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electech320ci
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:38 pm    Post subject: 740 live Re-booting Reply with quote

Hi,
On a return journey of 290 miles yesterday the unit decided to restart itself 3 times without any warning.

All though I have sent an e-mail to TT support about it, has any one else had a similar problem
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Seamaster
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 3:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's happened to me twice in twelve months.
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Trafficman
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 4:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes my 540 live keeps doing it, and I also get screen freeze occasionally.
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mikero
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I had a Go 540, this was a major issue, even from new. I returned my original for a replacement and when that kept rebooting, I contacted TT Customer Services who gave me the stock answer (back up and perform factory reset etc.) but to no avail. I bought a 550 last November.
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robbooth
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 10:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My 940 does it - it'll go for a 2/3 weeks ok then randomly have one/two/three in one day/hour.

It used to irritate me, now I am pleased when I do a journey and it hasn't rebooted - The joys of TT.
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electech320ci
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 12:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well I had a reply from TT and as Mikero mentions it seems as if I have had the stock answer ie backup, delete files, restore etc.

I will give this a try but as I dont use it all that often it might be some time before I can prove if it solves the problem or not.
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AndyVaughan
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 8:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For any rebooting issues it is always worth trying the following 5 fixes - the backup and restore can take a while so worth doing the first 4 before resorting to the backup and restore.

1 - Soft reset (pinhole or hold the power button down depending on model)
2 - Run clearflash 3 times (make sure HOME is completely closed, no systray icon) http://www.tomtom.com/6178
3 - Run a Windows check disk or scan disk
4 - Hard reset (will lose all your settings and favourites) (Change Preferences - Reset factory settings)
5 - Take a full Windows Explorer backup and then format the internal mem as FAT32 (full format, not quick) and then reload the backup
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Seamaster
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Having only previously done this twice in twelve months, it happened on my 740 three times during a 100 mile round trip today. Confused Confused Confused
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

my 940 has done it 4 or 5 times in the last three months, the last time it rebooted, my lane guidance decided to work !
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