Camera Voice Alert Problems TT 710

MaskellMan · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 18, 2006 Posts: 12

I have a TomTom 710. If I install the voice alerts in the Sounds directory, every time I remove the SD card, I have to re-associate the voice with the Camera POI. This is soooo painful.

Moving the .ogg files back into the Map directory used to work, but now it seems to just freeze the device when I try and reset the "Warn when near POI" settings

Why do I remove the SD card two reasons, you ask?
1) sometimes the card gets dislodged if the mount falls off the windscreen which happens from time to time.
2) Using the USB slot on my laptop is more convenient and faster.
3) The supplied cradle is shoddy - the power lead keeps falling out - if this is happening during an update it is likely to crash the TomTom (and this may be the cause of my present problems - perhaps I have corrupted the filesystem). Also, it now fails to connect to host machine (MacBook Pro 10.6.8 - Snow Leopard).

I have tried downloading a clean version of the TomTom app from TomTom Home

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 12:03 pm Post subject:

Sorry for no other replies... my excuse is I've been away!

Hmmm.... Don't think I've come across these exact symptoms before.

Some first thoughts off the top of my head:

1. Are you using one of the new "official" voice sets (that you can download at the same time as the camera locations files, or one of the older ones from the original download page here?

2. If one of the old sets, try the new ones.

3. what happens if you remove ALL the PGPSW camera files and then install just one speed/type? (e.g. install the Gato30 .ov2 .bmp and .ogg files only)
Try that using both the 'sounds folder' and 'map folder' methods.

4. Have a look at this previous post, concerning missing pMobile alerts
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=479611#479611 -probably not relevant, but might be.[/url]
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MaskellMan · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 18, 2006 Posts: 12

1) Yes. I removed the old voices and installed the new ones the new ones
2) see above
3) I had already tried something similar. I installed all the latest camera files and just 1 voice file for one particular camera (Gatso30 as it happens). For cameras other than the Gatso30, I get a dialogue inviting me to choose one of the standard sounds. For the Gatso30, if the .ogg file is in the Map file, the settings procedure freezes after having chosen the voice. If I put it in the sounds directory, it works OK, but looses the association with the chosen voice alert whenever the SD card is removed from the TomTOm.

I suspected that my filesystem was corrupt, so removed the TomTom application and downloaded it again, but same result.

Oldboy · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 7:46 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 1:47 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 1:52 pm Post subject:

The only "workround" I can think of at the moment is this:

You said that you CAN use the TomTom as the card reader, it's just more convenient to take the card out and use an external reader....

So get all the voice alert settings correct, and then USING THE TOMTOM AS THE CARD READER, make a copy of the MapSettings.cfg file (in your current maps folder) and re-save it OUTSIDE the folder.

It should just sit there and be ignored, but as soon as you need it, just put a copy of it back into the map folder again, overwriting the one that's there.
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Oldboy · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 3:42 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 3:58 pm Post subject:

Oldboy · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 7:03 pm Post subject:

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