NEW: Application Update now for x30: v8.010

[shadamehr]

ISSUE ALERT:

Early days, and I'd love to hear other people's experiences...

But coming home tonight, 3 miles from work, I deliberately missed a turn TomTom advises, like I always do, as I know my route is better, locally.

And the TomTom took AGES to recalculate a new route. By this I don't mean to do the calculation - I just mean before it even decided to start.

So just to test, I started playing, "Miss The Turning".

And on every single occasion, TomTom, after missing the turn, and the next direction box etc turning empty, sat there for SEVEN SECONDS, before deciding to even bother recalculating a route (the actual process of which is then near instantaneous).

I tested this in total FOUR more times driving home, and on EVERY occasion, it sits there for SEVEN seconds for me, before deciding to recalculate.

I have already noticed Startup time is more sluggish (that is, after entering my PIN, there is a noticeable delay now, before the Driving Screen View is drawn).

So I hope this is not another issue. As I couldn't persevere with a device that WAITS seven seconds on any missed turn, before even deciding it wants to recalculate the route.

So please tell me it's just been a one-off day for me folks?

Happy to hear your experiences.

[shadamehr]

Darn.

Despite various reboots, switch offs, and resets tonight, dropping partner off at work, I find it's still doing this.

Taking five seconds or so (I counted slower and more steady this time, to be sure and fair), before it even DECIDES to start recalculating route.

Mmm.

[jonfieldsend]

I just logged on via home and was told that there was an update available in the shape of 8.010. As an update is normally a recipe for disaster I backed up my 520. Needless to say the update failed to install. I then went to restore to my previous back up. That then failed an now when I turn on my TomTom520 all I get is the message "No maps found!". Tomtom is heading to be the worst PDA provider possible.

[shadamehr]

[richard345]

Noticed that the startup on my 520 with 8.010 is now three - four times faster than 7.481

One second of button press gives my personal splash screen and then 3 seconds to get the connection to Home. When using off the dock, One second of button press gives my personal splash screen and then 6 seconds to get the Navigate To screen and a connection via Bluetooth to the Nokia N73.

I'm impressed!
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Ric - TomTom 520 DEAD - Passed to the great traffic jam in the sky. Now using Maps & Waze on Samsung Galaxy S4 + CamerAlert of course!

[Astronut]

I've updated my TomTom ONE XL with the new app.

They've replaced the customisable compass in the preferences with some custom car cursors - why!?!!!
The compass that now appears on the nav screen is really tiny and points north - I preferred to have the compass customised showing my direction with north at the top.

They've also changed the POI icons.

An annoying bug I've found is I can no longer operate my device from TomTom Home - it says I need to download a file - probably some ActiveX
file (which I already had).
I go ahead and download the file and then it comes up some message saying 'failed to connect' or something.

I have a backup from when I first bought it (before using it for the first time). If I revert to this backup will I also lose my free map update?

[Calomax]

Shadamehr wrote

[batties]

I have also lost my compass and would really like it back! is there a fix available or a script to replace it?

[ItsMikeE]

[Anita]

[rtj70]

I've tried again this morning and now have Traffic via GPRS working.... hmmm.

[DennisN]

Could I ask everybody to PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS THREAD RELATES TO x30 DEVICES ONLY

There is another thread HERE for previous devices - Please post there if you device is not 530, 730 or 930, then we won't get confusion and duplication.
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[richard345]

Apologies, I had not seen the note that this thread was for x30's. Can you move my post 5 on page 2 above to the correct one?
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Ric - TomTom 520 DEAD - Passed to the great traffic jam in the sky. Now using Maps & Waze on Samsung Galaxy S4 + CamerAlert of course!

[shadamehr]

Oh man, this is getting worse for me...

I properly timed and tested the re-routing delay today, using a stopwatch, not just counting in my head.

And it took 5.92 seconds the first one, and 5.36 seconds the next.

This might not seem much, but is a highly noticeable delay compared to before 8.010 for me, and very infuriating.

Indeed, in one test last night, it took so long to re-calculate, that by the time it did, I had already passed the new suggested turn off.

For clarity too, these timings are based on from the moment the screen next direction box blanks (i.e. it realises you have gone off suggested route), to when it then gives you a new route option.

So even longer in total, if you add in the time it pauses to even realise you have gone off route - but that element is constant to all versions, so not added to by the new update.

Also however, I have found that since the new update, my Handsfree Calling doesn't work very much.

That is all appears well, but when my phone rings, or I ring out to someone, nothing happens on the TT, even though the call is connected, and you can't even pick up the handset once you realise, as the audio IS being routed to the TomTom, it's just that the TomTom is not playing the audio.

Resetting TomTom fixes this.

But it seems to be doing this every time.

This is why I WISH TomTom would issue a proper changelog for each release.

As I am sorely minded to revert back to 8.002 in the same way I always found 7.221 more reliable for me than 7.482 on the x20 series, but worry that there may be a major unseen reason why TT brought out this changelog.

At least knowing the fixes, I could make an informed decision whether to revert back or not.

For now, I think I might do, as I see NOTHING at all that 8.010 adds or introduces or fixes, over 8.002, being an x30 user, but I do see three bugs or issues of varying degrees of severity, and one design change that I do not like, with the new version.

I guess I've answered my own question there then, so I am off to revert back for now - but post this so others may read, and make an informed decision of their own if they wish, until TT tell us what 8.010 brings where existing x30 users are concerned.

Cheers all.

[shadamehr]

Or I will when I have more time, as my attempt now failed, and left me NO device, so I am having to re-install 8.010 via TT Home.

Oh well, later.

TTFN all.

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