TomTom 5 can't see Holux GPSlim236 on Imate SP3-I

[Guest 2phast]

Greetings. I hope there is someone out there that can lend assistance. I have searched the foum and read every topic concerning getting TomTom 5 to get it to work with other GPS units, but none of the patch's/tricks appear to work.

I am using a Imate SP3-I with ROM 2.3.33.21 (Imates rom, WM3 SE). My gps is a Holux GPSslim236, which works with other mapping applications fine. TomTom will not see the Holux gps, I have tried renaming it to TomTom Wireless GPS, TOMTOM GPS RECEIVER and I even applied the AnyGPSTweak.cab file, soft/hard booted the phone, reinstalled the software, re-paired numerous times, incoming port set to com 6, outbound port set to com 7, security turned off, etc. etc.

I pretty much have tried every trick on this forum and several others. Although, most seem to have problems with the Orange ROM, I suspect the problem with the IMate ROM is similar.

Any advice?

thanks

[Guest Pondrew]

What's wrong with the TomTom bluetooth gps that came with the software?

[Guest 2phast]

What's wrong with the TomTom bluetooth gps that came with the software?

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Well, that wasn't my question but if you must know, I bought a phone which came with TomTom 5, (original software package) but no GPS, so I had to purchase one.

[Guest 2phast]

With more experimenting, I managed to fix my own problem. It seems that when pairing the Holux to the SP3-I, , the outgoing port is set at com7 by default, although this works with every other map application, it does not work with TomTom 5, once I switched the outgoing port to com 6, boom....gps works.

[Guest Pondrew]

Well, the problem is TomTom Mobiles licence is non transferable. ie you now have an illegal copy. Added to which the fact it didn't come with the Bluetooth GPS is strange as it's not possible to buy the software legitimately without :roll:

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