GO720 application 7.010 and Home V2.0

iyad

I have been reluctant to download and install the above following all the problems people had with them and still on application 7.0 and home V1.6. I have noticed lately that not much is mentioned on this and was wondering if it is safe to download and install them?

Please help.

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:03 pm Post subject:

Home 2 install gives you the option to keep v1.6 if you want to and if you have a full backup of the Go, you can always restore back to v7.0, so there shouldn't be a problem trying them out.

Tim Buxton · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:15 pm Post subject:

But HOME2 also 'disables' HOME 1.6 so you need to retain the install file in order to repair 1.6, should you decide that 2 doesn't cut the mustard.

On a personal note, I use 7.010 and HOME 1.6.
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iyad · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:16 pm Post subject:

Thanks Andy. Are you using the new application 7.01 and home 2.0?

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:23 pm Post subject:

Tim Buxton · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:40 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:47 pm Post subject:

iyad · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:57 pm Post subject:

Thanks Andy. I just installed the 7.01 and I am keeping 1.6 for now

pete1336 · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:49 pm Post subject:

In relation to the 7.0.1 firmware, no-one still knows what was actually in it. Tomtom still don't have it listed on their site..shame be upon them Embarassed

Has anyone else noticed how home 1.6 continually downloads the home v2 app. For example, I connected to home 1.6 yesterday and in the bottom right hand side of the app it's clearly downloading a big file. I'm on an 8mb adsl line which downloads at 700kb plus per sec. After this download finishes a message pops up informing me a new version of home exists and I'm asked if I want to install it. I always choose no. Having looked in the download folder of the tom tom folder in my documents I note the new home app, weighing in at 21.7mb is sitting there. Ok so it's downloaded in the background...without asking me if I mind my bandwidth being wasted on something I haven't asked for.
Now if this isn't bad enough, today I connect home 1.6 again and the same updated version of home, again weighing in at 21.7 mb is downloaded once more. WTF?? Why oh why is it downloaded again? Surely it would be much more sensible having downloaded it once just to leave the

there. Whay download it a second and a third and a fourth and in fact every time I connect home 1.6 to the web. Boy that is one crap concept isn't it?

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:10 pm Post subject:

I'd just noticed the same thing. I decided to try Home v2 on my work PC, but DIDN'T want it at home.
To my mind, when they ask "A new version is available, do you want to install it?" should be the point at which *I* decide whether it gets downloaded or not. TT obviously think they know better... Evil or Very Mad

xda · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:28 am Post subject:

mikealder · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:49 am Post subject:

This really is a stupid state of affairs and something I am greeted with on connection of each device! - not much fun when I want to run Home 1,6

I think TomTom really out to address this issue as it is their own bandwidth that their software is consuming for no valid reason at all.

Consider the 21MB mulitplied by all the users that connect a device via a PC?? - quite a few GB of data per day I would think - Mike

thebeaman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 11, 2007 Posts: 1

Check this funny movie about the Mapshare function on the GO 720:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU2iQX4vJ10

bazzza · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:35 pm Post subject:

I must confess that I do not understand all this talk of software, firmware, versions etc. All I know is that since I bought my TTG520 and downloaded the new version of "Home" I can no longer connect my TTG300 to home. It just doesn't recognise it. Even when I connect the 520 it seems pretty useless. Where can I download the old version from? and if I can, will it work with my 520? Bring back the old version!
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Andy_P · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:17 pm Post subject:

You should have kept v1.6 when you installed v2 (it was an option during the install process.
Even so, the installer file is very probably still on your PC somewhere. All the recent v1 versions seem to have been called "TomTomHOMEwinlatest.exe" (typical crap TomTom naming practise), so you could set Explorer on a search for that.
Otherwise when you go to "support" on the TomTom website and type "Home" into the searchbox, its not difficult to find several mentions of links to download it.
One of them:
http://www.tomtom.com/plus/service.php?ID=17 seems to be offering v1.5.106 if that is any good to you. I'm sure a v1.6 verson is probably lurking on there somewhere.

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