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Guest gitf@ce
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So Mother In Law wants to take a drive somewhere 'unknown' this morning and is worried she can't read the map very well (blind as a bat in my opinion)... no problem I say, I've got probably the biggest gps navigation unit around... just right for you!

I set everything up in her car with my dash mount, switch on my £5 ebay gps receiver, bluetooth gps provider on... all looks good! Start Copilot and I'm greeted with nothing... no gps data being recieved! After fiddling for half an hour I give up (much to my embarrassment), and install my dinky sized TomTom in the hope that if she can't see it at least she will hear it.

I was using r6 before and everything was great, I updated to r8 a while back and can only assume this is the problem? I am being prompted to set gps locations which is greyed out... I don't remember seeing that before.

Can anyone confirm this is/is not an r8 issue? or maybe the kernel has changed it? Is anyone aware of a fix? Or... if I have to re-flash any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Guest trevor432990
Posted
So Mother In Law wants to take a drive somewhere 'unknown' this morning and is worried she can't read the map very well (blind as a bat in my opinion)... no problem I say, I've got probably the biggest gps navigation unit around... just right for you!

I set everything up in her car with my dash mount, switch on my £5 ebay gps receiver, bluetooth gps provider on... all looks good! Start Copilot and I'm greeted with nothing... no gps data being recieved! After fiddling for half an hour I give up (much to my embarrassment), and install my dinky sized TomTom in the hope that if she can't see it at least she will hear it.

I was using r6 before and everything was great, I updated to r8 a while back and can only assume this is the problem? I am being prompted to set gps locations which is greyed out... I don't remember seeing that before.

Can anyone confirm this is/is not an r8 issue? or maybe the kernel has changed it? Is anyone aware of a fix? Or... if I have to re-flash any advise would be greatly appreciated.

It is an issue with latest ROMs/Kernel and if you go here you will find the tweak to get around it :(

Guest gitf@ce
Posted (edited)

Many thanks Trevor!

It's people like you who make this site special...

Haven't heard a peep from MIL, just hope I don't have to saddle the horses right in the middle of dinner!

Edited by gitf@ce
Guest trevor432990
Posted

Glad to hear it worked and that I can restore family harmony again :(

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