https://community.esri.com/t5/arcmap-questions/arcmap-will-not-connect-to-internal-gps-on-tablet/m-p/1227237#M4091 <P>I recently acquired a refurbished Dell Latitude 7212 tablet, which has an internal GPS through a COM1 port. I have tested the internal GPS in QGIS, which works well.&nbsp;</P><P>However, when I try to connect in ArcMap, the 'Detect GPS Port' button yields a message that says: "Unable to detect GPS device on COM ports supported by the hardware...". Also when I try the 'Test Connection' button, I get: "Communication port open. Please attach or turn on the device." These are the same errors I get when I try this on my laptop which has no internal GPS. I have checked the settings (Baud, Data, Parity, Stop) against the COM1 settings in device manager on the tablet and they match up.&nbsp;</P><P>Any suggestions on how to get ArcMap to detect the internal GPS?</P> Mon, 31 Oct 2022 19:53:06 GMT VioletLight 2022-10-31T19:53:06Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcmap-questions/arcmap-will-not-connect-to-internal-gps-on-tablet/m-p/1227237#M4091 <P>I recently acquired a refurbished Dell Latitude 7212 tablet, which has an internal GPS through a COM1 port. I have tested the internal GPS in QGIS, which works well.&nbsp;</P><P>However, when I try to connect in ArcMap, the 'Detect GPS Port' button yields a message that says: "Unable to detect GPS device on COM ports supported by the hardware...". Also when I try the 'Test Connection' button, I get: "Communication port open. Please attach or turn on the device." These are the same errors I get when I try this on my laptop which has no internal GPS. I have checked the settings (Baud, Data, Parity, Stop) against the COM1 settings in device manager on the tablet and they match up.&nbsp;</P><P>Any suggestions on how to get ArcMap to detect the internal GPS?</P> Mon, 31 Oct 2022 19:53:06 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcmap-questions/arcmap-will-not-connect-to-internal-gps-on-tablet/m-p/1227237#M4091 VioletLight 2022-10-31T19:53:06Z