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sixhundred Regular Visitor
Joined: Oct 11, 2007 Posts: 81
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 3:45 pm Post subject: Favourite favourites |
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The 1005 has the option to select favourites to be even more favourite. When choosing Navigate To/Favourite it shows these preferred ones e.g. Home, Work, Gym, etc. They are configurable and this is a great feature especially when I have 30+ favourites but only regularly use 3 or 4.
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This only works if the option "Startup/Ask for a destination" is on. But this is annoying. I don't want to be asked a destination every time I switch the device on.
Is there another way of enabling this feature? |
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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That's odd..
On my Go1000 I can set up "Favourite Destinations" (that's what TomTom call them), and as you say, they appear as a full screen menu whenever the device is switched on (if I have it set to "Startup / Ask for a destination").
But they DON'T appear if I go to "Navigate to..../ Favourite". In that situation, I just get the normal Favourites list.
So it seems to be working as I'd expect. _________________ "Settling in nicely" ;-) |
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Antoeknee Lifetime Member
Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Posts: 267
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:25 am Post subject: |
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On my older TT if I wanted certain favs to be at top of list I use to prefix them with numbers
i.e.
1 fred
2 sam
Now this only really works as long as you don't store some favs with house numbers. |
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IanS100 Frequent Visitor
Joined: May 05, 2008 Posts: 870 Location: Southport
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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The x50 have a similar feature if you select 'Ask for a destination' in Start-Up Preferences, the only problem is the TomTom forgets where you're going if it's switched off and you have to select the destination again. This is ok on short journeys without a break but very annoying if you keep stopping. There should be an extra option Icon for 'Continue' |
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sixhundred Regular Visitor
Joined: Oct 11, 2007 Posts: 81
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Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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Andy_P wrote: | That's odd..
On my Go1000 I can set up "Favourite Destinations" (that's what TomTom call them), and as you say, they appear as a full screen menu whenever the device is switched on (if I have it set to "Startup / Ask for a destination").
But they DON'T appear if I go to "Navigate to..../ Favourite". In that situation, I just get the normal Favourites list.
So it seems to be working as I'd expect. |
With Startup/Ask for destination enabled the 1005 asks me for the destination when I start it. I;m also asked whenever choosing Navigate To/Favourite. So a slightly different behaviour to the above. A tad strange.
I'd much prefer to be asked on Navigate To/Favourite and not when the unit starts. It seems to be one of those things!
It's the only niggle I've so far found with my 1005 so I can't really complain. |
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andy-c1 Lifetime Member
Joined: Feb 05, 2005 Posts: 1039 Location: East Sussex
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 9:03 am Post subject: |
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IanS100 wrote: | the only problem is the TomTom forgets where you're going if it's switched off and you have to select the destination again. |
Don't think mine doesn't looses it's destination, as I turn it off regularly on long journeys _________________ TomTom 5001 |
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IanS100 Frequent Visitor
Joined: May 05, 2008 Posts: 870 Location: Southport
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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andy-c1 wrote: | IanS100 wrote: | the only problem is the TomTom forgets where you're going if it's switched off and you have to select the destination again. |
Don't think mine doesn't looses it's destination, as I turn it off regularly on long journeys |
It depends which startup option your using - the normal one remembers where you're going when it's switched off but if you opt for ''Ask for a destination' the TT takes that quite literally & forgets where you're going when switched off. It is however much easier to choose from between about 10 user configurable destinations (Home; Work, Gym etc) - pity one of them can't be configured as 'Last Destination' then it would be almost the best of both worlds |
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