Newbie XDA2i and TTN5

as400 · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 11:15 pm Post subject: Newbie XDA2i and TTN5

Hello all!

Am chomping at the bit awaiting the arrival of my TTN5 tomorrow and want to get it up and running on my new XDA2i ASAP.

Is installation easy?....I'm reading that all the info is already on the memory card that comes with the kit? so do I just insert it into the XDA and away I go?

Whats all this about creating a tomtom folder onto the SD card? why should we have to do that?

Are there any issues regarding postcode searches? it seems some folk have a problem with this?

Any other tips well appreciated!

SteveW · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 11:49 pm Post subject:

If you don't set up an empty TOMTOM folder on the SD card, the Postcode function doesn't work on 6 digits, only 4 as per TT3.

Seems to work quite well for the Postcodes I have entered, but I am sure someone will disagree!!

Steve

andy-c1 · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:05 am Post subject:

use it does work fine on the xda as i have 1 BUT the only thing you have to do everytime you use tt5 is you have to turn flight mode on as the phone locks up if you dont ....well it does for me and this is my 2nd phone
hopefully the upgrade will sort this out o2 are working on it supposedly

installation is easy went like a dream no errord whatsoever ,and NO SD CARD it#s on disk ,and you will need a sd disk as the file is quite big the who;e of the uk is there
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as400 · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:24 am Post subject:

"NO SD CARD its on disk"

Oh! really?...it says on the tomtom site when you buy the TT5 that an SD card is included with the software on it?

http://www.tomtom.com/products/section.php?ID=69&Section=117&Language=1

if its not what size SD card would be best to buy?....I ideally want maps of France/italy/Spain as well......would 512 be best?....the bigger the card the slower the response?...would 1GB be detrimental in any way?...are some SD cards faster/better than others?....and are TT aware that you have to create this extra empty folder in order for the postcode X 7 to work?...seems a bit odd if they don't instruct you to create this work around solution?

nazimyounis · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 12:34 pm Post subject:

as400 · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 1:48 pm Post subject:

Oh dear! what's the difference between TT navigator and TT mobile?...worried I havn't ordered the right thing now! Sad

radavis · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 2:14 pm Post subject:

as400 · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 5:11 pm Post subject:

Ah well I have just got it...."tomtom Navigator 5 for PDA" to give it its full title.....just one SD card...so popped it in and fired up the GPS little box...and that was it...works a treat. Compatible with XDA2i. No extra folders needed.
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markyhedgehog73 · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 6:27 pm Post subject:

have you thoroughly tested it yet???

I have found several problems with mine
1. When exiting the software it switches bluetooth off!
2. The maps are not up to date even when road changes have been made in the last 5years!!!
3.It freezes up if you dont turn the phone off before using it!!
All in all very disappointed Crying or Very sad

as400 · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:25 pm Post subject:

Yup the maps are out of date for changes made to roads years ago!...so Tom get ya ass in gear and sack the man from Telewest...there must be a mapping agency out there that have better info.

Any texts and phone calls comming in while the XDA is in action really throws it...but I'm not too worried by that as have a seperate phone system for calls/texts...still its something that needs sorting.

Haven't had any freezing up yet though.

At the end of the day this is sat-nav on the cheap (heck in my previous car it was a £1500 option!) so I can't complain too much.
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as400 · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:12 pm Post subject:

Teleatlas rather!

Anyone know how I can get maps of Europe? do I have to buy another card with the maps on?...can't believe they are incorporated on a tiny 128mb SD card?
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korndog · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:20 pm Post subject:

markyhedgehog73 · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 12:03 am Post subject:

korndog,

its no good switching bluetooth off when you have other bluetooth devices connecting to your phone!!
i have the xda 2i and have loads of free memory cos i aint installed the applications that i got with the phone, have also disabled the o2 active that has a known memory leak so its not that thats causing problems.
At the end of the day i travel to a lot of towns and citys so navigation is quite vital to me tomtom should have at least updated their maps to within last years roads survey microsoft did it with auto route and they rip you off just as much as tomtom are doing now!!!!

alix776 · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:58 am Post subject:

i haven't seen any text or phone lockups using ttn5 at all using either a bt receiver or my holux mount im using a bog standard 1gb sd card. the only problem i havebis when running ttn5 in landscape it turns any os apps to portrait but the ttn2004 did that to im told its because tt does not use the os to switch to landscapemaps are about as update as it gets though this comes up everytime any company
releases new software and maps wether the mapping data is from teleatlas or navteq
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