Satnav for £59.99

nalyo

hello all........bro got this the other day and its SWEET he is running TT of there at the mo, no probs. Picks up siganl quickly as well. a nice unit and well worth the money!

shopaholic1373

marvin wrote: »

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.

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

sorry but being thick when it comes to sat nav where do i find tt v6.010 and whats pda
can anyone post or email me the dummy guide to doing this.
thank you

freddysmith

Quick...only 357 units left. Think they only sold one today.
I am still quite tempted, but looking at the demonstration video would prefer the TT software route.

Ems*Honie

freddysmith wrote: »

Quick...only 357 units left. Think they only sold one today.
I am still quite tempted, but looking at the demonstration video would prefer the TT software route.

Congrats on 1000 posts


I think I'll ask the blokes at work today if they can set up the TT bit, might be tempted to buy one if so. I would drive far more if I knew where I was going iyswin?

tommie1shunt

Hate being negative about someones find, but if a Sat Nav, don't do 6 or 7 digit postcode forget it, if you use them all the time they are just hard work. I believe this does 5 digit postcode.

mandm65

shopaholic1373 wrote: »

sorry but being thick when it comes to sat nav where do i find tt v6.010 and whats pda

For tom tom i guess Google is your best friend
PDA= Personal Digital Assistant, you might have seen those small brick look alike mobile phones!

jodie114

ok... so my brother has all the tom tom range (he is mad i know), so i guess i could get the software from there - is it a cd or direct onto the machine? and as for getting it onto an sd card, can i write it straight across if i have a card reader in my pc?
thanks
jodie

blackrat62

tommie1shunt wrote: »

Hate being negative about someones find, but if a Sat Nav, don't do 6 or 7 digit postcode forget it, if you use them all the time they are just hard work. I believe this does 5 digit postcode.

Ebuyer have a download on their site that upgrades this to 7 digit postcode if you don't fancy putting a totally different navigation software on. Total 100% bargain - ordered 3 for the kids/family.

wazza

blackrat62 wrote: »

Ebuyer have a download on their site that upgrades this to 7 digit postcode if you don't fancy putting a totally different navigation software on. Total 100% bargain - ordered 3 for the kids/family.

could you provide a link to this please?

matrich

No need for TomTom now - genuine update..... Hurray!!


STOP PRESS - Ebuyer have just secured updated information for this unit
7 DIGIT POSTCODE SEARCH AND MAP UPDATE!!!!!.
Go to the following web address, http://rapidshare.com/files/87231223/7pcc.rar.html
Download the attachment and save it to your desktop, then unzip the file “MobileNavigator.rar” file and you will get 2 folders named “MobileNavigator” & "Maps" - you will use these later.
Next turn on your unit and press “System” on the main menu, then press "Sys Info". Now press “USB” and select "Mass Storage", close this window and the device will restart.

When the device starts up again, connect it to your PC using the USB cable provided -Once connected, the device screen will show you the connection option window; press the LEFT BUTTON to enable the mass storage connection. The navigation device is now a “USB Mass Storage Disk” in your PC
Now open the “USB Mass Storage Disk" - You will now see 2 folders called “MobileNavigator” and "Maps"
Delete "Mobilenavigator" and replace with the file you downloaded earlier, and copy the "Maps" file into the existing folder overwriting all the existing files.
The update is now complete – disconnect the device from your PC in the usual manner