tomtom dead?

thamesmatt

Hi

My tomtom seems to have died!

I was driving up to kettering to a meeting, it found the place fine, I turned it off, put it in the glove compartment and went off.

I came back 2 hours later tried to turn it on and it turned onto the splash screen then turned off.

I assumed it was flat so left it to charge, 20 mins later still no joy.

I tried to reset it using a lady from an A14 Wild bean Cafe's name badge, nothing

when I try to turn it on the green light comes on only when my finger is pressed on the button.

I tried to charge it via the mains so it was fully charges but the green light doesnt come on and the unit is cold so its not charging.

I havee tried plugging it into the PC in case it was a disk error but it wont turn on so the pc wont recognise it.

anyone have any ideas, i'm at a loss now!

Matt

loksat

TRY THIS

thamesmatt

no response sadly!

loksat

why dont you send it to Tom Tom and have it repaired. if none of these work, thts the only option. i suggest dont mess with it further.

mogwai

My tomtom has done this a couple of times. The first time resetting it did the trick, but the second time I had to wait a few days, tried resetting it again out of frustration and it worked.

Also, if you know someone else with a tomtom try using their charger if its compatible just to see if the charger is broken - I had to replace my charger, luckily we had a few spare (from having a couple of tomtoms stolen from our cars :eek: ).

Tomtoms are unreliable like that sometimes - the same thing happens to my brothers and cousins tomtoms...

basill

I dont think mine liked going on and off the charger several times a day, after a while mine wouldnt turn on reliably
I found leaving it on charge overnight on the mains charger sorted it out.

B