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Having Trouble with GPS?

The mountain icon in the left of your screen shows the status of your GPS. It will change colour depending on the state of your GPS

GPS good

GPS does not have a fix

GPS is not connected

It can take several minutes for your iPAQ to see enough satellites to get a good GPS fix. It helps if you stand in an open space with a clear view of the sky. Once you get a GPS fix it will may take while for the readings to settle down they may be quite erratic to begin with.

My device stays on the grey mountain.

If you are outside.

• Make sure that you are in an open space with a clear view of the sky. If you have a lot of buildings or trees around you then these will restrict the devices ability to see GPS satellites and it may take longer to get a location fix.
• If your device also has a satellite navigation program on it like TomTom then try starting this up to see if it also has problems getting a GPS fix. If it gets a connection exit the program and try mscape again.
• It may just be a very bad time of day with not many satellites orbiting over head. So please try again at a different time of day.

If you are inside. GPS does not work indoors. Sometimes you can get a GPS location fix if your device is by a window but you will not be able to play mediascapes inside.

My device is showing a red mountain.

If the device is showing the red mountain then either mscape player is not set up correctly to communicate with the GPS, or the GPS itself is not working.

The document Setting Up GPS in mscape player guides you through the process of correctly setting up your GPS device.

If you have an rx59-series Travel Companion

Some rx59-series Travel Companion devices use by default GPS settings designed for vehicles rather than pedestrians. This causes some difficulties when these devices are used by pedestrians, as the GPS position tends to stay put until you have moved around 20 meters at which point the position will jump to the correct place. The mscape player installation should have automatically set your device to use pedestrian mode.Note that setting the GPS to pedestrian mode does NOT have any effect on the built-in TomTom navigation program - it will still perform just as well.

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