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cyberbot
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 Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 9:13 pm Post subject: 2 Questions |
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Hello guys
Sorry of bothering with my questions everytime.
1- About Traffic , i am living in Nederland i heard from someone if i buy TMC cable i can recive Traffic warning in my tomtom for free. is that true ?
2-when i plug my tomtom to update it said no update are avaible but it said my tomtom mapshare is out of date!! wat do i have to do ?
when i try to join mapshare it said i am already member of
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Andy_P
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| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Number 2 - If you look through a few recent posts, you'll see MapShare has been broken for about two weeks. |
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cyberbot
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| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Andy_P2002 wrote: | | Number 2 - If you look through a few recent posts, you'll see MapShare has been broken for about two weeks. |
oh ok thanks
and number 1 ? |
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tonys66
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| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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In answer to question 2 try this
MAKE SURE YOU DO A BACKUP FIRST ..........................
1. Connect the TT to the PC and do a backup first
2. Close TT home and open the file browser for the device
3. Browse the Western_and_Central_Europe folder (you might have to enable viewing of hidden files"
4. Rename these two files Western_and_Central_Europe.mid", "Western_and_Central_Europe.mms" to .old or something.
5. Eject the unit and let it reboot
6. Do a reset and switch on the unit.
7. Re-connect it to the PC and start up TT home
Then see if that works |
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AndyVaughan
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I think that is the case fo rthe Netherlands for Q1.
HD Traffic is available there I think at the moment - might be worth looking in to the availability of that for your model?
Andy |
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cyberbot
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| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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| tonys66 wrote: | In answer to question 2 try this
MAKE SURE YOU DO A BACKUP FIRST ..........................
1. Connect the TT to the PC and do a backup first
2. Close TT home and open the file browser for the device
3. Browse the Western_and_Central_Europe folder (you might have to enable viewing of hidden files"
4. Rename these two files Western_and_Central_Europe.mid", "Western_and_Central_Europe.mms" to .old or something.
5. Eject the unit and let it reboot
6. Do a reset and switch on the unit.
7. Re-connect it to the PC and start up TT home
Then see if that works |
i am using windows vista
but what gonna happend if i rename the file Western and central Europe.mid into Western and central Europe.old is that what you mean ?
i am gonna recive Data for free in my tomtom if change thos names or wat?
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cyberbot
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| AndyVaughan wrote: | I think that is the case fo rthe Netherlands for Q1.
HD Traffic is available there I think at the moment - might be worth looking in to the availability of that for your model?
Andy |
i want it for my model
i dont know about the availality that why i am asking here
is using TMC cable gonna fix all ? |
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Andy_P
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| tonys66 wrote: |
4. Rename these two files Western_and_Central_Europe.mid", "Western_and_Central_Europe.mms" to .old or something. |
I think you'll find those files don't exist on v7 maps.
What MIGHT get it to work is to delete all previous corrections "from other people" from the device (in Home v2 / Tools / Mapshare / remove corrections).
Over the last two weeks this HASN'T worked for me, but on Friday it did.
Today it didn't again.
Why is everybody so keen to mess with their own set-up when we keep saying its a problem at TomTom's end? |
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cyberbot
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| Andy_P2002 wrote: | | tonys66 wrote: |
4. Rename these two files Western_and_Central_Europe.mid", "Western_and_Central_Europe.mms" to .old or something. |
I think you'll find those files don't exist on v7 maps.
What MIGHT get it to work is to delete all previous corrections "from other people" from the device (in Home v2 / Tools / Mapshare / remove corrections).
Over the last two weeks this HASN'T worked for me, but on Friday it did.
Today it didn't again.
Why is everybody so keen to mess with their own set-up when we keep saying its a problem at TomTom's end? |
if i rename this into Western_and_central_europ.old i ll get the traffic active?
i have looked in my map but i dont have file who are ended with .mid and .mms
only 4 files .pna and .meta and .meta.dct and .tlv
any suggestions ? |
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AndyVaughan
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| cyberbot wrote: | | AndyVaughan wrote: | I think that is the case fo rthe Netherlands for Q1.
HD Traffic is available there I think at the moment - might be worth looking in to the availability of that for your model?
Andy |
i want it for my model
i dont know about the availality that why i am asking here
is using TMC cable gonna fix all ? |
No knowing what model you have, it was only some advice.
If you have a model running Navcore 7 (which I guess you have because of Mapshare) I would hold off buying a TMC antenna until TT fix the software bug that stops it getting delay info.
I don't know how good the reception in in the Netherlands, but I guess it is better than the postcode lottery in the UK.
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cyberbot
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| AndyVaughan wrote: | | cyberbot wrote: | | AndyVaughan wrote: | I think that is the case fo rthe Netherlands for Q1.
HD Traffic is available there I think at the moment - might be worth looking in to the availability of that for your model?
Andy |
i want it for my model
i dont know about the availality that why i am asking here
is using TMC cable gonna fix all ? |
No knowing what model you have, it was only some advice.
If you have a model running Navcore 7 (which I guess you have because of Mapshare) I would hold off buying a TMC antenna until TT fix the software bug that stops it getting delay info.
I don't know how good the reception in in the Netherlands, but I guess it is better than the postcode lottery in the UK.
Andy |
i know you are trying to help
i appreciate it really,
my Model is TT 720 and i have heard that the Recepetion is very good here, if you disagree can you tell me where i can find information about this ? |
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AndyVaughan
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If you have a 720 a RDS-TMC antenna will give you free traffic info BUT there is a bug in the software that TT are "working hard to resolve".
Until it is fixed, you will not get any delay info, only an indication of an incident.
If you can hold off for a month or so it should be fixed by then.
You could do with finding someone local who has an antenna, or a forum with lots of users from the Netherlands to advise on local reception.
With the launch of HD traffic there is a lot of activity in the traffic arena, it might be an idea to hold off and see what happens next.
Andy |
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cyberbot
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| AndyVaughan wrote: | If you have a 720 a RDS-TMC antenna will give you free traffic info BUT there is a bug in the software that TT are "working hard to resolve".
Until it is fixed, you will not get any delay info, only an indication of an incident.
If you can hold off for a month or so it should be fixed by then.
You could do with finding someone local who has an antenna, or a forum with lots of users from the Netherlands to advise on local reception.
With the launch of HD traffic there is a lot of activity in the traffic arena, it might be an idea to hold off and see what happens next.
Andy |
well thanks for the information
do you know anywhere where i can get Dutch info about Traffic ect... like dutch forum or something |
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Andy_P
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| Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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The parent site of yourNav and MyTomTom is dutch. Try there.
http://www.jouwmedia.nl/ |
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