2nd PDA for navigation (cable and TomTom licence question)

ichilton · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 09, 2004 Posts: 142

Hi,

I have a TomTom wired gps with TomTom v3 which I have been using on my Ipaq 5450 for a few months but i've been having a problem where the power to the ipaq is flicking on and off all the time - I thought it was the cable but i'm now seeing the same problem with the mains charger. Turns out the connector on the bottom of the ipaq 54xx is a really bad design.

I think i'm going to get a cheap 3850 or something similar just to use for navigation and keep my 5450 for pda duties.

So, my questions are as follows:

1) My 54xx cable should work fine with a 3850 shouldn't it?

2) Will TomTom be much slower in general use and route calculations? - My 5450 has a 400Mhz (X-scale?) but the 3850 apparently has a 206Mhz StrongArm.

3) What about TomTom licencing - am I allowed to install TomTom on both my pda's at the same time - I can only use it on one of them at a time anyway because I only have 1 GPS.

4) Anyone had any similar problems with the cable on the 3850 or indeed 5450?

Thanks!

--ian

MrT · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 12:01 pm Post subject:

Same problem on a 5550 and it needed replacing after two months. It is the mains cable that seems to do the damage with the leverage it exerts on the mini PCB that is inside the connector. Now I only use it in a cradle to avoid this problem.

SteveW · Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 12:14 am Post subject:

Not sure if this helps as I do not know if the 5450/5550 are standard, but I asked a similar question a couple of weeks ago. The 3850 has the standard Ipaq connction, the same as the 41XX and 2210 types. The ones that are not compatable is the 36XX and 37XX.

Regarding Registration, it will work on two PPCs, and when you load it on the second PPC it will not let you load it on another for I think 6 months, so ensure you have a good back-up on he first so you don't need to re-load from disk.

I was using a 3850, and the calculation time was good, not a lot slower than the 2210 which has a 400MHz X-scale also.

My 3850 was unreliable, and of course not BT. But the reliability thing is down to particular machines.

Steve

ichilton · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 09, 2004 Posts: 142

Hi Steve,

So you are saying once you've activated it on the 2nd PDA, you can't even re-install it on the 1st one for 6 months, even if it already has had an activated TomTom on?

Why was the 3850 unreliable?

Thanks

--ian

hollis_f · Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:05 pm Post subject:

I used to use TTN3 with a 3870 and an Emtac BT GPS with no problems at all. Indeed, the speaker volume was better than that of my 2210.

Your license only allows you to install TTN on one machine at a time.

ichilton · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 09, 2004 Posts: 142

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

I already mailed TomTom Support and they said "Yes that's well within the lincence conditions.".

--ian

anarchy-inc · Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 3:29 pm Post subject:

ichilton · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 09, 2004 Posts: 142

Hi,

I just explained my 5450 power went doddgy and I wanted a 2nd PDA. They said as long as it was more than 7 days since the 1st activation, it would work on a 2nd machine.

--ian

SteveW · Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:08 pm Post subject:

ichilton · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 09, 2004 Posts: 142

Hi Steve,

Got your post the other day but didn't get chance to reply. I've now got the 3850 and my replacement cable arrived back from TomTom so I installed TomTom 3 + 3.03 onto my 1st PDA (the 5450) and it didn't seem to need activating again - must have got it from the maps on the SD card. I then installed the same onto the new 3850 (with the same SD card in though) and this one said it needed activating and off it went and did it fine so everything seems to be well.

The 3850 seems stable enough the few test's i've done so as you say maybe there was something wrong with yours. The volume on the 3850 is loads louder than the 5450 but as you say, a bit too harsh and squeeky - too much top end.

Thanks

--ian

xda · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:13 am Post subject:

--ian[/quote]

Yes, I agree, seven days for the first replacement, but once you have loaded it onto a second machine, you cannot load it onto a third for six months. Now I do not know if you tried to load it back on the original machine whether it would let you. I wouldn't take the risk -
Steve.[/quote]

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