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Hi Bazzer
You said “I think most of us have experienced moments when TT5 goes completely haywire”. Well I have followed this forum from way back before TT5 was even released and one thing I have noticed is that TT5 runs on some PDAs better than others. For instance one reads very few complaints from users that use a Ipaq 2210 with a BT338 or other new GPS receiver. That is the set-up that I use and I can honestly say that TT5 has never gone berserk, frozen or lost its fix. I quite understand that users with other equipment feel hard done by and I wish I could suggest away to rectify the matter other than spending more cash on another PDA or GPS receiver. _________________ Tomtom Go 720.
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:57 pm Post subject:
Hi Matt...well I enjoyed your missif even if others didn't.....may be worth sticking some of it under the Bug topic. After a lot of patience and support from one or two sites like this...I'm now really pleased with the performance of TT5...running on a 4150. However, the functionality that we had with TT3 I sorely miss....like many...give me back TT3 any day, BUT, with todays reasonably (?) up to date maps. According to TT5, I live in a road that nobody, but nobody, (I even asked our postman) has ever heard of...and it's a 28year old cul de sac ! Still, at least I know my way home without TT5. By the way, I got screwed up when I went to register for the free on line TT services..in fact I still haven't taken advantage of the 'free trial.' Perhaps I should post my questions elsewhere for advice/response ?
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:20 pm Post subject:
Well im trialling the traffic stuff now, and think i need to have a good look at what it all means.
Anyway, back on topic...
Journey tonight (same up to Gaydon) was better once I had increased free mem to 35Mb and switched CHeckpoint off. (bit of a waste of time as it was hit and miss with the alerts, something checkpoint admit too for some PDAs)
Seems that a couple of areas have problems. One being M40 around A34 junction and again on the backroads around Stratford, BUT at least the "teleport" only lasted a few seconds.
Update time now between 1 and 3 seconds which is a vast improvement, but still has issues at B road junctions. Need to fiddle a bit more I think.
Only gripe on way home was that I wasnt getting TTN5 alerts for around half of the UK gps mobile camera sites. They would appear in location, and only occasionally would I get an alert (sound still awful, but I know that this is an issue with the sound drivers on the PDA, have been since it was launched 3 years ago)
So, fourth journey complete and things getting better.
As an aside, the original post was very much tongue in cheek, as most people have picked up on, and not to be taken seriously except for the 6 issues I raised, which I still hold to be true, especially the complete lack of instructions regarding installing the maps.
Thank heaven for this site is all I can say, and I'm glad I'm not Joe Public who bought a copy from Dixons, cos I would not have been happy _________________ Matt Field
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:56 pm Post subject:
matt field wrote:
As an aside, the original post was very much tongue in cheek, as most people have picked up on, and not to be taken seriously except for the 6 issues I raised, which I still hold to be true, especially the complete lack of instructions regarding installing the maps.
Don't know how much instructions you need. I had no problem using the TomTom setup and installing via ActiveSync. Did you get the downloadable map as an installer package, or just as a zipped folder? _________________ GO1005
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:57 pm Post subject:
Trevor1234 wrote:
Hi Bazzer
You said “I think most of us have experienced moments when TT5 goes completely haywire”. Well I have followed this forum from way back before TT5 was even released and one thing I have noticed is that TT5 runs on some PDAs better than others. For instance one reads very few complaints from users that use a Ipaq 2210 with a BT338 or other new GPS receiver. That is the set-up that I use and I can honestly say that TT5 has never gone berserk, frozen or lost its fix. I quite understand that users with other equipment feel hard done by and I wish I could suggest away to rectify the matter other than spending more cash on another PDA or GPS receiver.
I think thats it, after getting a replacement for my old PDA via insurance due to a cracked screen, they replaced it with a ipaq hx2110, (most sell tomtom as a package with this ppc I noticed), it was a hard choice on which navigator to go for, reading the post on this forum I finally chose TTN5 and haven't looked back, I'm using a wired version and it works brilliantly in my car and have none of the problems many have on here, its only when in my wifes car things go funny, mainly I think as her car has a heat reflected screen, so after experimenting, I found it worked better with the receiver in the corner of the windscreen, just wish the lead was a little longer I could get it to sit on the back parcel shelf, even now there are odd times when the screen flips about for a few seconds before fixing again, I guess my next step is to get a BT receiver
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:03 am Post subject:
TuurG wrote:
matt field wrote:
As an aside, the original post was very much tongue in cheek, as most people have picked up on, and not to be taken seriously except for the 6 issues I raised, which I still hold to be true, especially the complete lack of instructions regarding installing the maps.
Don't know how much instructions you need. I had no problem using the TomTom setup and installing via ActiveSync. Did you get the downloadable map as an installer package, or just as a zipped folder?
Came as 7 CD's
Having looked at the front of this forum in the bugs section it explains how to install maps.
They cannot be installed from the CD, each cd has to be copied onto the hard drive, and then installed. At no point in the documentation does it say this. As i said, if you are new to all this and not web savvy, then you would feel pretty ticked off with Tomtom... _________________ Matt Field
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:26 am Post subject:
Matt
glad you are no longer being teleported. It looks like your problems (with use rather than installation) were down to shortage of available memory.
As for the 5450/5455 saga I was only quoting from TT's own website. They certainly do not list the 5450 as being compatable so it struck me that may have been the problem. Glad it wasn't though
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:36 am Post subject:
peterc10 wrote:
Matt
glad you are no longer being teleported. It looks like your problems (with use rather than installation) were down to shortage of available memory.
As for the 5450/5455 saga I was only quoting from TT's own website. They certainly do not list the 5450 as being compatable so it struck me that may have been the problem. Glad it wasn't though
Peter, firstly, sorry if my reply was a little abrupt, was having a bit of a "throw the damn thing out the window" time with it yesterday...
I'm wondering now how the UK map works, whether there are "unseen" joins in the map as supplied to Tomtom by TeleAtlas, as although the teleporting has now become minor blip, it still happens in a few places, that are the same each journey.
Unlike the map issues with TTN3 (Haltwhistle, Swindon etc) it seems to be that I'm flicking between the M40 and towns either side for around 3 miles in the Cherwell valley, and again as I close in on Jn28 M25. Elsewhere all now appears to be ok, with just a minor lag in updates, which I can live with, until funds allow me to upgrade to a higher spec PDA.
Thanks to all that offered advice, and on Day 3 of living with TTN5, its becoming a usable tool.
Now if only I could say the same about TT Traffic... ;) _________________ Matt Field
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Joined: Aug 21, 2005 Posts: 1761 Location: Kent, England
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject:
OK mate no offence taken - I know the feeling sometimes
If you can tell us all where these occur we can all keep an eye out for them. If we all get the same problem in the same place you rae not alone (as they say)
Is M25 junction 28 the M11 junction? If so just before that you go though a tunnel (going clockwise) - could that be the problem?
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 3:44 pm Post subject:
Next one down, its the Brentwood turn off. Fixes when coming out of the tunnel are better too, no longer get drift at the M11 junction.
So far initial fix times going far better than with TTN3 (although I drove from the midlands to Essex on monday without a fix...)
Does seem that its almost as though TT5 needs to bed in to your hardware... Very "adaptive" :D
Probably best feature i've found is the ability to modify your route on the fly.
My Journey can be done one of two ways, with only 3 miles difference in the two. One down the M40, the other down the M1. In TTN3 I ended up putting a big avoid across the M1 at Luton to get it to select the route I wanted, now its soooo much easier. _________________ Matt Field
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:01 pm Post subject:
matt field wrote:
Next one down, its the Brentwood turn off. Fixes when coming out of the tunnel are better too, no longer get drift at the M11 junction.
I know that junction - I pass it maybe a couple of times a month. As far as I can remember I never have a problem there but I will keep an eye out next time.
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:06 pm Post subject:
Clockwise coming out of the tunnel, TT3 would place me on Epping High Road just north of the M25. That didn't happen today... :D _________________ Matt Field
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Any serous user of GPS will know that it is by its nature not a perfect tool. I have stood still holding a maritime GPS reciever and found my position moving six miles backwards and forwards every second. Reported speeds of several thousand miles an hour whilst stationary are not unknown. GPS is a very weak signal and it is easy to jam it, or interfere with the signal in various ways. For example, in other forums people have reported problems associated with interference from airport landing systems or military activity.
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:57 pm Post subject:
Agreed.
Wonder if that is what is causing the same problem at the same location on the M40 every day.
Wide open countryside, no buildings, and as far as I can tell no mobile transmitter masts.
Each time I drive up and down Cherwell Valley section, I get bounced several miles either side of the M40. Guess its just one of those "non documented features" I need to get used to :D _________________ Matt Field
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