X50v And Tomtom 5 Problems

grexy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 22, 2005 Posts: 9

I'm only turning off the 'tomtom poi's' so I leave the pocket gps world camera database and other poi's I've added as is.

so they still beep.

JohnJ · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 20, 2003 Posts: 15

I have just returned from Devon to the Midlands using the TTN5 upgrade for the first time on a long trip and had 5 "crashes"(of the TTN5 -and requiring a soft reset of the PDA each time) during the journey!
I did notice that the PDA was quite warm, but next time I will try to disable all the POIs to see if I find an improvement.
At the end of the journey I clicked on the Close program icon. I got the start up screen - but it also was "frozen" and required another soft reset before I could actually switch off the PDA!

(I miss many of the features of TTN3 - including the more detailed description of each place in the list of favourites.)

JohnJ

Rabdo · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:12 am Post subject:

JohnJ · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 20, 2003 Posts: 15

Thanks Rabdo.
I have now installed v5.1 so in the next day or so I'll try it out on a trip out.(
I do see,however, in the Sun Aug14 posting, that Biccus1 still had the same problem after installation of v5.1.)

Incidentally,as a relative newcomer to pocketpcs,is there any way one can verify on the PDA that a particular version is actually installed ( i.e. is there anything equivalent to the "Help/About" info that you get in a main PC program ??)
Thanks

JohnJ

Rabdo · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 10:23 am Post subject: Re: x50v and ttn5 problems

JohnJ · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 20, 2003 Posts: 15

Thanks again, Rabdo.

Yes,I get "5.1 version" after following your instructions.

I gave it a road test this afternoon - but perhaps not long enough to give it a chance to crash - I will be doing a longer trip later this week. However,at least I was able to close the program without it causing the PDA to freeze as had been happening - so it looks more promising !

JohnJ

Jack155Q4 · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 12:29 am Post subject:

Hi, I will be testing my x50V and TT 5.1 for the first time tomorrow so will report any outcomes Smile

Jack155Q4 · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 11:25 pm Post subject:

I did two 35 mile journeys, it didnt miss a beat - I exited the program cleanly after each trip and it was fine Smile

biccus1 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 13, 2005 Posts: 51

Is that with or without poi on?

Jack155Q4 · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:28 am Post subject:

That with all speed cams on as well as TT cash points and petrol stations Smile

raptorheli2 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 03, 2005 Posts: 33

mines has been fine for a while now thankfully. that was with 5.1 and all the poi's on howver, i was sick of the lag so i deleted all poi's from it and i'll see if that fixes it. if it does then i'll just add single poi's i would like instead of the ones tomtom insist on giving you.

have to say i'm very impressed with the new postcode facility. thats all i use now. one thing though, i went to look at a range rover last week and the address was an un-named road but it recognised the postcode and got me there. funny how they can get the postcode to a road name but not the actual road name itself. btw, the road did have a name.

cheers

cheers

Royston · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:02 am Post subject:

JohnJ · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 20, 2003 Posts: 15

Not quite "on topic", but have other x50v owners been successful with added POIs using POI-warner or GPS-assist ??

When I had my previous PDA - a Dell Axim X5 -(the basic model with only 32MB internal memory and a 200Mhz processor) I tried GPSassist with TTN2 and it crashed it every time , so I deleted it and never bothered again,but perhaps the x50v can cope better ?? It gave me so much hassle last time I am cautious of trying it again !

(I shall not be able to answer any replies for a few days as I shall be away from contact with my PC)

JohnJ

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