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Installed v5 no problem, did not have to activate, why do some people have to re-activate ?
I had the the same issue...
My theory... is that is probably all of us who are using non-original SD cards... and copied everything from the old card to a larger one. The maps just needed activating. _________________ .h
a l w a y s a p l e a s u r e . . .
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This is just the program that runs on the GO. The maps will be coming soon, but are not available for download, nor will be.
If you currently have a GO then you will be running version 4.x of the software. This update will give you most, but not all, of the version 5.0 features that we reviewed here http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/tomtom-go-5.php
MikeB et al.,
I've yet to put v.5.0 onto the 3 cards of myTT-GO as I've only just returned from using it in France and Spain, (I'll post on it's perfomance later) but I'm a bit puzzled by the map-update info, as on the Tom Tom site it says
Quote:
Existing maps for the TomTom GO can be updated using the upgrade program on the web site.
Haven't found this upgrade program yet though!!
Now my GB map came on the TT card, all the European maps I need have been downloaded from the map CD's (bought 15/10/04)) onto virgin 512Mb cards.
Is it that re-'activation', when loading v5.0, is needed for maps off CD's
rather than the TT 'card map'?? I may well be able to answer this myself shortly, but was trying to get myself prepared for any heart-stopping 'glitches'!!! _________________ Cheers, Doc L.
Joined: 20/08/2002 11:51:57 Posts: 3859 Location: Essex, UK
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:37 pm Post subject:
Re-activation is only required if you have changed your SD card for any reason.
This is bacause the original activation was on the retail SD card. If you activated by using a product code and the www.ttcode.com website this stored the activation in a slightly different format. The new software does not recognise this. From Version 5.0 the activation will be stored in the GO on flash memory rather than the SD card.
The work around would be to perform the upgrade on your original retail SD card. This should then copy the activation to the GO flash memory correctly. Once this has been don you should be able to upgrade your other CD as the GO will already be activated for this map.
The workaround is only theoretical as I havent been able to test it as my GO has already been activated for the new maps. _________________ Mike Barrett
Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Posts: 454 Location: Haarlem, The Netherlands
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:27 pm Post subject:
Tonyabw60 wrote:
Hi Richard
Mine won't take the v5 upgrade for some reason,every time I try it goes back to version 4.2???????
I have even reformated the card and loaded the TTG software from the
CD that comes with the unit and done the upgrades from TT website all ok until I try v5 and it wont have it, so I don't know now what needs to be done to sort it.
I dont have anything like that number of files in the root of the SD card.
It will all work out in the end I suppose.
Tony
Do you still have your CD-ROM inserted? If so, the setup.exe will run the installation from the CD. So you will also install the application on that cd, which is version 4.2 probably.
Just remove your CD, and try the upgrade again.
If you are re-installing on a blank SD, make sure to first do the map and then the V5 upgrade, otherwise the application may get downgraded to 4.20. This is a bug in the MoWE installation.
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