740L -- dead ! RIP

cliffbrown · Lifetime Member Joined: Mar 06, 2008 Posts: 178

Scotland, and theres more!!!!!
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Fibre · Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 8:05 pm Post subject:

cliffbrown · Lifetime Member Joined: Mar 06, 2008 Posts: 178

If they are as prompt ever time, I dont mind, as long as it is still within the warranty

Fibre · Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 7:21 pm Post subject:

Hmmm _ I don't know whether to be thrilled or not -- I had an email from Tom-tom saying that my "order" has been shipped and was on its way -- giving me a tracking number..

and yes I have been following it.. vis UPS tracking

Why my disquiet??
Well the first word of the email was "null"

What does that mean??

Did they find anything ?
If so have they repaired it?
or
Are they shipping it back - As Was?
or
A new 740L??

What does the code "null" indicate??

Perhaps we shall know after Christmas even though it has been dispatched from BARKING, GB at 08.30 this morning -- it hasn't found its way here --Yet..
We are still travelling around using the good and faithful "Classic"

A very Merry Christmas to all
Maurice
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jeta1 · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 4:57 pm Post subject:

So what happened Maurice ?

Fibre · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 6:22 pm Post subject:

So sorry -- the Tom-tom came back all working
-- "Home" was in Amsterdam !!!
-- but at it was a new one it had to be reactivated against my email etc.
-- and also to be able to "switch on" the Live services.

It didn't have the latest map Crying or Very sad

-- but they downloaded it to me and I put it on to the 740L
-- still loads of streets missing around here - but thats another story Evil or Very Mad

-- It took a couple of days for the live to be fully active
-- and then they added another three months subscription.. Very Happy

Spent time sorting the Poi's etc
-- from my desktop
-- and also the speed cams etc.

But -- touch wood it seems to be working.. at the moment
Just the odd couple of occasions when the phone hasn't connected..

One other thing.. on the voice activation..
When I ask "Where am I?" it replies "seeking your location"

Then it comes up with a small map screen and the text of the location also with the Lat/ Long of the Location etc. all as previously

BUT - On the old one it used to speak the words out loud and tell me
-- but either I haven't switched something on
-- but this one don't speak the location??

Any ideas why?? what have I done wrong

Maurice
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AndyVaughan · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 6:35 pm Post subject:

Do you have a TTS voice selected?

Check your voice preferences as well as you can turn off and on what is and isn't read out to you.

Fibre · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 6:39 pm Post subject:

AndyVaughan · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 6:58 pm Post subject:

Not sure as don't have the same model - make sure that you have all the 'read aloud' options selected, and all the 'don't read aloud' options deselected.

If that doesn't fix it then maybe someone with the same model and Navcore will be along soon to help .........

Fibre · Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 5:18 pm Post subject:

still havent figured out how to get it to speak " where am I" positions

any ideas?
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DennisN · Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 6:52 pm Post subject:

Have you looked at your selected/deselected voice preferences as Andy suggested? I too don't have the same model so I can't check.
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Fibre · Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:26 pm Post subject:

DennisN · Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:01 pm Post subject:

I said "voice preferences" - Andy asked if you've ticked all the preferences needed and unticked the preferences not needed. Just selecting a computer voice doesn't cover all of them. On my device, voice preferences are choices offered on two following screens after you select the computer voice.

So...

Tick everything that offers to read aloud something.

Untick everything that offers to NOT read aloud anything.

And see where that gets you. Sorry, but Andy and I can't get any closer as we don't have the "Where am I?" feature on our devices.
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If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

Andy_P · Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:03 pm Post subject:

I have a 940 and on my current software the TTS voice does not read out your location after a "Where am I?" command. (I ticked all the options for "read aloud warnings" etc.)

I've never bothered using the voice commands and don't usually use a TTS voice so I've no idea if it ever worked, but it certainly doesn't seem to now.

If you are convinced it used to read the position out, maybe they have removed it in one of the several software updates?

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