How to setup your HP IPAQ 1900 Series Pocket PC for satellite Navigation.
As
standard, the HP1900 Series cannot work with GPS as they don’t have a socket
capable of connecting a GPS Receiver and do not have Bluetooth.
It IS
however possible to do this, with a few additional extras!
If you haven’t
yet bought a pocket PC, then I recommend spending as much as you can afford, I
like HP myself! Anything with Bluetooth I recommend. The HP Ipaq
2200 is fine for GPS use and wont require extras..
If you have
purchased a 1900 series and want to use GPS then you will have to purchase a
few extras, and these can be a pain to setup, however, once setup, it does
work, very well.
What you
need, and where to get them..
Skip this
bit if you just want help getting it working!!..
I use www.totalpda.co.uk
They are
quite good, come well packaged, although my last order took over 2weeks because
my Haicom receiver was out of stock even though the
whole time the website reported it was INSTOCK, but still most sites do that so
they don’t loose customers, so whilst it was annoying, I think it could happen
anywhere.
You need a
GPS receiver unit
The Haicom 203E GPS Receiver works well!
http://www.totalpda.co.uk/Haicom-203E-GPS-Receiver.aspx
Haicom
3-in-1 Car mount
I have
never ordered from the above site, so check its ok!
I usually
get these from totalpda also, but I cant find it on their site at the moment!!
Anyway,
this is what you need to get your 1900 working, basically, your PDA sits in
this mount, a cable comes in from your GPS receiver and also a
Infrared sender is on the unit that connects your Haicom
GPS to your 1900 series Infrared port.
If the above link doesn’t work when you read this, search google or something for “Haicom 3-in-1 Mount” and you will find it!
TomTom
Software
I have only
got TOMTOM working with this setup, so I would stick with it myself, besides I do
think it is the best available at the moment and so do many others online.
You can buy
it through total pda at
http://www.totalpda.co.uk/TomTom-Navigator-3-Software.aspx
The
official website for tomtom is www.tomtom.com
Getting it
all working
Install
TOMTOM on your PDA 1st, and copy map(s) that you will use.
It is quite
easy to get to work, connect the cables as the instructions show you.
The only
things that I think you need to know extra, are, the Infrared sender needs to
be right next to the IR on the PDA, if you look at the PDA the right side up,
how you would normally hold it, on the left-side there is a small red window if
you like! Its near the silver button on the top left side, basically get the
HAICOM IR thing as close as you can to that, mine is almost touching!
Mine didn’t
work if it was over an inch away.
Your PDA
should be setup as follows:
Get to the
main screen on your PDA
Click start
– Settings – then click the connections tab.
Click Beam
Make sure
the Receive all incoming beams is NOT CHECKED!!!!
Press OK
and then the ‘X’ icon.
Then do the
following
Click start
– Settings – then click the System Tab
Click GPS –
then click the GPS TAB, in the 1st dropdown menu choose ‘haicom’ and the 2nd choose your port as ‘S2410
IRDA2410’
That should
really be about it fire up TOMTOM and give it a while, 10mins is usually enough
to find some satellites the 1st time you start it, it takes much
longer the 1st time! Sometimes upto
40mins!
*****NOTE!
For people
with a Heated windscreen, the GPS receiver needs to be
away from these! Some people have problems, however, my Fiesta has a heated
front screen and appears to have no problems myself.. I
Don’t know, I just know that some people have been
effected!
If your
really stuck goto www.totalpda.co.uk
and they have forums where people help each other on the products above and
more!
Hope that
is of some help! –Steve – Coolpot_1@yahoo.com