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Topic: Damaged my 530 changing battery. |
Edmo117
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:21 am Subject: Damaged my 530 changing battery. |
Excellent! I used a 1uF 603 for C218 and bluetooth is restored and traffic working again. It took four capacitors, three are somewhere in the room after flying out from the tweezers and one is soldere ... |
Topic: GO730 won't start up. |
Edmo117
Replies: 7
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:51 pm Subject: GO730 won't start up. |
Sounds like the internal memory could have failed (not uncommon on the Gox20 and x30 models by now).
If you have a good backup, try installing it all onto an SD card and running the device from tha ... |
Topic: GO730 won't start up. |
Edmo117
Replies: 7
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:28 pm Subject: GO730 won't start up. |
Are you running from the SD Card, or the Internal Memory? Have you tried both?
Can you connect it to a PC, and is it recognised? Can you explore the files that are on the unit?
I am running on ... |
Topic: Damaged my 530 changing battery. |
Edmo117
Replies: 19
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:37 pm Subject: Damaged my 530 changing battery. |
Thanks Edmo, that was the information I was looking for.
The soldering will be the tricky part, I have a fine enough tip but my concern is holding the component in place and not moving it with the ... |
Topic: GO730 won't start up. |
Edmo117
Replies: 7
Views: 3337
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:29 am Subject: GO730 won't start up. |
I have a Go730 and if started to freeze recently. Pushing the reset and starting again would recover the situation for a short time but it would freeze again.
Last night it worked fine and I could ... |
Topic: Damaged my 530 changing battery. |
Edmo117
Replies: 19
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:20 am Subject: Re: Damaged my 530 changing battery. |
I recently changed my battery on the 530 as it had failed and whilst doing this, a tiny surface mount capacitor (I assume it is a capacitor as it is marked as C218 on the board to the right of the ba ... |
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