New TTG520.

Johnny_D · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:57 am Post subject: New TTG520.

Just thought I'd post this as I do tend to see nothing but gloomy topics!

Purchased a TomTomGo 520 after some deliberation on here between that and the oneXL.

Got TomTom Traffic subscription for a year and a 1Gb SD Card for mp3's.

Everything worked out of the box. TomTom Home installed without much drama - MapUpgrade Guarantee worked first time from v705 to v715 - No problems here either.

TomTom Home upgraded the unit [I think] to Version App 7.221.

The MP3 player works great [Battery eater tho! Laughing Out Loud

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All in all I am very pleased with my purchase.

JD
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TTG 300 Died the death of a cracked screen
Navman F20 USB Fell off
TTG 520 Third time lucky?
Bloody Superb PGPSW Camera Database.
Not much else!

Darren · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:20 am Post subject:

When reading forums you have to take the view that for every 100 people that have a device, 75 will be happy and say nowt, 10, will be neutral and say nowt and 15 will be unhappy.

Of the 15 unhappy customers, 10 will post in the forum on their issue subjectively and reasonably and the remaining 5 will shout from the rooftops demanding instant rectification.

Oh and one of the happy customers will post telling us so Thumbs Up

Thank you

Forums are great for gauging what issues exist and more importantly how to resolve them. They are not a great way of subjectively measuring the level of problems as you will almost always only see the problems and not the success stories.
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Andy_P · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:08 am Post subject:

And as I said elsewhere recently, there are presumably good reasons why TomTom are the market leader, but if there are more owners out there then statistics says there will be more if them with problems or "issues".

stuart · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:07 pm Post subject: New 520

Johnny_D My 520T is just 3 months old and like you it worked great straight out of the box. Even had reasonable TMC coverage up and down the country. Then I got a 'low battery' sign followed by an instant crash. I established that the problem was the supplied 12v charging lead. After 3 emails, Tomtom support sent me a replacement.....but it was for a Tomtom 300/500. Round pin into usb doesn't work. its now been a week and four emails and still now reply for anyone. Good job I kept my TTG 500 updated, it has never failed me yet. But I am still very happy with the 520T.

Mad

Johnny_D · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:13 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the replies guys!

I think your numbers are right on the money Darren & Andy Smile

Thanks for your input Stuart - that's fairly sucky and i'd be inclined to get on a phone rather quickly!

Do you know what the issue with the vehicle charge was? Vehicle chargers make me nervous at the best of times - But i've found that running everything through a low-amperage multi socket helps my nerves! Theorically it should blow before anything else!

JD
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TTG 300 Died the death of a cracked screen
Navman F20 USB Fell off
TTG 520 Third time lucky?
Bloody Superb PGPSW Camera Database.
Not much else!

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:22 pm Post subject:

stuart · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:31 pm Post subject:

Darren · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:33 pm Post subject:

Stuart, send me your address and I'll pop a 12v mini-USb charge cable in the post to you.
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stuart · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:57 pm Post subject: 520 cable

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