Kirro GPS cradle and tomtom, not powering down?

[yurtesen]

Hi,

My friend has a kirrio gps cradle which came with via michelin software but then it was upgraded to use tomtom. However when he removes the key and power is cut to cradle, tomtom just stays on until the battery dies.

The PDA's battey power saving settings are set to shutdown after 1min and they work, however when tomtom is running it never shuts itself down.

How does one solve this problem?

Thanks,

[mikealder]

Welcome to the forum, tap the screen to display the menu, on page three of the menu there should be an icon "Exit Application" hit that and the PDA will stop the TomTom software and revert back to the power management settings you have chosen - Mike

[yurtesen]

Mike thanks, the method you explained is what my friend was doing. I am looking for a way to shutdown the pda automatically when it is powered by batteries only.

Do you know if tomtom is changing some setting when it runs or is the pda not powering down because tomtom is accessing serial port? is there an app which can force pda to shutdown after X minutes when it is on battery power?

My friend finds it inconvenient that pda doesnt shutdown by itself.

[mikealder]

TomTom is designed to keep the hardware awake, there is little point in a navigation package going to sleep part way around a major city for example.
I always have my PDA or PNA devices powered from the car when running the navigation software, as the software is quite power hungry and it will hammer a PDA's battery if not charging from the car.
I am not aware of anything that can turn off the PDA when running the TomTom software as I cannot think why this is necessary - Mike

[yurtesen]

Mike, I understand the point of keeping the hardware awake. However one can set PDA to not to go to sleep as long as it is connected to power and only go to sleep when it is running on battery power. When there is no power, it means that the car is not running and navigation is unnecessary (plus when there is no power the gps receiver cradle doesnt function anyway)

If tomtom is not running, pda starts automatically when the power comes and sleeps after 1 minute after the power is gone. If TomTom wouldnt be keeping the PDA awake at all times, there would be less work to be done by the user. Now everytime the user enters the car, he should start the car, manually start tomtom and when leaving the car, manually exit tomtom. Plus one should remember to exit tomtom otherwise all data in ram would get busted when the battery ends.

As you can see, there is legitimate reasons of why tomtom shouldnt keep the pda awake when it is powered by battery.

Thanks,

[yurtesen]

We solved the problem using a small freeware called BattSleep
http://haimsoft.thruhere.net/

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