Hi all.. I'm new at this

I connected my holux m1000 via the correct USB cable (not the charging one) to my laptop.

the system sees it, I can run the GPS test program that came with it.

I fire up MS Streets and Trips 2009 and try to use it, and it says it can't understand the data.

I can change the baud rate to 4800, but it still gives me teh same error. according to the documetnation, this GPS unit is NMEA 3.01 compliant..

any help? I would love to get this working on my laptop.

Update -

did some searching and saw some posts about needing GPSgate to throttle it from 38400 to 4800

I tried this, it works, but come on.. now I have to spend ANOTHER $40 on another software package? I might as well just buy a new GPS unit.

Take a look at GPS Gate Express, the little brother and only about $13. But you are right; a different GPS would be a cleaner solution. I assume the 1000 is Bluetooth capable and you don't have Bluetooth - as that would resolve the speed problem.

Terry

yeah, its bluetooth, I bought it to use with my old cell phone (htc apache)
my new omnia has GPS built in, and I don't need the external unit anymore, so I figured I would pair it with my laptop, but needed the USB cable sinc emy laptop doesn't have GPS.

I haev a USB bluetooth dongle, but no software to run it. it came with blue soleil, but it was a trial only.

I just found xport, a free alternative to gpsgate and it is doing the trick nicely.

Good to hear xport does the job but it is still another program you have to run.

After trying various flavours of Bluesoliel, I would recommend you just trash that dongle. The software (you can buy an update from them) is not worth the problems. For instance, Garmin Mobile PC will not even see it. If you get another BT dongle (they are really cheap), get one that works with the BT stack included with Windows XP SP2 and Vista.

Terry

any suggestions?