TomTom Navigator for Palm incompatible with LifeDrive

themax · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 25, 2003 Posts: 20

The subject says it all; for those of you thinking of upgrading to the LifeDrive from Palm, it does not run TomTom at all ("Armcode not allocated" error).

After contact with TomTom support, it is unlikely that they even will support it (not even with the version 5 upgrade), according to the very short and "it's not supported" answer to my question in this matter. It would be cool to have all the maps I need loaded, but I guess I need (and all of you thinking of ordering the LifeDrive) to stay with my T3 for navigation for the time being.

jweaver · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 11, 2005 Posts: 135

I think that this is true for all Palms other than the T3. I was discussing this with a colleague the other day and the question of the T5 came up. I tested my TomTom sim on another colleagues T5 and it gave the same "Armcode not allocated" error that you have seen on the LifeDrive.

If you look at the existing TomTom product range, it actually says "TomTom for T3" rather than "TomTom for Palm" and I was under the impression that it ONLY works on the T3 for now.

I know of a few T5 users who are waiting for TT5.. If its not going to be supported on the LifeDrive, I wonder if T5 support is actually on the cards?

themax · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 25, 2003 Posts: 20

You are right, but TomTom Navigator seems to work OK on the Treo 650, and since the T3 is out of production it would be a stupid move from TomTom not to support the new devices.

But it seems that they put their effort in GO and Mobile, and the Palm/PPC-line is dead because its too much of an effort for them to keep up with all new devices?

iancjc · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 10:04 am Post subject:

I have had ttn3 running on a palm tungsten e.

I installed version 4.42 - off the us support site - specifically for the t5 - not sure why this isn't downloadable from the main tomtom site..

The main problem was memory errors - if I stuck to the smallest map segments and reset after each journey it was ok - but I didn't consider it robust enough for day to day driving especially as it was for use in my wifes car so I went for viamichelin navigation 3 (which has newer maps than ttn3 as well).

Maybe worth exploring the 4.42 version as it should/may work with the tungsten 5 - poss also the lifedrive (unless the memory usage is radically different from the t5)

Ian
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themax · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 25, 2003 Posts: 20

iancjc · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 10:10 pm Post subject:

I stumbled onto it after tomtom support had told me the tungsten e was definately not usable.

Why the download is only available when you select us - english I have no idea.

Ian
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themax · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 25, 2003 Posts: 20

After digging out the 4.42 update from the US site and installing it on my LifeDrive (LD), TomTom now works on that machine. I had to re-activate my license for the LD, but I have not seen any crashes or wierd behaviour on the LD (well, yet).

So what have we learned?

1. The forum thread can be renamed to "TomTom Navigator for Palm compatible with the LifeDrive".
2. TomTom Europe does not seem to know what TomTom US offers on their website (otherwise the reply from them would tell me how to make it work, now it only was "We only support Tungsten T3").
3. The upgrade to Navigator 5 will probably work too.
4. All with the TomTom cable GPS needs to buy a BT one (or convince TT to develop a new car mount kit for the T5/LD and the cable GPS).

Meester-Martinho

I was talking to a guy from palmone yesterday tomtom will work on both the t5 and and the life drive we will bringing out packages to run on them.

TuurG · Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:09 pm Post subject:

TTN5 runs on a T5. Only not on internal RAM memory (maps and voices are not recognized).
Just make sure you have app and voices installed on the same location: Expansion card (internal) or SD-card. Maps can be on either location.

Also, maybe you previously installed the app to RAM? This was/is possible with v4.42 (the one you downloaded from the US site).
You should remove the TomTom app launcher (start.prc) from RAM first.
Then when you insert the SD, the start.prc is updated to RAM again, and will find the app and maps.

weelogic · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:35 pm Post subject:

I installed the app and it works. However, when I load up the map cd I get an error message. Can I extract the map files from the cd and copy them to the device? If so, what files should I be looking for?

Thanks

David

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