[Az-Geocaching] Calling all PDA Gurus

[AZTech]

Bob,

You can easily upgrade the OS on a PPC by doing a ROM upgrade, though you'll need ActiveSync installed to do it in most cases.  I found a ROM upgrade at http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/handheldiPAQ/us/download/15532.html (which looks to include the PPC2002 End User Update), which should bring your iPAQ up to date so that you can use most PPC software.

BTW, if you got GpxView to work on the included demo file but not on another .GPX you're using, I seem to recall that it only worked with the 'untouched' .GPX file from the PQ.  When I made changes to it in GSAK, it wouldn't load.  IIRC, there's an option in GSAK to generate .GPX files "with geocaching.com extensions", which isn't enabled by default, but which resolves this issue.

If you need additional help, feel free to contact me off-list.

David - AZTech

------- Original Message -------
From: Robert & Linda Smith <Lrsmith at cableone.net>
To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
Sent: 10/7/05, 10:18:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Calling all PDA Gurus

Thanks David, I just got that one up and running, on the demo file at 
least.  I tried to load one of the files that I use in my Meridian Color 
in the PDA and it did not seem to want to work.  The little circle just 
kept turning around and around???  I noticed a comment, don't remember 
where now, that GPSView wanted MS Pocket PC 2.0 or better I think it 
was.  Have been trying to find where or how to up grade the operating 
system.  I have MS Pocket PC 1.???  dated 2001

Any help on finding the newer OS would help.

Bob Smith

AZTech wrote:

>GPXSonar is what I use now, but GpxView works well too.
>
>David - AZTech
>
>------- Original Message -------
>From: Robert & Linda Smith <Lrsmith at cableone.net>
>To: AZGeocaching <listserv at azgeocaching.com>
>Sent: 10/7/05, 9:07:00 PM
>Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Calling all PDA Gurus
>
>My good friend gave me his Compaq iPAQ 3835 to use for a while.  Lucky, 
>lucky me....  I got some software that will let me talk to the Laptop 
>and now I need help again .... to put the correct software in the PDA 
>that will let me load and look at the .zip files from a PQ or a .gpx / 
>.loc files from GSAK.   I remember you all talking about a couple of 
>different programs but I did not write them down as I really did not 
>expect to have this kind of good fortune so soon....
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bob Smith, Team Petite Elite, Prescott, AZ
>
>  
>
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