Reverted TT One V3 To 7.162 - How do I get my Setting Back?

spcdust · Regular Visitor Joined: Sep 18, 2007 Posts: 60

Due to Tom Tom closing the Itinerary Planning loop hole on Navcore 8 I've just reverted my Tom Tom back to 7.162. However I have now lost all my personal POI settings (basically the speed camera warnings distances). Which file do I need to drag over from a backup to get all my personal setting restored on my device.

Many thanks in advance

spcdust

dhn · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:56 pm Post subject:

I stand to be corrected but I believe the mapsettings.cfg file is the one you need.

spcdust · Regular Visitor Joined: Sep 18, 2007 Posts: 60

mikealder · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:34 pm Post subject:

The file mentioned by dhn is the correct one, but you would have to copy it to the device from a back up made after you configured the warnings, there is no real option other than configuring them again, it doesn't take too long, full speed zoned can be accomplished in under 5 minutes (with practice).

A couple of tips to make this job easier (and faster):
When you select Warn When Near POI instead of scrolling through the entire list type PO and the device will only list the POI files beginning with these letters (the speed cameras start PO)
For distance, if its a 30MPH camera use 300 yards, for 50 use 500, and for 70MPH use 700, these are easy to remember values that equate to around a 25 second duration between the warning be spoken and passing the actual camera assuming you are at, or just below the speed limit. For mobiles add 50% to the above figures - Mike

spcdust · Regular Visitor Joined: Sep 18, 2007 Posts: 60

Cheers dhn and mike for your help. The mapsettings.cfg file I am using is from my most recent back-up with all the changes I have made to the POIS's. However this back-up is one done since my device was upgraded to Navcore 8, now that I've downgraded to 7.162 maybe this makes a difference (although I suspect it should have no bearing.

Oh well, looks like I'll do it the manual method Rolling Eyes

Many thanks

spcdust

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:58 pm Post subject:

There ARE subtle differences in the format of MapSettings.cfg between versions.

If, from now on, you do Windows Explorer (not Home) backups before and after you do anything you will always be able to get back to what you want.

It's boring, it's time consuming, but it solves so many problems before they get to *be* a problem.

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