XL takes 5 mins to change from splash screen to working scr

Chef_uk

Hi all, i'm in the process of updating my TTXL as i haven't done it for a while Embarassed

i'm hoping it will fix my problem but has anyone heard of where it stays on the splash screen for at least 5 minutes before reaching the map screen? it seems to have happened all of a sudden albeit a while ago and as i'm only using it a handful of times per year, have only now set some spare time to update and hopefully fix it. I'm currently copying the contents to my HDD although its now 15 mins in and only 3/4 way done. Could it be the memory card failing? I have an extreme card in my camera which i can copy the contents to to see if that is the case as i only have a cheapo SD card in my TT.

Chef_uk · Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:29 pm Post subject:

Hmm, any ideas what this means?

revmrf · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 15, 2009 Posts: 36

Are you using TomTom Home to do your update?

Chef_uk · Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:51 pm Post subject:

Yea, V2.6

Chef_uk · Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:06 pm Post subject:

It's not the memory card, sandisk extreme 3 takes exactly the same time, 5 mins, and that was copying the files over using windows explorer Sad

Chef_uk · Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:56 pm Post subject:

i think i have fixed it, i had every single POI ticked to show on map. When i unticked them all and restarted the TT it loaded straight away. One question though, should i have some POI's listed twice, the second of the two listed with PGPSW at the end? On the majority of my POI's this is the case.

Pocketgps · Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:53 pm Post subject:

Daggers · Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:01 pm Post subject:

Chef_uk · Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:50 pm Post subject:

I have 1534 files in my Western_Europe_1GB folder. Going through them will take an age. Will it be easier to keep the map files i need (hopefully just a handful and if so what are they called?) and then remove everything else and re add the newer files i downloaded last week (POIs and cameras)?

Daggers · Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:35 am Post subject:

Probably - if you know what POIs and speed cameras you had downloaded, or want to have on the TT.

You can of course sort them by file type to make the deleting easier.
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Andy_P · Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:03 pm Post subject:

Exactly....

Once you have a Windows Explorer view of the contents of the named map folder, just click on the "Type" column heading to sort by that column (if you can't see a "type" column, right click on any one of the column headings and select "type" from the list).

On my pc, all the .bmp POI icon files show up as "Bitmap Image" in that column, and all the .ov2 POI files show up in that column as "TomTom Binary", but that is because I have got that file extension (.ov2) registered as that function, your PC may not have done that yet.

If you cannot see the three letter extensions (.bmp, .ov2 etc.) at all, you need to go to the Tools menu in Windows Explorer, select "Folder options" then the "View" tab and UN-TICK "Hide extensions for known file types".

Basically, all you need to do is delete all the .ov2 files you don't want and all the .bmp files with matching names as well.

Chef_uk · Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:07 pm Post subject:

Sweet, that was nice and quick. I've just got rid of all of them and will start again adding only the ones i really need. Thanks alot Smile

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