TT 700 Red flashing triangle- Bin it or fix it?

mikealder · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:09 am Post subject:

For a Go-700 you need to click Here for the latest Navcore, then use WinRar to install it to the device - Mike

Neill · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 13, 2006 Posts: 21

Thanks! I have the Navcore files now. Can someone recommend a safe place to get WinRar from? I'm a bit out of my depth with all of this but since the patient is already dead I can experiment.... Laughing

mikealder · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:24 pm Post subject:

You can download WinRar from Here - Mike

Neill · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 13, 2006 Posts: 21

Well I think I to have managed to get the Navcore files on the TT (if this is what they look like!)

That seems to be what windows is seeing on the TT (g drive)

And I have run clear flash. And have the TT charged and on mains power. So now I need to get the maps etc loaded? But if I try with TT Home v1.6) I still get the first warning message above. Confused

I think the reason it takes multiple 'OK' clicks to clear it is it it has many instances of the same fault. Should I be trying to get the maps from somewhere else? Thanks for your time on this. Very Happy

mikealder · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:46 pm Post subject:

What map are you trying to install using Home, was this map a backup file or supplied from Home or even from a DVD/ CD? - Mike

Neill · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 13, 2006 Posts: 21

I was using Home. I'm not sure I was doing it right. I was trying to download via the button that says 'TomTom application for go (and a few others. I do have the original CD but it seems to be just a manual.

pcaouolte · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:39 pm Post subject:

Neill · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 13, 2006 Posts: 21

That's a thought. If you look at the blue highlighted bit above that message (which is a bit faded in the pic) it says 'From device' which does seem like the TT is causing it rather than a problem with the download.

Perhaps I should try downloading the voices only first (since Home seems to offer them separately) and then the maps. I really have no experience with all this, just looking for files and stuff on the laptop seems confusing enough to me!

AliOnHols · Pocket GPS Verifier Joined: Oct 15, 2008 Posts: 1936

Neill,
I have just downloaded and extracted the same files, they appear to be the same as you have in your screenshot, so all OK there.
If TTHome is still not performing, go to the back-up you made on your PC from your TT using WinExplorer, "copy" the Folder which contains the maps and "paste" it back onto your TT in the same place where you extracted the NavCore , i.e. directly onto the TT drive and not in any folders. Your map folder shall be called "UK & ROI" or "Western & Central Europe", etc.
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Neill · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 13, 2006 Posts: 21

Thanks Ali. I have the files back on now but no change. Crying or Very sad

Just for interest I opened the copy of the 'Voices' folder and about half of the files in there say they are 'recovered file fragments- pieces of file found when your disc was scanned'. There is also another less common parse file message for language, so perhaps some of those files are corrupted too.

I haven't see any change in the fault, it still won't turn off using the on/off button, although once it's connected to the computer it will turn off as normal. Also when connected, the red flashing cross isn't there any more just a pic of the back of a TT on a green background and the words 'TomTom GO 700'.

AliOnHols · Pocket GPS Verifier Joined: Oct 15, 2008 Posts: 1936

Out of curiosity (and with some hindsight - sorry) did you try switching your TT on after you had installed the NavCore but before you connected it to TTHome? and/or before you copied back the maps?

If so, I think the correct thing for the TT to do is to report that it can not find any installed maps, and not to display that Red Cross.

The activity you describe when your TT is connected to your PC is normal and therefore good news.

Your comments about broken files, I think i have read on this forum before that this is how Windows interprets some TomTom specific files so this may be normal also.

EDIT - Hi Neill, I have just looked at your screenshot again. Apologies if I'm wrong but isn't that taken before the files were unpacked? Have the files definitely been unpacked to the TomTom? I'm sure that you must have done this but i'm just double checking.
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SatMap Active 10 & 20.

Neill · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 13, 2006 Posts: 21

AliOnHols · Pocket GPS Verifier Joined: Oct 15, 2008 Posts: 1936

The way I usually unpack by using WinRar is to go to the unzipped file on your PC (the icon shall look like a multi-coloured stack of books) then right click once on the icon. This will open a menu of which one choice shall be "Extract To" (or similar). Left click once this option and then select the path to your TT. Before unpacking, ensure that you have it set to "over-write existing files with the same name" in the WinRar options that display on screen as you choose the path to TT (just in case you did extract them before and they were corrupted/broken).

I am unfamiliar with the Go700, does it have an SD slot where you can insert a memory card? If your hard drive is not being read by TT, it may be possible to put the software on a SD card if a slot exists and operate it from there.

I must admit that I am beginning to run out of ideas/suggestions. Normall a wipe-clean and an incremental re-install works every time. If anybody else has any ideas please step in.
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Android with CamerAlert, OsmAnd+, Waze & TT Europe.
TomTom GO 730, GO 930, GO 940 & Rider2.
SatMap Active 10 & 20.

M8TJT · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:16 am Post subject:

EDIT: Ali beat me to it Very Happy

Neill · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 13, 2006 Posts: 21

Thanks yet again... It's looking a bit more hopeful. I can see the stack of books icon. Right click brings-

Extract files
Extract here
Extract to Navcore_7903.9183.9183\go700

I'll try 'extract files' as soon as I get a chance. (Or should it be the bottom one?) No sd card on this 700.

Where computers are concerned I can only get things right if I am led by the nose using the simplest terms possible. I've never even heard of most of the file types! Embarassed

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