Dr.House
05-14-2008, 03:10 PM
Hi all ,
im troubleshooting a Lifedrive bluetooth/gps bug.
i have found out by searching that alot of people experience the same thing
and Palm has no answer/fix to this...
The problem is that the gps software looses connection to my Bluetooth GPS receiver after 1-10min and to get it to connect again i have to turn the bluetooth off ,run Flushit to free up memory,restart bluetooth ,connect gps again and it will maybe stay connected again for some min... :(
This happens with GPS software like Pathaway,fugawi etc.
TomTom 5 works perfect ! does not loose connection with GPS receiver.
it seems like alot of people has this same problem and that Palm has ignored it... :(
the closest and best info i have found about this problem is the following from
the Pathaway support forum :
Hey guys. I read this entire thread with some hope, but the hope is gone in the end of it Sad
I'm experiencing the same problem here in Brazil, and it's really something to do with BTLIB driver of Lifedrive.
I've tested many configurations, many "try-and-see" things, and I can give you some hints on how to avoid this problem (sometimes...)
- Reduce track log sizes, increasing the time between points (10 secs or more), and speed about to check points (10 meters I'm using). Of course, this advice only works for cars trips. Explanation: It seems the BT freeze problem has something to do with hard drive updates frequency.
- Install some DB cache cleaner (like FlushIT!). I've noticed that when I clean the cache before running pathaway it doesn't lock BT.
- When you got the problem (freeze), you don't need to reset the device. Turn pathaway gps connection OFF (if you got the no gps response message, it already gone), turn bluetooth OFF (it will take about 30secs to do it), turn BT on again, and restart gps connection on pathaway. Works, garanteed!
That's it. If someone find out the real solution for this problem, please let me know!
So ,please if anyone has some fix for this or some other info ,please respond.
im troubleshooting a Lifedrive bluetooth/gps bug.
i have found out by searching that alot of people experience the same thing
and Palm has no answer/fix to this...
The problem is that the gps software looses connection to my Bluetooth GPS receiver after 1-10min and to get it to connect again i have to turn the bluetooth off ,run Flushit to free up memory,restart bluetooth ,connect gps again and it will maybe stay connected again for some min... :(
This happens with GPS software like Pathaway,fugawi etc.
TomTom 5 works perfect ! does not loose connection with GPS receiver.
it seems like alot of people has this same problem and that Palm has ignored it... :(
the closest and best info i have found about this problem is the following from
the Pathaway support forum :
Hey guys. I read this entire thread with some hope, but the hope is gone in the end of it Sad
I'm experiencing the same problem here in Brazil, and it's really something to do with BTLIB driver of Lifedrive.
I've tested many configurations, many "try-and-see" things, and I can give you some hints on how to avoid this problem (sometimes...)
- Reduce track log sizes, increasing the time between points (10 secs or more), and speed about to check points (10 meters I'm using). Of course, this advice only works for cars trips. Explanation: It seems the BT freeze problem has something to do with hard drive updates frequency.
- Install some DB cache cleaner (like FlushIT!). I've noticed that when I clean the cache before running pathaway it doesn't lock BT.
- When you got the problem (freeze), you don't need to reset the device. Turn pathaway gps connection OFF (if you got the no gps response message, it already gone), turn bluetooth OFF (it will take about 30secs to do it), turn BT on again, and restart gps connection on pathaway. Works, garanteed!
That's it. If someone find out the real solution for this problem, please let me know!
So ,please if anyone has some fix for this or some other info ,please respond.