IGO Sats and Alt startup issue

[bazzle01]

On my wifes new double din I have loaded my 800x480 working iGO8.3.4 R17 maps (oz)
Starts up ok, shows position BUT ALT is 0. and sats is 0.

If I Exit from within IGO and restart all shows.
If I untick GPS box in Settings and retick all comes back in cockpit.

I have tried forcing a few diff baud rates, (unit works with them all?) in sys.txt, adding nmea, siRf etc but that has no effect on the issue.

Any clues?

Bazzle

[NoService]

I have tried forcing a few diff baud rates, (unit works with them all?) in sys.txt, adding nmea, siRf etc but that has no effect on the issue.

my chinese gps works on 3 different port/baud rates but ONLY ONE works properly on all gps programs with no dropouts and correct info shown.

have you checked "auto" in gps settings and let igo find the port/baud itself? it was the way i found out that igo prefers port1/baud4800 not the baud11xxxx/port2 that is supposed to be the units default.

worth a try

NS

[bazzle01]

Yup tried that.. it picks 57800 so tried to force that too. no change.

Bazzle

[laogia]

I think the baud 57600, not 57800, mine d/din port 2 baud 38400. Try to replace antenna may help.

[bazzle01]

I think the baud 57600, not 57800, mine d/din port 2 baud 38400. Try to replace antenna may help.

Your right.
Will get another ant but cant see what will change as sig is high and when it shows on reboot at 7 to 8 sats..

Bazzle

[laogia]

Where did you place the antenna, sometimes replace position or disconnect then reconnect cable should help.

[bazzle01]

Ill give that a go later but when you reboot it has good sig and 7 or 8 sats in the green.
Ant is on dash in direct sky view.

Bazzle

[laogia]

So Ant catch good sig, i don't think problem with Ant, maybe you could try format the card and reload again see what's happen? if still not, try differance iGO like Primo. Or on iGO sys.txt remove [GPS] and leave empty.

[bazzle01]

So Ant catch good sig, i don't think problem with Ant, maybe you could try format the card and reload again see what's happen? if still not, try differance iGO like Primo. Or on iGO sys.txt remove [GPS] and leave empty.

Your thinking like me

Ive done that (not Primo) but other Igo 's etc.
Removed all ref to GPS as well.
Must be some thing where Igo relates back to the gps card in the unit , may be something in a ui file.

Bazzle

[laogia]

You know what's your device name? open data.zip/config/devices copy or modify to there.

[bazzle01]

You know what's your device name? open data.zip/config/devices copy or modify to there.

This one;

I dont know its name I will try to interogate the unit

GPS Features:

Map supported: PDA FORMAT
Operation system: Windows CE 6.0
Processor: SAMSUNG High performance processor S3C2440A-40, Max.main frequency 400MHZ.
Display output : CVBS+S-VIDEO output. (Resolution:800*480) or simulation RGB output .
GPS specification: Adopt SiRF STAR III 20 channel and excessive high sensitivity GPS receiving module REB-3310, Orientation sensitivity reach -159dBm, Orientation presicion＜10M,Orientation time of cold boot is 42S,Orientation time of warm boot is 35S,Orientation time of hot boot is 1S.

Ive added under GPS

source="sirf" but no change..............

Bazzle

[laogia]

Anytimes, when you changes on sys.txt, did you delete save folder on iGO folder, because iGO look in save folder for load up.

[bazzle01]

Anytimes, when you changes on sys.txt, did you delete save folder on iGO folder, because iGO look in save folder for load up.

Sadly yes, deleted each time.

Bazzle

[kukuk]

Sadly yes, deleted each time.

Bazzle

can you post your sys.txt here

[bazzle01]

Last one today:

[interface]
vga=0
skin="ui_igo8"
resolution_dir="800_480"

[rawdisplay]
class="landscape"
highres=0
screen_x=800
screen_y=480

[map]
3d_roads=1
3d_tunnels=1

[sound]
ding=0
queue_length=200

[tts]
;tts_buffer=131072
tts_buffer=250000
tts_logics=3
priority="HIGH"
always_say_road_names=1
announce_street_name=1
announce_exit_directions=1
skip_exit_numbers=1
supress_Prepare_to=1
supress_straight=1
supress_highway_enter=1

[3d]
show_guidance_arrows=1
show_guidance_strips=0
car_day = "car_blaupunkt.mdl"
car_night = "car_blaupunkt.mdl"

[smartzoom]
minangle=0
maxangle=80

[power]
backlight_day=100
backlight_night=54

[debug]
cache=2048
skip_eula=1
disable_outlookpoi=1
show_performance=0
reserve_memory=2500000
;added new april20th for speeding up tts voice
tts_min_ready_wav="1"
tts_getaway_time="100"
sound_q_length="200"
;no_file_cache="0"
;cache="1024"

Bazzle

[kukuk]

did you tried GPS auto detect? what port and baud rate your unit use?

[gps]
port=2
baud=4800

add that on your sys.txt and change the numbers to what your unit uses..

[bazzle01]

did you tried GPS auto detect? what port and baud rate your unit use?

[gps]
port=2
baud=4800

add that on your sys.txt and change the numbers to what your unit uses..

Yes, done all those things. Unit works on port2 any baud rate.
Auto finds 57800 from memory.
Im wondering if its a Win 6.0 thing talking back to gps card?

Bazzle

[ozheat]

Igo has a problem with reading the SD card after waking up from sleep causing the gps to run real slow and eventually when the SD card is ready, the GPS signal has timed out causing the gps not found error. If you look in your crash.txt file you will find there is an entry describing that Igo couldn't find the basemap.
To fix this up either use a smaller SD card <= 4GB or if you want a larger capacity card make sure it is atleast class 6 (C6) speed.
This problem only happens when Igo is put to sleep(auto power off) and you have a slow HDSD card.

[bazzle01]

No, its not that. Something to do with win 6 ce maybe?

It works fine, just doesnt show sats or Alt unless you stop and restart either program or gps feed.

Bazzle

[traveller99]

No, its not that. Something to do with win 6 ce maybe?

It works fine, just doesnt show sats or Alt unless you stop and restart either program or gps feed.

Bazzle

I have a very similar problem with a iphone shaped unit. It has a centrality atlas IV 533MHz cpu running CE6
It navigates OK but the gps info page freezes after a while and altitude stops.
Skins also don't show any gps info. Another inbuilt GPS program shows GPS is running fine. Tried removing DEM and speed camera database, but no improvement. 'just another mystery'