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p7hut Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:34 am Post subject: Favourites - Mapsettings.cfg |
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Morning all from a cold but sunny Sunderland
After updating my 510 today I had a few problems, i.e. no sound on the camera warnings. Reading some threads here I went through the warnings and re-enabled them. Now I have the sound back and the nice new warning pics in the top left hand corner.
I also noticed my favourites had disappeared, normally I would just copy the Mapsettings.cfg file from my HTC Tytn II running Nav 6 back onto my 510 but that didn't work this morning?
Are the Mapsettings.cfg files incompatible now meaning I will have to manage favourites on each device seperatly?
Cheers all!
H. _________________ TomTom Go 1005 Live |
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mikealder Pocket GPS Moderator
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:39 am Post subject: |
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Have a look at the FAQ page which can be found by clicking Here the one you want is #15 - it will recover the situation but it does involve a little messing around - this is why I don't use Favourites, the Custom POI file is far more secure and less prone to disappearing - Mike |
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p7hut Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Mike, top notch advice as usual, all working fine... _________________ TomTom Go 1005 Live |
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p7hut Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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Mike, not being clever with this type of thing, I would have thought I could have just copied the new X2 bmp's to my HTC/Nav 6 and they would work, but for some reason they aren't being picked up? _________________ TomTom Go 1005 Live |
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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I am not too sure the x2 icons will work with the PDA software, without loading up a map and nav 6 application to one of my PDA's I have no way of testing this - I stopped using the PDA for TomTom software quite some time ago due to the out of date mapping.
Still its something to try later as the weather isn't too clever at the moment - Mike |
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p7hut Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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No worries Mike, cheers. _________________ TomTom Go 1005 Live |
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Steveee Lifetime Member
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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I also noted that after upgrading my GO920 to 8.3 and upgrading from 720 to 815 maps the mapsettings file appeared to lock up my GO920
Luckily I had already converted my favourite locations to POIs, but I had to enter POI spoken word warnings again for the cameras
Don't suppose there is a short cut for this one? ![Rolling Eyes](modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif) _________________ Steveee
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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Steveee wrote: | ....but I had to enter POI spoken word warnings again for the cameras....
Don't suppose there is a short cut for this one? ![Rolling Eyes](modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif) |
These settings are also stored within the Mapettings.cfg file, in fact if you open the MapSettings.cfg file with NotePad you can see the text you entered for the warning.
I very much doubt you can cut/ paste between the old MapSettings file and the new format. Your only option here is to set up the warnings on the device - Mike |
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Mike
Not long ago it was so simple to reinstall your favourites etc via the cfg file. So, what has changed or more to the point what has Tomtom done to the Mapsettings.cfg. And if they have tinkered, why?
When ever we appear to find away round a problem Tomtom seem to find a way to stump us. _________________ Tomtom Go 720.
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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Trevor1234 wrote: | When ever we appear to find away round a problem Tomtom seem to find a way to stump us. |
I guess you could say "thats cricket....."
Only TomTom could answer that one. If you bother to ask them, and get an inteligent answer please post the reply for us to.........
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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Trevor1234 wrote: | So, what has changed or more to the point what has Tomtom done to the Mapsettings.cfg. And if they have tinkered, why? |
If you add new features, you have to put the settings for them somewhere.
For example, any text to speech voice alerts are now saved in MapSettings.cfg, so if you had a unit without Text to speech voices and tried to copy the .cfg to a new TomTom that had them, not surprisingly there were incompatabilities.
If the new software has some different features, same thing applies. |
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Trevor1234 Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Andy_P
Ok, I understand.
I think I will now go out and shoot myself. _________________ Tomtom Go 720.
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Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 12:24 am Post subject: |
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I started having doubts about compatibility of the MapSettings.cfg file between software versions quite a while ago, so for peace of mind, I always re-create from scratch now. It only takes 5-10 minutes, even redoing the full speed-zoned set of alerts.
I just wish I was a teenager... then I could do it without even looking at the screen like my kids do when texting! ![Laughing](modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif) |
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