Screen locking up?

arthurnorman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 19, 2005 Posts: 4

I have Tomtom 5 installed on a CF card in an Ipaq 4700. SOMETHING seems to lock up every hour or so, and I hope somebody can advise me on how to work out what. The experience today was that while driving along not touching the ipaq and with my bt338 liable to be keeping a good lock the screen froze, leaving a display of the way ahead when that happened. However as I drove on voice prompts continued so that parts of tomtom were still running OK. When I stopped I could try the soft buttons on the ipaq and Icould not get any useful response out of them to get the display to change or switch to any other application. Powering off seemed to leave a state where when I powered back on I get the same frozen screen. A soft reset get me OK again. When just activesync is running my ipaq says if has 17.02+14.11 Mb of its memory free. Anybody else seen similar or can give me a clue whether this is tomtom or my ipaq? Thanks.

stu14t · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 10:25 pm Post subject:

Are you getting any notification errors in a message box, telling you " Cannot start windows/ttgpseng.exe or similar?
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Tomtom GO 710 + TMC RDS

Ipaq 2210 6GB CF II Microdrive
TTN5 with Holux CR-100/ Globalsat 338 BT

Deadly · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:18 am Post subject:

I had exactly the same problem on my HP4700. Screen froze and yet voice commands continued. TT5 will not exit without a reboot either. On Friday it froze...crashed....and then hard reset. I will be thrashing it out with the boys at Tom Tom or will revert to version 3 which worked fine for overa year. Take care and back up....I lost no data.... just my directions to a gig on a busy Friday night.
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Mark Deadly Smedley

arthurnorman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 19, 2005 Posts: 4

I had 3 or 4 freezed in a couple of days, with no notification boxes - just the road display stopped updating. I think I had one such instance when viewing where I was as the arrow on the big map rather than the 3D view of the road ahead. When I had done a soft reset I could observe that my battery was well charged so loss of power was not a problem - I am runing with both ipaq and gps on a Y power cable in the car. After some freezes I looked on the HP web site and now have upgraded to the 4.21.1088 build 15045.2.6.0 of Windows mobile but behaviour I report is the same before and after installing that.