mom2eliz

First, I'm totally new to Axim & PDAs in general. I've been using GPS before with my laptop. So bought a new x51v along with the Dell Navteq GPS. It worked fine for the first 3 times I used it. Now today, all of a sudden, it no longer works. The red light on GPS is solid. At first, when watching status, it appears to be searching - using serial port com1 and 4800 baud. For about 10 mins it tries to find satellite and fails. Then when I check AutoDetect - it says No GPS connected. GPS is hotter than all getout. I tried later today - and still failed. I did notice that the blue light blinks on the upper right looking for wireless? Yet this is a wired GPS so I dont know why. I also don't remember if this happened before, since there was no problem. Any ideas? Thanks for any and all help you have to offer...

Oscar Ubaldo

I have Tom Tom Naviagator 5 working perfectly with the cabled dell gps receiver. Please see tye followig instructions (that I followed and helped me get my config to work) which I found under www.aximusers.com (user MiDiMan888).

Hope it helps you.

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Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 1

x50v + WM 5 + Tom Tom 5.21 + wired GPS working solution is here

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I had the exact same problem like others and just got mine working.

The problem is due to the corrupted serial driver name in the registry, that is why you see "Se???a?? ?a??d?? st?? COM1: " in Tom Tom GPS menu.

1. Use a registry editor, e.g. PHM Registry Editor v0.70
http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities...ryeditor.shtml

2. Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\Serial

3. You will see the value name "FriendlyName" has some Russian characters for the value data

4. Change that to Serial Cable on COM1:

5. Make sure you exit registry editor from Tools -> Exit, that will save the changes properly.

6. Now go to Tom Tom and your wired GPS should be working. You may need to do a soft reset if Tom Tom is still not picking up your wired GPS.

Credits: I got partial information from below threads:
http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showt...ht=Tomtom+5.21

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/module...r=asc&start=45

Happy New Year!