Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard SDK refresh reveals GPSID Configuration Utility
By Will Park on Friday, January 11th, 2008 at 12:56 PM PST In Announcements, Applications, Windows Mobile
Now that Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Q9h and Samsung Blackjack II owners are able to unlock their GPS receivers to work outside of TeleNav, Paul over at MoDaCo has come up with another handy way to make better use of your Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard smartphone’s GPS hardware.
The latest refresh to the Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard SDK has revealed a handy little utility to configure the GPS receiver’s communications ports. Paul found the utility in the “Tools” directory of the SDK, and in the name of saving you a 200MB SDK download, he’s packaged the GPSID Configuration Utility into a convenient little CAB file.
Download the CAB file directly to your smartphone for installation.
Microsoft_Smartphone_GPSID_Settings.cab (15.99KB)
[Via: MoDaCo]
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nice article
I downloaded this and the GPS activator application that came first. It didn’t seem to work after I first installed it. I tried to remove it and then re-install, but after reinstalling, the GPSID app gives me a message “Failed to update GPS driver” when I try to change the settings. I am still unable to connect to any GPS satellites. In Google maps it says “Initializing GPS… ” and then gives an error that the “GPS receiver does not appear to be responding.” Any help would be greatly appeciated.
Bob
I tried both softwares too. The only way that Google maps appeared to be recieving a GPS signal was when I set both the app from this page and GM to the automatic setting. My location was still no better than 1700m. This defeats the purpose of GPS.
Ya I got an unlocked Q9h from newegg.com and activated it with t-mobile. I got the internet working but when I installed google maps, no gps. I have installed lots of these fixes but I am looking for somebody who made gps work on an unlocked Q9h with t-mobile
From what I have read in other forums there is a built in gps receiver. I am just looking for a driver or a registry entry that will activate it. I have played with the com ports and all of the gps activation applications. I am trying everything that I can think of to activate the gps any help will get you access to my FTP server with all kinds of cool programs email me Steve660@Gmail.com