Investigating various POI problems on TTN5

[SRS]

There have been several reported problems with POIs on TTN5. I know a lot of people, myslef included, thought this was all down to pirated copies. Having read some of the posts recently, I'm not so sure.

Being one of the lucky ones who suffers no problems at all, I thought it would be good to help out the people who are struggling by getting some more data on the problem.

Although we all know we are using 5.000(4890) or 5.100(5160) executables, there could be many versions of map with different POI.DAT files.

So how about a few other people do the same test as I did and post results plus hardware/software versions and sizes of POI.DAT?

All you need to do is "Browse Map" -> "Find" -> "POI" -> "Petrol Station" and see if it crashes or gives "No POI Found" message. I picked Petrol Stations as it seems to be the most unstable, probably because it is one of the largest categories.

Hopefully we could narrow down the problem and help out some of the folks who have POI problems.

If you can post PDA type, OS ver, TTN ver, MAP and ver, POI.DAT size and whether the test PASSED or FAILED.

I have started with mine and a friends from down the street.

Axim X30H, 2003SE, TTN 5.1, GB v562, POI.DAT = 1,724,331 bytes, Test PASSED

Axim X50v, 2003SE, TTN 5.1, GB Plus v571, POI.DAT = 1,724,427 bytes, Test PASSED

Please keep this just to genuine copies as we know the pirated version isn't too stable. All the pirated copies I've found on the net so far, both 5.0 and 5.1 have had the mistake in the crack that causes this crash.

Please don't ignore this just because yours works. It's needs passes as well as failures to spot the common causes. I don't have the problem, but everyone in this forum has helped me out before now, even if they don't realise it. Now I'm trying to give a little back.

Who knows, mybe we'll be able to tell TomTom what's wrong with it. They sure as hell don't know.

Slider.
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HTC TyTN II Windows Mobile 6
TomTom Navigator 7.450(9028)
UK & ROI Map V720.1802

[eddie_vincent]

HP iPaq 1940, PPC 4.20.0, TTN 5.1, GB v562 POI.DAT = 16.4 Mb
PASSED

Paul

[linknet]

This fault occurs with different categories of POI for maps of countries other than Great Britain. To make comparisons meaningful it would be better to use the same map. The Great Britain map is probably more widely used on this forum and the POI.DAT file data is as follows:

Great Britain Map -------- v562 - 1,724,331 bytes
Great Britain Plus Map -- v571 - 1,724,427 bytes


Fujitsu-Siemens Loox 420 WM2003

Fully Legal Version - No problems in any category on any of the maps
5.0 Cracked Version - "No POI Found"
5.1 Cracked Version - "No POI Found"

Fujitsu-Siemens Loox 420 WM2003 SE

Fully Legal Version - No problems in any category on any of the maps
5.0 Cracked Version - Crash to Today Screen
5.1 Cracked Version - Crash to Today Screen


The errors above occurred on both the Standard and Plus maps and were for Petrol Stations and approx 50% of the other categories.

Roger

[Hoppy]

HP iPaq 2210, PPC 4.20.0 (Build 14053), TTN 5.1 (5160), GB v562 POI.DAT = 16.8 Mb
PASSED

[markyhedgehog73]

XDA 2i, win2003se, tt5.10 (5160), Great britian Plus v571, poi.dat=1.64mb
Passed

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