it) and that was everything I needed!! The CacheNav compass pointer just started acting dead when I got out of the car and started walking. That was why I was trying to get rid of the Static Navigation "feature" on my SiRF chip. Once I get SiRF awake again, and get rid of Static Navigation, the BlackJack II will be the ultimate in geocaching smartphones, as far as I'm concerned!

Also, if you can't pony up the bucks for Garmin Mobile XT to get you to the caches while driving, it is worth checking out the gpsVP application as well. Smittyware just released a new version of CacheMate for smartphone (v1.0.4) that has an add on plugin for OziExplorer WPT file exports. That can be used to dump the caches straight onto the gpsVP map!!

Either of these solutions should be perfect for geocaching!!

If only we could safely disable the Static Navigation...

Beware! In messing around with a few SiRF tweaking apps last night I seem to have somehow put my SiRF chipset into a state where Windows can no longer communicate with it.. ARGH!!

Anyone have any clue on how to set it back to factory defaults?

Thanks!

A bit more info, but nothing that works on a BlackJack II..

http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?topic_id=39596

Cachemate's CacheNAv plugin is the whole reason I'm trying to figure this out. It is definately a problem with the "Static Navigation" feature of the SiRFstar III chipset. I've been doing a bunch more reading tonight since I originally posted, and I'm convinced of that much.

I have found 4 different programs that claim to allow a user to be able to disable the Static Navigation feature of the chipset, and it happens in the chip firmware, not in the Windows Mobile software, so that is why it isn't controlled by anything in the Registry.

Here are a few threads with more info:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread...6079&page=2

http://www.gpstuner.com/forum/viewtopic.ph...6bb5a26c3a1b0e9

Some of the tools mentioned are: MMSirf, SirfDemo, SirfTech, etc..

Unfortunately I couldn't get any of these to work for me. They either hang up and can't be killed when I connect them to COM4, causing me to have to reboot my BJ2 to get them out of memory, or they won't install at all because they were made for PocketPC and Windows Mobile 6 Standard won't let me install them.

Surely someone out there has figured this out already on the BlackJack II and can lend a brother a hand!?



Thanks!

Mojo

Hey, guys! Does anyone know how to disable the "static navigation" feature of the GPSr chipset in the Blackjack 2? While I like having a steady GPS pointer while stopped at a traffic light, I don't like it so much that I want to render the GPSr unusable at slow walking speeds. I'm a geocacher and I need the GPS values to be updated even when walking slowly..

Anyone have a clue how to do this?

Thanks!