Can you help Stephen? “Hello Shaun
What an excellent site you are running! I have only just come across it today. I have just bought my i780 from Orange to replace my TyTn and have come across 3 problems and wondered if anyone on your site has answers to them or could point me in the right direction:
1. In order to get the built in GPS working with TomTom6 I installed GPSGate and all works well. However, I cannot now enable my Bluetooth – and so there is no handsfree working at the moment! Something may have got upset when I did the installation and I cannot get it back, even with uninstalling. I am hesitant to do a hard reset because of all of the time it takes to set everything up again. This is what happens:
When I go to the Wireless Manager and click on Bluetooth (to switch it on), I get the circular cursor for about 20 secs as though something is being done, then the cursor returns to normal, but the Bluetooth still remains off. I can keep repeating this to no avail. Does anyone know of a fix?
2. On my previous PPC, a HTC TyTn, you could map a button to point to the voice recorder (ie the recorder as used in the Notes section which gets synchronised back into your PC within Outlook notes). On the i780 you can use the voice recorder within notes but I cannot find an application to map to a button to get it to record. I need it mapping to a button so that I can do a speedy memo without hunting through menus. I tried putting the voice recorder.exe from the HTC in to the i780 but it did not work. Does anyone know how to get the built in voice recorder working from a button press and not through menus?
3. Is there a simple button remapper with 1, 2 or 3 key presses to do a function. I have downloaded AEButton but it will not install from my PC running Vista64 and so I cannot try that. Is there a good and simple alternative?
Many thanks
Stephen.”
What com port did you select for gpsgate within the gpsgate software?
I would change the com port to something else, but more importantly I would use the free software gpsproxy recommended on this site with com 2 in the virtual settings and com8.
In the GPS settings on the i780, read up in the TT6 section.
Also, with the latest UK rom, you do not need any splitter software. It just works, albeit it takes a few minutes to lock.
Thanks Gavin for your info. I set up a virtual com port 4 with GPSGate and it did work and get fixes, but Bluetooth disappeared at exactly the same time. I have now removed GPSGate (but Bluetooth has not come back) and have now installed GPSProxy and it seems to work fine. I had heard, as you say, that you didn’t need a com splitter with the UK rom (mine is Orange) but despite standing outside for what seems like hours until the battery flattens; all I could get were the grey sat positions and grey sat levels – with no fix at all. Happily, GPSProxy gets a fix within a minute and so I am going to stick with that. I wonder if there are different versions of the UK rom?
With regard to my damaged Bluetooth driver it seems that I will have to do a full hardware reset if I cannot locate a fix.
I have located the AEButton.cab file and have installed that directly onto the i780 (the PC installer version didn’t seem to like Vista 64) and so I can now map buttons OK. However, I cannot fathom a way of triggering the memo recorder (under Notes), which I could do with my HTC TyTn. The voice recorder is there in the i780 Notes section, but there doesn’t appear to be a program which triggers it.
Thanks, Steve