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cbee101 Occasional Visitor
Joined: Apr 17, 2006 Posts: 3
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Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:32 pm Post subject: North America Map |
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I have the go 720 and the North America map on SD card.
how do I install it.
I tried just putting the card in but nothing.
Can anyone help? |
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dhn Frequent Visitor
Joined: Oct 08, 2007 Posts: 2544 Location: Toronto CANADA
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Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:03 pm Post subject: Re: North America Map |
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cbee101 wrote: | I have the go 720 and the North America map on SD card.
how do I install it.
I tried just putting the card in but nothing.
Can anyone help? |
How did the NA map get onto the sd card? Is it the NA map folder and all contents therein or is it the NA.cab file? Did you get the map through TomTom? If so, did you install, or try to, via TTHome?
Lots of questions ... |
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cbee101 Occasional Visitor
Joined: Apr 17, 2006 Posts: 3
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Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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I bought it from ebay (i know!!)
it has one folder called North_America_2gb.
The folder is full of files similar to the western europe folder.
That's all I know.
TT Home sees the card and the fact that nearly all of it is full but doesn't see the folder or it's contents. |
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:12 am Post subject: |
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You've probably been done....
Every map sold by TomTom is "locked" to a particular GO.
Until recently, a genuine TomTom SD card came with a card with a "product code" which you entered on a form at www.ttcode.com along with with the "device code" of your Go. That would create an "activation code" to allow the map to work on your device only.
Recently (since most maps are downloaded direct from TomTom now), they have used another method, where TomTom's PC/Mac utility "Home" is used to download and activate the map on your Go. To be honest, I'm not sure which method they use for activating a map on an SD card now, as they have only just re-started selling them that way.
There are usually ways to get illegal copies of ANY software, and I'm sure the same is true of maps for satnavs, if that's what you've inadvertantly bought, I doubt you'd find anyone here who knows how to get it working (or that would tell you if they did!).
All I can suggest is that you contact the seller, and either ask him how it should be installed, or get your money back if you think it's dodgy. |
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franb Banned
Joined: Aug 10, 2007 Posts: 244
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:38 am Post subject: Re: North America Map |
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cbee101 wrote: | I have the go 720 and the North America map on SD card.
how do I install it.
I tried just putting the card in but nothing.
Can anyone help? |
Have you tried Preferences/Manage Maps/Switch Maps? |
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