TomTom 5.1 with Dell X50v

pillhead · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 08, 2005 Posts: 22

Okay, noticed a few people are having success with TomTom 5.1 and the Dell Axim x50v palm tops, however mine just keeps dropping out of the application randomly, after quite a short time.

Was wondering if there were any specific tips on making it work well? SHould I increase teh amount of memory available to programs as apposed to storage? ANything else I should check?

pillhead · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 08, 2005 Posts: 22

Actually, could any x50v users confirm to me that they have been running TomTom 5.1 sucessfully for navigation? I'm using one of the PDAMODS cradles with the Fuzion GPS, maybe it is incompatible with this? ANyone else have this same configuration?

mbailey3 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 28, 2005 Posts: 30

pillhead · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 08, 2005 Posts: 22

nigelw · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 26, 2005 Posts: 35

I've not had any problems since upgrading to 5.1.

The longest journey I've been on is around 1 1/2 hours. I've tested it for work and back many times (about 1/2 hour each way). I use a Fortuna ClipOn BT GPS unit.

I have all the CheckPOInt camera POIs installed and proximity warnings set. They are the only POIs I have enabled. It just works now.

raptorheli2 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 03, 2005 Posts: 33

it's a well known fact that the POI's need to be disabled for the x50v (see aximsite.com). i just put tt5.1 on my x50v this morning so i haven't tested it as of yet. the way round it is to copy the poi.dat file from tt3 into the folder in tt5 and overwrite the one in there. that fixes this problem.

cheers

linknet · Frequent Visitor Joined: May 05, 2005 Posts: 872

pillhead · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 08, 2005 Posts: 22

5.1 seems to work fine in none VGA mode with the default 5.1 POI file, the missus has been to rubery so far, usually drops out well before then.

I'm just going to drive mine to bromsgrove, because this trip guarentees it to drop out.

My theory is that it must be something to do with something in the POI file in VGA mode only, I wonder what specific point of interest causes this, hmm.

raptorheli2 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 03, 2005 Posts: 33

well i have a legal version and mine drops out on the poi so bang goes that theory.

the fault is with the hi res screens (x50v vga). there is something about 640 pixels it doesn't like. 5.1 update should sort that. it didn't for me or a lot on the aximsite either. however it did fix the memory leak for me.

there is a hack on aximsite to get tomtom to think it's running on a normal qvga screen and hence fixing this problem. i just put the poi file onto mine and it seems to have worked.

cheers

Lancaster · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 11, 2005 Posts: 15

raptorheli2 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 03, 2005 Posts: 33

the reason yours probably works is your not using the inbuilt poi's which is where the problem apparently lies.

cheers

AlexandreUVa · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 12, 2005 Posts: 19

I have the Tomtom 5 USA + 5.1 upgrade on my x50v.
No problem so far even with the built in POI.
When you are speaking about VGA, are you speaking about the normal use of the x50v? or using a tweak to make it into real vga? Thanks

raptorheli2 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 03, 2005 Posts: 33

the x50v is using vga now. without getting technical about this. as far as tomtom is concerned it's running vga mode (4x qvga) and this is the resolution it pumps out. tomtom 5 had problems with vga so 5.1 was brought out to fix it. it appears to have fixed it but the poi problem is still there, in UK maps anyway.

the hack i refer to is to fool tomtom into thinking the x50v is running a qvga screen and hence not locking up.

cheers

Lancaster · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 11, 2005 Posts: 15

rondha · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 12, 2005 Posts: 1

Just to confirm. My (legal) TTN5 was updated 5.1 only solving VGA problem. While the POI.DAT (UK) is still in big problem. So I use previous version poi.dat (I lost a lot of poi categories). I must confess that TomTom suck, a waste of money in poi.dat TTN5. They should mention about this in their advertisement for ttn5, otherwise they're in breach the Sale of Goods Act (SGA) 1979 in UK.

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