Garmin Mobile XT for Windows Mobile

[sharkteef]

no lag on i900 and i8000 also

[drsec]

Hi all,

Does anyone experience gps lag with Garmin Mobile XT on your WM mobile phones?

BR,
Guan Bee

No lag running all versions of MFM with full polygon with GMXT on HTC HD2 with built-in GPS.

Bro it could be your blue tooth ext GPS that is causing the problem.

[silverbeauty]

It could also be related to the type of processor + available RAM of the "particular" phone model.

Mobile phones are convergence device thus the processor has to multi-task unlike those in dedicated PNDs

[guanbee]

Hi all,

It is precisely because of the lag that I purchased an ext bt gps receiver with MTK II chipset which is better than the built-in Qualcomm gpsone chipset on Omnia i8000.

However, it is true that Garmin maps without polygons result in less lags than one with polygons. BTW, my Omnia i8000 runs on Win mobile OS 6.5 instead of 6.1, which according to some users there are no lags on Win mobile 6.1, but the lag is present in Win mobile 6.5.

Bro sharkteef, is you Omnia i8000 running on win Mobile 6.1?

BR,
Guan Bee

no lag on i900 and i8000 also

[sharkteef]

winmo 6.5 with spesial rom from modaco

[SOSweet]

Hi all,
It is precisely because of the lag that I purchased an ext bt gps receiver with MTK II chipset which is better than the built-in Qualcomm gpsone chipset on Omnia i8000.
However, it is true that Garmin maps without polygons result in less lags than one with polygons. BTW, my Omnia i8000 runs on Win mobile OS 6.5 instead of 6.1, which according to some users there are no lags on Win mobile 6.1, but the lag is present in Win mobile 6.5.

Bro guanbee, B4 you activate your GPS, had you close all your other applications by using Task Switches ? Running too many programs at the background can drain your resources, resulted in program lag.
Mine Omnia II no problem using GMXT.

[drsec]

I suggest you read this:

viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2178&p=75171&hilit=perception#p75171

[aikliang]

another way like what I do is to invest in one of those cheap phone like nokia 1200 (cost RM80). When want to use the PDA as GPS unit, take out the SIM card and transfer to cheap phone. Switch off the phone on PDA and use PDA as dedicated GPS. After doing this notice the unit is now less laggy and can even use higher details.

[aikliang]

Hi all,

Does anyone experience gps lag with Garmin Mobile XT on your WM mobile phones?

BR,
Guan Bee

I've been using this setup for a while now and I find that while the lag is still there but it's quite bearable, ie. not to the point where I would miss a turn, etc. However, I'm not saying that this is the best setup there is, and I'm also not sure whether some of these settings really make a difference in reducing the lag, but at least it works for me.

• Map is generated without polygons.
  As for GMXT's Map settings:
• Map Detail is set to "Normal"
• Orientation is set to "Track Up".
• Auto Zoom is disabled.
• No vehicle used (only default arrow used).
• Show Location is set "At GPS Location" (while this may result in recalculation if the road is not aligned with GPS location, I found out that GPS location/vehicle icon is slow to change course when turning at junctions, if it is set to "On Roads").
• Map Features > POI & Street Label is set to "No Label".

BTW, I'm using GMXT v5.00.20 on a WinMo 6.1 Pro device.

err "track up"... what is the difference between this and track north and the other settings? Also when I set this it ask something like how many miles/meters/etc? Can someone enlighten this setting or point to topic in forum if already covered.

[dvpro]

err "track up"... what is the difference between this and track north and the other settings? Also when I set this it ask something like how many miles/meters/etc? Can someone enlighten this setting or point to topic in forum if already covered.

Track up is 2D mode with the north part (of the map) facing towards direction of travel, while North up is 2D mode with the north part facing north. In GMXT you can specify further when track up will change to north up after a certain level of zoom is reached.