help please utterly confused new tt5 user/technophobe

justustwo1965 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 22, 2005 Posts: 6

can anyone help me,have had an xda2s for few months (alongside laptop running winxp)and have finally splashed out on tt5 but really getting bewildered by it all.sorted out the basics of using it for navigating but want to download poi`s/safety camera sites.i did purchase the tom tom safety camera downloads which i have loaded but quite honestly was very disappointed as not many sites on it at all.im a real novice to all this and cant seem to download your safety camera poi`s despite several attempts and even a hard reset.i did download poiedit download(do i need this?)but was not sure which of the downloads on the page i was suppose to do!(i did top one) im also puzzled when i see on forum that poi`s on tt5 will be limited to around 40 ,i take it this means poi categories rather than individual poi`s?.any chance of some simple guidance from anyone many regards a bleary eyed novice(andy) Embarassed

justustwo1965 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 22, 2005 Posts: 6

mikealder · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:36 pm Post subject:

the number of POIs is probably those visable on the screen at any one time, i to have xda2s and have just loaded tt5 but got no further as yet will try speed cams in the morning and let you know - are you using bluetooth or wired for gps connection? only asking out of interest - if bt does the bt headset work fully - many thanks mike

lamplight · Regular Visitor Joined: Sep 13, 2004 Posts: 130

It wasa a minefield to a lot of us when we started out. Hope you've resolved this by now, but just in case. ..

I think you'll find that TTN5 limits you to 40 additional poi's, not 40 in total, nor 40 categories.

Poi Edit is, in my opinion, the best way for newbies (which most of us are, no matter how long we've had a gps system!) to download poi's.

Not sure what you mean by saying you selected the top one. To get the safety camera's from Pocket GPS, you need to select/hilight that site, then select UK, then in the main frame you will see a selection of all the poi's available. In the main frame highlight each poi (certainly all the top 18 poi's) you want to add to your PDA (+PDA) - selecting your GB maps folder on your memory card as the destination for downloading. Then select auto update.

Hope this helps. If it doesn't, there a number of entries on the TT part of this forum that deal with it.

justustwo1965 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 22, 2005 Posts: 6

Oldboy · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 3:22 pm Post subject:

mikealder · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 7:33 pm Post subject:

thanks for clarification on this one, not too sure i will be updating the 4700 with tt5, but the xda at least seems to work - will try wired gps and bt headset when it arrives - not sure when i disable the xda keyboard that i will be able to enter postcodes as no on screen keyboard - mike

mikealder · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 7:38 pm Post subject:

thanks for clarification on this one, not too sure i will be updating the 4700 with tt5, but the xda at least seems to work - will try wired gps and bt headset when it arrives - not sure when i disable the xda keyboard that i will be able to enter postcodes as no on screen keyboard - mike

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