Freedom Input Keychain GPS 2000
By: Freedom Input Average Rating: 4.5 Total Reviews: 2
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 On: 2008-06-19
I love this thing! To get an initial fix it needs some kind of view of the sky, after that its amazing. I can take it into my back yard, let it get a fix, put it in my pocket, go inside my house and it never loses the fix!!
The only problem I had was configuring my ATT Tilt w/WM6 to work with it: There are no instructions with the Freedom 2000. So the lack of instructions is the debit, its the reason it gets 4 stars instead of 5.
There are a few settings that need to be taken care of with your smart phone and with the GPS apps youre using. To that end Im including some notes I made that hopefully will help anyone who buys this get going.
Do this first for using GPS Bluetooth Receiver on ATT Tilt running WM6.
1. Go into Wireless Manager and select Bluetooth.
2. Go to [...] to see how to config your com port and make a note of the com port number. I used a baud rate of 4800 and COM1 where the example uses COM6.
3. Youre only half done now, the next step is to go into your GPS app and tell it what Bluetooth port to find the GPS Bluetooth receiver on.
4. NOTE: I have the Freedom 2000 and the Bluetooth icon will NOT blink 1/sec to indicate a connection till you have opened a GPS app and configured that app to communicate with it. However it will blink 1/5sec w/o connection so dont be fooled
Google Maps:
1. W/GPS rcvr on open up Google Maps, select Options>GPS Settings
2. Select Set Manually, select COM1, baud rate of 4800 and tap OK.
3. From main screen select Menu>Use GPS. If its working the upper right corner of the screen will show Seeking GPS satellites and the 2000s Bluetooth icon will blink 1/second.
Garmin XT:
1. W/GPS rcvr on open Garmin XT app main page select Settings>System>RemoteGPS. The default value was GPS Intermediate Driver.
2. Select Disable to turn off the regular GPS connection. You should get a prompt with radio buttons to select either Use Bluetooth GPS, Use GPS Intermediate Driver, or User Serial GPS. To active the Freedom 2000 select Use Bluetooth GPS and hit Enable. The screen now shows Keychain GPS 2000 and the Bluetooth icon on the 2000 is blinking 1/sec.
3. Note: Ive seen "Com0:COM0" come up as though the app thought this was an option for GPS. Just hit the Disable button and you can select the proper input.
4. Note: When my ppc is turned back on and I re-access Garmin XT it says "Scanning Bluetooth as though its looking for the 2000 even though Ive set it to use its own GPS Intermediate Driver. Its not a problem and times out soon.
 On: 2008-03-30
works great. even while still in my pocket. once it locks on it just stays locked on. on the keychain, and so small, you never know its there and never forget your gps device. works with my samsung i760 and inav v4.0. highly recommended
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