Imate Jam and Tom Tom 5

[Guest carl_donaldson]

HI guys i have an imate jam which i have just upgraded to the latest rom edition. I have tom tom 5 installed and im having some really really annoying problems.

Firstly im having probs connecting a bluetooth gps to my jam - it can see the gps and i have added it as an outgoing port ( does this mean that it works on serial port 5 by default - dont really understand this).

Secondly tom tom randomly just shuts and i am back to the today screen

Thirdly i have had this working intermitantly.

ggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr i hate bluetooth!

Cheers for any help anyone can give me - this is really pissing me off.

Carl

[Guest bertie_uk]

Got my imate jam yesterday, and got TomTom 5 working last night.

I presume you are trying to use it with a Bluetooth GPS like the Holux GR-230 (this is what I have)

The way I set it up was:

Turn on bluetooth on imate, turn on GPS. Click Add new device on imate and let it find the gps, and pair up. Will setup com ports, etc.

Go to settings > system > bluetooth settings and click both com port tick boxes

Start TomTom and get to GPS device setup. Choose Bluetooth GPS device and select COM4

Should be sorted!

Other problem, could you be accidentally pressing the red hang'er down button? This takes you to the today screen from any app.

Bertie

[Guest dpembo]

Secondly tom tom randomly just shuts and i am back to the today screen

I've seen this. A soft reset usually sorts it. Bit difficult when your driving though :)

Edited July 8, 2005 by dpembo

[Guest thereaperman]

if tomtom 5 keeps droping back to the windows screen, you need to replace the poi.dat file in the map folder with the one from tomtom 3, this will fix the problem.

[Guest dpembo]

if tomtom 5 keeps droping back to the windows screen, you need to replace the poi.dat file in the map folder with the one from tomtom 3, this will fix the problem.

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mine normally drops back to the start screen on my i-mate jam when its running low on memory. Might try the poi trick to see if it works... thanks

[Guest thereaperman]

no problem, if you need any other help let us know :)

[Guest alykas236]

no problem, if you need any other help let us know :)

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My Jam keeps doing the same thing! Was working fine yesterday now as soon as it gets a satellite lock, it goes back to the today screen! I have disabled all POI's.

Help!!!!!!

Aly

[Guest jim.mason]

if tomtom 5 keeps droping back to the windows screen, you need to replace the poi.dat file in the map folder with the one from tomtom 3, this will fix the problem.

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Any ideas as to where we can find this???

Jim

[Guest thewordsman]

Go to settings > system > bluetooth settings and click both com port tick boxes

Start TomTom and get to GPS device setup. Choose Bluetooth GPS device and select COM4

Bertie

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Hi guys, just got the Holux GR236. It'll pair OK, and appears on my Jam. But when I go into TomTom it keeps asking me to pair with a PPS reciever first.

I select both inbound and outbound com ports, under Bluetooth settings, but when I go back in to that page the inbound (com4) is deselected.

When I launch TomTom is says 'no GPS device', even though it's paired OK.

any ideas?

thanks a lot

Ben

[Guest thereaperman]

you need to already have tomtom 3 for the poi file, but if a mod says it's ok i will post a copy here??

[Guest thewordsman]

you need to already have tomtom 3 for the poi file, but if a mod says it's ok i will post a copy here??

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that would be cool, thank - please MOD :o

So do you mean I should install tomtom 3 first? I've not actually installed the POI file for tomtom 5 yet (I presume you mean point of interest).

thanks

[Guest daedos59]

If you have access to e_mule then try searching for the TomTom 5.1 Bakoni POI Fix - certainly worked for me

Edited October 7, 2005 by daedos59

[Guest thewordsman]

If you have access to e_mule then try searching for the TomTom 5.1 Bakoni POI Fix - certainly worked for me

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Thanks, got it. Scuse me for being dumb though... it's a .RAR file. How do I indtall it. I've copied it into my TomTom folder on the Jam, but I can't figure out what to do next.

thanks

[Guest chucky.egg]

RAR files have to be uncompressed (like ZIP files) and the files it extracts are what you need to copy over.

There is a freeware RAR compression tool for PPC, but it might be easier to do it on your PC

[Guest thewordsman]

RAR files have to be uncompressed (like ZIP files) and the files it extracts are what you need to copy over.

There is a freeware RAR compression tool for PPC, but it might be easier to do it on your PC

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Hi, being stoopid again. I've downloaded a number of Tom Tom 5.1 files as you describe. But I can't get any to install.

I'm either unpacking/unzipping them to desktop then trying to open and install from there. Some try to install, then there's a problem of some sort.

Or, I've tried copying the files to the phone and openiung them their... either via the phone, or from explorer on the pc.

am I missing summink?

[Guest jim.mason]

:o Using the Bakonl 5.1 POI Fix update solved the problem with TT dropping out to the homescreen. :(

:roll: Problem I still have is that the home location keeps reverting to the default along with any warnings that I have set for POI's. Any ideas??????

[Guest mr_end]

:o Using the Bakonl 5.1 POI Fix update solved the problem with TT dropping out to the homescreen. :(

:roll: Problem I still have is that the home location keeps reverting to the default along with any warnings that I have set for POI's.  Any ideas??????

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All this info is stored on the sd card, ensure you always quit tomtom properly via the menu (6-6-5) and ensure that writing to the sd card switch is turned on.

[Guest jim.mason]

All this info is stored on the sd card, ensure you always quit tomtom properly via the menu (6-6-5) and ensure that writing to the sd card switch is turned on.

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Mr_End

Always quit the programme correctly. Where do i find this 'switch' for writing to the SD card. Is it 'lock' switch on the card itself - if so then this is already unlocked.

Have looked in the various directories and can't find any files at all?????

Thankx in advance

Jim