installing TomTom direct to a SD card... - PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General

Hi there,
At my business premises we have an assortment of Xda handsets. I have a Xda2i, My bro a Xda2s and my business partner has just gotten an Exec as a freeby upgrade.
I have TomTom installed on my Xda2i in the default locations (on the device and the maps on a transcend 1GB 80x card)
Could I install TomTom onto the SD card completely and then use it in each different PDA if needs be? (obviously uninstalling it from my Xda2i first!)
Cheers!
Dennis! West London UK!!

hi there,
yes you can do that you just need to pull the tomtom folder and exe file into the My Documents folder on each device 1st
hope that helps

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TomTom 5 'forgets' Home location...

Hi everyone!
I 'FINALLY' have a stable TomTom 5.1 working on my Xda2i !! Hoooray!
I bought the recommended Transcend 80X 1GB card and it's been working very very well indeed!
However, it always 'forgets' my home location! I enter and save and TT confirms 'home address changed to..' but next time I launch TT it's gone back to Oxford somewhere!
Any reason for this?!
Also, whats the advantage of going to the 5.2 release? is there 'Bakonl' version of 5.2?! *cough cough*
Cheers for now!
Dennis! West London UK!!
Go to the map directory on your storage card - you'll probably need to use Activesync, delete the .cfg file then restart tomtom. Reconfigure your home location and it should work perfectly.
DennisCooper said:
Hi everyone!
I 'FINALLY' have a stable TomTom 5.1 working on my Xda2i !! Hoooray!
I bought the recommended Transcend 80X 1GB card and it's been working very very well indeed!
However, it always 'forgets' my home location! I enter and save and TT confirms 'home address changed to..' but next time I launch TT it's gone back to Oxford somewhere!
Any reason for this?!
Also, whats the advantage of going to the 5.2 release? is there 'Bakonl' version of 5.2?! *cough cough*
Cheers for now!
Dennis! West London UK!!
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the offical version 5.21 is much more stable on my XDAIIi
I had his problem but it was the files were written as read only. So I put the SD card into my PC and selected the tomtom directory and unchecked read only.
Cheers guys!
I'll look into that -
Sybase Ian - scratch the desperate attempt of SD cards that I mailed you that time!!
Also - whats the advantage of 5.21 over 5.1? any 'extra' good features? or is it just mainly updates and configuration enhancements etc?
Cheers!
Dennis! West London UK!!

TomTom 5.21 lock up

Sorry if this has been answered before, but I cannot find any solutions to this on any of the forums.
TT5 running ok but 9 times out of 10 it will 'lock-up' during the journey. If I take out the SD card and reinsert it, sometimes it continues to work but after about 4 or 5 goes it locks up completely and needs a hard reset.
Someone suggested that there was still a problem with moving between cells where this would loose connection to the SD card.
Any suggestions on how to fix other than buy a new phone?
TT lockups ...
First thing that comes to mind is
make sure you are using a High speed SD card!
I now use the highly recommended Transcend 80X card and my unit is now performing brilliantly!
I'm running TT 5.1 - not sure of the functionality to upgrade it to 5.21...
HTH
Cheers! Dennis! West London UK!!
The Extreme III is quoted at 20MB per second data transfer speeds
try the transcend 80x it will fix your problem
i had the same problem i found pugs cooked rom fixed the probelm.
I already using PUGS modified 1.11.162 ROM
andy-c1 said:
try the transcend 80x it will fix your problem
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ok but have you tried the transcend 80x ,as so far it has fixed 100% of pda's that have been changed to this card (thats 8 people that i know of and some were using 1 gig cards)
read this topic
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=39123
use definitly a transcend 80x and your problems are away.
i used a transcend 45x before and had the same issues as you.
it´s not the speed, which is the problum but the need of power of the sd
the tc 80x has a single layer design and so saves power!
greets
p.s.: i use a xda 2i ger + tc 80x 1gb + ttn 5.21
Extreme III not working !?!?!?
Hi all,
Great site - been reading for a while, just signed up.
I've had my Alpine for a few months but haven't done anything with it yet as I'm waiting until I have the money for an SD card.
I was thinking of getting an Extreme III myself as it appears to be one of the best out there (although I was hoping they'd release a 2 or 4gb version). It's rated at 133x and is also SLC (single layer cell)...
So I'm a bit concerned that it's not working for you - let us know if you find the cause of the problem checks!
**duplicate post**
Same problem with a SanDisk miniSD 1GB.
Solved reformatting all ( both low and high level ) using :
FAT32 and cluster size of 2K
Hope this Helps.
Maurizio
What program did you use to format the SD card?
Some good & bad news... :x
Reformated the SD card with SoftWinter's StorageTools to FAT32, 2Kb cluster size, Backup FAT:No (I guess at Low level?)
This has solved 90% of lockups and TT5 has only locked 2 or 3 times since.
I should be getting a Transcend 1Gb 80X SD at the end of the week so I will give it a go.... finger's cross!
I use pocket Mechanic tools for SD maintenance.
Before get new SD card try to install XPUScalar for overclock your PDA ( sd transfer rate increased )
tried a Transcend 1Gb 80x, exactly same problem - must be a problem with the Xda IIi, will try to send it back under warranty to be checked/fixed
Just trying to list the “possible” causes/fixes of the Xda2i lock up when using TT5.21
I to have this problem and as yet is still unresolved.
It can run for maybe 15 mins, locks up showing full set of satellites. Have to soft reset and start TT again.
Using Globalsat BT-338. Tried on “other bluetooth device”. Now set to NMEA, (as recommend elsewhere) tried 38400 baud rate, tried 4800, Left battery out for over an hour (cold start) still the same.
Storage card, a Transcend 80x
Upgraded radio 1.04.00. Ext Rom 1.11.162 (to Pugs version, Thank you DAZ999)
Reloaded To TT5.21
Reloaded Globalsat. (Question, the GPS info CD is version 5.1, and comes up with “this is made for an earlier version of software”?)
Hard reset numerous times.
Last resort, reblow ROM, reload all software and reinstall Globalsat.
Any further suggestions greatly appreciated.
Dave
My PDA uses 2 x Kingston 512Mb SDcards: one has the 'serious' stuff on it (Tomtom, Dictionaries, Visitor Guides etc) and the other games/films.
I've never experienced any problems with either TomTom or other programs, excepting the aminations in 'Riven' sometimes are a bit slow. Video plays happily full-screen using divx and MVP Player.
I recently installed Pocket Mechanic and ran the tests on the SD cards:
... they both scored a speed rating of 2.7X!
so am sure it's not a speed issue, as TT works perfectly smoothly.
my $.0.2
Joe
Me again,
I've received a new XDA IIi from O2 and guess what, the same intermittent problems with TT5 locking up.
For anyone who as a working copy of TT5 (5.21) help us with how they installed it… ie. what ROM used, if they just installed 5.21 or install 5.0 and installed update to 5.1 and update to 5.21..
TomTom support told me that there are known issues with XDA IIi and transferring data from the SD card, so why is the phone on the list of supported devices…
Hi there,
If it can be of any help, here's how I've installed TomTom :
- ROM version : 1.11.162/1.04.00 cooked by pug
- SD Card : Transcend 80x 1GB
- Install TT 5.0 with Bluetooth Support, Voice, but without maps. I don't use main memory for most of my programs, but the "Storage" directory instead (Disk On Chip)
- Install TT 5.21 upgrade. In a few cases I've had to reinstall just the Voice
- Copy the maps to the storage card.
- Use the Bluetooth Manager to pair with the GPS unit.
- Launch TT, configure "Other Bluetooth GPS", and pick COM 6.
The GPS is a Holux GPSLim236, set to 38400 baud NMEA.
I haven't had any lockups so far.
The only annoyance is that TT is very touchy about the order in which I start my BT devices : if I switch on the BT headset before launching TT, it won't find the GPS. The other way around seems to work better, but I've had to re-configure the GPS inside TT a few times to get it to figure out the GPS was really there.
Good luck !
Checks, did you solve it?
With format in fat32 2kb or installin how Mr Spoke said?

TomTom 5.21 on Alpine

Ah well that was a waste of a day.
Just got a Universal so I tried to set up my Alpine as a GPS unit as an excuse to keep it instead of being made to get rid of it by the other half, a combination of Hard Reset and then Soft Reset when it said "Customising in 3 seconds" I managed to get it with only 0.56MB used of Storage.
As I am using version 562 of the Great-Britain-Map I managed to squeeze the map folder onto the root directory of the Alpine (all 102MB of it), I then installed TomTom into the /Storage folder
Thinking "Ah ha! here we go!" I tried launching TomTom - went through all the "Language", "Voice" etc screens - and then disaster! "No maps found!", try as I might I can't get it to go past that screen. If I put in my SD card with the map on it then it finds the map but I don't want to have to use an SD card!!!
I've wasted 12 hours on this so far today, so if anyone has any bright ideas I'd greatly appreciate them, otherwise I'll bite the bullet and buy an additional card so I can use one for TomTom in the Alpine and one for Storage in the Universal.
G
Isn't it strange! You give up, go get a cup of tea and an idea pops into your head!
I created a folder called "storagecard" in the root directory of the Alpine (it won't let you create one called "storage card".
I moved the map from "/" to "/storagecard" started TomTom and voilla it works!!!
Alpine with no SD card running TomTom 5.21 - will see how it performs, but I now have an excuse for the missus!
G
gquipster said:
Isn't it strange! You give up, go get a cup of tea and an idea pops into your head!
I created a folder called "storagecard" in the root directory of the Alpine (it won't let you create one called "storage card".
I moved the map from "/" to "/storagecard" started TomTom and voilla it works!!!
Alpine with no SD card running TomTom 5.21 - will see how it performs, but I now have an excuse for the missus!
G
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Tea is great stuff, its what made this country great!
Just awaiting my delivery of TomTom and teh GPS so reading these thread with interest.
Tom
Interesting approach but I can't help asking why?
You are leaving very little memory for other applications and SD card prices are hardly extortionate these days. Can you get the Speed camera database in 'base' memory also?
Phil
Well I don't want to run any other applications so not too worried about there being a lack of memory and I wanted to find a use for the Alpine so that my wife wouldn't make me throw it out / sell it having just bought the Universal.
If I couldn't make it work then I'd have bought an SD card but it worked so I'm chuffed
Definition of annoying....
The GPS unit arrives - not the software!!!!!
What am I supposed to do this evening, sit and look at it?
Tom
Get VisualGPSCE (free, visualgps.net) and go for a walkabout, have a tinker just to see how the GPS receiver works

Tomtom on Tmobile MDA

I want to install tomtom on my tmobile MDA. I didn't find tmobile MDA as supported device on tomtom.com website. Wondering if anyone out there has tried before. If you have tried successfully, can you share some experience please.
Thanks
TomTom
Hmmmmm... why not try searching?
Yeah I have TomTom 5.0 and 5.21 working ok on my T-MObile MDA. It was a bit of a trick to get it working. I installed both executables (5.0 and 5.21). The reason is: the MDA assigns my bluetooth GPS to COM6 and only TomTom 5.21 will recognize COM6. And I have USA maps that only TomTom 5.0 will recognize, 5.21 wont see it at all. So what I did was use 5.21 to configure it to use the Bluetooth GPS at COM6. Then exit and run TomTom 5.0 and change maps to use the HAWAII and other USA maps. Works good.
-Tim
TOMTOM 6 - 5 STAR
I have just installed and tested tomtom 6 and is fantastic. not the slow moving map like 5.21 but flows smooooth. also it loads straight away. a bonus...
Just installed TomTom Navigator 5.0 to Qtek 9100, I had to install the cabs manually and copy the Voices to the device (from the memory card) because start.exe was doing nothing. But it works ok, upgraded it then to 5.21. Maybe this was required because Qtek is using MiniSD and I got TomTom on SD memory card and had to copy the stuff to MiniSD.
Re: TOMTOM 6 - 5 STAR
zaman487 said:
I have just installed and tested tomtom 6 and is fantastic. not the slow moving map like 5.21 but flows smooooth. also it loads straight away. a bonus...
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zaman487: Are you in Canada? Did you get the North America maps for Tomtom6? I have North America Map for TomTom6, but it's 1.2GB and I can't install it cause I only got a 1GB MiniSD card. Do you know if they have Individual US States? I mainly want Hawaii and California. I don't wanna buy 2GB MiniSD card just for TomTom6. My TomTom5 is working great with the individual states. But need updated maps to use with TomTom6.
-Tim
Re: TOMTOM 6 - 5 STAR
zaman487 said:
I have just installed and tested tomtom 6 and is fantastic. not the slow moving map like 5.21 but flows smooooth. also it loads straight away. a bonus...
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zaman487: Are you in Canada? Did you get the North America maps for Tomtom6? I have North America Map for TomTom6, but it's 1.2GB and I can't install it cause I only got a 1GB MiniSD card. Do you know if they have Individual US States? I mainly want Hawaii and California. I don't wanna buy 2GB MiniSD card just for TomTom6. My TomTom5 is working great with the individual states. But need updated maps to use with TomTom6.
-Tim

XDA11i Help needed plsss

hi ,
I am new to the forum and would appreciate help. I have a XDA11i which I bought secondhand alongwith tomtom5 craked version loaded on 1GB SD card and a bluetooth gps receiver.
i could not get the gps to work with tomtom though I could pair the gps with my xda. After weeks of trying , I did a stupidity and updated the tomtom5 version from tomtom site and since then now the tomtom is not staring up.I removed the program from xda and resetted the phone.Now when I put the sd card in it does not load the tomtom software on phone, initially it used to self install
I have now 3 problems;
could someone tell me how to install tomtom again on my xda from that sd card
Or could someone give me a link to download tomtom6 along with uk and europe maps.
many thanks in advance
utorrent
i got tomtom 6 there...had tomtom 5 , well still have, got tomtom 6 with u torrent 3.99GB

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