TomTom for Android lands in Google Play store

wrinklyninja · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 21, 2006 Posts: 51

Have purchased the TomTom app for west Europe for my Desire HD and so far everything great. Fast fix etc. Only gripe is that to get all the features you have to use in landscape mode. Western Europe maps needs 2.5G of storage space but that's not that different to any other offering and not an issue if you have a decent SD card installed.
I have to agree with a few comments about Sygic which I have used for a while (since I gave up on WinMo phone with TomTom 7). Sygic MM10 was great but from Aura onwards I have found some of the routing weird. I was not impressed when it recently wanted to take me through the centre of Madrid instead of using the ring road and the over verbose instructions can really grate after a while. (I only need telling so many times to go 'straight on'. Do agree that TomTom has cocked up with resolution issue but I reckon it will be quickly resolved.

IanS100 · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 3:18 pm Post subject:

spikeywelsh · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 6:06 pm Post subject:

anyone know if you buy the uk version of the app can you add extra maps to it or would you have to but the usa map as well

IanS100 · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 7:16 pm Post subject:

Having been for an 20 mile round trip to visit friends all seems to be well on the SGS3. First observations are that it looks good & it seems stable. My only critisism so far are visually, with most of the text & icons appearing to be very small & hard to see/select, whereas in landscape mode the blue directions box is far too big, but the visual problems may be down to it being on an unsupported device. The good news is that the routing is as expected, having dabbled with Google, Sygic & the abysmal CoPilot it's good to be back to routing that is, so far, fairly logical. Let's hope TomTom get their finger out with full support for hi res screens
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Darren · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 8:04 pm Post subject:

spikeywelsh · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 8:44 pm Post subject:

wrinklyninja · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 21, 2006 Posts: 51

I agree completely with previous post. Have tried a reasonable drive in Spain and the routing and voice directions far surpassed Sygic. Never been a great fan of TomTom as a company.but their routing algorithms take a some beating. In the absence of instructions for setting up POI, I have tried the app.with Cameralert and it appears to work a treat.

IanS100 · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 1:38 pm Post subject:

I had a play with the speed camera db last night & they can be displayed on screen:-
Extract the database in the usual way & whilst the phone is connected to a computer navigate to the map folder on the phone in the same way as you would on a TomTom PND ie
TomTom/com.TomTom.ukireland/files/United_Kingdom_and_Republic_of_Ireland
(Note I have the UK & Eire maps, the folder name will be different if different maps have been purchased)
Drop the PGPSW database in the map folder
From within the TomTom app Navigate to: view map/details/choosee POIs
Select the PGPSW POI files with the check box

you will now have them displayed on screen although on my SGS3 they are tiny, & I can't see any way to receive a warning from within the app because there is no "manage POI"
Used alongside CameraAlert it's almost a solution
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navtrav · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 2:30 pm Post subject:

mikealder · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 3:50 pm Post subject:

I haven't tried the Droid app from TT but it might be worth looking at the thread I started in the Apple section of the forum detailing how to activate warnings on the iPhone app, it worked fine untill Apple screwed it up with the latest iOS6 release.
Take a look at it and see if you can find the mapsettings.cfg file in a folder, if you can simply add a pre-configured mapsettings file along with ogg, bmp and ov2 files and you might find it works - Mike

IanS100 · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 7:39 pm Post subject:

There is no mapsettings.cfg file, doing a search for cfg files brings up a folder called TomTom-Cfg but the only file in there is release.nfo which is just a txt file with version/release info, as you would expect.

I've tried adding favorites & then checking which files are modified but I can't find anything consistent, so maybe TomTom have hidden the config files away in the phone root directories, which I can't access without rooting the phone.
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StephenLai · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 2

DrDick · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 09, 2006 Posts: 8

Very reluctant to buy as have to pay extra for their speed cameras but the iPhone cameras seem to be free.
WOuld be interested but have now read that there does not seem to be any verbal warning on the Android version.

IanS100 · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 10:07 pm Post subject:

topbanana4 · Lifetime Member Joined: Dec 11, 2005 Posts: 59

This is taken from my other thread !! Hope it helps

i have a rooted htc desire and found how to get all our old favorites back, i can't find a mapsettings file.
you have to go into the root of your phone then follow this
data/data/com.tomtom.weurope/files/personal/pois
there you will find the Favorites ov2 file, you will have to copy this to your PC have a program POI edit .
when you open the file with POI Edit you will have to put the favorites in manual. save everything then copy back you you phone.
If you have poi's that you want to be seen when driving add then to the map which will be stored on your SD card just make sure the icon is a BMP file and dimensions are 44x44 .
Hope you understand this and that it helps somebody

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