My handheld/smartphone used to connected to my BT-338 GPS receiver fine. Now it seems to loose the connection every 15-20 seconds. Why?
Generally, this symptom appears when you have connected your Bluetooth-based GPS receiver to either another navigation-based handheld (e.g. E65), or have installed new navigation software onto your current device (e.g. Treo 650). Unfortunately, some of the new navigation devices/software update the “device driver” on the GPS receiver to maintain “exclusive” access to it. The reason is that the navigation device/software wants the Bluetooth GPS receiver to be connected at all times “only” to it (i.e. for driving directions). So, the new device driver tells the GPS receiver to “disconnect” from all other devices and reconnect “only” to the navigation device (i.e. handheld) after 10 – 20 seconds. As such, you will see GPS distances in IntelliGolf for about 10-20 seconds and then they disappear (i.e. the connection is lost). This sympton will occur over and over again until a factory reset is perform on the GPS receiver to reinstall the original device driver (more below).
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