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okay I JUST now set this up. things went alright, but for me I had to pick action, then switch to NEMA protocol. The syncronise protocol and baud rate setme up at a higher baud rate that wasn't compatible. Sofar it seems to have recognised much faster, but I'd moved my antenea to the base of my windshield due to lack of signal in the hatch, I'm gonnatry putting it back there again and see if it'll pull any signal now. I'll mess with things some more as well. thanks again, this seems to have helped already.

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duhh... mine isn't working. i downloaded sirfdemo and tried the above, but i'm getting weird results? When i opened the program it did not have my default settings chosen (COM1 mine is connected on COM3) and when i hit the button at the top left with the wires connecting a bunch of stuff pops up on the "Debug View" window and it doesn't seem to stop.

This is what I see now and it stops at 38400 baud rate?
helpp!

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does anybody know what is wrong? now when i plug in my gps receiver i don't get any signal in S&T or SA??

HyperSprite

I had this happen to me today, turned out my app wanted NMEA and not Sirf communications. Open Sirfdemo back up, do the connect, the synchronize thing as before. Then select "Switch to NMEA" suddenly all the cool stuff stops but the GPS will work with your NMEA applications again.

Then you'll wonder why you did it all in the first place (like I did).

Chris

okay

Oh, thanks for the response. I'll try that out now!

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I tried switching it to nmea but its not responding. now nothing shows up. the only way to get the satelittes to show up on the sirfdemo is if i hit random at startup. I don't know what to do!! My gps doesn't work at all now. What did I do to it?

HELP!

Also when i open up S&T and hit the configure gps button nothing shows up. usually when i click on the button it shows that my gps is connected to COM4 but now nothing is there?

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anybody?

neon_eddy

check your system/hardware manager thingy.. lok in com ports.. make sure it is there..

if it is .. go into sirfdemo and switch it to sirf and then back to nmea

try s&t again ..

if it shows up in the hardware manager but not on your GPS app.. but it DOES show up on sirfdemo .. then I would say it's a s&t issue..

often times I had mine jump from COM3 to COM4 and back al lthe time..

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yea i tried that already. it does show up in sirfdemo but not like it used to, i only get a response when i connect to "random." when i try to connect to com4 at any baud rate there is no activity at all. i checked my device manager and i do see my usb gps connected to com4 but when i go to S&T or street atlas program they don't detect any gps. could my gps be faulty? i had some random symptoms before also when it was working, i would be on the road and the gps would be working fine then after 20 mins or so the gps would stop responding. when i try to reconnect or "track my position" using S&T it would say there is no gps connect. whats wrong with it??

so sad... i just bought his unit a week and a half ago and got street atlas to work for a day before it pooped out on me

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GW39

I have Microsoft Streets and Trips 2007 - it does give some instructions by voice and you can reroute from your current location - the voice instructions are not that useful and the reroute from location is not intuitive - but it can be done. I hook up a headset to be able to hear the voice instructions - avoid the temptation to look at the screen while driving - the application could be better - but this is Microsoft after all.
GW

borabus

Has no one used or heard of DeLorme,usb to laptop works great in car with all features seems everyone is looking for builtin.

bambam

HUH? Are we talking about S&T 2007? If so, you are wrong. You can recalculate the directions from your current position anytime by pressing the big GO button or pressing F3. And as far as locking onto satellites, cripe, I use a BU353 usb sirf III gps and I routinely get over 10. Heck, I get 3-4 in my garage and I have a metal roof.

Yes, S&T 2007 is not touch screen friendly for the most part because of the little areas you have to touch and you obviously can't use a stylus when driving but map the keys with a device like the Shuttle Pro, which I use, and don't need the touch screen anyways.

One thing S&T does (and MapPoint), is allow you to QUICKLY reroute the route the way YOU want to by being able to right click anywhere and add to route and then when you get all the points you want, you just hit the Get Directions button and you have easily and quickly created your own route. I love that capability and use it all the time and have used it recently in an emergency.

So far, I have found it very reliable and easy to use. In fact, my mother got lost yesterday traveling from the Keys to NY using TomTom (piece of crap...try creating a custom route on that!) so I faxed here a detailed directions page created by S&T 2007 and she's on her way home at this moment without incident. When I say custom route, let me give you a quick example. When I go to the Keys, I like to take Rt 81 South to Rt 66 then Rt 17 then I95 etc., but whenever you use TomTom or even S&T, it tells you the best route and it's never the one I want so I just look at the map and visually pick out points to 'force' it to go the way I want. It's very easy and a great feature.

Just my $0.02....

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