TOMTOM POI problem Solved - Well for me anyhow

[mixer25]

A few of us have had problems with the POI on tomtom 5, my problem was they were empty or not working....

I simply renamed the POI.DAT back up I had on PC to small case poi.dat and copied backonto PDA

Now it works, I don't know if this will work for everyone but did for me.

[Hoppy]

I have a problem where some of the inbuilt POI's show empty when I do, find nearest POI but they do seem to show on the map, for example Hospitals says no POI found but if I look at the map H's all over the place. Unless anybody else has an idea I might try this fix.

[julianbarker]

Isn't the missing POIs in the search dialogues the known bug that is only in cracked versions?

[Nemesis1]

[mixer25]

Hi

No the problem is original and pirate editions I believe, I upgraded to 5.10 on TOMTOM off the website and did find it helps lock on GPS quicker as well.

Just get an original POI.DAT file and simple re-copy via PC and Active Sync overwriting the other POI.DAT and reboot PDA, this works on mine and a collegues of mine.

But on one I renamed the POI.DAT to poi.dat in small case and this worked when upper case wouldn't work!

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