Spoken POI alerts for TomTom GO, Mobile, PocketPC and Palm

jollysailor0 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 15, 2006 Posts: 5

Hi have downloaded voices as per instruction version (5430)
copied to tom tom sd card but still get the cow/bugle etc
have 2 data.chk files (using card reader) one when i click on drive with card and one in tom tom folder (ignoring the ones in the voices folder) have tried replacing each (one at a time) but no joy any ideas!! or what am i doing wrong pse (using a mitac mio a201 with tom tom plus
tks

mikealder · Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 3:59 pm Post subject:

The new Data.chk file should reside in programs/ navigator folder, before you copy it to this location find the original data.chk and re-name it to old_data.chk, copy the new folder into the correct location as detailed above and then soft reset the device, this should get you up and running, you will still have the silly names but use the "test" button when configuring the warn when near POI function and listen to each one, it might help to write them down for future ref - Mike

jollysailor0 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 15, 2006 Posts: 5

Hi mike
thanks for your swift reply but new to all this only received the thing yesterday. how do i find the right data.chk file to rename/replace.
pse confirm it is on the sd card and i can do all this from the card reader
tks
John

mikealder · Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 4:56 pm Post subject:

John, You can copy the new data.chk across to the SD card with the card reader, but the file must be placed into the following folder My Device/ Program Files/ navigator, to move the file to the correct location use the file explorer application on the PDA, first go to the following My Device/ Program Files/ navigator, locate the file called data (it won't show its file extension but this is the one you need), tap and hold the file, from the pop-up select re-name and call it Old_data then (still using file explorer on the PDA) go to the new data.chk file which you put on the SD card tap and hold, from the pop-up box select COPY, go back to My Device/ Program Files/ navigator folder tap and hold on the screen in an area free of any files and from the pop-up box select PASTE, this will put the file where it needs to be, once the copy is complete perform a soft reset and it should all work - Mike

jollysailor0 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 15, 2006 Posts: 5

Mike

yahoo thanks mike thats cracked it now have voices

cant express my thanks enough mate would never have got
there without your assistance

tks

John

mikealder · Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject:

Glad to hear you got there in the end, and a belated Welcome

to the forum - Mike

macman11 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 06, 2006 Posts: 3

OK.... I am a newbie to this forum, have downloaded the voices (5344) for the Palm T5 Nav 5 version 5.201

I have installed the sounds and they are ALL running in tomtom Nav 5

BUT....

Is there anyone who can advise as to which sound alert to add to which POI file??

I have 6 (six) POIs that I have downloaded (although I don't know if they are the same as what is available on this site/forum!!

They are :-
mobile speed cameras
part 1 speed cameras
part 2 speed cameras
part 3 speed cameras
part 4 speed cameras
traffic lights

so which sound alert should be allocated to which of these 6 files in my "Warn when near POI" settings on my palm tomtom prefs...????

Hope this makes sense?

Please help!

Cheers in advance!

itaylort · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 09, 2006 Posts: 30

Hi, i have nav 5.21 and i have replaced the data.chk in the tomtom folder on the sd card but the sounds have stayed as the bells. im i doing something wrong?

Many thanks

ian

mikealder · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:29 pm Post subject:

Please have a read through my post earlier, its further up this page, this will detail what to do. Or click my profile button, then find all posts by mikealder and find the last but one post I made (earlier this morning) that details clearly what to do, I am mobile at the momement otherwise I would find the link and post it for you - hope this helps - Mike

itaylort · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 09, 2006 Posts: 30

many thanks, easy to follow instruction.

ian

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 1:01 am Post subject: Re: Voice alerts for POIs

jeffbb · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 01, 2006 Posts: 3

Does anyone know if the POI extended warnings application (Poiw 1.0e) available from http://www.tomtomsatnav.info/poiw.html will work with the current TT Go software version 5.44 (build 5647) ?

Thanks.

Oldboy · Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 7:44 pm Post subject:

According to the Website it doesn't.

jeffbb · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 01, 2006 Posts: 3

Hi Oldboy. Thanks for the reply. I had read the website before posting, but as there was no explicit reference to 5.44, I thought there might be some possibility of compatibility. If the format for the data.chk file had remained constant from version 5.42 to 5.44 perhaps v1.0d might work. The http://www.tomtomsatnav.info/poiw.html web page might not have been updated since the March 06 update was released? I wondered if anyone had tried.

rayflan · Frequent Visitor Joined: Apr 06, 2005 Posts: 277

The POIEW program is version dependant and NOT compatiable with version 5.44.
I hope to get the website and the POIEW updated soon..........
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