TomTom GO 910 All That Bad ??!

[lydiachris]

Ah, understand now!

Just a though, the 910 runs from a hard drive, a laptop hard drive infact.
Could you de-fragment it, meaning the search time across the disc surfice would increase?

Sorry to turn this thread into a tech support site!

Could you:

1) make a complete backup

2) format the whole HDD

3) put all the files back on, meaning they would be packed up nice and close rather than spread out across the whole disc.

Does Mike know anything about this as I think i can remember him writing a page about doing the same with SD Cards ect.

Let us know,
Cheers,
Chris

[MKLightning]

[phoenix]

My first go 910, purchased from Maplins, was faulty, it would not get a satelite fix.I spoke to TOMTOM support who said i would have to exchange it.Maplin customer service were excellent, but i did have to make a 70 mile rond trip to get one.The new unit functioned correctly straight out of the box, and as for the mount, I drive a Land Rover Defender with hard suspension and i've not had a single problem.The only annoying thing that has happened is that i must have accidently swithced it on in my bag and now I'm having rouble with the TOMTOM Traffic swithching of the Bluetooth on my Motorola V3.Has any body else had an such problems? I would rate the 910 a 9.5 out of 10

[eddie_vincent]

I don't believe that Traffic can possibly turn BT off. I have found that my phone turns BT off if it's been on for a long time. What exactly happens?
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[mikealder]

[lydiachris]

Hi Mike thanks for your reply.

The only reason I mentioned it was because computer hard drives like to be clean and de-fragmented once in a while. I thought because the go 910 runs off the same thing it might benefit from it.

Surely you can check HOW fragmented the drive is by doind the same as you would for a normal computer, my computer, right click on C:, properties, then disc defragment, anaylise.

Would this not work?

I'll probably give it a go later if I'm brave.

Cheers,
Chris

[mikealder]

You can certainly get to the defrag screen and pressing "Analyze" will produce the screen you expect, in my case there was a single fragmented file (an audio track that I have just added this morning) - so I won't be trying to go any further, no point IMHO - Mike

[lydiachris]

I'll try mine a little later and post my findings.

!!!HEY!!! my 100th post :D Do I get a prize? Maybe I can win the go 510 in the prize draw this month...PLEASE Haha.

Mike, just a quick question, when you first turn on your go 910, say ater leaving it over night for a good 10-12 hours, how long does it take the 910 to get a valid gps signal?

Do you use QuickGPSFix?

[phoenix]

The problem with the TOMTOM traffic not working is weird.I can use the hands free and make a call , and the phone is connected, but if i try to use weather or traffic the screen on the V3 shows that i have disconnected and the 910 cannot establish a wireless data connection.I have deleted the phone and re-insalled it and now i cannot get a wireless data connection at all.When i first installed it it was all working as it should with no problems, i will have to try TOMTOM support i think.

[eddie_vincent]

You seem tio be saying that it's the GPRS connection that's failing, not Bluetooth.

The connection from TomTom to your phone is either as a BlueTooth headset to make handsfree calls or as a GPRS modem for downloading Traffic. When it is downloading Traffic the phone disconnected symbol appears on TomTom. It should then re-connect to the phone and the symbol should disappear. If you set TomTom to download Traffic every 5 minutes (or whatever you set it to) it never disconnects - don't know why this is. I have also experienced one-off problems when it won't reconnect at all. Going to Mobile Phone/Connect to phone usually does the trick.

Your phone should not show as GPRS connection all the time as this would not allow hands-free use.

Alternatively, I could be talking rubbish - don't all join in!
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[jean]

I got mine from easy devices the week they came out and I absolutely love it.
Posted a few queries at the start and got some really helpful answers - thanks guys!
But since then it has worked great.
Mikes comment about the hot weather really helped re the drooping mount as I just retightened the holder on the windscreen and it is fine now.
I have done a few long distance journeys and it got me there no problem. I use the calculate alternative route a bit as I like to change direction from the original route and I have no problems at all.
It has never turned me up a wrong road at all.
My phone (motorola 550) works great with it, although it does need the microphone to make me more audible.

Off to the States later in the year and Europe so will reap more benefits then.

Overall 10 out of 10 - I love it!

[lydiachris]

Sorry about the late reply,

Yep tried to defrag my 910 hdd and it near perfect. There are no fragmented files.

Just a quick question, what are the demo.avi files on the hard drive? I deleted them taking up 69mb. Anyone know?

[mikealder]

The .avi files are promo type videos, offering a quick introduction as to the devices capability, they will play via the home PC, there are 7 files in different lingos.

One tip though before you start deleting files add hoc please make sure you have the device fully backed up, just in case.

As for you earlier question WRT to QuickGPSFix, yes I do use it, once docked and the Home software is running simply hit the "Check for Updates" and if avail it will download the data to the device, my unit has just updated from the site.

What a surprise undocked the 910 and the Audio books have done the disapearing act again (I only got them back yesterday!!) - Mike

[lydiachris]

Thanks Mike.

I've been having a problem with my Fix times. Have a look at this thread:

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=41197&highlight=910

What do you suggest?

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