Hi Guys,
About 8 months i have a GNS 5843 (GPS, Bluetooth & RDS). This worked fine until this week. When i pushed the power button .. nothing happened (the blue and green light should start to flash). So i plugged in the USB connector and the red light start flashing (meaning charching), so thats OK.
But still no way that the device will power-on.
The funny thing is, it is detectable (BT) by phone & PDA so BT and connecting to the device is not a problem. The serial port is detected; but cannot be opened by programs like TomTom or IGO.
The battery is OK (although my multimeter says so) and i also tried several power sources.
Please help!
Sjaakfaal
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Hi! I have a Qtek 2020 with the 2003 SE, and it all worked well until one day i plug the PDA to one PC with the USB cable, and puff! The PC resets, my Qtek hard-resets, and suddenly when it turns on i notice the green LED is always ON! Like it was constantly plug to a pc/charging or activesync!!! It consumes the battery in 2/3 hours, and the backup power also! Even when i lose all power, when i put it charging it hard resets everytime! Can anything be done in this case? what can i do? PLEASE help!
Thanks!
Hey, i know your problem cause i had the same a few weeks ago.
U stuck the USB-Adapter wrong into the port so you should be a lucky person if the port isn't damaged yet.
If it is ok its should be work this way:
1. Plug the PDA to the charger (not your PC)
2. Hard-Rest
3. unplug the calbe
4. Hard-Rest
So at this point normaly the PDA port isnt frozen in charing-mode..
If it hasn't worked try to lay your pda on the street, enter a bulldozer and drive across it... :lol:
How can anything this good be this bad?
You can buy TomTom navigator5 for pda for £75 at PC World less on the Net
for this you get a 128meg sd card with tomtom on and a wireless bluetooth reciever and a Car charger.
You don't get a Mains charger but I found a USB hub Psu or my old toshiba pda E740 PSU will do the trick.
With the Universal software set up is a breeze. The trouble comes with the bluetooth gps which isn't adequately documented by tomtom. It is a good GPS receiver so whats bad.
on the Reciever are 2 Leds and a button
the first led has 3 states
Red totally discharged
orange charging
off fully charged (or fully discharged or broken or)
The 2nd Led is green
with 3 states
green - got a lock
green - flashing got a lock and talking to your Pda
off - switched off, or not got a lock and switched on, or its broke.
The button
push for a second on
push for a second off
push for 3 seconds reset
push repeatedly - unknown state (and it can take up to a minute to get a lock)
The problem is that fully charged and indoors you probably will get no lights at all and will not be able to tell if its on or off or broken.
if its not talking to your pda it will turn itself off after 5 minutes also if your stationary.
you can spend forever trying to get it working if you go in under bluetooth you should be able to discover it. but if you start the tomtom software it will tell you no gps.
The only definate way to get it connected is to go outside press the button and then the green led should light letting you know its on and has found some satellites. then if you start the tomtom software and choose tomtom gps it will connect.
you can share the gps using the gps settings in connections and bluetooth
(but someone else can explain that).
if you are indoors and trying to set this up, you will get nowhere.
hope this is useful info.
one more thing each gps has its own mac address as well as its display name so its possible you think you have a partnership but thats a different tomtom wireless gps unit. (the one you took back coz you were convinced it was broken).
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if you are indoors and trying to set this up, you will get nowhere.
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The only comment I can make here is that a lot of GPS recivers won't work indoors. I'm using a GPslim236 and this works ok indoors (at home) as long as you are close to a window (within 6ft). This uses the SirfIII (?) chipset. The earlier chipsets wouldn't work at all indoors (iirc).
Mav
The tomtom bluetooth gps is sirf III,
Seems to get a good signal most of the time.
you would think getting two bluetooth devices to pair together, location would be fairly unimportant. However with the tomtom unless its got a fix it doesn't want to play.
once you 'grok' the device its ok, but I still would have prefered an on off switch with some feedback.
Hi,
I have been using the BH 500 bluetooth receiver happily for about a month. Today something strange happened. Bad connections with the mobile device, and then silence.
I tried to pair my device with my cellphone again, but my BH500 seems to be in some sort of coma. The led is turned red, no way to get the device awake.
A small press on the powerbutton, a longer and even a very long press on the powerbutton does nothing at all (and I have tried MANY times)
Anyone has an idea what happens and what can be done about it?
Thanks,
B
The problem is solved. After three days, I guess that the battery was exhausted. The led went out and I was able to recharge the device again.
Hello,
If there is a thread about this subject, please direct me to it because I couldn't find it.
I have an XDA Cosmo running on WM6.1 (ricky's)
All was reasonably fine untill this sunday. All of a sudden it doesn't make any sound anymore and there is the headphone symbol displayed at the top. When I plug in a headphone, I can hear to that offcourse.
It is also very hard to sync it with my computer. I have to try dozen's of times.
I'm guessing that there is something wrong with the connector. Do you have any suggestions?
The strangest thing is that when I reboot my phone, it doesn't occur untill i plug something into the mini-usb connector.
Another strange thing was that it changed the colour of the homescreen automaticly overnight. I don't think the two problems are related, so any suggestions for this one?
yesterday, completely out of the blue, my phone had the speakerphone all the time on. I couldn't get it normal again. Then, later that day, the headphone symbol reappeared, so I couldn't make a call anymore.
When I connect it to my computer today, it keeps on switching between connected and not-connected for 2 minutes and then decides to be not connected. Even when I leave the room and there are no noticeable vibrations that could cause a bad connection.
Anyone has an idea? Because the phone is useless right now and I can't flash another rom when I can't connect it to my computer.
Greetings and thanks a lot for any piece of information.
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turn off bluetooth
Bluetooth hasn't been on the last couple of months, so I don't think that that is the problem
I have some questions. (Copy from the old thread)
1. I mean that i read it here, but I'm not sure. At the moment I have very often the bug, that the volume button not works. Mute works, but louder and quieter not. I don't know when it doesn't work, but after a while no function.
2. Since a few days I have the wifi problem, that wifi works sometimes and after a while too, it shows empty bars and shows the connection but it doesn't work. In other case if I start the radio he can't find any WiFi. Why?
3. Since a few days the touchscreen doesn't work. I have set, that i can See if i touch. Then it shows a point. so i can see that the touch works, but there is no reaction. After a minuten the radio shows the bootlogo and have a loop. So i have start the radio new with reset or power off from the car.
4. Since a few days if i turn off the key normally all lights form the radio and display shut down. Additionally board computer shut down too after a few seconds. Now the light from the dvd tray is on and board computer too (after a lock from the car too). I dont know why but I don't know if that is so good (Battery).
All this errors are since a few days. I tried to do any settings but the problem is always here. Does anyone no about that? I think it's an app, but I don't know which one. The last chance (if I get no solutions) is to install another rom? That is really crazy, because it's only since a few days. The days before it works perfect.
I have JY 2.73 with the Malaysk Rom from September (1024).
Thanks
Update: Now i installed 2.59 JY and tried again. WiFi will always gone with no bars. So i turn off and turn on again. At the most cases it works. But the problem is here again. The same with the touchscreen crash. 3G doesn't work. always no bars.
So the previous MCU doesn't work again. Maybe a software error.
Could you please try to measure the voltage alignedto the HU while you encounter those problems? I rellay mean at the radio side (so not at the battery poles).
Such issues could be lack of voltage. If not and flashing does not solve it could be a defective unit.
Just to ensure: You flashed Firmware AND MCU? AM I right wit this assumption?
If not: Try to flash a new ROM first (probably try Malaysk ROM)
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Could you please try to measure the voltage alignedto the HU while you encounter those problems? I rellay mean at the radio side (so not at the battery poles).
Such issues could be lack of voltage. If not and flashing does not solve it could be a defective unit.
Just to ensure: You flashed Firmware AND MCU? AM I right wit this assumption?
If not: Try to flash a new ROM first (probably try Malaysk ROM)
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Thx for answer. How can i measure that? Do you know which cable it is? And if the cable shows not the 12V? What can i do to fix the problem?
Sure. I have Malaysk Rom and the MCU JY 2.59.
you would have to get amulti- or vooltmeter and attach that between plus and ground pins at your HU.
If you don't know how you should eigther try to follow another way first if possible or ask someone to do it for you (it's electrics)
dark alex said:
you would have to get amulti- or vooltmeter and attach that between plus and ground pins at your HU.
If you don't know how you should eigther try to follow another way first if possible or ask someone to do it for you (it's electrics)
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Thanks. I ordered a multilmeter. Maybe it's the battery. At the moment the car works really hard if I start it. The radio takes so much battery but the radio is off. So that can be the problem.
low voltage can cause many weird problems but you have to know a new battery might not solve your problem!
If you have low voltag while the engine is ruunning then you have a different problem. eighter there is a connection issue somewhere on the path the energy takes from battery and generator to the HU or your generator might have a problem. But that is open to check when we know if it really is a voltage issue.
Hi,
i'd like to give you an update for my problems. Since the last days I have the problems, that my car didn't start. Now we see, that the battery is nine years old. Now I charged the battery (tomorrow I'll get a new battery) and the first test shows WiFi works for 3 minutes. I know - that's not a lot, but I only can try if I have the new battery. 3G doesn't work - always the same. But that's not so important for now.
At the moment I don't have the volume error. I will test it, If i have a longer car drive.
The problem with the touchscreen is actually. Since a few time, after few minutes the touchscreen is bricked and I see the points that i touch it, but I can't click anything. If I touch ten times, twenty times or often then radio shut down and shows the boot logo... forever... it doesn't boot again. So I have to make a hard reset.
And the last point with the light board computer and the light dvd slot after plug off the key is actually too. It don't shutdown the lights on the standby time from 10 minutes (set it to 10 minutes). I know now, that I can shutdown it completely if I press the volume button for 3 seconds. Than it's turn off. So it's a setting problem from the firmware?
Today I plug in the key - nothing. Radio doesn't start. So I looked behind the radio and saw, that one thin cable is not in the wiring harness and I can see the wires on the cable. So I tried to put it in the wiring harness again. I hope it works longer now. I wrote carjoying and ask for a new wiring harness. Maybe all problems will be fixed, If i have a new.
Hello again,
now I've got a solution for the wifi problem. I've tried to connected wifi - i Known that doesn't work only few seconds and after a few seconds it shows 0 bars on wifi... now I disconnected my 3g stick and LOOK it works... full bars, no losing connection. I connect 3g again and the same problem after a few seconds.
So th3 3g stick (E1750 from Huawei) makes some problem OR the usb cable?
Huawei E355 also not working. Same connection problems with malaysk rom MTCD
Any suggestions?