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mikealder Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 14, 2005 Posts: 19638 Location: Blackpool , Lancs
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:09 am Post subject: |
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For a Go-700 you need to click Here for the latest Navcore, then use WinRar to install it to the device - Mike |
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Neill Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks! I have the Navcore files now. Can someone recommend a safe place to get WinRar from? I'm a bit out of my depth with all of this but since the patient is already dead I can experiment.... |
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mikealder Pocket GPS Moderator
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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You can download WinRar from Here - Mike |
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Neill Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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Well I think I to have managed to get the Navcore files on the TT (if this is what they look like!)
That seems to be what windows is seeing on the TT (g drive)
And I have run clear flash. And have the TT charged and on mains power. So now I need to get the maps etc loaded? But if I try with TT Home v1.6) I still get the first warning message above. I think the reason it takes multiple 'OK' clicks to clear it is it it has many instances of the same fault. Should I be trying to get the maps from somewhere else? Thanks for your time on this. |
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mikealder Pocket GPS Moderator
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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What map are you trying to install using Home, was this map a backup file or supplied from Home or even from a DVD/ CD? - Mike |
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Neill Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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I was using Home. I'm not sure I was doing it right. I was trying to download via the button that says 'TomTom application for go (and a few others. I do have the original CD but it seems to be just a manual. |
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pcaouolte Frequent Visitor
Joined: Dec 27, 2006 Posts: 998 Location: South Lincs, UK.
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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Neill wrote: | Thanks for all your help so far. Well I'm back on a good connection now. I have deleted all the files on the TT (after making a copy) and I have downloaded v1.6 of Home as suggested above. It starts the download but soon come up with an error message.
Which can only be cleared by multiple clicks on the cross or 'OK' Then it says TT needs to close. Any ideas? |
I would guess that the message is related to voices. Male, Female, Young Female could be voice types. As you have no voices on your device yet this could be causing problems with Home. _________________ Paul |
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Neill Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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That's a thought. If you look at the blue highlighted bit above that message (which is a bit faded in the pic) it says 'From device' which does seem like the TT is causing it rather than a problem with the download.
Perhaps I should try downloading the voices only first (since Home seems to offer them separately) and then the maps. I really have no experience with all this, just looking for files and stuff on the laptop seems confusing enough to me! |
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AliOnHols Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: Oct 15, 2008 Posts: 1936
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Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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Neill,
I have just downloaded and extracted the same files, they appear to be the same as you have in your screenshot, so all OK there.
If TTHome is still not performing, go to the back-up you made on your PC from your TT using WinExplorer, "copy" the Folder which contains the maps and "paste" it back onto your TT in the same place where you extracted the NavCore , i.e. directly onto the TT drive and not in any folders. Your map folder shall be called "UK & ROI" or "Western & Central Europe", etc. _________________ Garmin Nuvi 2599
Android with CamerAlert, OsmAnd+, Waze & TT Europe.
TomTom GO 730, GO 930, GO 940 & Rider2.
SatMap Active 10 & 20. |
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Neill Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Ali. I have the files back on now but no change. Just for interest I opened the copy of the 'Voices' folder and about half of the files in there say they are 'recovered file fragments- pieces of file found when your disc was scanned'. There is also another less common parse file message for language, so perhaps some of those files are corrupted too.
I haven't see any change in the fault, it still won't turn off using the on/off button, although once it's connected to the computer it will turn off as normal. Also when connected, the red flashing cross isn't there any more just a pic of the back of a TT on a green background and the words 'TomTom GO 700'. |
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AliOnHols Pocket GPS Verifier
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Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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Out of curiosity (and with some hindsight - sorry) did you try switching your TT on after you had installed the NavCore but before you connected it to TTHome? and/or before you copied back the maps?
If so, I think the correct thing for the TT to do is to report that it can not find any installed maps, and not to display that Red Cross.
The activity you describe when your TT is connected to your PC is normal and therefore good news.
Your comments about broken files, I think i have read on this forum before that this is how Windows interprets some TomTom specific files so this may be normal also.
EDIT - Hi Neill, I have just looked at your screenshot again. Apologies if I'm wrong but isn't that taken before the files were unpacked? Have the files definitely been unpacked to the TomTom? I'm sure that you must have done this but i'm just double checking. _________________ Garmin Nuvi 2599
Android with CamerAlert, OsmAnd+, Waze & TT Europe.
TomTom GO 730, GO 930, GO 940 & Rider2.
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Neill Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:39 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | Hi Neill, I have just looked at your screenshot again. Apologies if I'm wrong but isn't that taken before the files were unpacked? Have the files definitely been unpacked to the TomTom? |
I don't think I did. How do I do it?
Should the backup copy of the maps etc have had the same treatment when I reintalled them? I just highlighted them as they were on the screen and chose 'Send to G drive device' (which is the TT) from the right click menu. I have this feeling I'd better start agiain! Thanks for all your time Ali |
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AliOnHols Pocket GPS Verifier
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:13 am Post subject: |
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The way I usually unpack by using WinRar is to go to the unzipped file on your PC (the icon shall look like a multi-coloured stack of books) then right click once on the icon. This will open a menu of which one choice shall be "Extract To" (or similar). Left click once this option and then select the path to your TT. Before unpacking, ensure that you have it set to "over-write existing files with the same name" in the WinRar options that display on screen as you choose the path to TT (just in case you did extract them before and they were corrupted/broken).
I am unfamiliar with the Go700, does it have an SD slot where you can insert a memory card? If your hard drive is not being read by TT, it may be possible to put the software on a SD card if a slot exists and operate it from there.
I must admit that I am beginning to run out of ideas/suggestions. Normall a wipe-clean and an incremental re-install works every time. If anybody else has any ideas please step in. _________________ Garmin Nuvi 2599
Android with CamerAlert, OsmAnd+, Waze & TT Europe.
TomTom GO 730, GO 930, GO 940 & Rider2.
SatMap Active 10 & 20. |
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M8TJT The Other Tired Old Man
Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 10118 Location: Bexhill, South Sussex, UK
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:16 am Post subject: |
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EDIT: Ali beat me to it
Neill wrote: | I just highlighted them as they were on the screen and chose 'Send to G drive device' (which is the TT) from the right click menu. | 'Send to' is not one of the right click options from within WinRar but from within Windows itself.
If you get the 'Send to' right click option, it seems that you have already unpacked them when you are trying to copy them to your TT.
To 'Unpack the files from WinRar' I find that the eisiest way is to:-
1 place the packed zip/rar file into the folder that you wish to unpack it into,
2 double click it to open WinRar
3 highlight the files within WinRar, then drag and drop them into the folder
you will then have a folder containing the zip file and all its content. you may then delete (or move elsewhere) the zip file. |
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Neill Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:02 am Post subject: |
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Thanks yet again... It's looking a bit more hopeful. I can see the stack of books icon. Right click brings-
Extract files
Extract here
Extract to Navcore_7903.9183.9183\go700
I'll try 'extract files' as soon as I get a chance. (Or should it be the bottom one?) No sd card on this 700.
Where computers are concerned I can only get things right if I am led by the nose using the simplest terms possible. I've never even heard of most of the file types! |
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