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cloggienl
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 Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 6:08 am Post subject: |
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| Is there a program to look at these TomTom DAT files in a better way than with notebook, so that they make some sense? |
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MaFt
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 9:28 am Post subject: |
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You could try frhed (http://frhed.sourceforge.net/en/) which is a hexadecimal editor/viewer. However the file may be encrypted so we may not be able to see it's content at all :/
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Allan_whoops
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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I posted this in the speed camera bit back in August
This must be a TomTom issue and I thought it was only me! I was in France in June and July using a TomTom Via 120 and had exactly the same problem with random notifications (mainly no notification) of speed cameras. HOWEVER, I wasn't using the PGPSW database but a French one. In the end I resorted to my Garmin backup satnav which worked perfectly.
It also refused to let me know about other POIs which I wanted a proximity warning e.g. photographic sites, interesting villages etc.
Hope this helps,
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cloggienl
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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Frhed does show a whole list of hex-decimal in borders.dat, but as I am not a programmer, I have no idea of how to translate this into something that I can understand.
Is there anyone here that knows this programming language? |
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MaFt
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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Does the device boot if you leave an 'empty' borders.dat file?
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MaFt
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Allan_whoops wrote: | | It also refused to let me know about other POIs which I wanted a proximity warning e.g. photographic sites, interesting villages etc. |
Yup - this is one of the reasons we think the borders.dat is interfering inn general with ANY warnings in France. As Andy_P mentioned earlier, a similar thing happened with TT's live fuel prices - any POIs near a fuel station would never give an alert as the live fuel was fudged to block them :/
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cloggienl
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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| MaFt wrote: | Does the device boot if you leave an 'empty' borders.dat file?
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No, goes into a continuous start -up loop... |
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madou
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| MaFt wrote: | | Allan_whoops wrote: | | It also refused to let me know about other POIs which I wanted a proximity warning e.g. photographic sites, interesting villages etc. |
Yup - this is one of the reasons we think the borders.dat is interfering inn general with ANY warnings in France.
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No POI proximity warnings are working for me in France. I tried several types from GpsPassion.com, such as Autoroute Peage ( Toll Booth ) |
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M8TJT
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| But do you have a 730 which is the device that started this problem thread? |
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madou
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| Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 10:14 am Post subject: |
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| M8TJT wrote: | | But do you have a 730 which is the device that started this problem thread? |
Not 730, I have a 720 |
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cloggienl
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 11:09 am Post subject: Solution |
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Well, after buying a Garmin, I have just found a solution to the problem of missing camera warnings in France for the TT Go X20-X30.
The problem seems to lie in the navcore. If using a navcore newer than 9401, camera warnings will be hap-hazard and unreliable.
So if any of you venture into France with GO X20 or X30, roll back to navecore 9401 to keep the warnings working. |
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