Tomtom 6, no GPS received?

dougie1000 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 19, 2007 Posts: 8

I have just upgraded from tomtom 5 to tomtom 6 as i found a lot of streets where missing from the UK maps.

With TT 5 it took me ages to work out the GPS settings.

Well its exactly the same with TT6, i have a pocket PC l00x http://www.zdnet.co.uk/i/z/rv/2006/01/fsc-loox-520-i1.jpg exactly like this one.

TT is working ok streets are found ect but only thing is after a new or any address is entered it says"waiting for a valid GPS signal....." and does so no matter where im driving.

anyone tell me in p"change pref" "show gps status" (shows no signal) the settings ie GPS baud rate and com9/9/3/2/1???????

Any help asap would be fantasic as i use this dailly for work.

Many many thanks
Dougie

Darren · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:09 pm Post subject:

Try COM8, Baud: 9600
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dougie1000 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 19, 2007 Posts: 8

matey your a genious,

heres another one then, i read the same ptoblem on another topic and coppied exacly the same instructions that worked for the last guy but no luck for me.

Even when i had TT 5 i still could never do a full postal search, only first 3digits, ie G21, or KA3, not a full search till the street name.

Any idears on this one at all, im not actually bothered as i had always typed town, street then number and worked like this for so long.

Thanks mate

Darren · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:37 pm Post subject:

Tap Screen | Navigate To | Address | Postcode

You 'should' see 7-Digit Postcodes in the list here and be able to enter 7-Digit look ups. If you can't then verify you have a folder called ZIP in the root (the top level) of your storage card and that within this folder is a Great_Britain.Postal file.
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dougie1000 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 19, 2007 Posts: 8

I do not have any file called GB postal file, at all on my SD card, must be missing.

For example if i was looking for main street in a large town then i would enter first 3part of post code then enter main street and number, all ways worked this way with tomtom unless small town or village.

when trying to do a post code search its exactly the same as doing a town search,

ill need to see if i can download or find this postcode file online somewhere, anyone? : Smile

Darren · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:52 pm Post subject:

It should be on the CD that had your v6 upgrade?
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dougie1000 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 19, 2007 Posts: 8

Ok sorry having a blonde moment,

I have on my SD card the following:

TTN6
Voices
great_britainpostal
ttmobile

So where am i going wrong?

Darren · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:44 pm Post subject:

Create a folder called ZIP (must be in capitals) and move the great_britain.postal file into it and re-test
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dougie1000 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 19, 2007 Posts: 8

No luck, not to loose sleep over i have been working it the same way for ages now, thanks for help, D

Darren · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:06 pm Post subject:

Whereabouts are you?
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dougie1000 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 19, 2007 Posts: 8

35miles Sw on coast of Glasgow

Darren · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject:

Ah, a bit far for me to pay you a visit then!
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Darren · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject:

If memory serves me correctly you also need a folder called TomTom which will of course be empty, can you create one and test?
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dougie1000 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 19, 2007 Posts: 8

thanks for the offer, i was a bit torrent download so im not surprised the postcode thing not work actually, well im happy with the town and street names.

When was the maps last revised as there is a town not far from me that has had a bypass for the last 3years and its not located on the new TT6, is there more streets and places from the old TT5?

Darren · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:15 pm Post subject:

Now you shouldn't have mentioned that, we're not here to support pirate software Evil or Very Mad

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