Address Book

dmcconachie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 23, 2006 Posts: 19

I understood, for some reason, that TT5 could locate addresses from the address book on a palm T3. Is this wrong??

7272Andy · Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:47 am Post subject:

As long as you have the Great_Britain.Postal file in a folder named zip at the root of your SD card it should work.

You need to use a program on your SD card named "Contacts Navigator" rather than the usual "Contacts" this will read your contacts database and allow you to navigate to a contact or show it on the TomTom map. Do this by selecting the contact you want, going to the menu and selecting "Navigate to..." or "Show in map...".

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dmcconachie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 23, 2006 Posts: 19

"Great_Britain.Postal file " ?

How do I know if I have this? In fact how do I view the contents of the SD card? I do not have a card reader.

On a related note, is it possible to transfer the contents to another SD card? I have a 512M card which is empty that I'd prefer to use rather than the 128M card that came with it.

I found the Contacts Navigator program this morning, however every time I try to use it it crashes my T3. Is this a known issue or just for me?

Sorry for the multiple questions!!

7272Andy · Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:04 pm Post subject:

If you can navigate using the full 7 character postcode option then the Great_Britain.Postal file is installed and in the correct place on your SD card.

To view the contents of the card you will need to install a third party file manager program. I use Mega Launcher http://www.megasoft2000.com/product.php?division=palm&product=MegaLauncher though other utilities are availlable and possibly free.

Unfortunately you are unable to copy the contents of your SD to a second SD without a card reader for your PC, your T3 will not accept non palm database files which effectively blocks transfer in to your palm and then out to SD.

Card readers are cheap to buy now and useful devices a quick look on http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/default.php?cat=5&type=5060&man=0&filterwords=&go=SEARCH&comp= shows them ranging from £4.49 - £14.99 dependant upon your requirements. I haven't used this company myself (yet) but other forum members have with no complaints I'm aware of.

I've had a play with my T3 and so far have been unable to replicate the contacts navigator crash. Are you up to date with any palm patches or latest Navigator release?
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dmcconachie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 23, 2006 Posts: 19

I'll try Megalauncher this weekend. And a card reader definitely seems a sensible option! So with that I should be abe to transfer everything to the bigger card?

TT version is 5.201 (5344)

Any idea how to quickly check if I have the latest palm patches, i'm pretty sure I do...

7272Andy · Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:15 pm Post subject:

If you only need to see the files on your SD when you are at home, then you only need the card reader. however if you want to see the files when the SD is in your T3 and/or manipulate them without the pc then something like Megalauncher is useful.

Yes, if you have a card reader you can make the transfer to a bigger card by copying everything from one SD to a temporary folder on your PC and then back off on to the new card. Of course, you also have the bonus of a backup of your SD should anything become corrupted.

There's no quick way of checking I'm aware of, the nearest I can suggest is to select "Info..." from the "App" menu and then select "Version" from the options at the bottom of the screen you can then use this to cross reference with any specific updates you are applying. Unfortunately this doesn't work accross the board as not all downloads show their version numbers Rolling Eyes

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The patch I had in mind is the "Palm Tungsten T3 Update" available here or here though you may not need it (as far as I can remember my T3 reported that it didn't need this update when I tried to apply it).

Finally if you use the Universal Wireless Keyboard, then don't use the "Phone Link Update" as there is a known fault which will cause your keyboard driver to crash.

N.B My Contacts Navigator reports v. 1.0.4

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dmcconachie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 23, 2006 Posts: 19

Got MegaLauncher up and running and the postal file appears to be in the right place. Same Contacts Navigator version and Palm version is 5.2.1 (I think that's the latest)

No idea why the contacts program is crashing - think maybe I'll ask a specific question in the forum...

7272Andy · Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 5:10 pm Post subject:

Yep, showing same Palm OS version.

The only other suggestion I have is to copy the Contacts Navigator prog from the card to the palm and to try running it from there. The file is located at /PALM/Launcher/cn.prc
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dmcconachie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 23, 2006 Posts: 19

Doesn't seem to like that any better! Think I may have to contact TomTom/Palm about this one. Never had any lucj contacting Palm about technical issues before! Sad

dmcconachie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 23, 2006 Posts: 19

Well, after some fiddling about, it would appear that it does work. It falls over if the address requested "does not exist". Couldn't find an old house of mine but successfully found a house on the same street! Surely it shouldn't be this fallable though!?

Oh well, at least it's a workaround!

7272Andy · Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 6:05 pm Post subject:

Odd, I just tried a few fictional addresses and was given the nearest fix that Navigator could find. However, where I have put more than 1 line of data in a field (eg number, road and village on the first line of the address with a new line between the road and village), I have noticed that Navigator can become confused. Although this does seem to be intermittant.

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dmcconachie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 23, 2006 Posts: 19

Strange, I wonder where the conflict is. Just checked and the address I tested only had one thing in each line yet crashed the T3, have to say the street numbers do not seem very accurate across the board!

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