REVIEW COMMENTS: TomTom Registry Hack

Dave

This article describes how to install TomTom Navigator 2.24 to just about any place on your Pocket PC, with the obvious emphasis on the storage card. The same approach should work for TomTom Navigator 3, but I could not test it because here in the US we're still stuck with version 2.

Why are we doing this? Because all these navigation applications are memory hogs, and TomTom Navigator is no exception.

The full review is available here.

nej · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 9:21 am Post subject:

Surely it's easier to just specify where you want to install it when you actually install it, if you see what I mean... When it asks "Do you want to install TomTom Navigator to the default directory" or whatever it says, just select No, and then you can select to install it on the Storage card instead. Then do the same for TomTom Voice etc.

I suppose that the tendancy is just to install it as default though, and only a few weeks later realise that you've no memory left, so useful article!

Interestingly though, I had a few different problems when running it off the card (when using TomTom Traffic it often corrupted the card). TomTom suggested that it ran better from the internal memory and it's been fine since then.

mark1968 · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 10:11 am Post subject:

Am I correct in assuming that this process this work with CoPolit 5?
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lbendlin · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 1:55 pm Post subject:

geraint · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 5:10 pm Post subject:

Anyone tried this with TomTom Navigator 3 yet?
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Wilko · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 17, 2003 Posts: 203

I've just done it on Navigator 3

Only difference is that the voice files are stored in the Navigator directory and not in a sub-directory of navigator.

On my 2210, I had to name storage card as SD card in the registry.

Also had to un-install the TomTom Wizzard as it is looking at the wrong location, but I never use that anyway.

Other than that it works.

Wilko · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 17, 2003 Posts: 203

I've put the GPS engine back into the windows directory too, can live with half a meg there for the sake of the wake up error.

Wilko · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 17, 2003 Posts: 203

Some side effects I've found are that the PostCode program and Checkpoint won't launch TomTom as they are also pointing at the wrong location.

Anyone know how to get these two programs lookng in the right location for Tomtom?

lbendlin · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 6:11 pm Post subject:

Wilko · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 17, 2003 Posts: 203

skyhigh · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 9

Tried the registry hack and all works just fine, however, like you say checkpoiint wont launch anymore. Sad

So I uninstalled it, and reinstalled it pointing the installation to the SD storgae card (where navigator is now) but it still will not launch and when I go to look for the folder on the SD card all I see is the checkpoint CAB file. What am I doing wrong? or is there a way of hacking the checkpoint too?

TIA

lbendlin · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:49 pm Post subject:

there should be no CAB file after the install (unless the file is marked as read-only). Try tapping the CAB file from your Pocket File Explorer - this should re-launch the CheckPOInt install.
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skyhigh · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 9

On further inspection, looking via the laptop connection it has turned into a checkpoint folder although there appears to nothing in it!
If I install it anywhere else other than the SD card will it work with Navigator now thats in the SD card?

skyhigh · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 9

bump

still lookig for an answer

skyhigh · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 9

Wilko
How did you manage to get checkpoit to load to the Storge card and does it work with Navigator following the Hack?
Still searching for a fix to this one. Sad

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