'POI Sounds' Constantly Resetting - Bloody Sick. Any Advice?

GerryC · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:36 pm Post subject:

It's generally agreed to use Home as little as possible and only when there's no alternative (eg mapshare updates).

Some "sound" functions are disabled on Home where the licence is for the device only (eg setting up TTS or playing MP3s).
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D4VE · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:12 pm Post subject:

Just a thought as i have all the above problems on my Go520, a common thread points to only the speedcam poi's are affected, could it be that there is something in the ov2 file that defaults the sound?

As i said just a thought

Dave

D4VE · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:16 pm Post subject:

By the way i have tried all the suggested fixes and the only way i get to keep beep 5 is do not connect to PC at all (even just with USB) and do not use the reset button.

Dave

Darren · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:17 pm Post subject:

There is nothing in the .ov2 file that could trigger this unless TomTom have coded something to bu**er up our service Wink

It has only happened to me once though and I have a range of devices all being connected/disconnected daily and generally fiddled with.
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D4VE · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:22 pm Post subject:

Thanks fot clearing that up Darren, i am running out of ideas, TT support have asked me to return my unit. This by the way happens each and every time i connect to PC or do a reset coz my TMC RDS wont sync.

I am slowly getting used to Big Ben chimes now tho... Laughing Out Loud

Dave

shadamehr · Banned Joined: Apr 25, 2006 Posts: 507

In the end I think I too just gave up the ghost, and went with the ogg files on this site, that kind of self-assign themselves by name.

Only problem with them, is that they are not at the same volume level as the default computer tomtom voice, so they are too quiet.

I am going to look at how to make ogg files louder tomorrow when I have free time.

I too find it strange why only the PGPSW POI's and in particular the speed camera ones, reset the bell.

WAIT - having said that, the ones that didn't resest, were my OWN created ov2 files. I have not actually tried this with other PGPSW POI's such as food places and such.

So maybe it is something about them.

But obviously if so, it is NOT affecting many people, as there are only a few complaints on here, like mine and this other guy's.

Weird.

Andy_P · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:39 pm Post subject:

shadamehr · Banned Joined: Apr 25, 2006 Posts: 507

Oh great.

I was gonna ASK you as a Sound Engineer too.

Oh well, back to trying the Beep 5 option, and if it still keeps resetting, sending my TT back.

That would save me finding a way to software 'kill' it as per the post on your site by me.

stealthw0lf · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 29, 2006 Posts: 4

I've recently started having this problem too.

I've had my TTOv2 unit for over 12 months now, and have been using this site for speed cameras since then.

This problem has occurred only in the last month, which is when I did a software update via the tomtom HOME AND I downloaded the new speed camera database.

Before that, there were no problems. Now it's annoying. I haven't connected to my laptop since the updates but I still have to reset the alarm every time I use it.

I'm tempted to rename Beep 1 and Beep 5 (I like the Red Alert klaxxon sound) to get round this.

I'm starting to think it's related to the battery running out of juice and the settings get lost, since it's something that I've picked up on. I used my unit today whilst it was still on half-charge, and it worked fine.

shadamehr · Banned Joined: Apr 25, 2006 Posts: 507

D4VE · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:48 am Post subject:

I like the fix of renaming the beep file, if this is possible then where are they stored?

I have looked and cannot see them are they hidden somewhere?

Dave

sdm197 · Lifetime Member Joined: Dec 06, 2004 Posts: 227

Hi Guys,

This is happening to me as well, it had never happened before.

I downloaded the new version of TT Home and it removed all my my manually typed in warnings on my TT920 all 73 of them!!!! I did not realise you could download the UK and some Euro ones from this site until this was kindly pointed out by Dennis N (Thanks Dennis).

I have not connected my unit to the PC since in fear of losing them, but I will make a backup of the cfg file before I connect next time to get the mapshare updates.

SDM197

shadamehr · Banned Joined: Apr 25, 2006 Posts: 507

D4VE · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:06 pm Post subject: Renaming Beep sound files

I suspect you are right there Shadamehr .

I have looked everywhere, searching for (Beep 1.*) (*.wav) (beep 1) (Beep) even just (B) Laughing Out Loud

. No joy on internal or SD memory.

Lets hope someone out there has the answer.

Dave

mikealder · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:40 pm Post subject:

The .cfg file contains the settings for the POI Warnings and also the actuall spoken alert text that you manually enter if using Text To Speech.
The bongs, bells etc are stored in the data.chk file, this file comprises of all the individual sounds within the single file.
If you want to see this and check it for yourself open the files using a hex edit application scroll down to the end of the cfg file to find some of the tts text you entered - Mike

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