Tomtom install on laptop HELP!

parapilot · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 15, 2005 Posts: 14

Hi i'm trying to install tomtom UK onto my laptop

When i put the CD in to install tomtom it just says "your PC does not support the devices for which there are applications in this package. Please install the supporting software first and run setup again. Setup will now end"

I cant get any further than that. I dont plan to use it on a pocket PC at the moment, just a laptop. (I have a garmin GPS i attach to the laptop no problems).

does anyone know why it wont let me install??

Any help would be appreciated
thanks
Jamie.

Darren · Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:25 pm Post subject:

TomTom Navigator will only run on PocketPC's. PalmPC's and Smartphones. It will not run on nor is it designed for PC's.
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Darren Griffin

parapilot · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 15, 2005 Posts: 14

Thanks Darren. that solves most of the problem!!

A question then, how would i get the software of the cd rom onto my PDA? my PDA wont take 700meg which is what the software is (got a 256 CF card), Surly you need it on a pc to download it and the required area / maps to the PDA?

thanks
Jamie.

Darren · Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:44 pm Post subject:

The software is nowhere near that size in reality. On the CD will be installer's for varous different device types and in multiple languages which accounts for the 700MB you're seeing.

In reality, the installation package when it reaches the PDA is less than 1Mb for the application and approximately 100MB for the full UK map. You install the application to main memory and the map to the storage card.
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Darren Griffin

DavidW · Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:03 pm Post subject:

The PDA end is a little bit bigger than 1MByte - it's around 4MBytes for the application, GPS driver and voice files. However, Darren's point holds - there's a lot of material on the CD-ROM that isn't needed on the Pocket PC.

Apart from the Great Britain map (105MBytes approximately), there's Major Roads of Europe (around 80MBytes). There's also various sections of the Great Britain map in approximately 64MByte, 32MByte and 16MByte chunks. However, with memory cards getting ever cheaper, these are of increasingly little value unless you want a map that you can keep in main memory for some reason.

Dvaid

TuurG · Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:37 pm Post subject:

pacemaker1000 · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 21, 2005 Posts: 105

created the map on an sd card
what application do i need to install
is it the eng apk file?

DavidW · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:48 am Post subject:

.apk files install only through a TomTom installer - there should be a setup.exe or similar with that file.

TomTom switched to having maps that you install using a program with Navigator 3. Navigator 2004 HP Edition works the same way. Copying a .apk directly to a storage card won't do any good.

David

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