Tomtom Go520 Bluetooth Phone volume

[Streetburner]

Is there a way to increase the Tomtom Go520 Bluetooth Phone volume.
IE: when recieving a call thru tomtom the volume is not as loud as map direction volume (thats great). I have phone volume to max & tomtom volume to max, I can here it but with the van noise it`s not loud enough, any suggestions,thanks.

[PaulB2005]

Try this..

During a call tap the bottom left of the screen and you'll get the Volume slider. Increase the volume and see if that works. You must do it in call though.

[HappyTrucker]

Other than not having the call volume up loud enough (as above) as far as I'm aware the only option is to have an audio cable from the TT to the Radio Cassette to send the phone conversation to your stereo.

However, it never used to be just as simple as that (surprise surpirise). Something to do with feedback etc I think. There used to be a fix for the x10 series where you could create a file on your TomTom called something like handsfreelineoutenable or similar and this would be a sort of back door to getting the phone audio to be able to be passed down the audio cable. I'm guessing that this wouldn't work for the FM transmitter though since it named lineout in the file. Wouldn't be surprised if TT have disabled this now though.

Since the 520 does have a transmitter (I think) are there no settings in Speaker preferences to have phone calls sent to the FM transmitter?

edit: The above would mean having either a) a wired headset attached to the lineout of the cradle or b) your radio having to be tuned permanently to the TT frequency so it's not an elegant solution by any means

[Streetburner]

Thanks for the tips will try next time out on the road, Streetburner

[Seamaster]

[mikealder]

The "lineoutappenable" work around was disabled with a software update within a few weeks of it being discovered back in the days the 910 was the flagship model, newer devices have not been able to support anything other than hands free audio using the built in speaker. I think it was pre Navcore 6,52 that you could get this working on a 910, once support for the RDS-TMC and FM transmitter dock were released the work around failed to work.

I have recently switched to using a decent car hands free kit as the device simply isn't reliable for phone conversations, couple this with the poor sound quality (compared to what you get via the cars speaker system) and you really notice a difference - Mike

[HappyTrucker]

That's just typical of them I suppose. How quickly those people 'fix' things. TBH I wish there was an easy way of using the unit for receiving texts but still having the calls in a hands free headset. Having it read out incoming texts can be good at times. Unless your texter doesn't punctuate or uses txt spk that is

[DennisN]

I've just resolved my handsfree problems by getting back my old GO700 - it had gone to son-in-law and I was struggling with 720 and 920. I've swapped him for a 720. So now I can hear the caller decently on the 700 speaker and the device doesn't crash in the middle of calls. The only thing I no longer get is reading messages out loud, but TBH I found that more of a gimmick than a vital necessity.
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