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lenggb
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 Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:44 am Post subject: 720 and USA Maps |
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I am currently waiting for the delivery of my 720.
I will soon be visiting the USA.
Does anybody know if the downloadable TomTom USA maps will work on the 720? 
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lbendlin
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yes, they work just fine.
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lenggb
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Thanks for the info.
I can now cross the USA in style ( without getting lost ) 
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taylorj3
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| Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:50 pm Post subject: USA maps and 720 |
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Actually....
I have downloaded the USA maps and have been trying to install them on a SD but unfortunatley it won't recognise the map.
So far I have not been able to make enough room to install them on the internal memory.
Any ideas on how to get it to work? |
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tanda
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You have to have the operating softwear on the card too, or TomTom won't see the map. Not sure how/where to download the softwear, I think you just connect to TomTom HOME, and it does it automaticly.
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999tommo
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| Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| lenggb wrote: | Thanks for the info.
I can now cross the USA in style ( without getting lost ) |
You're not going 'in style' in your 105E are you ?? 
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taylorj3
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:13 am Post subject: |
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| tanda wrote: | | You have to have the operating softwear on the card too, or TomTom won't see the map. Not sure how/where to download the softwear, I think you just connect to TomTom HOME, and it does it automaticly. |
I thought that this was no longer the case with the 720? |
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uocooper
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:49 am Post subject: Re: 720 and USA Maps |
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| lenggb wrote: | I am currently waiting for the delivery of my 720.
I will soon be visiting the USA.
Does anybody know if the downloadable TomTom USA maps will work on the 720? |
It's too bad we don't know when you'll be able to download the same map that ships on the US version of the 720 since in addition to the updated map you could get the fixes released through Mapshare for it as well.
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runarg
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| tanda wrote: | | You have to have the operating softwear on the card too, or TomTom won't see the map.. |
No, that is not true for GO720. I have myself Western Europe in flash memory and North America (and nothing else) on my 4GB SD card. It works fine, just came home from a 9000km USA/Canada trip. |
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Tim Buxton
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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| tanda wrote: | | You have to have the operating softwear on the card too, or TomTom won't see the map. Not sure how/where to download the softwear, I think you just connect to TomTom HOME, and it does it automaticly. |
Not on the unit I have in my possession, you don't. Darren dropped off his retail version of the GO720 this morning and it had an SD card in the slot with some mp3 files on it. I've added a map to the SD card and it switches betwwen this and the maps on the Internal Memory without a problem.
I used HOME to install the new map to the SD card and three extra files have been installed besides the Map directory. These are
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taylorj3
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| Tim Buxton wrote: | | tanda wrote: | | You have to have the operating softwear on the card too, or TomTom won't see the map. Not sure how/where to download the softwear, I think you just connect to TomTom HOME, and it does it automaticly. |
Not on the unit I have in my possession, you don't. Darren dropped off his retail version of the GO720 this morning and it had an SD card in the slot with some mp3 files on it. I've added a map to the SD card and it switches betwwen this and the maps on the Internal Memory without a problem.
I used HOME to install the new map to the SD card and three extra files have been installed besides the Map directory. These are
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ttdesk.ver
ttgo.bif
tthome.bif
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No matter how many cards I have tried the720 refuses to read the maps off the SD card. I too installed them via HOME.
How have your formatted the SD card FAT16 or FAT32.
Also everytime I try and boot the 720 with an SD card I get the red cross symbol.
Any ideas? |
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