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Follow up to the GPS Radio problem.

Traveling yesturday and I’m starting to sort of understand the daft HW6900 series GPS Radio Power issue. Ok I’m in the car with my HW6910 connected via Bluetooth to the car radio and the build in GPS working away on TomTom Navigator 5.

I recieve a call and the GPS is still working. The second the call is finished the GPS powers off ! But here’s the werid bit, a new call comes in and a few seconds later the GPS powers back up again. Drop the call and guess what it’s off again. Only way I’ve found to get it back again is to exit TTN5 and re-load it.

Now a software powered GPS power switch is all well and good if the software works correctly. But obviously it doesn’t . Time to email HP and ask for tech support so they can include a fix in a future FW update.
Or does anyone have a software switch that can power the GPS radio on ? I’ve not found one yet.

Ooo the demo is amazing. What a great game and it plays soo different.

And I was only moaning the other day that I couldn’t find a decent game around .

Of course it’s re-ordered and I can’t wait to get playing it for real.

Well that’s a weekend of fiddling ready for tomorrow, work day. So far here’s what I’m missing / noticed -

• Creative Audgy 2 Drivers x64 – They install but just don’t appear to work.
• Activesync – Apparently it’s not needed but connect the HW6910 and nothing happens :S.
• Sync Tools – Wont install, I guess there’s something else in Vista that does the same job. Just need to track it down.
• Any codec pack – Not looked into this properly really yet but Media Player appears to crash when loading any DivX or Xvid stuff.
• Daemon Tools – They know it don’t work but that’s no help .

Would love to get it working in Parrallels on my macBook Pro.

Well it’s out and installed on my main PC. I’m going to be doing everything via Vista now as XP is no longer installed.

Perfect install (had to do a clean one), Vista x64 Ultimate build 5600 is what I’m writing this with.

Will start installing everything in a mo and see what holds up and what doesn’t. I’ll post away my findings.