Satnav for £59.99

stripee

OK, so normally I'm sponging advice and info from people rather than giving it. Hope this top tip is worth it. Been looking at satnav units for quite a while now, and this is one of the cheapest i've seen. Don't know what it's like to use though...

Navigo GPS Sat Nav Unit - UK Mapping, 3.5" TouchScreen ALSO plays MP3 & MP4 at http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131342

for a bargain basement £59.99 inc VAT

I've used ebuyer several times before and been very happy with their service. Happy Shopping guys and gals!

Stripee

Ste7ieBoy

Apparently you can mod these to run TomTom

Butlers1982

read this thread about that satnav, some helpful hints & tips

http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/137196/navigo-gps-sat-nav-unit-uk-mapping-/

AndysDad

I think I read somewhere else that it only does 5-digit postcode searches as opposed to the normal 7-digit.Not quite sure how much difference this makes.

WaveyDavey69

AndysDad wrote: »

I think I read somewhere else that it only does 5-digit postcode searches as opposed to the normal 7-digit.Not quite sure how much difference this makes.

Yeah software that comes with it does only do the 5 digit search. Its alright, gets you close enough if its all you've got to go on, but better to use the town/street if you can.

matrich

I've ordered one of these - with free postage it'sa steal. Have the upgrade to tomtom as sorted as well.

Links to genuine software update on page 2

shopaholic1373

matrich wrote: »

I've ordered one of these - with free postage it'sa steal. Have the upgrade to tomtom as sorted as well.

have odered 1 for hubby how do you get tom tom on it?

marvin

shopaholic1373 wrote: »

have odered 1 for hubby how do you get tom tom on it?

Stolen from the page on the link above
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Making tomtom work:

You need to obtain tomtom software, I used v6.010. Now the trick to making this work is to get hold of the "installed" files, I managed to do this by installing on my PDA first and then copying across the tomtom folder on my PDA to an SD card.

Then put the map folder onto the root of the SD Card.

By now you should have to folders on the SD CARD

>>Tomtom
>>Great Britain

Rename the Tomtom folder to "mobilenavigator".

Inside the "mobilenavigator" folder find "tomtom.exe" and rename it "mobilenavigator.exe".

Reboot and when you click the navi software button, tomtom will start. The first time i ran it I got an error, but ever since it has worked perfectly.

To get GPS and Tomtom talking you set the GPS receiver option in Tomtom to other NMEA receiver, Baud rate 4800 and COM1.

I have been using this for 2 weeks now and really pleased with my navigo tomtom!

It is also possible to unlock WINCE but I'll save that for another day!


Notes:

Use a different SD Card, if this goes wrong you can just put the old back and it will work again.

The hardest part of this is getting the installed tomtom files, If you dont have a PDA then one way to get the tomtom installed files would be to extract them from the insataller CAb file using a pocket PC Cab utility.

p.



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As I said I stole it from the post where they posted it after they stole it!

Coldfinger

So after you install TumTum software does it accept full post codes?

freddysmith

Coldfinger wrote: »

So after you install TumTum software does it accept full post codes?

Yes, TT6 Full UK map version does 7 digit postcode search.

PopeSock

freddysmith wrote: »

Yes, TT6 Full UK map version does 7 digit postcode search.

Will it work with the existing maps from this GPS?

Also, is there anywhere to get new maps updates? The E-Buyer link is for an update of the software, not new maps. A couple of folks have mentioned their houses/streets not showing up on the map.