Installing maps is soooo slow -- do I have a problem?

mibe · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 01, 2004 Posts: 2

Hi everyone,

Installing the map of Germany on my Fujitsu Siemens Pocket Loox and a 256 MB CF card took the whole night. I started the installation before going to bed and in the morning it still was not finished. Is this normal?

Regards,
Michael

tom9851 · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 9:52 am Post subject:

Well I don't know the size of the Germany map but I do know it takes approx 2.5 hours to load the GB map (101mb) to my SD card via ActiveSync - if you have had it running all night, I would suggest it is not working - I would probably stop it and try again. I have found loading these maps onto cards via ActiveSynch to be very hit and miss and have often had to try more than once before the loading was successful.

Tom
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MrT · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 10:15 am Post subject:

It does not take me anything like that time over activesynch but you are probably better off buying a card reader. TT3 can write directly to folders on a PC or a card reader.

sland · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 19, 2004 Posts: 144

It definitely took me less than an hour to install the maps. Are you synching through Bluetooth or USB. USB would be preferable.
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Mike

nej · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 1:25 pm Post subject:

It takes me about 20-30 minutes to transfer maps via cradle/activesync, and about 2 minutes via a USB card reader... they aren't expensive (£10£15) and you won't regret buying one!

mibe · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 01, 2004 Posts: 2

I use USB and active sync. Something must be wrong but I do not know where. I will buy a CF reader, I need one anyway. I did not realize TT3 could write immediately to a card reader. Great. Thanks all of you.
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Michael

spile · Regular Visitor Joined: May 08, 2004 Posts: 163

You might want to try installing to your hard drive and then copying from there to your SD card.

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