Navigator 5

brianleach · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:59 pm Post subject: Navigator 5

I have recently upgraded to Navigator 5 (in fact I uninstalled 3 and installed 5) and it does seem to work pretty well.

The new maps are a bit of a problem however. I purchased a 1gb storage card and find that at best this will only hold GB, France and Spain. I shall need at least another 1gb to install the others and the size of the files means that they take for ever to install but as there's a lot more detail I shouldn't complain.

However I do have two problems.

First the initial screen keeps reverting to grey. I corrected it once by reverting to factory settings. This caused the xdaII to crash but on a soft reset the colour had returned. However after installing the France maps the problem reoccurred and factory resets no longer cause a crash but neither do they restore the colour. Any ideas please?

Secondly and perhaps more importantly I cannot find a location from a uk postcode. It simply takes you to the choice of roads like Navigator 3 used to. Dave Burrows review says that I should be able to use a full postcode so I would like to get this to work.

I have installed the GB Plus map and also tried to install the GB Postcode map but this seem to transfer to the storage card as a zip file and I wonder if this is the problems.

Again any suggestions most welcome.

Many thanks

Brian Leach

lbendlin · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 6:24 pm Post subject:

The screen is grey as long as you don't have a GPS fix

Create a \TomTom folder on your PPC and this will then allow you to do 7 digit postcode search
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I_Need_Help · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 25, 2004 Posts: 79

I can not do 7 digits either!

What do you mean creat a folder call tomtom the installtion does that for you!?

I have the UK only maps installed and the postcodes

soweezy · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 8:34 pm Post subject:

try putting the Great_Britain.Postal file in the folder called ZIP on your SD card, that's where I put it and it works now
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modelflyer · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 15, 2005 Posts: 3

I got it working by making a folder called Tomtom on the card containing the UK map.

KEVRO · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 15, 2005 Posts: 3

You will need to create a folder on your storage card called 'tomtom'.

I_Need_Help · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 25, 2004 Posts: 79

Wow

I renamed the zip to tomtom that didn't work Sad

so I named it back to ZIP.

Then just created a new folder call tomtom on the SD card with nothing in it and Wow wow wow it works :D

Brilliant, shame they have a flaky installation routine!

Many many thanks

brianleach · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 10:17 am Post subject:

Many thanks for your help everyone.

I now understand the grey screen and have succeeded in making the postcodes work.

Brian Leach

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