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Re: Are the GPS settings hard-coded in these ROMs?

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Originally Posted by bakntyme View Post
From my experience, the settings in "External GPS" really only apply to the internal GPS and configure a port that emulates an external GPS.
I have successfully used the "External GPS" icon to configure an external GPS (go figure! ) on my XV6700 with no problems at all.


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I can switch back and forth between the internal and external Bluetooth GPS on my Mogul just by selecting different ports in my application. If your application does not allow you to manually select the port, try disabling the "Manage GPS Automatically" check-box in "External GPS", and configure your Bluetooth GPS to use a COM port such as COM5, and see if the application will find it.
Try doing that with a program that doesn't have its own GPS configuration and *depends* on the Windows settings...
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