Tom tom 520 the red cross of death!

frosty1970

anditsinthere wrote: »

Just seems to be a lot of messing about IMHO i just want to take it out of the box and get from A to B, thats it. For us humble beginners it just seems to much trouble, i am paying £220 and i want it to work from the start, im sure everyone understands!

well....you asked how you could back up :rolleyes:

coming from a previous make of sat nav to tomtom i found it a little mad at first but glad I backed up EVERYTHING

anditsinthere

So the first thing i do when i take it out of the box is to install the software then make back up? Then after the back up i can download the maps and camera updates?? What happens if i get the red cross of death again? Then it is obviously a software/download issue?

LuciferTDark

Whatever you do DON'T use TomTom Home to backup your TomTom as it only backs up what they consider to be important & you're likely to lose a lot of stuff you want to keep.

anditsinthere

So what do you recommend? My Computer, Removable Disk then copy everything into a folder??

philnicandamy

anditsinthere wrote: »

So what do you recommend? My Computer, Removable Disk then copy everything into a folder??

follow the link in frosty1970s post you'll not go far wrong

molerat

anditsinthere wrote: »

Just seems to be a lot of messing about IMHO i just want to take it out of the box and get from A to B, thats it. For us humble beginners it just seems to much trouble, i am paying £220 and i want it to work from the start, im sure everyone understands!

Just do that then, it does work straight out of the box but, like all modern gizmo's, it is slightly out of date as soon as it leaves the factory.

atrebor

My dad gave me Tomtom 560 for christmas - serioiusly genorious present and the first thing I know i've got the red cross der der der.....but thanks to you guys I uninstalled the home program on my pc and reinstalled the older version from the CD that came with it and then let it do its thing with all the updates and Ta da it works again and its only half past midnight and dad need never know how close I came to breaking it. Thank you guys
#b#x

sco0ter

Just as another little point..

I got the TOMTOM 720 and I get the flashing red cross and a flashing hard drive.. This happens when the TOMTOM is updating.. The flashing hard drive means Disk access and the red cross means not to be removed from the cradle.

Nick_Q

Hi There,

New to the forum so please bear with me...

I also have a current issue with TOM TOM and an attempted upgrade.
Received a 520 from Santa and, as you would, on first connection took the recommendation to upgrade to the latest software after which it is has never worked since!

I think the upgrade includes newer firmware as even an attempt to revert to the original s/w does not work...

Having upgraded to Home 2.1 and attempted to "disconnect the device" the program appears to proceed and advises " safe to disconnect" but I am left with a flashing RED cross which is persistant. A reset makes no difference... I note from the web there is lots of debate about this - but so far have not managed to find a solution!

Emailed TT support and wait with bated breath.!

sco0ter

Have you tried to do a restore????