TomTom and the touch

[stylz3]

I just recently installed TomTom on my touch but can't seem to get it working. I'm not sure if the phone has to be GPS enabled or if I need a separate GPS receiver to pair with the phone to work via bluetooth. I though you could install it on the phone and just have it work without any additional equipment. If I do need a separate device could someone steer me in the right direction towards a good one that would work?

[loginatnine]

touch doesn't have gps integrated so yes you need an external bluetooth gps receiver in order to make tomtom works

[Primenall]

Originally Posted by jackojack

touch doesn't have gps integrated so yes you need an external bluetooth gps receiver in order to make tomtom works

Well you probably know but, actually the Touch Does have full gps integrated, but as of now it is still disabled. It's rumored to be enabled in sometime before Summer.
Give me my gps

Until then you need a seperate bluetooth gps reciever, check some threads, I use a Holux 240, it works great and is one of the smallest units, the Holux 1200 is the same size and twice the battery life (different chipset) that would be a good choice, about $50-60 off ebay.

The other very small reciever popular nowadays is the Freedom 1/2, just google it or search here or pdaphone, they look neat and seem to work fairly well, but there have been a couple problems reported.
With Holux it's is a brand name you know you can count on, though.

Either way Tomtom works great with the touch, you need to get yourself a reciever, you won't be sorry.

Like I said look on ebay there's some really good deals, just make sure they have a lot really good feedback and feedback saying fast shipping

[badchad]

Not to hijack, but how do you go about pairing a tomtom with the touch?

When I try to pair my Touch with my tomtom, the tomtom asks me to confirm the connection with my phone, when I click "yes" I get the following error message:

"The required features could not be found for this phone".

My touch recognizes the tomtom, its listed under the blutetooth settings.

Any ideas?

[Primenall]

Well it sounds like to me you are tying to pair an actual whole TT gps unit (with screen) with the touch, which I have no idea.
I was talking about putting the TT software on my touch then using a seperate bluetooth sat reciever (gps reciever only no screen) and pairing that to the touch.

[badchad]

The simple answer is this: All I want to be able to do, is transfer a route from google maps to my tomtom. I have an actual whole TT gps unit.

Since my initial post in this thread, I have paired the two, but haven't had any success transferring anything. All the tomtom wants to do is use the phone for wireless PLUS services.

[gottspd]

badchad, I think you're misunderstanding the intent of connecting your standalone TT unit with your Touch. You cannot do what you are talking about. The connection is to allow the TT unit to connect to the internet so that it use plus services, that's it (or if you have a higher end TT unit, to serve as a BT speaker).