Beginner’s Guide

nearandfar · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 03, 2006 Posts: 9

next it will be putting a dummy copper on the side of the road with a great big speed gun
Laughing

jadunlop · Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 12:30 pm Post subject: Help!!!

Hi there, just bought a TomTom GO 500. I have a iMac running MAC OS X 10.3.9. My TomTom is running v5.211 and i was going to update to version 5.4 something from the TomTom website. However my TomTom was working great until I downloaded the speed camera sites from here, now if I go to enter a destination my TomTom freezes and then resets itself! I have made a backup on my iMac of the SD card.

I would really like to have my TomTom working properly with the camera sites loaded as I paid the £2 for a month to see how I got on. Is it a problem using a iMac and not a PC windows machine or have I done something wrong? Will the update on the TomTom website fix this?

I also have a problem with the bluetooth only taking one number from my mobile LG phone book although I've manually dialed from the TomTom unit.

Please advise me oh knowledgeable ones!

Jim

spraggy1 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 30, 2006 Posts: 1

please help me i dont know what to do with my navman icn 550 i want to download the "Single File Version" on to my navman but i dont know how to do it can you please send me an email back explaining on how to download it on to my navman as it is all paid for.

Thanks
Spraggy1

timber · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 1:11 am Post subject: Re: help !!

bluestreak · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 04, 2006 Posts: 1

have icn 720 trying to put single file camera data base on poi have been here for three hours now ,not funny have zip file on desktop running xp
not clued up at all,poi say it doesnt reconise file.

George-Hay · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 09, 2006 Posts: 3

im a newbie.......

this is my old mans account. i am just trying to get to grips with installing the camera databases and trying to get it to work.

my old man has a tomtoom 300 go system. i downloaded POI CAPTURE 1.03G.5.420

I the extracted it all onto the desktop. following the instructions and after doing a search i am still lost.

i copied "pocketGPScameras.ov2" file into the great britain Map folder (drive f: tom tom go) and also copied POI Capture.BMP into same area. both of these files were not in the same extracted folder though?

now when i load up the tom tom there is no speed camera picture (just a red square) and it is only finding cameras where i tell it there is?

the closest speed camera to ourselves is 30 miles away and it found that when i went through the road on the map. now my old mans a bus driver and travels everywhere so whats gone wrong?

what other folders do i need to copy and paste? and to where? the "icons" folder itself with all the 20,30,40s etc are ALL .bmp files and there is no more ov2 files

what have i done wrong? i have read through a lot of stuff to try and stop posting but everything just says download the database but what database Rolling Eyes

Oldboy · Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:10 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:07 am Post subject:

Oldboy's answer is correct on all the individual points, but it would be useful if you could make it clearer whether you are:

a ) trying to install the speed camera database (that the cameras shows on your TomTom screen and can be set up to warn you audibly if you wish), or

b ) trying to install the POICapture utility (that allows you to record new camera locations in a simple way, in order to send in reports to PGPSWorld), or

c ) both.

a ) and b ) above are totally different things, and at the moment you seem to have installed bits of both. Personally, I would get the camera database up and running before even thinking of installing POICapture.

Let us know what you are trying too achieve, and we can give you more help if the pointers above are not enough.

Svengali_uk · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:15 pm Post subject: Initial Setup

Please excuse what you techies must see as asking the obvious - but I am getting old, & trying to save my licence!
I have bought a Tom Tom Go 300, and I am trying to make sure that I get an audible warning when I am within slowing-down distance of a camera. So Far, So Good.
I saved the original map data to a hard-disk file.
I downloaded the POI file, & unzipped it.
I copied the unzipped files into my map folder, overwriting the existing files.
I wanted verbal warnings, telling me what speed I should be doing, so went to the page (Can't find it now!) that told me to check my version, & download the specified file.
I found out that I had build 5.410 (5628) on my instrument, renamed the existing chk file as "old", & copied the new file & renamed it data.chk.
HAVE I DONE IT RIGHT SO FAR?
I have gone into my "Manage POI" on my instrument, and tried to set my warning distance, but the last two camera types - although seeming to accept the warning parameters - show up as unselected next time I look.
Am I missing something?
Finally, if I update my Tom Tom system or even the map, must I go through the whole process again?

Oldboy · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:15 pm Post subject: Re: Initial Setup

deltoid · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 13, 2006 Posts: 2

Can anybody tell me which speed camera database I could use with a Navman version 1.96 linked to my ipaq by bluetooth?

exemacs · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 06, 2006 Posts: 2

I have a TT Go 300 V6 firmware. I would like to use the pocketGPSworld Camera POI's

Can someone please provide me with a link so I can download these POI's as i cant find it despite looking :-)

Thank You

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:02 pm Post subject:

The link is on the left of the page you are on now...

dootie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2006 Posts: 1

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:24 am Post subject:

What's your question, Dootie?

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