Hi Leute,
ich habe mir mal die Anleitung durchgelesen aber so ganz schlau werde ich da net. In meinem Bios, kann ich VT oder wie das heißt anschalten. Zumindest habe ich die option da.
Was mich viel mehr nervt und daher interessiert ist, wie man das Bios in sienern ganzen Funktionalität freischaltet.
Ich habe mich imme rgewundert wieso man so wenig einstellen kann und bin erst durch den thread drauf aufmerksam geworden, dass man das wohl frei schalten kann.
Ich besitze das VGN_Z21wn/b mit win7 64bit , 8Gig Ram und SSD drive.
Zugegeben bin ich nicht ganz bewandert was das proggen und so angeht. Könnte mir da vielleicht noch mal wer helfen.?
Achja und hat einer von euch GPS zum laufen bekommen? Habe gehört die Vaios haben GPS funktionalität über das WWAN Modul?
Danke und bis später
Hab das mal noch ausgegraben ;-) Jemand Erfahrungen?
Re: Vaio TZ GPS, how can I enable it?
To dig this thread up from long time ago, but I have found an interesting thing with regard to GPS:
Yes, GT modem has GPS built-in and it's true GPS. There is a way to use hyperterminal / Putty to enable it. My Vaio TZ comes with GTM378 module and I was able to follow this guide to enable GPS:
http://www.option.com/en/support/kno...articleen-175/
However there is one very annoying thing. Once the GPS is enabled, the COM port starts to scan for locations and output NMEA-standard code.
As for me, reinstalling laptop works, because of the sony-provided drivers on their website. As long as you install their driver, it works. If you try to install the vendor's driver it doesn't work anymore. It's very annoying.
Way to install GlobeTrotter 2.3 and up (because it has SMS functionality which sony-provided GlobeTrotter 2.2 doesn't): Install GlobeTrotter 2.2 first. Then go into c:\Program Files\Option\GlobeTrotter Connect\driver and copy the folder GTHSDPA and save it anywhere. Then install GlobeTrotter 2.3 or 3.0 depending on what you get. Then copy back the folder GTHSDPA into driver. Then open up any driver that is undetermined by windows and set it to update to the path of GTHSDPA folder as it contains all the drivers needed.
Quick guide to enable GPS:
1. Go to Device Manager, look under Port/Com for GlobeTrotter Module HSDPA Application Interface COM[X], and Application 2 Interface COM[Y] (X and Y are numbers)
2. Open Hyperterminal or Putty, make a serial connection to COM[Y]
3. Type ati in PUTTY windows see if it returns your vendor and firmware version. If it does then it works. If it doesn't then try look for the right COM
4. on COM[Y] windows type AT_OIFC? see if it returns something looking like:
_OIFC x,y,z,w where x,y,z,w are numbers. w has to change but remember the first 3.
5. Type AT_OIFC=x,y,z,2 to enable GPS. try 5 first, sometimes it doesn't allow 5. (2 means GPS-enabled. 3 means Application 2 Interface enabled. 5 means both of them enabled).
6. Restart the modem by toggling it on/off or restart computer. If 5 was enabled earlier you should see an extra COM is being installed, depending on if the driver can fit it or not then install the driver and go check the COM number (COM[Z]). if only 2 is enabled then you should see nothing extra.
7. Now use Putty to connect to COM[X] mentioned earlier. This is where you issue the commands (Application Interface). Try typing ati on this see if it returns the firmware version. Use Putty to connect to COM[Y] mentioned earlier as well, but you should notice that you can no longer type commands in COM[Y]. This is because COM[Y] has turned from application 2 interface into GPS output.
8. In COM[X] type AT_OGPS? it should return _OGPS = 0
9. If it does, you can issue 3 commands below to get some output:
AT_OGPS=0 This means you stop GPS
AT_OGPS=1 This means you turn on GPS device to determine your location. It will stop when it finishes locating your position that one time, or it returns an error.
AT_OGPS=2 This means you turn on real time GPS tracking. It will try to determine your location, but it doesn't stop scanning.
Now you can connect your programs of choice with COM[Y] for more GPS information. Note that it is in NMEA format so connect the software which supports that standard and you should be able to locate yourself. There are 2 things I am unsure of:
1. Whether there is any GPS antenna attached to the card's GPS slot or not or
2. If the GPS device works without an antenna and how strong/weak the signal would be.
I have yet to be able to implement software in the COM port successfully yet, so anyone else who would like to try this and post the results would be appreciated.
Thanks for reading. Hope you find it interesting.
EDIT: I found out that the modem conflict was simply because of the wrong COM port selected. If you open your device manager and found that there is a conflict which makes you unable to start any of the COM device (including the modem), simply select another COM port for them and it should start correctly. Also check out my guide to update firmware
http://forum.notebookreview.com/show...postcount=1164
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