CipherLab Co. Ltd. CP60 Manual De Usuario

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Chapter 4 Radios

Adorned with a GPS module, the mobile computer is capable of finding your location on 
earth. GPS relies on the satellites covering the sky around the world to pinpoint your 
whereabouts.

A location-aware application is necessary, such as CipherLab’s GPS Viewer for NMEA-based 
location discovery. There are other applications downloadable from Internet. Download 
“.cab”-suffixed programs that confirm the compatibility with Windows Embedded Handheld 
6.5. Note always download programs from trusted sources. 

As GPS is a big power consumer, close GPS application when you are not using it. 

The O.S. doesn’t feature any facility to turn on/off GPS module but a GPS intermediate 
driver (hereinafter “GPSID”), a software layer between GPS hardware and GPS software to 
stream GPS data from hardware to software without parsing NMEA syntax and in the 
meanwhile enable multiple applications to simultaneously access GPS data. 

Hence the approach to turn on GPS module is to launch a GPS software or a location-aware 
application on the mobile computer because the software COM port for GPS is turned on 
then. In case of any difficulty launching GPS, open Start screen | Settings | System | 
External GPS | Access tabbed page to check if Manage GPS automatically is selected. 

COM9 is the default for the built-in 
GPS receiver.

To use an external GPS receiver, a 
hardware COM port must be set up 
for it. 

Multiple GPS applications 
can fetch GPS data from 
GPS hardware through 
the same default COM7   

Hardware ʻCOM9ʼ

Software ʻCOM7ʼ