TT910 UK Users First Impressions

MaxWild · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 6

Journey times seem pretty good to me - obviously it can have trouble with local conditions. It does seem to add about 5 mins if I route to somewhere up a track rather than on a main road.

The updated maps certainly have some new roads on them - a bypass built a couple of years ago near me has been missing for the last 2 updates but is in this one. Also a change in route at a T junction which did route me through a pub car park is now fixed.

I'm very pleased overall (now it works), although the software certainly has a few bugs.

chris_w · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 11:32 pm Post subject:

One question....

Is it worth upgrading to a 910 from a 700?

I have the opportunity to do this but it seems that there are a few probs with the 910 and I'm wondering if the added functionality is worth upgrading for?
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Thanks,

Chris

Flashyphotos · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 11:36 pm Post subject:

mrklaw · Regular Visitor Joined: Jun 26, 2004 Posts: 67

I'm thinking of going for the 910 mainly for TTS and a bit of mp3.

Mainly for the wife to use (currently she sits at home for half an hour with a map in her hand working out a route and trying to memorise it)

The TTS would help for roundabouts where Navigation can often be vague - eg '2nd left' but there is a minor exit not counted, or a no entry. Saying the name of the road would help her read the roundabout sign and understand.

Then the mp3 would be good. Although I've bought her an mp3 CD tuner, the HDD would be enough for all her music and I could connect it to the front AUX

mrstella · Regular Visitor Joined: Jun 18, 2005 Posts: 154

just an update on the problems that i had with the home software as discussed earlier in the thread.

Had to reformat my disk and reinstalled the software and now it works fine, why it didnt after reinstalling before i dont know. Must have been something on my machine that it didnt like.

Cheers

Peter

kieronishere · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 24, 2006 Posts: 23

MaxWild · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 6

mrstella · Regular Visitor Joined: Jun 18, 2005 Posts: 154

Nope wiped my PC and now its fine so i would say that the issue was with the machine rather than the tomtom software.

MR_TiGGer · Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 8:58 pm Post subject:

mikealder · Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 9:02 pm Post subject:

Why do you want to consider it?
A simple answer is the text to speach, its worth evey penny in my honest opinion - far easier to understand and comprehend the navigation prompts, the unit is fantastic in this respect - Mike

jean · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 150

I agree with Mike. I have been using it for a week now and am loving it. Far superior to my tomtom 5 - Still got lots to learn on it. Making a long journey across England in the next couple of weeks and so looking forward to really putting it through its paces.
Only problem I am having is that when used through my phone, I can hear them clearly but they say I am muffled.
Also at times the mount does droop (as has been said elsewhere on the forum) but I find if I move it a couple of times it seems to find a position it likes and stays put!

MR_TiGGer · Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 9:17 pm Post subject:

mikealder · Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 9:43 pm Post subject:

Make sure the mount is secure on to the windscreen, I have found that sunlight (heat) affects the unit and releases the locking ring, allowing the 910 to droop - this might be specific to my device, but its worth mentioning, had this twice today where it released as the car moved from the shade to the unusal heat we are experiancing - Mike

sg16 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 12, 2005 Posts: 15

I am pleased to report that my problem of accessing the virtual 910 on HOME has finally been resolved and everything is working properly. :D

First Tom Tom sent me a version update -Version 1.1 Build 0.48. This made no difference. Today they advised me to search the root drive and folders of the Tom Tom, for files with extension "mds" and of 0KB. There were only two in the main root drive, one called North_America-xxxxx of 0KB and another Western_and_Central_Europe- xxxxx of 1KB. (Both interestingly had a modified date of 1/1/200 compared to everything else being 2006) After deleting the North America file (I am in UK) everything starting working and I am now doing a backup.

Next job to install PW Safety cameras.

Thanks to everyone (particularly Mike) for their thoughts and help Clap

and hope this may help others struggling with a similar problem.

Steve

sg16 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 12, 2005 Posts: 15

Sorry that should have read "1/1/2000 compared to 2006"

Steve

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