[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] fingerstoo:
The FSC patch chnages the hardware and program ports over. Programs could always have accessed the hardware port COM4 directly or the Windows controlled GPS port COM8. The advantage to using COM8 was that it worked like GPSGate and would allow several user programs to share the GPS stream data. If a program hogged COM4 (directly to the hardware) no othe rporgram could access data. The port would be locked away by the program that grabbed it, so even COM8 would report no GPS signals either. So you could have been using COM4 or COM8 and if you were only using one program at a time, you would have been oblivious to the distinction.

Now, installing the FSC patch changed over the hardware mapping and the progam controlled port became COM8 and the hardware port COM4. So once again if you were using just one program at a time configuring it to COM4 or COM8 would make no difference. But if you want to make use of more than one program using GPS data at once you should use COM4 after the patch applied. GPS Locator still uses COM8 and therefore it could run at the same time as one of your own proggies.

Now another thing is that the COM ports must have been changed so that programs that use COM8 (the program controlled port) use the ephemeris data downloaded periodically by the new program, QuickGPS. It goes to a site and downloads a file packedEphemeris and puts it in a Temp Folder and the Windows folder. If you set you GPS progies to COM4 (after the patch the Hardware port) you will not benefit from this ephemeris data. It is used by COM8 and therefore available to all programs that might potentially share that port now. This port sharing was introduced by MS in WM5 and avoided the need for GPSGate which before that was the only way to have more than one GPS program sharing data on one device.

If you have not applied the FSC patch, then your programs will still be using the original COM4 or COM8 (another complication is that you coulc change the program port! but I am assuming the default setting has been left by you!). If you simply use Newplows QuickGPS but have not applied the FSC patch, then you will gain NO benefit from having used it. The GPS chips will not be looking at the right port to get the satellite positional data. It will be stored by not accessed!

The default speed is set by the hardware patch to 57600 baud. It makes little difference what speed you set your programs to access it. But to gain full benefit you should match it. It is like ball boys in tennis throwing you lots of balls to serve. You can catch everyone quickly (match the speed) or choose to miss some (they deliver fast speed, you respond with a slower speed letting some run away)! Hope the analogy works?

Wow! Hope that helps everyone? I do not know if the GPS patch from FSC will work correctly if applied to a flashed ROM to WM6.0. But bearing in mind QuickGPS has already been burned into Newplow's ROM, then this may cause odd conflicts if you apply the FSC patch and it tries to reinstall it over the ROM image or memory. Better, as SKYLINE suggests to go back to WM5, then reflash WM6.0.

Back to the question about LooxLight. Yes Newplow's ROM puts the configuration program, with all the settings that can be changed, in the Programs screen. And you can run it as normal. The only saving is that is takes up no space in user program ROM and does not need reinstalling after a hard reset.

And I don't have the progams that islandxp has... all I know as I said is that TT6 freezes and so does Memory Map if you switch off or go into standby... better not do it, eh?