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Joined: Nov 24, 2003 Posts: 1441 Location: Swansea
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:10 pm Post subject:
I guess it must be much more severe on some devices than on others. In my case, it's nothing like enough to attract my attention when I am looking ahead, and even if I am looking straight at it, there is no question of the screen going blank and then returning. It's more like a momentary flicker, and if congested roads are showing white, for an instant they revert to their normal colours before showing white again.
I must be lucky - I would not have thought to mention what I see if I had been beta testing.
Robin _________________ TomTom One v3 Europe, Navcore 7.903, Western Europe 835.2420
TomTom Go 720 Europe, Navcore 8.351, Western Europe 855.2884
Satmap Active 10
Plus a lot of other PDA GPS kit, seldom used
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 14893 Location: Keynsham
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:42 pm Post subject:
I think there are more than one aspects to this.
First, I don't think many of us have the same configuration and the same usage, so we don't always recreate the same circumstances - different POIs, different icons, different warning sounds, different driven mileages, different phones.
Second, there are a lot of people who don't recognise a problem (or potential problem). Last weekend, my favourite niece and her fiancee called and stayed overnight on their way to Devon. They had borrowed a TomTom GO300. Next morning, I went out to watch them input the destination and I said just put in the postcode from the letterhead and they said they couldn't, it just doesn't do it. And it didn't!!! They "knew" this was how it worked (didn't work) and didn't question it. If I'd known before it was too late for them to be willing to delay any longer, I'd have stuck the zip folder on it for them and hey presto! They didn't see it as a problem, just how the device worked normally. I know somebody else with a GO300, still with the 2005 TT cameras and he's happy with them!!
I no longer moan much about the problems (issues, challenges), because I've temporarily (long term apathy!) sort of solved, or hacked round, or ignored all of them (handsfree crash, flicker, stutter, self start, reboot, I've had them all and more) - I use a GO700 for handsfree phone, I have rolled back my 920 to app 8.302, I have a 5" HTC screen running TTN6 in 2D mode and I NEVER download QuickGPSFix or MapShare "corrections". But I'd buy a 930/940/950/960 right now if any one of them worked properly, indeed I'm constantly having to stop myself buying a 940 every time I see one, it's such a beautiful beast. _________________ Dennis
Had a response from TT support. They now want the unit in for repair. I have politely declined this since I don't think the problem is hardware but software (if a reload of the s/w cures it for a while, then how can it be hardware).
I'll keep you posted
Alan
PS - in case I hadn't mentioned it, the flickering did come back again, so I think the issue is a buffer overflow somewhere.
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 14893 Location: Keynsham
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:56 am Post subject:
Now you're clutching at straws. How can it be anything to do with the railways? There again, it might just as well be, for all TomTom know about it! _________________ Dennis
Joined: Aug 19, 2008 Posts: 69 Location: UK - South
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:35 pm Post subject:
There you go "a buffer overflow" and I thought it was only a screen flicker.
You guys always amaze me.
Now if you could work out why me knee keeps clicking!!!! _________________ TT520 running App 8.351 & map UK&I v845.26345
Using Traffic TMC (round pin) & PGPS speed cameras.
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