Ipaq 2210 losing Home & Favourites

Robin2 · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject:

I have to eat my words. I switched off TomTom in the usual way last night after a journey, and when I used it today all the favourites had gone!
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Russ414 · Lifetime Member Joined: Sep 11, 2005 Posts: 6

I'm not so sure it's confined to the 2210 model. I have the same problem with my RX3715. Sometimes it will do it daily, and sometimes it will go months without losing the settings Crying or Very sad

Trevor1234 · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject:

Hi Robin2
Hell, I said early on this topic that I had never lost a favourite but after reading your sad story it appears that there is still time for me to do so.
However in my case it would not be the end of the world because I also save my favourites as a destination in the Itinerary mode. So if I was in the middle of nowhere all my favourite destinations would be safe on my Flash Card. Itineraries are easy to copy to your PC as a backup too.
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argosafe · Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 10:33 am Post subject:

To repeat some advice given on this site before , ALWAYS store your favorites as POI's in a category of your own. I don't know why TTN loses these things, but storing them like this saves a lot of heartache!
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mistermoose · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 30, 2006 Posts: 4

i have a xda 2s running ttn 5.210 and i have the same problem with fav's & home being wiped.
Does anyone know which file contains the favorites as then i can make a backup on the 1Gb memory card i used, and yes i know it abvisable to make a full back up, however i dont take my pc to work and as an HGV driver i live in the truck all week. so it could take up to 5 days to be able to restore the unit.

mistermoose · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 30, 2006 Posts: 4

i know, search the forums before posting.. 8O ok i learnt that bit now (new on here) Laughing Out Loud

wot i've done is ..on the storage card make a folder called backup then gone into Great_Britain_map and copied the file called Great_Britain_map.cfg and pasted it in the folder i made called backup..so next time ttn5 losses the fav's i can copy/paste from my backup folder...must remember to make a new backup everytime a new fav' is entered..therefore to restore fav's should take less than a minute at the side of the road rather than having to wait till the end of the week.
:D i hope this also helps others Laughing

Steve999 · Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:41 pm Post subject:

Hi mistermoose

Trevor1234 · Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:50 pm Post subject:

Hi Steve999
I also have Sprite Backup Premier and it does as you say, it backs up the entire contents of your PDA. Even after a Hard Reset it will restore all the PDAs programmes and Settings perfectly. One can fiddle about with ones PDA with impunity knowing that all will be well if a ‘cockup’ is made. If a disaster occurs……no problem, Just restore. I couldn’t do without it.
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mistermoose · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 30, 2006 Posts: 4

Thx for that, i've just insalled Sprite Backup. i will try it out this week. to see if it's better than copy'n'paste..only had to do that 3 times in the last week..cheers

towny · Banned Joined: Jul 15, 2005 Posts: 23

I`m part of the 'me too' club also, lost favorites, home, and also lost voice warnings for POI`s (Speedcameras), I am running WM2003 with TomTom 5.21 on a Ipaq 3970 with also sometimes it does not see the SD card.

Private · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 27, 2004 Posts: 39

One more "me too" but for the lost home and favorites category.
I've been running TT5 for more than a year without a problem, this only started happening after I installed the latest Iberia map version. Could the problmes be linked to the new maps?
I'm running WM2003 on a Ipaq hx2410.

mistermoose · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 30, 2006 Posts: 4

The Sprite backup works ok for the unit but does not back up anything on the sd card and as this is where the favourites are kept i still loose my favourites.so back to the copy n paste idea...only takes a few seconds not too bad

stevei · Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 12:35 pm Post subject:

I use Sprite and it backs up my SD card!!!
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JockTamsonsBairn · Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:28 pm Post subject:

stevei · Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject:

All the directories are under "Persistant Storage". It is the "Premier Edition" Ver. 3.1.4.
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