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webbear Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jun 26, 2005 Posts: 2
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:31 am Post subject: |
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the trick for use the old version 3 and 4 with TT5, seems to be gone with the upgrade to 5.10
So I'm unable to use my 'old' USA maps with this new version.
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lills Occasional Visitor
Joined: Mar 04, 2004 Posts: 18
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:52 am Post subject: Battery Life |
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Tomtom 5.0 used to hammer my battery life much quicker then with Tomtom 3.
Does anyone know if this issue has been fixed or improved with 5.1? |
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dksbbs Occasional Visitor
Joined: Feb 18, 2004 Posts: 23 Location: Chester, Cheshire, UK
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | Tomtom 5.0 used to hammer my battery life much quicker then with Tomtom 3. |
I have had the same problem, due to the fact when TOMTOM 5 is running the battery stops charging even though it's connected to power supply in the car (Charge light stops flashing and Battery Status Bar disappears) as soon as I quit from TOMTOM the PDA starts charging again.
I will be testing this latest patch tomorrow when I go out in the car. |
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mikealder Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 14, 2005 Posts: 19638 Location: Blackpool , Lancs
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:54 am Post subject: |
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I have found with my XDAIIs on the car charger it struggles, bluetooth on (for headset), GPS powered from same charger lead as PDA and high volume, plus screen at Max illumination - to overcome this lack of charge I turned down the illumination to approx 50%, the unit runs cooler and will charge up correctly - I have never lost the charge lights though, its a shame in vs3 you used to get an onscreen prompt to warn of loss of external power - can't find it in vs5, another of these so called "improvements" - delete the good bits - what unit are you using it on? |
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Crocodile Regular Visitor
Joined: Jun 06, 2004 Posts: 196
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:47 am Post subject: |
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mikealder wrote: | I have found with my XDAIIs on the car charger it struggles.... |
Sounds like you may have a problem with the charging lead simply not delivering enough current. I have a brand new charging cradle for the XDA2s for sale here. |
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dksbbs Occasional Visitor
Joined: Feb 18, 2004 Posts: 23 Location: Chester, Cheshire, UK
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:36 am Post subject: |
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My Model is an IPAQ 3870. Never had this problem with TomTom 3
Dave |
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jimbo09990 Occasional Visitor
Joined: Mar 22, 2005 Posts: 33
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:25 am Post subject: |
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mikealder wrote: | I have found with my XDAIIs on the car charger it struggles |
I have this this problem to on my M2000 (same as XDA IIs). The phone stops charging because it gets too hot. the orange light is on to indicate charging but flashes instead of being steady. Sometimes it is OK. I notice it more if the car is hot because its been sat in the sun all day! |
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iancjc Frequent Visitor
Joined: 10/02/2003 14:19:44 Posts: 749 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:05 pm Post subject: |
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I also have this with both installations I have of ttn5
dell x50v charging light goes out on 50% of journeys (running bt gps)
ipaq 3850 charging light goes out on 60% of journeys.
I asked tomtom support about it - they said the 3850 wasn't compatible so no support for it (thanks guys) and the car charger must be defective on the dell instance - despite it working ok when ttn5 isn't running.
So if you're waiting for a fix don't bother as tomtom won't acknowledge that this is a problem.
5.10 made no difference to this issue on the dell - haven't checked the ipaq.
Ian _________________ -----------------------------------------------------------
TyTn II (WM6.1) / tomtom one v2
TTN6.03 tomtom 7.xx (one) |
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doctomahawk Occasional Visitor
Joined: Apr 11, 2005 Posts: 20 Location: Indiana USA
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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My IPAQ 3975 is having no problems with charging. I just made a 600 mile trip to Saute Ste Marie in Michigan and charge stayed full the whole time. I use the Arkon CM705 Powered Car Mount Cradle which I bought off Ebay. Realy cheap and seems to work pretty well. _________________ Compaq IPAQ hx4700
TomTom Navigator 5.2 BT |
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JST Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 36
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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I posted a while ago that the "on external power"/"charging" light on my 3870 goes out after a few minutes running TTN5 (and now TTN5.1). It also fails to display the "charge state" on the TTN5 Status Summary page correctly.
If I bring up the PPC Battery State page, whilst TTN5 is running, it starts off being blank, but eventually catches up and does displays the battery state.
I reported it to TomTom, but other than the response that "was my cable OK?" got no further.
However, I have found that my iPAQ is actually being charged successfully. Therefore I have come to the conclusion that its just that processor can't keep up with running TTN5 AND keeping a tally on the battery/charging state.
At least I can now use the "Other Bluetooth GPS" option with TTN5.1 and it has stopped popping up the Bluetooth Broswer every few seconds! Dosn't seem to have fixed any other "features" though (though its possible the ridiculously early warnings have been improved).
Cheers, Jim |
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nigelmoseley Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jun 09, 2005 Posts: 2
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:41 pm Post subject: tomtom5.1 |
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have installed upgrade 5.1 onto my HX4700 and it works as far as closing down the program, although have not completed any long trips.
However, when running demo mode the programe restarts the journy after completing only 84 miles of the palnned journy, is this a common problem |
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Robin2 Lifetime Member
Joined: Nov 24, 2003 Posts: 1441 Location: Swansea
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, this was reported early in June. There is a limit on the length of journey which can be stored in demo mode
Robin _________________ TomTom One v3 Europe, Navcore 7.903, Western Europe 835.2420
TomTom Go 720 Europe, Navcore 8.351, Western Europe 855.2884
Satmap Active 10
Plus a lot of other PDA GPS kit, seldom used |
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bobw Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jul 04, 2004 Posts: 8 Location: Bournemouth
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for this tip.
Loaded it last night and used it today.
With various scenarios - loosing TT Traffic/bluetooth/grps link - switching off - downloading email and surfing web - all worked okay and didn't need to do a soft reset all day.
Hope this bodes well for tonights Euro Lottery.
Next test is to give Skype a go.
Cheers, _________________ Bob
Nokia e51/n8
Viewranger
Memory Map UK v5 (inactive)
Globalsat BT-359S
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korndog Lifetime Member
Joined: Jan 29, 2005 Posts: 236 Location: yorkshire
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:05 pm Post subject: |
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Bluebottle wrote: | I have installed this update and can confirm it changed my Version to 5.10.
However your not missing anything as it still freezes when using GPRS to download Traffic
Maybe when Version 5.999 is out it will work then!
Cheers
Good Luck
Lee |
my traffic worked even before installing the upgrade. It just slows down a bit while it's downloading, maybe you don't have enough free memory.
The problem I have is when I close TomTom, my XDA crashes and have to restart it.
Everything works fine if I leave it running, but it drains the battery in no time with Bluetooth on.
Also if someone rings me when navigating there is a 2 second delay before I can hear the caller after answering.
I've only installed the upgrade today so I'll let you know if there's an improvement |
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jay1004uk Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jul 23, 2005 Posts: 2
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 2:49 pm Post subject: Help with Pirate TT5 to 5.10 |
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Is there anyy kind person could explain me how to apply the 5.10 patch to the Pirate TT5? When I finished installing the patec file downloaded from TomTom, the programme asked me the activation
Please help me!!!
Thank you very much!!! |
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