TomTom 5.2 on C600 is RUBBISH! Some Upgrade!!

CHR15 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 18, 2005 Posts: 26

Hi,
I used TomTom on my trusty old C500 with no problems.

I upgraded my phone and am using TomTom 5.2 on my new C600.

On the Whole it woks..... BUT

I cannot enter my own Postcode. I am in Bristol in BS32 *** but it only appears to have ONE BS Postcode available. Not only can I not input my own postcode, but I can't even scroll to it (because the list only contains ONE BS Postcode)
I have been through this on here before and we decided then, that the C600 is just a poor phone!

Secondly I cannot Navigate to a POI from within TomTom.
A message says, One Moment Please for about a minute and it drops out of the program. I have to Reboot the phone to get it working again!!

Both of these were fine on my C500 but the C600 is rubbish.

I dont like the phone too much as it is just so slow to do anything.
Even trying to reply to a one word text message brings up the silly spinny coloured thing for a few seconds.

For info, I have reloaded TomTom and the Postcode Folder but the same results

Any Ideas before this thing goes on Ebay?? Evil or Very Mad

gstenson · Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 9:44 am Post subject:

Whoa, hold on there. I use my C600 with TT and its fine, postcodes work, POIs work.

What ROM version are you using? If you have the AKU2 update (for push email) then there have been some problems. My ROM is 5.1.70.14402 which was out of the box and its fine. When I upgraded to AKU2 before it was hopeless - constantly crashing etc. Try getting a replacement or see if you can downgrade (although I am not sure you can).

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CHR15 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 18, 2005 Posts: 26

Thanks for the Reply gstenson.

Could you please confirm for me that you can enter BS32 as a postcode?

My postcodes mostly do work, just not my ones in Bristol!!

Also my POI's will work, unless I am travelling on a route and then try to find a nearest point (petrol station for example), then it just crashes.

I dont know haow to find out what ROM I am using. It is as it was out of the box. It wont have the AKU Update though as I didnt bother with it. I wouldn't use that email function so I never bothered to update it (unless it does it on its own!!??)

Thanks again

G1LIW · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 11:04 am Post subject:

Any movement on this issue? I've a C600, and it does have the AKU2 update; however, I've managed to weasle the application unlocker from the Orange Dev folks, in case that's needed as well, Laughing Out Loud

, so info'd be appreciated Smile

Thanks in advance Smile

jeffcooper · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 04, 2005 Posts: 32

Hi - I don't know wether you've found this - but the crashing only seems to occur with the tomtom official poi lists - if you create/download your own, they seem to work fine. Also, I had the exact same problem on the C500, but on that phone, it literally hung the phone, whereas with the C600 the tomtom application gets shutdown. It also doesnt seem to have anything to do with size of storage card, wether most of the application is in the phones memory (ie my documents) or on the card, how many maps etc you've got. The only common factor seems to be the actual size of the POI file. Have you noticed also that the tomtom poi file is not in the same format as a third party one - ie poiedit doesn't seem to understand it?

HItman_Botelle · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:17 pm Post subject:

Just to let you know I had this problem. The upgrade for TomTom v5.2 does not upgrade the poi.dat file and they are in the old format. Follow the instrutions in: -
http://www.modaco.com/TomTom_Mobile_on_c600l-t230706-s30.html

I hope this helps

CHR15 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 18, 2005 Posts: 26

Thanks for the reply HItman_Botelle.

Seems quite long winded but nevertheless is a fix.

Looking forward to trying it out when I get a chance (would still like to know if anyone can enter BS32 as a postcode in TomTom 5.2 on a C600 though Smile

Thanks

HItman_Botelle · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:04 am Post subject:

I am able to list the BS32 postcodes. But I do only get 4 BS32 codes, they are: - BS32 0, BS32 4 BS32 8 and BS32 9!

Just to let you know I have been using TomTom 5.2 now for about 5 Months on my C600 using a Rikaline GPS-6031-X7 Bluetooth Receiver.

After the initial problems, once it is configured it has worked without a hitch ever since.

If anyone does have a problem, post it and I will try my best to help sort it!

Happy Navigations :D

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