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Anita Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Mar 15, 2006 Posts: 3219 Location: Windlesham, Surrey
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry, Solobay, I have no suggestions. Hopefully someone closer to your area will be able to check on their own device. _________________ Anita
TomTom VIA 135 - App 12.075
UK map 1130.12368
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falkirk81 Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: Jul 07, 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Newcastle, England, UK
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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I know exactly what the problem is. I get the traffic via tmc living in newcastle and know the part of the road is closed via the tmc traffic. It appeared when the severe weather hit the area and that road was closed. It is NOT a mapshare issue, but an Itis traffic issue! _________________ Tomtom GO 1005 LIVE
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Solobay Occasional Visitor
Joined: Oct 24, 2006 Posts: 57
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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Exactly the spot and problem - so any ideas on how to get this fixed - me I just ignore it but others may be taking all sorts of detours |
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falkirk81 Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: Jul 07, 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Newcastle, England, UK
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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Need to contact ITis the data supplier to tomtom or the highways agency if it is them that is reporting it _________________ Tomtom GO 1005 LIVE
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D4VE Lifetime Member
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 207 Location: Hertfordshire
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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Thought people would be interested in a positive experience i had today with the TMC-RDS.
Since getting my replacement unit from TT i have had improved reception, i work mainly around London and the Home Counties and generally apart from a couple of odd occassions the circle has remained green all the time.
I will point ot that the validity of the info is a separate issue, but today whilst in a parking garage off commercial street, preparing to make my way home, i turned on the unit. It duly informed me of no gps signal and the arrow flying over the car looking for a TMC signal. By the time i had rolled me fag and completed my pre-flight checks up came my green circle, while still in the garage i was surpised to say the least.
By the way i do not have any special install just the aerial wire leaving my central Brodit mount across the top of the dash to the windscreen and then across to the offside pillar.
Can anyone here report this improvement or am i just lucky so far?
Dave _________________ iPhone4 IOS 4.3.3
TomTom Western Europe v865.3252
App 8.300 V1.6 (670441)
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Elastic Occasional Visitor
Joined: May 11, 2008 Posts: 49
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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I travelled down to the South coast and back yesterday and the TMC showed a permanant green all the time.
Even the information was correct about delays on the M25 and the location.
Just a pity I couldn't do anything about it.
Since the latest OS update TMC actually works. At least I now know what I'm heading for.... |
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apwood Occasional Visitor
Joined: Aug 17, 2006 Posts: 35 Location: Sheffield
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:50 pm Post subject: Cannot tune manually |
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I have a few problems with my new TomTom 920 TMC (bought 3 days ago from PC World), wonder if anyone can offer any advice and is anyone having the same manual tuning issue?
I live in Rotherham and commute to Sheffield, I think the Classic FM station if relevant is 101.1
When first switching it at the start of my journey on it searches for a station and often takes over 5 minutes to find one and then get the data. Mostly it finds 101.1 (although it doesn't say which radio station it thinks that is).
It then re-tunes roughly evey 5 minutes, taking a minutes or two to get a lock and update.
To avoid all this tuning and re-tuning I have tried a many times to set the station manually to 101.1 manually (TomTom mostly locks onto 101.1, and my car radio says Classic FM is 101.1 so I think that's the correct frequency).
What happens then is that it says "Tuning to 101.10 for a few seconds" immediately followed by "Unable to find a station at 101.10. Finding another station ..." After about a minute it locks onto 101.1 FM even though it just said it couldn't find a station at that frequency.
I've tried typing in other frequencies between 100 and 102 but that doesn't help I've tried typing 101.01, 101.1 and 101.10 and that doesn't help.
Is it worth setting the frequency manually in any case, or is it best to let the TMC keep retuning as it does every few minutes?
Or, could this be a fault in my TMC receiver or TomTom 920? |
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pcaouolte Frequent Visitor
Joined: Dec 27, 2006 Posts: 998 Location: South Lincs, UK.
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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That sounds like TMC working correctly in a borderline reception area.
I don't know your area so I can't comment on the reception you might expect.
If it connects and downloads data every 5 minutes that should be ok to give you adequate warning of traffic problems.
Forget about tuning manually just let it do it's own thing. The behavior you describe when you try to tune manually is what should happen if the signal is weak or absent.
Have you tried moving the aerial wire to different positions to improve the reception? _________________ Paul |
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mikealder Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 14, 2005 Posts: 19638 Location: Blackpool , Lancs
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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I agree with pcaouolte it sounds like it is working to me, the manual tune option is a waste of time as the device will resume the auto tune process far to quickly even when you enter the correct frequency for your area (which you are doing, Holme Moss transmits Classic FM using 101,1 and is a high power station with a good area coverage).
Just leave the unit to auto tune, what software version have you got installed to the 920, the removal of the radio station name was something TomTom did in quite a distant software update - Mike |
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apwood Occasional Visitor
Joined: Aug 17, 2006 Posts: 35 Location: Sheffield
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks. I did move the aerial wire slightly further from the edge of the windscreen and that helps a bit - although I can't manually tune even if I take the aerial outside. I've been watching it and it does tend to get updates (including retuning) probably every 5 minutes so no problem.
Only issues are that sometimes it says its autotuning, but get stiuck on single frequency, doesn't rotate through any other frequencies, or it doesn't show a frequency at all. In this state it never works. I find I have to pull out the cable and re-insert. (Note I always make sure the cable is fully inserted before use).
Any thoughts on that? Although I can get it working, its not good to have to mess about when actually driving (which tends to be when I notice is not actually tuned in for a while). |
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angusr Occasional Visitor
Joined: Dec 21, 2008 Posts: 7
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:51 am Post subject: Re: Anita - thx |
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Solobay wrote: | From Multimap - it will be within 100yds of these!
Grid ref: NT252674
Lat: 55:53:39N (55.89424)
Lon: 3:11:51W (-3.19762) |
Ahh, the mysterious "City of Edinburgh Bypass closed eastbound after the Lothianburn exit" problem. That was one of the bits of the Bypass closed after the extreme weather in August, and for some unknown reason this bit never reopened as far as RDS-TMC is concerned. It was still "closed" this weekend.
It's not marked on the Traffic Scotland site (it's not the Highways Agency who are the provider for Scotland) so I'm presuming it's either an issue at the RDS-TMC provider or it's somehow "stuck" in a buffer on the device. Is there a buffer folder somewhere? |
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mda1974 Occasional Visitor
Joined: Dec 17, 2008 Posts: 8
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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D4VE wrote: | .
Can anyone here report this improvement or am i just lucky so far?
Dave |
I used my new TMC unit for the first time on Friday night to travel from Bradford to Warwick.
I got a signal very quickly and had a full green circle all the way to Tibshelf Services where we stopped for a comfort break. It then picked up a signal again and held it until we arrived.
The data on there seemed to be ok too, picking up both sets of road works on the M1 and M40 and correctly not giving any delay.
My only slight complaint would be that the whole system seemed to slow down considerably after plugging in the receiver. The menus were slower and there was a noticeable lag on the map. Not a huge problem as I was only on motorways but could have been more of a problem if I was navigating into a city centre.
I have a TT One v4 (or 30 series or whatever it’s being called these days)
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