Lost all my favourites for i3 streetpilot

turkeyburger · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 08, 2006 Posts: 5

I decided to reset my i3 streetpilot to get rid of some of the POI's that I didn't want. What I didn't realise was that it deleted all of the supplied favouries that were stored when I bought it. Is there anyway to get these back?

snowboardcriminal · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:35 pm Post subject:

The only favs that are permanatly stored are those of Gamin HQ etc.

In future use easygps utility found somewhere else on the forum and save favs via pc then just upload again after reset.
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Lester_Burnham · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 17, 2005 Posts: 618

Just one other point to make - I don't think resetting the i3 clears the POIs.

POIs are stored (on i3s with transflash cards) as a file on the memory card.

turkeyburger · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 08, 2006 Posts: 5

My mistake,

I didn't mean the favourites. For a moment I thought that it deleted all of the pre-supplied POI's (not in the custom points folder).

It was when I looked in a couple of the food categories as they were showing no entries. Most of the other POI's are still there.

I thought that it would delete the custom points but it hasn't. Main reason I want to is that I'm not interested in congestion zones for example.

Also when I tried to add POI's from the MaFt download it said that I didn't have enough space. Is it trying to put them on the flash card or the internal memory?

Anyway, my original question was how do I delete custom POIs?

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Lester_Burnham · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 17, 2005 Posts: 618

zogman · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:27 pm Post subject: Re: reseeting POIs

Lester_Burnham · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 17, 2005 Posts: 618

zogman · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:12 am Post subject:

sorry turkeyburger, lester's right...its favorites i was thinking about...
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mk_graham · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:15 pm Post subject:

Simplest way is to go through your Custom POI folder on the PC and delete the ones you don't want (e.g. the conjestion charge POI), then run POILoader again.
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mk_graham · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:18 pm Post subject: Re: reseeting POIs

turkeyburger · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 08, 2006 Posts: 5

Yep, managed to do the following.

deleted some of the POI's that I wasn't bothered about (Fish & Chips & Lidl, etc). It wouldn't let me choose all of them.

Downloaded the £2 speed camera database from PocketGPS

Use POI loader to load both together and it reset my existing POIs.

Speed camers alerts seem to work quite well. I tested it on the way to work.

Also ordered a transfalash card adaptor from Ebay for £2.99. Hopefully this should then let me put more POIs on the card for complete OTT'ness.

Only annoying thing is having the custom POIs in seperate categories to the pre-supplied POIs. I'm assuming the card adaptor will let me get round this problem. Or maybe it's safer not to combine them?

So far I've been very impressed with it (£130 from Comet). Tried to look for the £100 deals but no joy but still happy with the price.

Also I have found that the voice doesn't always tie in with whats correct on the display. I think I will always look at the map anyway just to be sure.

Good thing about the small size is that I've got it in the top right corner of my windscreen. Can't really put it near the bottom as I have a C-MAX with an extremely long window. Also the textured dashboard won't let anything stick to it.

mk_graham · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject: Re: POI update

snowboardcriminal · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:09 pm Post subject:

I wouldn't say definately stick, mine lasted 10 minutes on a perfectly smooth surface, but good old sticky fixers soon remidied the situation!!
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i3, on the middle of the dash, works just fine!

There are things that I know and you don't know, there are things that you know that i don't know, but always remember there is much that we both don't know.

turkeyburger · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 08, 2006 Posts: 5

I tried the sticky disk on my dashboard but it fell off after a couple of hours. Dashboard is the rubbery soft touch type.

Also tried sticky pads but they were even worse.

Now decided that I don't like it in the top right corner of my window as it's too distracting, especially at night.

Luckily I've managed to find a nice flat smooth spot right in between my rev counter and speedo. I'll put the sticky pad there, I just won't be able to see my mileage which is not a huge problem.

Although the speed camera detection works well I tend to go a few mph above most speed limits as I know you can get away with it. It tends to beep a lot more at me then.

Maybe I'll have to reload the POI's and manually change the speed settings.

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