TomTom android POI Icons And favorites

topbanana4 · Lifetime Member Joined: Dec 11, 2005 Posts: 59

i have a rooted htc desire and found how to get all our old favorites back, i can't find a mapsettings file.
you have to go into the root of your phone then follow this
data/data/com.tomtom.weurope/files/personal/pois
there you will find the Favorites ov2 file, you will have to copy this to your PC have a program POI edit .
when you open the file with POI Edit you will have to put the favorites in manual. save everything then copy back you you phone.
If you have poi's that you want to be seen when driving add then to the map which will be stored on your SD card just make sure the icon is a BMP file and dimensions are 44x44 .
Hope you understand this and that it helps somebody

IanS100 · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 1:42 pm Post subject:

Copied from: TomTom for Android lands in Google Play store

I had a play with the speed camera db last night & they can be displayed on screen:-
Extract the database in the usual way & whilst the phone is connected to a computer navigate to the map folder on the phone in the same way as you would on a TomTom PND ie
TomTom/com.TomTom.ukireland/files/United_Kingdom_and_Republic_of_Ireland
(Note I have the UK & Eire maps, the folder name will be different if different maps have been purchased)
Drop the PGPSW database in the map folder
From within the TomTom app Navigate to: view map/details/choosee POIs
Select the PGPSW POI files with the check box

you will now have them displayed on screen although on my SGS3 they are tiny, & I can't see any way to receive a warning from within the app because there is no "manage POI"
Used alongside CameraAlert it's almost a solution
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IanS100 · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 11:05 am Post subject:

Copied from: TomTom for Android lands in Google Play store

PGPSW Database display - UPDATE

When copying the PGPSW database to the TomTom Android map folder delete the standard size icons (bitmaps) & rename the X2 icons by removing "_X2" - the app will now display the larger, colour camera icons, although it does try to modify the icon shape by adding an extra bit to the bottom right, but it isn't causing any problems.

The result is that you can now have the TomTom Android app with full PGPSW database, but the alerts will still have to come from CameraAlert![/b]
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eillo7 · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 19, 2005 Posts: 199

Nice one, thanks!

Confirmed working on Samsung Galaxy SII.

TMCsucks · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 5:41 pm Post subject:

IanS100 · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 6:14 pm Post subject:

TMCsucks · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:01 pm Post subject:

Thanks IanS100. Just what I needed - an idiot's guide: perfect. I note from the forum that S3 users are using the X2 files. Are they needed for the S2? Or is it just a case of trying it as it is and if they're not big enough, using the X2 files?

IanS100 · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:04 pm Post subject:

TMCsucks · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 12:00 am Post subject:

Done. I notice however, that view map/ details/ choose POIs is only available if you deselect showing traffic info on the map. ie you can opt to see POIs or traffic info on the map but not both at the same time. This is rather disappointing (and not the case for the GO 940 LIVE)

IanS100 · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 10:35 pm Post subject:

TMCsucks · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:14 am Post subject:

I may have got a bit overexcited. Just looking at the TomTom forums, it appears that:

"The Android app (and all PNDs) can show traffic and poi at the same time on driving view. However in view map mode you can't show both at the same time."

IanS100 · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:04 am Post subject:

TMCsucks · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 3:43 pm Post subject:

I assume the toggle only appears if there is a valid traffic subscription. Might there have been some snafu in moving from the Nexus to the SGS3?

I had another slightly worrying thing occur. Overnight Europe just disappeared from my SGS2...it had gone from the list of downloaded apps in Settings and the icon was greyed out. I went to the Play Store, re-downloaded the programme (agreed it had been purchased previously) and everything was back again (including favourites). Quite disturbing.....

alanlakes · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:50 pm Post subject:

Since I have downloaded the latest map 930 for Tomtom Android on my Nexus 5 I no longer have a Tomtom folder (no SD card on Nexus 5). Therefore my speed camera POI that were in a sub folder of Tomtom (as mentioned in this thread) do not display.

I have found that I now have to put them in:

Android/data/com.tomtom.ukireland/files/files/United_Kingdom_and_Republic_of_Ireland

This may only be what happens on a Nexus 5, but I would check if your PGPS speed cams are displaying.

Alan
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IanS100 · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 1:04 pm Post subject:

The folder layout hasn't changed on my galaxy note 3 but the folder you're putting the files in is the correct one anyway
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