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PostPosted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 7:32 pm    Post subject: TomTom Traffic - Is TomTom Struggling ? ? ? Reply with quote

It appears that TomTom maybe struggling with their Traffic service firstly they send out a questionaire regarding Traffic pricing & functionallity, and now have reduced the price to 29E about £20.

I might purchase a subscription at £20 ?
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 7:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I didn't get a questionaire, but just had a look at my account on their site and they are offering a year at 29E and a month at 9.95E. Might give it another go since last time I used it was for a week during the free trial.

Does anybody find it more useful/improved now its been out for almost 7 months?
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 12:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It has improved massively IMHO. I can comment on the quality of the data as this is an iTis issue, but the relability (subject to GPRS) has been very good.

I drove from West London down to Haverfordwest last week and it set it at update every 10 minutes (for a laugh!). Dropped connection once as we crossed the Second Severn Crossing, but the data was accurate and I arrived on time, not once did the server fail to provide the data!
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 1:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I paid £20 and re-activated my account again last night. Coverage and the speed of the program seems to have massively improved since the first week of the trial.

Had to mess around for ages trying to get my 2210 to talk to my K700i though, ended up searching the internet and finding I had to put Z into the modem setting's extra string box instead of AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”MOBILE.O2.CO.UK” as it says on the TomTom site.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 5:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If that instruction is on the TomTom site, TomTom Support haven't checked their instructions.

Pocket PC automatically prepends an AT, so it should just be +CGDCONT etc.



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 1:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DavidW wrote:
+CGDCONT


Tried that too. And *99**1# as some sites say to put in the dialing number (instead of *99#) to activate the CID 1 for the GPRS settings.

+CGDCONT is what worked on my Motorola V500 when I was on Orange, but for some reason Z is what works on my Sony Ericsson K700i and O2. Confused

At least its working :D
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some SonyEricsson handsets don't like you using context ID 1 for a GPRS Internet connection. Nokia phones usually only have one context ID available - so you have to use 1.

It may have worked if you'd used a different context ID - but if Z (which is really a 'do nothing' string) works, that's the key thing. You may find, though, if you lose or somehow change the GPRS settings on your phone that your connection will stop working. If you set up a GPRS context and explicitly activate that context, it will work irrespective of any settings on the phone.



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