TomTom Mobile and NON-TT GPS receiver

[Guest Stepir]

Hello,

I understand that TT-Mobile doesnt support any other GPS receiver than the one produced by tomtom itself.

My Tomtom gps receiver was stolen (left in the car...). I bought a new Dconnex gps receiver that works greatly with Tomtom for PPC but seems there are no way to make it work with TT-mobile.

I checked the registry and seems also TT-mobile to be compatible with the Dconnex. But any change made to the registry is ignored.

Anyone knows if it's just a question of time to have a patch or if TT-mobile will never support other vendor gps receiver?

Anyone knows maybe a way to make it work? thanks

[Guest rikwebb]

Ive heard that if you call your GPS 'TomTom Wireless GPS' under Bluetooth, then it will work.

Give it a try and let us know.

Rik

[Guest Stepir]

No it doesn't... in my configuration (btw spv e200 adn Dconnex DC-230)

also tried changing the key DEVICE in the registry from TomTom Wireless GPS to DConnex DC-230 (default name for the paired device). ^_^

[Guest rwijnhov]

same problem here. Who can help us?

[Guest dynamo]

I think the other problem you'll have is that i imagine the original tomtom gps communicated on COM7 but when i use my DConnex-DC230 with mapopolis it will only work on COM6!

There might be a reg entry which can change this too.

Let us know how you get on.

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

TomTom designed it to only work with their own GPS unit

in an attempt to stop the pirate scum who do not want to

help the development of applications but prefer to steal their

software.

[Guest dynamo]

Yes but its a bit annoying if you've already got a BT gps receiver or if your tomtom one dies or goes missing and you can get another brand much cheaper to replace it..

If you think about it, its not going to stop people from copying the software and using it with a tomtom BT receiver they've got off ebay.

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

I agree but if we were all honest there would not be the need for this.

[Guest rwijnhov]

For me it's just that i need it. Beceause reception is verry bad in my area so i use a xtrack v2.0 reveiver. And sice tomtom doesn't use it, the reciever i got with mobile is useless for me. I want te be able to use my clip-on (and yes i already sold the tomtom receiver).

greetings,

Ruben

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

How can reception be bad in your area? GPS is global and the

TomTom reciever is SiRF XTrac chipset

[Guest AlexMessoMalex]

Ive heard that if you call your GPS 'TomTom Wireless GPS' under Bluetooth, then it will work.

It runs perfectly with my Fortuna Clip-on GPS Receiver !!!

Simply

1. install TomTom Mobile on your SP

2. install TomTom Traffic Plugin downloading it from here

3. activate your COM ports in Configurations - BTSerialPortSetup

4. add your BT GPS receiver in Settings - Bluetooth - Associated Devices and rename it into "TomTom Wireless GPS"

5. Enjoy :lol:

[Guest beersoft]

its interesting how this topic keeps coming up now that there was a reported sighting of tomtom 'in the wild'

not that im accusing anyone of anything, but im sure there are fourm rules that are being bent a little here, but im sure the nice people at tomtom would beable to help getting a replacement gps to anyone with a vaild crime number

later

Owen

[Guest spvdk]

I have a question just the other way around! :-)

I have noticed that it is possible to buy a TomTom GPS BT receiver only, without the software. If I do that and use it to try out the somewhat cheaper Mapopolis first, will I then be able to buy just the software for TT Smartphone? All I have been able to find are complete soft+hardware packages...

Any suggestions on where to get my GPS soft/hard at low prices online? UK stores are fine, as long as they ship to mainland Europe (Denmark).

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

At the moment TomTom only sell the Mobile software with the GPS unit.

For prices and shops have a look in the TomTom review post in the News Section

[Guest sbsdegb1]

I am currently in Canada and although I have my phone I don't have my GPS receiver with me. However the other day on the way to lunch with a work colleague I tried to use TTM with his Global Sat GPS receiver. Although I couldn't do any navigation (Only got UK map) TTM connected to the Global Sat (No renaming required) and I had a fix on 7 Sats.

Another Tip for anyone travelling to USA (or Europe) install Mapopolis on your phone (app is free to download) and download the demo maps for the city your are in. I downloaded the demo map for Toronto and it is really helpful. It also allows you to plan routes and will give you spoken directions without a GPS receiver which I think is really cool. It even zooms along the route rotating the map etc as you go in stages (you have to move your joystick up once at each new direction for this to work).

Great for finding addresses / and POI's in unfamiliar cities.