Garmin GPS 10 on BJII HELP!

[Guest sterling5605]

Hey Y'all

First, I know there are a ton of GPS/BJII posts out there but after extensive searching I haven't been able to find a solution to my situation. If I missed something, please just redirect to the proper thread, no flaming!

Anyway, I purchased Garmin Mobile XT w/ the GPS 10 bluetooth receiver and program DVD (no memory card) under a month ago for use with Nokia E70.

I recently picked up a BJII for its super fast 3G (which reminds me, anybody need an E70? haha) and installed the program on my memory card. I installed the program onto my device from the memory card.

At first, the program would simply "search for bluetooth" endlessly. Once I downloaded the GPS hack/tool/thing/interface, the program would no longer search for bluetooth but would simply say "acquiring GPS Signal" endlessly. I called Garmin and their rep just told me I either had to use the included bluetooth receiver, or pay another $100 for a slightly tweaked version of the Mobile XT program on a Garmin memory card :)

Does anybody have any idea how to get my current program to work w/ the internal GPS...or does anybody have a link to the memory card version of the program I could download and use w/ my own key?

Thanks for the help!

[Guest thelostsoul]

What version does it say on the about page?

Go to the GPS Info screen, press menu - disable. What options are available? (if the intermediate driver option is there, then you don't need the new version).

[Guest sterling5605]

What version does it say on the about page?

Go to the GPS Info screen, press menu - disable. What options are available? (if the intermediate driver option is there, then you don't need the new version).

Thanks for the quick reply!

I have version 4.00.50ws.

When I disable the GPS, the only options if have are: Menu > GPS Info/Menu > Enable. Or Done.

Do I need to update the version?

[Guest sterling5605]

Update: I downloaded Garmin mobile 20 from the website. My version is now: 4.10.40ws.

Now when I try to launch the program, it switches between "scanning attached" and "scanning bluetooth" without ever acquiring a signal.

When I disable GPS from settings, I still don't have any intermediate option. All I see is "Connection allowed to Garmin GPS device only." When I press menu, all I see is GPS info or Enable.

Did I download the wrong version?

[Guest timpware]

you have the right version. I had no troubles at all, same exact setup. Verify your BT receiver is working properly.

[Guest sterling5605]

you have the right version. I had no troubles at all, same exact setup. Verify your BT receiver is working properly.

Thanks for the tip, but I don't want to use the bt receiver. I am trying to get the program to work with the integrated GPS.

[Guest sterling5605]

Really frustrating update:

I was messing around with my registry editor, and I found a value that said "Enable Attached" and the value data was 0.

I figured that changing this option to 1 might enable the attached and solve my problem but I decided I needed to hard reset the phone before I did this (was having some other issues).

After the reset and reinstalling the newer version of Garmin, I went back to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE >> Software >> Garmin. (which is where I THINK I found the key before) All I see now is Que.

Anybody have any idea why I can no longer find the value? Am I looking in the wrong place?

Edit: To give a little more info, I followed all the instructions from thelostsoul's GPS guide (you rock man, btw) and GPS test works flawlessly, as does Google Maps and Windows Live

Edited January 25, 2008 by sterling5605

[Guest shutter13]

Is there an SW.UNL file in the Garmin folder on your SD card? You need to unlock the device. FWIW, I have to kickstart Garmin with GPSTest.exe (located in the windows folder of your BlackJack II) Once GPSTest has locked on I start Garmin and it works just fine, the GPS chip needs to be running for Garmin t0 find it.

[Guest Sed8ed]

Is there an SW.UNL file in the Garmin folder on your SD card? You need to unlock the device. FWIW, I have to kickstart Garmin with GPSTest.exe (located in the windows folder of your BlackJack II) Once GPSTest has locked on I start Garmin and it works just fine, the GPS chip needs to be running for Garmin t0 find it.

Absolutely correct...I do this also. GPStest app is the on off switch. Works perfect. I also shut it all down with the long hold of the home key...task manager, then close all running GPS apps. I have left it on once by mistake, Got up in the morning battery was GONE...all of it. Flat as a tack. You can of course turn it off in the menu's of the softwares too.......

[Guest afterminute]

I have the same problem on my Garmin 4.10.40ws wih Blackjack 2. When I start the program it just "scans attached" and then switches to "scans bluetooth" with no results. I left my device outside under clear sky for about 20 minutes.

I tried with and without the modaco gps activator patch, hard reseting between tries.

I have the sw.unl file in my garmin folder.

I will look forawrd to a solution on this one -

[Guest shutter13]

I have the same problem on my Garmin 4.10.40ws wih Blackjack 2. When I start the program it just "scans attached" and then switches to "scans bluetooth" with no results. I left my device outside under clear sky for about 20 minutes.

I tried with and without the modaco gps activator patch, hard reseting between tries.

I have the sw.unl file in my garmin folder.

I will look forawrd to a solution on this one -

Try aquiring a satellite lock with GPSTest.exe first, once it locks start the garmin program, without stopping GPSTest.exe.

[Guest dcartwright]

Really frustrating update:

I was messing around with my registry editor, and I found a value that said "Enable Attached" and the value data was 0.

I figured that changing this option to 1 might enable the attached and solve my problem but I decided I needed to hard reset the phone before I did this (was having some other issues).

After the reset and reinstalling the newer version of Garmin, I went back to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE >> Software >> Garmin. (which is where I THINK I found the key before) All I see now is Que.

Anybody have any idea why I can no longer find the value? Am I looking in the wrong place?

Edit: To give a little more info, I followed all the instructions from thelostsoul's GPS guide (you rock man, btw) and GPS test works flawlessly, as does Google Maps and Windows Live

Sterling, did you ever find a way to make this work with the Garmin XT software? I'm in teh same boat as you. The blackjack II's integrated GPS works with Windows Live and Google Maps, but not with the Garmin software. I don't have a registry key that woudl let it look for an attached GPS device either. There's nothing in the software to configure that either.

[Guest AmFuzzy]

Sterling, did you ever find a way to make this work with the Garmin XT software? I'm in teh same boat as you. The blackjack II's integrated GPS works with Windows Live and Google Maps, but not with the Garmin software. I don't have a registry key that woudl let it look for an attached GPS device either. There's nothing in the software to configure that either.

Well, I'm there with ya. I can get the GPS to work fine with just about everything... WLS, GMM and of course TeleNav, buit Garmin want to keep "scanning bluetooth" forever. If I disable it...it just says for connection to Garmin GPS device only... or something like that. Yes... it works fine on COM4 with WLS...so I don't know why Garmin XT just won't let me have any other choices other than "scanning bluetooth" or Disable with no option to choose anything else. I'm stuck...and getting very pissed off at ATT for screwing us by making this so difficult. Maybe I'll just return this thing and get the Tilt unless someone has some other ideas.

-AmFuzzy :)

[Guest Worm6226]

Let me preface this with the fact that I am really green on this stuff but I had the same problem with XT just scanning with no success. I finally got it to work by running GPSTest seperately while XT was trying to find the GPS device. I don't know if it was just a coincidence but it may be worth a try.