87GT Posted May 27, 2009 Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 I copied this from my crackberry post. Just wondering if anyone here can help me solve my problem. Please post if you have an idea. Hi I have a verizon bb curve 8330 that I bought a few months ago. So I bought a new bluetooth gps unit recently. Before I started anything I pulled the battery and did a long reboot. My gps has signal lock it flashes green on the receiver puck. After that happens it sycs up with my BB and I get the normal Blue LED flash on my phone. All is well. I go to advanced settings and set it to use the BT GPS instead of internal. I also turn location on. Ok everything should be setup so far correctly right? I have tried with 3 different programs BBmaps, google maps, and amaze. BBmaps allows me to select to use the BT GPS instead of internal. The other 2 do not. Regardless neither program will get a gps signal. I tried this on my 30 minute ride to work today for many minutes waiting on each program to get the gps but none did. What did I do wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benner Posted May 27, 2009 Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 Seen a couple different people on crackberry have been having this problem. Can't really be of help to you. I use the internal gps on bbmaps to track and for the speedometer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akula Posted May 27, 2009 Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 Go into the phone settings and tell it to allow GPS, options, advanced options, gps, location ON, data source bt.... Unless you don't have location on, then I got nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87GT Posted May 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 Go into the phone settings and tell it to allow GPS, options, advanced options, gps, location ON, data source bt.... Unless you don't have location on, then I got nothing. As stated in my first post I did this before I started the programs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87GT Posted May 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 I installed GPSed which saw my gps device. With this running in the background every program gets a signal lock. Google Maps shows distance within 3 meters, bbmaps works fine, and amaze does turn by turn directions. Now I can sell my stand alone car gps unit and just use my phone. One less thing to carry around now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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