Tomtom 6 Navigate to Contact

ItsMikeE · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:01 pm Post subject: Tomtom 6 Navigate to Contact

I only occasionally use the Navigate to Contacts function.
One came up recently where TT did not understand the format of the contact. I went in and edited the contact.
Now when I try Navigate to Contact it is still picking up the contact in the previous format. I get the "loading contacts" type message, but there must be some kind of cacheing going on, even after a soft reboot.
I have the latest version of TT6 on WM5.
Any ideas on how to get round this?

JockTamsonsBairn · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:57 pm Post subject: Re: Tomtom 6 Navigate to Contact

ItsMikeE · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:48 pm Post subject:

I closed Tomtom, edited the contact using the standard PocketPC function, then went back into Tomtom

JockTamsonsBairn · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:13 pm Post subject:

aj2052 · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:16 pm Post subject:

ItsMikeE wrote:

ItsMikeE · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:55 am Post subject:

ItsMikeE · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:58 am Post subject:

aj2052 · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:27 pm Post subject:

Whilst having another look at contacts. I noticed one oddity between Outlook and the Contacts format on the Pda i.e. In Outlook the address and post code was set out ok, but the same entry on the PDA showed the first three digits of the post code on the county line and the second three digits on the next line therefore splitting the postcode up onto two lines, another address checked across ok but as of yet not checked any further, so it would seem that activesync is not quite syncing and formatting as it it should, dont whether this may have any bearing. But have only just noticed,also should point out out that I am on 2003se, and all my entries are usually done at Outlook only change i do at pda are perhaps occasional house number or telephone number change.

ngdross · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 21, 2007 Posts: 2

Hi Guys

I seem to be having a similar problem with navigating to Contacts from my contact list on my iPaq. I'm running;

HP iPaq rx3700 Win Mobile 2003 SE
Tomtom 6

sync'd with MS ActivSync 4.5

XP Pro SP2 PC running Office (Outlook) 2003

I have noticed that when you add an address to an Outlook contact, although there is a Postal / Zip code section, when you save this it seems to merge all of the address into one txt field.

When you look at the contact on your PDA I just see an address text field with all the info in it. Tomtom doesn't seem to be able to pull JUST the postcode out of this...

Any help / suggestions on this greatly appreciated.

Thanks

ngdross · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 21, 2007 Posts: 2

Also, does any one know of some add-on software that I could use to navigate to calendar appointments rather than contacts?

I've done a little bit of research and it seems some of the TomTom competitors are able to do this (TT have missed a trick here if you ask me) - Garmin iQue M4

aj2052 · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:11 am Post subject:

ngdroos says:

aj2052 · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:13 am Post subject:

Apologies,It would seem i took Activesync too much for granted, I originally checked a couple which seemd ok, but have now checked further and it would appear that quite a few are not quite as expected, although not all all have postcodes some have two address lines on same line and one has postcode split across two lines, so i may have to review my opinion of activesync.

ItsMikeE · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:30 pm Post subject:

I tested out using Outlook.
It looks fine on the PC, but when I transfer to PPC it mangles it a bit.
Not so much that I do not understand it, but enough that Tomtom doesn't.
Can't blame Tomtom for this one, it is a Microsoft problem

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