TomTom Maps v815.2003 Won't Work on Go530

salast · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 10, 2007 Posts: 5

I have got a TomTom 920 Traffic and my wife has got a Tomtom 530.I copied my entire device to a 4GB HCSD card so that she could load it in her device to give her European/North American maps.Although her device recognises the maps from the card when inserted it won't accept them.Have i missed something Question

gatorguy6996 · Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:32 pm Post subject:

No, you didn't miss anything. You cannot transfer maps between devices as you have discovered.
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falkirk81 · Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:32 pm Post subject:

Yes, the maps are locked to each unit. Copying maps between devices is not allowed, and as such, it wont work!
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salast · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 10, 2007 Posts: 5

Thanks to all for that information.I presume we would have to buy the relavant map from Tomtom then put on the Sd card and then it would work Exclamation

falkirk81 · Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:04 pm Post subject:

That is correct. You need to use Tomtom Home to buy and install any new maps!
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technik · Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:17 pm Post subject:

When you get a new map from TomTom make sure it's assigned to the same email address that you have been using for that device.

Each TomTom you own should have a different email address assigned to it, otherwise Home could download a map to the wrong device if you own more than one TomTom.

Also, if you speak to TomTom support only give them the email address for the TomTom unit, which may not be the same email as you normally use.

I had to get TomTom support to reassign a Map to another address as I didn't realise when they asked for my email address that it would be the one they assigned my new map to.

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