Arkon Gps/pda Vehicle Mount And Mapopolis

[CacheMonkeez]

Does anybody have this setup: Arkon GPS-equipped PDA vehicle mount using Mapopolis on PocketPC PDA? The Mapopolis GPS software says it is searching the COM ports, but can't find anything. The PDA also gets bogged down and runs so slowly that it's hard to tell if it's locked up or just running slowly.

 

Anybody have experience with this?

[+Steel City Seekers]

I would try manually selecting each port in Mapopolis (Tools > Settings > GPS Communications), rather than having it search for the correct port. The baud rate, while you're there, is likely 4800. Set the baud rate, then select each available port individually and let it try to find the receiver.

 

You also might want to do a soft-reset on the Pocket PC before you begin to ensure the ports are accessible and perhaps to aid your bogging down issues.

 

If that doesn't help too much, then I'd suggest you ask this question on a more Pocket PC related site like gpspassion.com, which has its own very active sub-forum for Mapopolis users. Or, if you by chance have a Dell, the GPS Talk sub-forum on aximsite.com would be a very good place for this question. Likely, someone there has the exact same setup as you. I use Mapopolis, but not the Arkon mount. It sounds like your problem is getting Mapopolis to "see" your receiver.

Edited June 23, 2006 by Steel City Seekers

[CacheMonkeez]

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried them...didn't work. So I'll check out gpspassion.com.

 

Thanks

[CacheMonkeez]

No help at GPSpassion so I called Arkon and they sent me a new cable. Worked fine after that...problem solved. I also had to set the baud rate at 19.2 for COM1.