How to stop TomTom automatically replanning?

Buddy07 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 25, 2007 Posts: 25

Being a bit of a maps person, I do quite a lot of "planning routes" that have nothing to do with where I am at the present time. For example, I might want to know what the best route from Biarritz to Warsaw is for no other reason than I'm a bit odd Wink

Obviously, all TomTom devices will do this with no fuss at all. But they will also all think about it for a few minutes afterwards, realise that I'm actually in neither Biarritz nor Warsaw, and replan from my current location. The only time this didn't happen was when I used TomTom on a PDA where you could switch the GPS receiver off.

Is there any way of persuading the device that I don't need to go from my current location?

dhn · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 12:33 am Post subject:

If your model has advanced planning, then that is what you want. Plan from A to B, see the route summary, even a demo of the route if your model has it and then forget about it.
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Andy_P · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 12:52 am Post subject:

Once you've used the "Prepare route" option to create the route, you need to stay within the "Details" pages.
So "Browse as text", "Browse as images", "Browse map of route", and "Show route demo" will all ignore your current position, but as soon as you go back to the normal navigation view, it will look for satellites and try to recalculate from your present position.

The "Show route summary" screen will also show the prepared route, but it may drop back to the normal navigation screen if you have "Close route summary screen automatically after 10 seconds" option selected in Planning Preferences.

Buddy07 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 25, 2007 Posts: 25

Thanks Andy.

MrT · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:22 am Post subject:

I can't say for all models, but on mine when you put it into flight mode GPS reception is disabled, so that might help.
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