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 Topic: Map 850.2781 |
chrisjr
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 Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 10:39 pm Subject: Map 850.2781 |
Just finished updating my 730.
No problems so far. And blow me down with a feather. They have finally got rid of the roundabout on the A33/Rose Kiln Lane junction in west Reading. 
Only ... |
| Topic: New Map 835.2419 Released |
chrisjr
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:44 pm Subject: New Map 835.2419 Released |
Had the same two e-mails.
Three guesses for what I got when I fired up Home.
Well I doubt anyone would need more than one. No new maps waiting so no idea why I got the e-mails |
| Topic: TMC what happens when FM is no more |
chrisjr
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 5:46 pm Subject: TMC what happens when FM is no more |
And speaking as someone with a professional interest in the topic I will believe it when I see it
Thirty odd years ago when I first got involved with the wireless they were saying AM wou ... |
| Topic: New Tomtom user - what mods to use? |
chrisjr
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:14 pm Subject: New Tomtom user - what mods to use? |
Well since you are here....
Can I recomend perhaps the finest Speed Camera Database known to man and his PND, the PocketGPSWorld one of course  |
| Topic: tomtom 730 bad maps |
chrisjr
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 5:22 pm Subject: Re: tomtom 730 bad maps |
dont know how to correct map errors yet,but ive a feeling i will learn
Won't do you any good though. You can't change a roundabout to a crossroads, you can't change a crossroads into a roundabout (we ... |
| Topic: tomtom 730 bad maps |
chrisjr
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:52 pm Subject: tomtom 730 bad maps |
| errors are common ,sometimes the errors are corrected quickly and sometimes they are damn slow ,it's not always tomtom at fault as they depend on the map makers to get things right ..it's something yo ... |
| Topic: How to back up the TomTom device to the computer. |
chrisjr
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:45 pm Subject: How to back up the TomTom device to the computer. |
You have a corrupt device I am afraid. There should be NO files on the device with anything other than A-Z,a-x,0-9 in the file name. Plus the odd underscore and hyphen.
So any files with odd charac ... |
| Topic: Updating TomTom |
chrisjr
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:34 pm Subject: Updating TomTom |
TomTom Home does check the contents of the device. So shouldn't be any problems using two computers. I have done it with my 730 before now and it didn't break anything
As for the Map. You ... |
| Topic: 930 T - Speed Cams |
chrisjr
Replies: 13
Views: 5073
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:23 pm Subject: 930 T - Speed Cams |
| No need for 7-ZIP or anything else. Windows XP can read ZIP files all by itself. I have never used any third party zip programs to read or create basic zip archives. |
| Topic: itinerary planning |
chrisjr
Replies: 4
Views: 1928
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:11 pm Subject: itinerary planning |
| Typically for TomTom there is no obvious way to determine what models have this feature just by looking at the various product descriptions or even using the Compare function (which itself took some f ... |
| Topic: Tom Tom & Traffic Violation |
chrisjr
Replies: 26
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:02 pm Subject: Tom Tom & Traffic Violation |
| TomTom maps are not legal instruments. Nor are they particularly accurate. So I very much doubt that any court of law anywhere in the known universe is ever going to take what one says as legal eviden ... |
| Topic: TOMTOM Traffic |
chrisjr
Replies: 69
Views: 24178
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 8:24 pm Subject: TOMTOM Traffic |
It's my personal phone I am talking about. I know not to bother with the work phone as that has GPRS disabled.
Believe me I have tried every combination of settings known to man and a few I made up ... |
| Topic: TOMTOM Traffic |
chrisjr
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 7:36 pm Subject: TOMTOM Traffic |
I do have the phone still. However it was on Orange contract so almost certainly locked.
But to be honest I don't use it enough to justify the additional expense of having a PAYG phone running alon ... |
| Topic: TOMTOM Traffic |
chrisjr
Replies: 69
Views: 24178
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 7:12 pm Subject: TOMTOM Traffic |
A few years ago I went to Currys and bought a 510 on special offer with a TMC dongle thrown in for free.
Even free it was a total waste of money
It was one of the first generation devic ... |
| Topic: charging of tomtom's x30 series |
chrisjr
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Views: 2068
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 6:05 pm Subject: charging of tomtom's x30 series |
You can also get plug in power supplies with a USB socket on, for example
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=227636
into which you can plug the PC docking station that should have been ... |
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