customise/modify myn TomTom GO 300

James_patageul · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 19, 2006 Posts: 7

Hello people,

i have receive a TomTom GO (4D00.001) (i think is the Go 300)

So i whant to change the splashscreen,add somes voices and more..

but when i connect myn TTGO300 on myn computer i dont see its "hardDrive" i only see the card reader device and of course the files inside the SD Card how is inside of the TTGO

i have installed the TomTom Home but seem not compatible with him :-(

So what can i do to customise a little myn GO 300 ?

Thanks...

Oldboy · Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:33 pm Post subject:

If it is a 300, there is no Hard Drive.

When connected to the PC, via USB lead, it does only see what is on the SD Card. It acts like a Card Reader.

When the 300 boots up it loads everything it needs from the SD Card.

In which way does it appear that HOME is not compatible?

To change the Splash Screen, you need to change the splash.bmp File in the Root of the Card.
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James_patageul · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 19, 2006 Posts: 7

ok may be not hard drive inside of it, but at least memory inside of it !
because i can read in "setup" 32Mb Ram (free:14.9 mb) and this is not myn SD card because she have 128Mb

i have put one splash.bmp on the root of the SD card but nothing happen !

and for the home the error was something like

"sorry but your tomtom device is not compatible with tomtom home" Confused

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:11 pm Post subject:

There is nothing stored in the memory of the TomTom, everything is on the SD card. That is all you need to access (which you can do either with the Go plugged in via USB or by a card reader.

The splash screen WILL work if you have it named correctly.
One common mistake is calling it "splash.bmp.bmp" because you have windows set to hide file extensions (turn it off in Windows Explorer Tools menu / Folder Options / View tab).
It also has to be the right size and shape and rotated through 90 degrees. This has been discussed at length, try a search for "splash screen"
To get you started:
1. Select photo
2. Use any program to re-size (i.e. photoshop) to size 320 x 240 pixels
3. Rotate 90 degrees clockwise
4. Save pic in BMP format as splash.bmp on desktop
5. Plug in ttgo
6. Open ttgo in my computer
7. You will see a file called splash.bmp RENAME it to splash1.bmp
8. Copy the new splash.bmp from your desktop straight on to ttgo in same place

Miss out any of those steps and it won't show up.

James_patageul · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 19, 2006 Posts: 7

Hello Andy,

ok, but what is very strange there was no splash.bmp originaly on the SD card (here the content of myn SD card)

James_patageul · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 19, 2006 Posts: 7

no body can help me ?

James_patageul · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 19, 2006 Posts: 7

ho btw the 4D00.001 seem be a TomTom classic if can help to resolve my problems.

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:57 pm Post subject:

keenster · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:41 pm Post subject:

thats definately a classic not a 300

James_patageul · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 19, 2006 Posts: 7

Andy_P2002 yeap the problem was because i was running a older software version (4.00)

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