No Valid GPS Signal when using TomTom Mobile

The TomTom range of products get round that by using GPS to work out where you are and where you need to go.

Though I do quite a bit of travelling (at this very moment I am on a British Airways flight to Edinburgh) I felt for a long time that I didn't need a TomTom as I have a good sense of direction and that I can find my way about in my car easily. However after a few recent trips including one where I had to be directed by phone to my destination as I couldn't find it, I decided to get a TomTom device. I had considered the standalone device, but then saw somewhere a PDA version (which I thought great I can use that with my iPaq). However when I came to order it I my usual supplier didn't seem to stock it. I then saw recently a version for the Sony Ericsson P910i and having recently upgraded (actually a downgrade in theory from the S700i) I decided this was the time to get one.

However whilst in Manchester I couldn't get it to work, I couldn't get the GPS device to intialise and find a GPS signal, very frustrating. There was nothing on the TomTom support website and I started to think oh no I have a duff unit!

However after searching Google I found that the GPS units don't like being used indoors and can take initially some time to work out where they are.

This morning as I drove to the Airport I put the GPS unit on the dashboard and only a few minutes after setting off, the TomTom found itself, and there was the road I was travelling along on the screen of the P910i, it was working.

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