Tungsten T3 and tomtom

[deano]

Hi

have a tungsten t3 and tomtom software, using the cradle supplied with tomtom. Has not been used a great deal, the problem i`m getting is that when using tomtom and the tomtom gps pluged into the cradle tomtom software tells me no gps connection but there is a green light ont he gps flashing. I have set tomtom to use the tomtom cabled gps.

Do i need a new gps recever or a new cradle?

Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated

cheers
Deano

[ChrisK]

Deano,

Take a look at the thread on this subject under the TomTom forum.

This is what I found,

1) Power everything up with the T3 out of the cradle.
2) Start TomTom on the T3
3) Insert T3 into cradle.

Did it work? If so take a look inside the GPS mouse and make sure the screening around the cable is making very good contact with the metal can, I tucked mine behind one of the can lugs. Since doing this it works every time and I don't need to follow the proceedure above anymore.

[jdl0218]

Is your GPS receiver where it can get unobstructed sky to pickup enough satellites.

[deano]

Hi

cheers for the info, have found that thread and have now sent the unit back to tomtom, so hopefully i'll get one that works when it's returned.

cheers
Deano

[mnj.lim]

Originally Posted by deano

have a tungsten t3 and tomtom software, using the cradle supplied with tomtom. Has not been used a great deal, the problem i`m getting is that when using tomtom and the tomtom gps pluged into the cradle tomtom software tells me no gps connection but there is a green light ont he gps flashing. I have set tomtom to use the tomtom cabled gps.

Do i need a new gps recever or a new cradle?

Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated

cheers
Deano

I have the same problem, but intermittently. Sometimes it works fine. Other times it just won't recognise the GPS signal even though the GPS is blinking. And even when it does work, sometimes only the GPS gets the energy and the Palm runs on battery. All in all a very frustrating experience, especially if you are in a rush and on a long journey.

TomTom support now tells me to reformat my TomTom SD card and reinstall application, update and maps in that order. Synchronising all that takes 10 hours!

When TomTom works, it's excellent. But it doesn't work more than half the time and my comment is that until they sort out all these problems, the TomTom is not worth buying.

[BuzzBunny]

I get a very similar problem, and after some playing around discovered that it is not the BlueTooth SatNav but the Palm Tungsten T3 - there are posts about it on the Palm site I seem to remember - I looked under Phone / Bluetooth.

In fact to solve this I have to soft reset the Palm every so often and then it automatically discovers the SatNav without issue