After writing the previous post I realized that I made some modifications to my Destinator copy that several people might be interested it.
Since the 6915 has a square screen instead of the usual 240×320 rectangular one found on many PDAs, a slight modification to the UI files must be done.
The file can be found here.
Simply copy it to your Destinator directory (under Skin/All) and you’re set.
After almost 4 hours of endless tweaking, debugging and prodding of various hidden control panels in my iPaq 6915, I’ve come to a surprising conclusion: the Eyron-made Hebrew language support for Windows Mobile 5 seems to simply break the GPS software within it.
The symptoms I was encountering were extremely frustrating:
1. Start Destinator
2. Navigate to “Settings” then “GPS Settings”.
3. Watch the status title change from “GPS Device Connected” to “No GPS device found” in a viciously annoying cycle.
After a while, I’ve decided to simply perform a hard reset on my iPaq and reinstall everything piece by piece. Now, when you install Eyron Hebrew Support, it changes your UI language to full-blown Hebrew — menu items, input, etc. I usually set it to “English with Hebrew Support” so that I can read/write Hebrew content but still have a normal English UI.
Out of sheer curiousness, I started up Destinator — lo and behold “Valid GPS Signal”.
So, for some strange reason, if you set your interface language to “English with Hebrew Support”, no GPS for you. Otherwise, everything works as smoothly as possible.
Go figure.