More info on the V314 / v390 map debate from Tom Tom TechSup

jdatkinson · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 29, 2004 Posts: 63

As TomTom are now selling TTG maps on an SD card separately (at 149 euros) I am enquiring which map is being shipped on the SD card. I will report back....

TomK · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 7:13 pm Post subject:

Just keeps getting more and more interesting...

How do you find out what version is on the CD. I'd like to look and see what is in mine.

Any advice please

TomK

Zuke · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 7:25 pm Post subject:

ZZBeard · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 7:37 pm Post subject: Map version on CD

In you're using a Windows PC, browse the CD (in other words choose the "Explore" option when you right-click on the CD-ROM drive icon in My Computer) - if it auto runs, choose the TomTom menu "Quit" > "tick" option first.

Find the folder called nvuk\MAP\GB. In that folder is a file called Great_Britain.INI

Double-click that file - it should open in Notepad - and look at the third and fourth line down:

Component = Map
; toolchain version 390

This entry seems to correspond with the map version displayed in the TomTomGo's "About" screen.

David

TomK · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:18 pm Post subject:

:D

Thanks ZUKE & ZZBeard mission accomplished

Clap

Now that I've established that I have 390 on the CD and 314 on the SD card... How do I get 390 onto the SD card Question

TomK

OZ · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 17, 2004 Posts: 165

Gingernut, please butt out and mind your own business, you have posted 3 posts on this whole forum 1 is a smart comment about your Reliant Robin when the poster was asking about his Porsche, now that is what i call off topic, your other two are butting in on something that does not concern you, tell me are you delboy under another vision?.

ZZBeard · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:53 pm Post subject: 314 > 390

This is not quite as straightforward as one would like. If possible, back up the whole SD card to your PC somewhere first.

Unfortunately, the 390 map folder that the CD installs is called Great_Britain-Map, but the map folder on the 314 card is called Great-Britain-Map.

So unless you have a large SD card, you will have to get the CD to uninstall your 314 GB map first - a not-unreasonable step - which will leave behind your favourites and home location data still in the folder called Great-Britain-Map. Then you ask the CD to install the GB map again, and it puts it all into a new folder that is called Great_Britain-Map.

When you have done this, and re-started the TTG, it will find the new map, but it probably won't have been registered, so TTG will tell you to go to the ttcode registration web site and type in the product code number on the back of the CD sleeve, and the device code of the TTG itself, which is also given in the About TomTom GO screen. You are then given another map validation code which the TTG waits for you to input. Finally the new map is ready to use...

But - your favourites and home data are still in the old folder, so what you do is copy the Great-Britain-Map.ini file from the old folder to the new one that has all the new map data in it, via the USB link and Windows Explorer.

Then - you have to delete the existing new Great_Britain-Map.ini file and RENAME the file you copied in, from Great-Britain-Map.ini to Great_Britain-Map.ini

Fun - innit!

Then - it should all work.

David

Zuke · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 10:24 pm Post subject:

At least you guys have got it on your CDs, unlike most of us (sulk).

freeentry · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 08, 2004 Posts: 1

I also have a CD with V314, and would like to know the differences between the two GB map versions v314 and v390.

I would be more than willing to test the "new" version to see what differences I can find.

Can anyone with a CD containing v390 place the GB image somewhere where others could access them ?

Thanks,
TTG MapReader

lbendlin · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 11:34 pm Post subject:

gingernut777 · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:11 am Post subject:

lbendlin · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:15 am Post subject:

Would you two (Oz and Gingernut) please take your fight elsewhere. You are entitled to your free opinion, no matter if founded or not, but please stop calling each other names. We need people answering questions, not waving fists.
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gingernut777 · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:15 am Post subject:

TomK · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:24 am Post subject:

Thanks ZZBeard I'll give it a trial. one question though regarding your instructions.

If you move the old .ini file in and replace the new one with this will you not lose the map version number in the new .ini file?

Thanks again

TomK

tonyfinn · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:08 am Post subject:

...just change the tool chain number to to 390... that way you can kid yourself in to believing that you have the latest version! Laughing

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