[Stinsonddog]

Looking to give feedback to TN. Please post here if your BT puck is working or not.

Format:

Model-8800
OS-4.2.1.90
BT Puck Model - Royal Tek 2001
Working or Not - nope
Worked on 4.7 - yes on 8700 with diff OS.

[Spamdumpster]

Model-8100
OS-4.2.1.96
BT Puck Model - GlobalSat 359
Working or Not - yes
Worked on 4.7 - yes on 8100 with earlier OSs

[John Clark]

Great Thread, Stins. Let's hope we can either figure out a fix or help TN figure one out.

Model: 8100
BT Puck Model: Globalsat BT-359
Working or not: Yes
Worked on 4.7: Yes on 8100 with 4.2.1.66 and 4.2.1.94. However, I had many BT disconnects with 4.7 and these earlier device OS versions (also had them with Google and BBMaps, though.) The only way to reconnect was to turn off BT on the BB device and turn on again and open Telenav again. 4.2.1.96 seemed to have fixed the issue with 4.7. TN version 5.1 and 4.2.1.96 works beautifully (with GlobalSat-BT359.)

[7100simpleisbetter]

Model-8100
OS-4.2.1.94
BT Puck Model - Holux240
Working or Not - no
Worked on 4.7 - yes on 8100 with earlier OSs

[slipsibm]

Originally Posted by Stinsonddog

Looking to give feedback to TN. Please post here if your BT puck is working or not.

Format:

Model-8800
OS-4.2.1.90
BT Puck Model - Royal Tek 2001
Working or Not - nope
Worked on 4.7 - yes on 8700 with diff OS.

Model 8700c 4.2.1.94
BT Puck Holux -m1000
Works on 4.7
won't connect on 5.1

[digidep]

Originally Posted by Stinsonddog

Looking to give feedback to TN. Please post here if your BT puck is working or not.

Format:

Model-8800
OS-4.2.1.90
BT Puck Model - Royal Tek 2001
Working or Not - nope
Worked on 4.7 - yes on 8700 with diff OS.

Model-8100
OS-4.2.1.96
BT Puck Model - Holux 240
Working or Not - no
Worked on 4.7 - yes

I had to revert back to 4.7 to get around and waiting for a new 5.1 version...

digidep

[John Clark]

Originally Posted by digidep

Model-8100
OS-4.2.1.96
BT Puck Model - Holux 240
Working or Not - no
Worked on 4.7 - yes

I had to revert back to 4.7 to get around and waiting for a new 5.1 version...

digidep

So, it doesn't work on either .96 or .94. This is good info. Thanks for the feedback! Anyone still have 4.2.1.66? or 4.2.0 OS's working with TeleNav 5.1 and a BT puck other than the BT-359?

[jdposhkus]

8100 Cingy
4.2.1.96
BT-359
TN 5.1
Works nice.

Same as above with Holux 240
Not so nice...

[destinysmanchild]

Format:

Model-8800
OS-4.2.1.96
BT Puck Model - holux slim236
Working or Not - nope
Worked on 4.7

How do you get the old 4.7 back?

[jasto]

Model-8300
BT Puck Model - holux slim240
Working or Not - no

how can i download 4.7 and give that a try?
i called telenav yesterday they said the software will only work with globalsat 359....

[7100simpleisbetter]

Originally Posted by 7100simpleisbetter

Model-8100
OS-4.2.1.94
BT Puck Model - Holux240
Working or Not - no
Worked on 4.7 - yes on 8100 with earlier OSs

Upgraded to .96 and still no love from Telenav 5.1.0.29

[jasto]

its obviously a deliberate decision by telenav to "lock" it to only the globalsat 359 so no point in upgrading os unfortunately....

[jdmass]

Model-8300
OS-4.2.2.89
Carrier - ATT
Software - TeleNav 5.1.0.29
BT Puck Model - Tried Holux GPslim240
Working or Not - nope
New BT Puck Model - GlobalSat BT-359
Working or Not - YES

This is an outrageous situation, particularly TeleNav's unwillingness to support or acknowledge problems with anything but their own puck.

[digidep]

Originally Posted by destinysmanchild

Format:

How do you get the old 4.7 back?

uninstall 5.1 crap, then direct you BB to here:

http://ota.telenav.com/ota/tn/8100/telenav4.jad


digidep

[w4raw]

Model-8100
OS-4.2.1.94
BT Puck Model - holux slim236
Working or Not - no
Worked on 4.7

Dumped the service until they get this mess fixed.

[buggle_96]

Originally Posted by digidep

uninstall 5.1 crap, then direct you BB to here:

http://ota.telenav.com/ota/tn/8100/telenav4.jad


digidep

Any links to 4.7 for the 8700? 8100 versions wont look right on the 320x240 screens.

[digidep]

Originally Posted by buggle_96

Any links to 4.7 for the 8700? 8100 versions wont look right on the 320x240 screens.

try this:

http://ota.telenav.com/ota/tn/8700/telenav4.jad

digidep

[jonlevine]

I've been struggling with the same issue as everyone else and have found a (somewhat) reliable solution.

I turn on my BT puck (some no-name I got from geeks.com) and then turn on Telenav 5.1 (I'm using a Pearl on ATT, btw). It says I must repair the BT connection, which I do. It then starts the software, but doesn't work (tells me I have a weak GPS signal, blah blah blah). However, if I then go into preferences and change the GPS setting from 'Bluetooth' to 'Internal', save the settings, then go back in and change them back, the software will connect to the GPS and work like a charm. I would say that this method works 9 out of 10 times.

So it's obvious that the software WILL work with pucks other than theirs, they just need to update the software to fix the bluetooth connection.

Edit: I'm on the latest ATT release. .96 I believe it is.

[John Clark]

Great tip, Jon. I actually had this happen with my BT-359 last week. I started it all up like normal but got the same messages you got. I finally just deleted the puck from the BT list, rebooted and re-paired and got it to work again. Hopefully it's a bug they'll work out.

Do you have to do this little circus act EACH time you go to use TeleNav?

[Stinsonddog]

Originally Posted by John Clark

Great tip, Jon.
Do you have to do this BIG circus act EACH time you go to use TeleNav?

My eyes are getting old.