The end of an era

[DennisN]

The imminent release of maps v1025 was to be the last I would get for my Nav2 GO520, the end of my craftily extended Map Update Service.

I intended to carry on using it afterwards until it seemed to be ridiculously out of date, but it has been wearing out faster than me - screen calibration gone completely to pot, despite all my efforts to recalibrate it, so I could only operate it by using my remote control. But recently (for a few months) it has been becoming less and less responsive to the power switch - took ages to switch on and similarly to switch off, sometimes when it did switch off, it went into restart mode and sat there displaying all the specifications or legal stuff etc.

Now, it simply will not switch on at all.

Farewell sweet 520, you have served me well for however many years now, your only failing was that you didn't have HD Traffic. Apart from that, you have been my life saver, better than my GO6200 and my built in R-Link. I shall probably leave the ring marks on my windscreen in your memory.


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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[AliOnHols]

A truly sad day.


My condolences, Dennis.
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Garmin Nuvi 2599
Android with CamerAlert, OsmAnd+, Waze & TT Europe.
TomTom GO 730, GO 930, GO 940 & Rider2.
SatMap Active 10 & 20.

[rwbaldwin]

Digitiser screens are dirt cheap. I replaced the screen on my TomTom One v1 last year and it only cost £4.50

My subscription runs to November 2019, so I'm looking to use it well into 2020. It'll be a sad day when I have to replace it.

[DennisN]

[Kremmen]

Where do we send the flowers
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Viofo A119 V3

[MaFt]

[DennisN]

I was just going to say, no flowers please, donations to MHF.
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[johnnym100]

A sad day indeed and I can relate to nursing an older device for as long as possible and the similar strategies (from your photos):

* buy replacement mount
* buy bluetooth remote control
* have a stash of help documents from internet covering everything from battery replacement, cal.txt screen calibration, reset options etc
* Access to a PPC Mac that can still run the clear flash tool.
* buy map updates and live services into the future, not knowing when TT will drop the axe on new purchases

Continuing to soldier on despite the reboots mid journey and tactical drum roll resets when it becomes unresponsive.....

RIP Go520 - he served you well.

[DennisN]

I had a Lazarus moment. This latest map was to be the final fling of my Map Update Service, so with an hour or more for my (top of the range, hah hah) GO6200 to download and install it, I actually succeeded in getting the 520 to start. The whole process took all of the 6200’s hour because Home misbehaved and had to be reinstalled on the Win 7 laptop (failed) then on my Mac, but eventually succeeded. I tried so hard because I didn’t like the idea of not picking up the last update. I don’t know whether I shall try taking it out because I can’t afford the time to get it switched on, but at least I managed to squeeze the last drop of update out of TomTom!

I’ve known all along what features the 520 has over the new improved models, but the last few days have really rubbed it in and I’m having to resort to other fixes to get similar results.
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[entwood]

Dennis ... PM sent

[iTekweni]

[Kremmen]

This will be TT's strategy to sell more units. Render older units obsolete even though they can still handle the newer larger maps.
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[DennisN]

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