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colinicky
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| GerryC wrote: | Not sure what's happening so this is just thinking out loud...
Have you installed any other 3rd party POIs to the PDA (from PGPSW or elsewhere) and do these work OK? That is any POI sets that are not in-built - the .ov2 files.
Try downloading and installing ONE poi set - any, it's just to test. I'm wondering if your download has gone wrong or got corrupted somewhere. |
I have speed camera alerts on that are from PGPSW( although I did not put them on ) they were there when I purchased the PDA . They work fine . I have tried to install a different POI file from PGPSW for LPG fuel stations & that has the same problem as my "associations2 attempt . I have also tried on a different PC incase it is my PC causing the problem . |
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colinicky
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| mikealder wrote: | | TTN5,x had very low custom POI support, with TTN6 the custom POI category limit was raised to 100, that said it was (and still is) easy to exceed this value if you are not aware of it - Count up the number of files ending .ov2 in your map folder - Mike |
35 files ending .ov2 including the 2 I have downloaded but cannot get to work |
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Oldboy
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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Can you see, in the TT menus, all the other 33?
Try changing the extension of 2 of them to .bak and see if you can use the 2 new ones.
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colinicky
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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Yes I can see all of them in the menus .
.bak makes no difference 
OOI what is .bak ? or was it just to take those 2 out of the equation to see if it was a limitation on the number of .ov2 files ? |
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aj2052
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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Just had a look at my old mio v6 backup and noticed that I had sometime changed my poi.dat to poi.dat.old, i think this maybe the tomtom inbuilt poi,s and cannot remember why i changed it perhaps may have caused a conflict, so suggest you add .old to the file and try, you can always change it back, perhaps clutching at starws on this one but might help.
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Oldboy
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| aj2052 wrote: | | Just had a look at my old mio v6 backup and noticed that I had sometime changed my poi.dat to poi.dat.old, i think this maybe the tomtom inbuilt poi,s and cannot remember why i changed it perhaps may have caused a conflict, |
The early built-in POIs were so bad that renaming the file got rid of them altogether. Very often the names conflicted with 3rd party POIs anyway and it was difficult to know which was which.
| colinicky wrote: | | what is .bak ? or was it just to take those 2 out of the equation to see if it was a limitation on the number of .ov2 files ? |
Changing the extension makes the file(s) invisible to the TT software. Did you change 2 of the "known to work" files, and not the new ones?
Can you check the properties of the new files and make sure that they don't have a double extension, ie. .ov2.ov2 or similar.
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colinicky
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Oldboy wrote: |
| colinicky wrote: | | what is .bak ? or was it just to take those 2 out of the equation to see if it was a limitation on the number of .ov2 files ? |
Changing the extension makes the file(s) invisible to the TT software. Did you change 2 of the "known to work" files, and not the new ones?
Can you check the properties of the new files and make sure that they don't have a double extension, ie. .ov2.ov2 or similar. |
Yes I changed 2 of the "known to work ones" & they did not then appear in the POI list in menu .
Just a single .ov2 on the files |
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Oldboy
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| Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 7:29 am Post subject: |
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I'm running out of ideas now. Have you tried a Reset?
I'm not sure if taking the Card out (with the Unit switched off), works as a Reset with Navigator. I can't even remember if there is a Reset to Factory Defaults.
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colinicky
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I have performed a hard reset of the pda with the card in & with it out & I have now performed a reset to factory settings from the tt menu . no difference . 
I think it is time to call it a day & accept that I am not going to add any POI files .
I do appreciate all of you good peoples time & thoughts in trying to get it to work   |
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aj2052
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| Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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I am also running out of suggestions,did you try altering the extension to Poi.dat to stop it being read.
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colinicky
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 8:42 am Post subject: |
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I've fixed it ! Did a hard reset of my pda this morning , reinstalled TTN6 & everything works  Not exactly a "cure" as I don't know what the problem was but at least it's working
Again many thanks to all for their help & thoughts |
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