Interfacing with PSP-290 GPS unit from Sony

[_Shin_]

Hi guys !

I just got a GPS-290. the test proggie with the provided prx worked for me (running on a 3.10OEA' psp 310kernel mode)

Thanks a lot Deniska for your work, and to evrybody who made this possible

I just tried to use the test proggie with 3.11 prx, but it didn't work for me :\ any ideas ? (I use the latest psardump and pressed "O")

so no newer prx than 2.71 usbacc 3.03 usbgps do work ??

EDIT: 303 of both prx extracted from fw with "O" didn't work either for me :\

[deniska]

3.03 gps prx's seem to work fine for me...

[deniska]

I just got my PSPgps290 today but i am having problems. I am currently using the 2.71usbhost file and the 3.03 usbgps file. I am on 3.03OE-C. Using the test program i get results right away. I get on average 8 sats in view and locked on to 6 most of the time. This is inside my house by the way. I live in Michigan about 15 miles north of Detroit. Now i am running MapThis! .48. But for some reason it never connects to the sats. i've let it sit for 10 minutes with no results. My fakefeed is set to 0 but i still cant figure out the glitch.

Capture and post the gps-info screen in mapthis.

[schlumerace]

Hey densika, you are amazing. I just was letting you know i got it to work. what i did was dumped teh 3.03 firmware and used those prx. I also realized that i need teh gps face to point directly at the sky. I was in downtown detroit today and had about 4 bars of signal and it was working great. althought there were a few times when the signal would get low and i was apparently driving through buildings but other then that it worked great. I also downgraded to .47, it just seemed to work better. anways thanks for replying so quickly.

[nicky66]

hi!

say, i have a question!
apart from the GPS stuff, how is the USB handled? i mean the psp's usb is not supposed to be usbhost right? so is the gps receiver real USB or some kind of non-standard stuff on a USB connector?

is the psp-290 a kind of serial-via-USB guest? but it's powered ?

the wondering behind this is simply "if we can plug a camera and a GPS module, then why not any USB peripheral? more selfishly why not my 1.8 HDD ?! "

[skiingdomo]

Hi

Major problem guys. have tried 3.03 and 2.71 prx files.

Have TA-082 psp, and have tried with 3.03 OE C and 3.10 OE software.

My GPS-290 comes up as in the off state. Map This doesnt detect it. The Green prog crashes / just shows loading USB GPS.

Has anyone had this problem? know a fix?

[edit]
I messed around with the prx files, and now I can get the green proggie going, but the gps state is still in off.
http://i12.tinypic.com/2afcz2e.jpg

If i start the program without the GPS plugged in, the screen shows exactly the same.

Any ideas? if anyone can send me a prx set which the verified works with their gps, that would be great. skiingdomo # gmail . com

cheers

[tigerjk1410]

hey guys just letting you know that play-asia is having a one week sale on the GPS-290 which now is $47.92.

hurry up before time runs out! this sale ends April 5th

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-...n-70-1mij.html

[stickfigure]

Hi, i was just trying out my new PSP-290 GPS receiver which i bought specifically for "Map This!" by Densika. Having some problems, 0 satellites... I find nothing, Im using 3.10 OE-A' and i read that people with my firmware were able to get at least this GPS testing utility to work. I have the 3.10 prxs in the camprx folder and the GPS_290_TEST folder in the 310 folder, is there anything else I'm doing wrong, because no matter how clear the sky, I'm just not getting any satellites at all, it;s like it's not even searching for anything... If possible, some who know anf can help me, plz send me a PM or post a reply to me here... Thank you...

[BaDaPpLe]

Dunno if this has been mentioned or not but the reason some people might be having issues may be releated to idStorage when they downgraded there psp's. It seems a few keys were left behind, most noticable is one that is directly related to USB. Apps like psp extream link wont run. Anyway there is a new program out there called KeyCleaner I tried it it did fix my problems. These were not related to psp-290 or mapthis. I have no idea if this will help or not, its just an idea. I dont even have a psp-290 I have a GPSslim-236..

[gab6440]

hello,
I have a probleme...my gps 290 do not function
on my psp TA.082 (downgrade in 3.03 OE-C).
I read that the problem came from the idstorage...
can you help me?

thanks


ps: I'm french and I don't speak english very well...sorry!