I have a NOMAD 900 G series and has been playing with ArcPad 8.0 for a while and haven't had any issue with the GPS receiver.
Today after I installed and activated GPScorrect 3.10 on it, neither ArcPad nor GPScorrect can connect to the GPS receiver.
If I use what seem to be the standard settings in ArcPad's GPS preference:
Protocol: Trimble GPScorrect
Port: COM3 (this doesn't say Trimble TIPS or whatever, just COM3)
Baud: 9600
Then whenever I try activating GPS I got error code 5.
So frustrated I decided to uninstall GPScorrect and see what happens. The uninstallation was smooth, however, once I fired up ArcPad, within a minute everything froze. Even holding down the power button won't do anything. Had to take the battery out and let tbe power drain to get the unit working again.
After that I reinstalled GPScorrect. COM3 was still no go. But if I set the port to COM2 (the hardware port), both ArcPad and GPScorrect seem to be working fine with the GPS receiver. I was able to collect some data, and do post-processing.
However, since wherever I look, everyone is setting the port to COM3, I have to wonder, is it completely wrong to use COM2, though things "seem" to be working?
Thanks for any insight you may provide.