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mercsy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 2

Just wondering if anybody knows if the 910 london maps have had the many many errors removed such as right turns off of bridges, incorrect road names and directing the wrong way up one way streets and stuff like that. TomTom themselves have never bothered to reply to me about these things and have never offered an update ( for the maps ) on my 700.

The VDO Dayton I also use doesn't seem to any errors except for when a road layout has changed.

Maybe they need to buy an A to Z and hire a proofer?

Still I wouldn't be without either NAV ( or the A to Z )

Evil or Very Mad

jean · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 150

oooh hope they have it sorted as I am driving through London week after next! Does it warn you of the congestion charge?

PatC · Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 1:01 pm Post subject: Re: TT910 maps

alix776 · Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 3:35 pm Post subject:

plant · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 26, 2004 Posts: 86

I've found a few errors in my neck of the woods and would like to report them.

Do you have an email address or a link to be used for passing the info on?

Used my 910 for the first time in anger today. I know the South East very well from/to home and just about anywhere else but had to navigate from a place NOT home, to another place AND avoid roadworks. Took me on a route I would not have normally considered. Did the job really well.

Andy_P · Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 7:30 pm Post subject:

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PatC · Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 7:54 pm Post subject:

PatC · Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 7:56 pm Post subject:

Chris32 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 03, 2006 Posts: 38

I have been using a 910 for a little while now and I like the new voice arrangements very much. It does however have some serious problems when compared with the 500 that I used earlier.

My biggest beef is with the mounting arrangements. There is no alternative to the screen suction cup and this takes it too far away from me to see comfortably. I was able to mount the 500 on the dash using the alternative fixing.

Not only that, but the fixing now depends upon a swivelling ball joint. Compared with the well engineered two axis fixing on the 500 that could be locked up tightly and left alone, the ball joint loosens whenever the suction cup is removed from the window. This means that you have to fiddle to get the device at the right angle every time you put it into the car. Additionally, the ball joint is not nearly so firm as the old fixing so the the device is much more prone to vibrate and oscillate when traversing less than perfect road surfaces. Eventually, on poor road surfaces, the ball joint allows the unit to descend until it contacts the dash, then, if I don't do something about it, the upward pressure on the unit causes a disconnection of the power supply. If you don't notice that the power-on warning light has disappeared, then the battery runs down.

Not to put too fine a point on it, it's a dogs breakfast compared to the mounting on the 500 to the point where, if they do not do something about it I feel that I will have to return it for a refund.

I have also had navigation problems that I did not have with the 500. I have entered a number of "Favourites" using the "GPS position" option. For example, when in the car park of a pub that I want to find again. When I try to navigate back to these "Favourites" I consistently get a "Route cannot be found" error message. I assume that this is because part of the route would appear to be "off road". It did not happen with the 500 and I guess that it can be corrected in the software.

Finally, the light sensor that should dim the display and switch the device to the night display has no means of calibration. It therefore switches at times that are more related to the position of the device in the car than to the degree of darkness outside the car. Eventually it irritated me so much that I switched it off and went back to controlling the display manually. I wonder whether this problem too might be corrected in the software?

You might be interested to know that though the 910 comes with a speed camera database installed, the installed database is not nearly as accurate as the one from this site and that I have disabled it in favour of the PocketGPS product. The computer voice on the 910 works perfectly with the PocketGPS camera data base and allows the creation of your own messages for each camera type.

CeeJay · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 11:57 am Post subject:

Hi Chris32.
Just watch out for 2 cameras on the same road!
I and many others, have discovered that you will not get a warning for a second camera if there has been no navigation prompts in between cameras. If you force the navigation prompts in between cameras it works every time. The problem does not happen on the 510 leading me to believe that it's something to do with the TTS. If they sort that out I will be well chuffed.
Logged with Tom Tom.

CeeJay.

plant · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 26, 2004 Posts: 86

OK, I need some serious amount of help with the PocketGPS speed camera database.

*** HELP PLEASE *** *** PLEASE HELP ***

I think I've managed to download the cameras, using the single file of UK based cameras only. Can someone please confirm that this contains ALL types of cameras, speed related etc. If it is more comprehensive to download the individual files, please let me know and I'll add the others.

Next thing is the voices - there is a link to use different voice alerts for the cameras. Apparently, this is very very specific to the software version running. It advises to go to the change preferences and then scroll to the 'about' icon. Problem is, I can't find the 'about' icon. How can I find out what software version is being used on the 910?

Again, I wanted to use the camera notification software but I couldn't find the version details again, to make sure I uploaded the right software. I tried the 5.440 version but couldn't get it to work. Also, it talks about uploading to the root directory. Call me thick but can someone clarify where this is?

Anyway, I'd appreciate some help in setting up the camera database, voices and notification stuff.

Thank you!

Andy_P · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 10:09 pm Post subject:

Chris32 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 03, 2006 Posts: 38

plant · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 26, 2004 Posts: 86

Thanks Andy.

Chris, I'm off to find the forum!

Cheers,

plant · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 26, 2004 Posts: 86

OK, I've answered my own questions - it is much better to download the seperate files and then go through and add your own warnings - something like BEWARE, BROWN'S CASH MACHINE AHEAD or COMPULSORY CAREER CHANGE. IGNORE AT YOUR PERIL.

I obviously don't need to use the voice software, as the 910 has text to speech! Embarassed

I found the version by tapping the sat screen, then tapping the 'version 6.020' on the right hand side - it has all the info I need and confirms that the camera notification software is not yet compatible with the 910.

SORTED!

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