Thread: Maemo Mapper v1.0 for the 2006 OS
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avdigital is offline avdigital
2006-08-07 , 16:56
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#198
Originally Posted by chrwei
just took a 700+ mile round trip and MM worked quite well. biggest issue (and one that annoyed the wife to no end as she had to "fix" it) was that it kept loosing the GPS and only rebootong the n770 would bring it back. --- long story ---
I had the same issue and also did the 'sudoers' trick but didn't work for me.

After my vacation with the Nokia MeamoMapper System I tried the '/dev/rfcomm' trick and this works perfectly; no loss of BlueTooth GPS connection at all.

I modified my Nokia so it will automaticly connect to the GPS unit when I startup Meamo-mapper. Modify the /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf file. (first gain root access to do this)
Replace the sample values with your own values (MAC address) and set BIND to yes. Then the connection will be established at each reboot.

Now even when I switch off the GPS or get away from my Nokia with it it reconnects immediately when switched on or get nearby again.

Question: Is it so that the BlueTooth hardware is now always active (and searching) and is draining the battery more if I don't use Maemo-mapper?