Using the Phone's GPS as the GPS for my Computer?

[ls6tt]

Originally Posted by VasKeZ

Just to reaffirm- the GPS2Blue setup works and it picks up the GPS signal a lot faster than my old Pharos GPS receiver that originally came with Streets & Trips 2005. However, the phone GPS seems to have a harder time maintaining the GPS signal or something. While driving home yesterday, something with this setup stalled while I was driving through a valley where my location didn't update until a few minutes later after I made it back up out of the valley. Hummm... On a side note, I also noticed that when I was visiting NYC, I never could get a satellite lock through Google maps on the phone while walking around between the buildings... Now my old GPS did have a harder time maintaining the signals in the city as well, but it has never dropped the signal like that through the same valley area like my phone did. I till have to play around with it to find out all the ins and outs are with it.

Overall, I think that it'll end up being pretty useful since it'll be one less thing that I won't have to bring when traveling- I can just leave the old GPS receiver mounted in my car! Yay! It is nice to have options and the coolness factor is there too.

Thanks for everyone's help! =D>

outstanding, thank you. will be using this as soon as i find my bluetooth pc receiver

[mr4r4n]

HTC gps router has the option when its cooked into the rom all u have to do is set the port settings and hook it in via usb

[bedoig]

Originally Posted by mr4r4n

HTC gps router has the option when its cooked into the rom all u have to do is set the port settings and hook it in via usb

I thought I'd seen every option for doing this, but I never came across that little tool. Cool.

A quick trip to Google turned up this zip containing a single exe. Can't really test it at work, but my computer recognizes it as a generic serial device so it seems to be working.

Thanks!

[mr4r4n]

yea I've gotten it to recognize it as a generic serial device as well, my only problem is my ppc goes with me all the time and my computer doesn't so i haven't tried it on the road yet its a great tool though never found the file b4 just had it from buildos

[djanu]

I couldn't get my phone recognized by this. Even with BT when I created ports, my pc could never see those ports, on the device it says waiting for bluetooth to be enabled while its already on.I have seen many other having same problem. How did you get it to work.

Originally Posted by mr4r4n

yea I've gotten it to recognize it as a generic serial device as well, my only problem is my ppc goes with me all the time and my computer doesn't so i haven't tried it on the road yet its a great tool though never found the file b4 just had it from buildos

[drift365]

Is there something similar for an iphone?