just bought an external gps

[darufryda5]

i just purcahsed an external gps off of ebay..i flashed to the gps rev A rom using the kitchen..i have verizon...will the external gps still work? how should i set it up? i have no idea how to setup the external gps can some1 help? thankyou.

[drurc8]

Yes, external GPS still works fine and it works better than the internal one. Internal GPS is defaulted as COM4, right? Just leave the way it is. You set external BT GPS normally to different COM ex: COM2, then set your GPS com port to COM2 and direct your GPS software to COM2 not COM4 in order to use external BT GPS. I am using Iguidance 4.0 and it works much better with external GPS.

[darufryda5]

thankyou very much..i got tired of priming the gps..and then almost never getting it to work...

[e_town]

Originally Posted by darufryda5

thankyou very much..i got tired of priming the gps..and then almost never getting it to work...

Why do you need to prime the GPS? Have you not done enough reading on the forums? I can start TomTom ANYTIME and get a lock in less than 15 secs. I used the trick w/ SK shortcut manager and AstroGPS launcher. Works like a charm. No need to prime. Google maps works the same....

[drurc8]

with internal GPS, I can get GPS lock in less than 30 second most of the time. Just open GoogleMap first to prime it, when you open GoogleMap, right on MENU, clcik "USE GPS" so GPS locks right away.

[mswlogo]

Priming does nothing but make you feel good.

[Xyz]

Originally Posted by e_town

Why do you need to prime the GPS? Have you not done enough reading on the forums? I can start TomTom ANYTIME and get a lock in less than 15 secs. I used the trick w/ SK shortcut manager and AstroGPS launcher. Works like a charm. No need to prime. Google maps works the same....

Have you not been reading ? That IS priming the gps chip. that's exactly what astrogps launcher is , a gps primer. you are simply bypassing the extra step of starting 2 programs manually where the shortcut manager does this for you.

[darufryda5]

yes i have read many times about the gps...i haver verizon and almost never get any gps sat. so i gave up...

[johnnymac]

Originally Posted by mswlogo

Priming does nothing but make you feel good.

Exactly, I thought that we finally got past the "priming" stage.... and thank god, I never liked that term. Lol.

If you run the ppst.exe, you should have no trouble with sprint. (SOrry Verizon, I haven't followed anything about VZW.) -Enjoy your external GPS, I personally would have held off a little bit longer to at least try a future VZW ROM upgrade before I purchased one.

[hideffer]

Originally Posted by mswlogo

Priming does nothing but make you feel good.

Are you saying priming is unnecessay for all gps apps? I agree that Garmin Mobil XT does not need to be primed but without some priming ( I am using Astrolauncher shortcut), TomTom and iGO8 will not find satellites on the leaked Sprint ROM and after running PPST.exe. It is possible that you are not using TomTom 6 or iGO8 and/or using a custom ROM that makes priming unnecessary?