Can you copy TomTom onto an existing micro-SD card?

[petepda]

I've just bought an HTC Touch phone running WM6 and would love to get TomTom software running on it. However, due to the rather unfriendly access to the SD card, i'd rather not have to swap cards everytime i want to run TT or listen to my MP3 collection for instance.

So, can i copy the software from the TomTom SD card to my own card?

Also, is TomTom available without the GPS receiver - i already have one.


Thanks

[mikealder]

Have a read of the FAQ page number 8 should give you an idea of what is needed, it was written for the Go devices to use a larger card, but will work just as well for what you want to do.
My only other tip, use a card reader, don't try sending map files to the device via Active Sync - its just not reliable enough. Nice choice of phone by the way.
FAQ page is Here - Mike

[petepda]

Excellent! Many thanks Mike.

I'm certainly loving the Touch - very usable, but incredibly small device - just what i've always wanted from a phone/pda.

Next step - find TomTom for as little £££ as possible!

[xda]

[309Pug]

Can any of you guys help please.
Attempted to copy TT Nav 6 from supplied SD Card to 2GB SD Card, followed the instructions to the letter from the FAQ section No8, I even formatted the disk using the Panosonic SD Format software first. Here's my problem it will just not recognise the copied TT software in my Nokia N73.
If you look at the files / info on the new 2GB disk via your PC they are all there, what am I doing wrong !!!

Chris

[mikealder]

Did you have 'Show hidden files' ticked and hide file extensions for known files un ticked as per the guide, this relates to Windows Explorers settings, secondly did you maintain the folder structure I.E. are the folders all the root of the card or did you per chance put them all in a single folder on the new memory card as this is a common mistake - Mike

[309Pug]

Thanks for the swift reply Mike,
I made sure that the necessary boxes were ticked or unticked as advised, I copied all files from original TT Nav 6 card to desktop, this now shows several folders eg raster, system, .Trashes, voices etc etc+ individual files eg start.exe, autorun.inf, connect2internet.db etc etc
I swapped cards and copy / pasted from the desktop icon straight to the new card.
Still won't work, I must be doing something wrong, please advise, it's probably something simple that I have possibly overlooked.

Chris

[coconut]

I had a similar problem but with my Ipaq hw6915 where I wanted to copy the files from the supplied TomTom Mini SD card to a higher capacity 2Gb card.

A straight copy resulted in the same problem - no maps found and card not recognised when running Navigator.

I consulted TomTom Support whose advice was to try this :

Browse to the TomTom memory card and open it, then ONLY copy the FOLDERS ( and the files within them ). DON'T copy the individual files on the card that are not in folders. Paste the copied folders ( and the files within them ) onto your new, higher capacity card.

Insert the new card into your PDA, then run the latest software update via TomTom Home. There had been an update for the Ipaq 6915, since purchasing the software, and TomTom advised that this would need to be applied once for any new card copied in this way.

After applying the software update, follow on screen instructions - remove the card then re-insert to install the update onto the device.

For my setup this worked perfectly giving me extra storage space on the card for MP3 files etc etc
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