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Rodders289 Occasional Visitor
Joined: Aug 17, 2005 Posts: 10
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 3:42 pm Post subject: Transferring maps between units |
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Hi, friends and I are shortly travelling to France for a 1 week holiday which will entail a lot of travelling so we do want a France map for TomTom. I have a GO 330 with an SD slot and he has a newer one but more basic which does not have a slot. We are going to half for the map but which one to buy, a download or a SD card. We are unlikely to use it again so I think an SD card would be better as I could sell it on and this is the question, can I. I have looked on Google etc and seem to get different bits of advice, some say no it is locked to the device, some say only a download is locked and SD cards can be changed.
TIA
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dhn Frequent Visitor
Joined: Oct 08, 2007 Posts: 2544 Location: Toronto CANADA
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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Official TomTom maps sold on a sd card are locked to the card and can be used in other devices with a sd slot.
Maps downloaded from TomTom are locked to the device so that even if you were to copy the dl map to a sd card and try it in another device with a sd card, it won't work. _________________ David |
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Rodders289 Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:39 am Post subject: Transferring maps between units |
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Thanks for that
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The_Original_Dodger Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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I have recently purchased an SD card with USA & Canada maps. I have now discovered that it is locked to the card and not the device. This could be useful if I replaced my TT with another model with SD slot. But from the crap support and the screw the customer attitude it is highly unlikely that I would get another TT. The worrying aspect of this system is that you cannot duplicate or backup the card so if it goes wrong you are in the brown stuff and dependant on TT support or doubtfull concern for its customers. If I had been aware of this I would have replaced my device with a Garmin.
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15138 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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The_Original_Dodger wrote: | The worrying aspect of this system is that you cannot duplicate or backup the card so if it goes wrong you are in the brown stuff |
you CAN backup the card. however, it would only work if you restored the backup to the original card. i.e. the brown stuff would only be present if the physical card was damaged.
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