Home Version 2.8.1.2218 Released (+ forced update issues)

franb · Banned Joined: Aug 10, 2007 Posts: 244

The latest Windows version of Tomtom Home has now been updated to 2.8.1.2218. Apparently it's another so-called "critical update".

andy-c1 · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:59 pm Post subject:

it needs to be ,I think home is awful and doesn't work very well yet ,although it is getting better ....thanks for the update d/l as I type
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253 · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:08 pm Post subject:

2.8.1.1109 on the Mac.

No idea what difference it will make though - if any.
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Guivre46 · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:25 pm Post subject:

I think my test of this new version would be to copy the device application to the computer, then see if it is available to redownload from 'Items on my computer'. I can't do this with the current version.
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Andy_P · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:29 am Post subject:

Guivre46 · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:00 am Post subject:

v8.351: In "manage my Go" it showed as being on computer [two copies in fact]. There is one TOC file. In "Items on my computer" no sign of it.

v9.058: "manage my Go" says it is on computer. No TOC file. Obviously not in "Items on my computer".

I'll play with the new version tonight.
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2216 · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 10, 2005 Posts: 245

Still can't operate my device with win 7 after the update.

dhn · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:28 pm Post subject:

The new version does NOT allow the user to uncheck the install option for any new applications offered. While, in most cases, this is not an issue, there are compelling reasons why some users do not wish to move to a higher application for their specific model.

They are forced to with this version of Home.
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RavyGravyDavy · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:08 am Post subject:

Yes, just found that out...I am still with V8.371 on my Go 940 after all the problems with V9.058, so have always unchecked the Navcore updates. Now with V2.8 I simply can't update my device anymore, as to do the map and camera updates I now have to do the Navcore update.

Really getting quite fed up with this, I've been nagged to update to Navcore 9.058 everytime I update, and now if I roll back to Home V2.7, I'm going to be nagged to update that everytime too.

Andy_P · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:53 am Post subject:

RavyGravyDavy · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 1:16 am Post subject:

Just tried rolling back to 2.7 and you are absolutely right, in Win 7 it just asks to update, you say no, so it shuts down Home. Snookered.

Absolutely barking. They have just effectively killed my GO 940, as I can no longer update it, despite having just paid for another years worth of Map updates.

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jacknelson · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 21, 2011 Posts: 1

Hi everybody

The solution is to uninstall TTH 2.8,
then reinstall TTH 2.7,
finally change TTH version in application.ini

as described here
http://www.tomtomax.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=147&t=23729&p=200863#p200863

Wink

EDIT AP: See link in my post below for (probably the original?) version in English.

RavyGravyDavy · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:00 am Post subject:

Result! Thanks Jack, you are a star.

Just done the change as per the French forum, the only difference was that that guy is using XP - As I am using Windows 7, initially it wouldn't let me save the changes to the application.ini file, but I changed the properties to allow edits and it then saved ok.

When I launched TT Home, the opening screen says 2.7, but if you do an 'About Home' then it says V2.1.8.2218 - fooled it!

A couple of points:

After reinstalling TT Home 2.7 remember to uncheck the 'Run Home' dialogue box, otherwise it will launch and try to update itself, and:

I assume everytime TT Home is updated by TT to a new version, we will have to amend the application.ini file to the new version number to prevent it updating in future.

Many thanks, good result!

Dave

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:40 am Post subject:

Rather then wade through it in French, here are the original instructions from the US TomTomForums.com (with some edits/additions from me)
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There's an easy 'hack' that will keep Home from updating itself. I'm back to running 2.8.0.2146.

1. Install a previous version of Home - anything prior to 2.8.1.2218 will do. I am running 2.8.0.2146, the version just prior to the "nasty" one.
(See below for links)

2. After running the *.exe to install the older version of Home, do NOT run it.

3. Navigate to: C:\Program Files\TomTom HOME 2\xul

4. Using Notepad, Wordpad or another text editor, edit the file called 'application.ini' in the xul folder as follows:

In the line which reads 'Version=2.X.X.XXXX' (matching the old version you have just installed), modify the number to read '2.8.1.2218' and re-save the file.
(If you are using Windows 7, you may need to change the properties to allow edits to the .ini file).
Another user found that you can just modify the number to read 10.000, (which would obviously work for some time!) but I've not tried this myself).

Now, when your earlier version of Home runs, your edit to "2.8.1.2218" will be compared to the most recently available version, and no update to Home will be made.

5. This will continue to work until the next version of Home is released somewhere down the road. At that time, if we still find that the new version of Home being released is problematic, we can share the version number that is reported for the update, and we can modify the application.ini file again with the new version number.

6. Here are links to the previous versions of Home:
v2.8.0.2146 for the PC
v2.8.0.1019 for the Mac

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