Ive just got hold of a 2gig mini sd....before i had a 1gig sd and the only way i could get tomtom to work was to extract it off the sd card i got it from onto the 1gig card but this meant i had loads of folders on the 1gig card if you get what i mean.
So what i want to do if possible is just to have 1 folder called tomtom with all the tomtom folders inside that folder.....i gather this didnt work the first time i tried because all the shortcuts are pointing to the wrong locations :?
Does anyone know how id go about doing this just having it run from 1 folder?
Thanks in advance
Jamie
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i am trying to load tomtom nav 3 euro maps on to a 1gb sd card i am using an i mate. It is a 1 gb sandisk. The problem is i get TomTom setup error problems writing to disk on the first set of maps. i have used the same CD's on to a 256 sandisk and all o.k. any suggestion. do i need a different type/make. this is my first post :?
Did you try the possibility to copy the maps directly on the SD card?
amend post: yes i used a belkin usb multi media writer and that put the maps on the card but then toimtom ask for a set of original map ? i did try copying a small file onto the card and that worked o.k. as well
I discovered a few very strange folders and files on my Storage Card. I have tried to format the card succesfully, but now thery reappears.
Names are like K²¦°+¸í°.1§( and n_.ke. A few GB
A few Gb is size, which is of course not true.
I have tried to delete them with eather the notrmal PDA explorer, Resco Explorer and by Windows via ActiveSync., but thia all without succes.
Bart :evil:
Strange folder names
Same here.
I allways thought TomTom navigator was causing them.
same thing happed to me when i started using a 1GB sandisc SD card. real pain!!! cured mine, 1st i used my SPV to format card as my laptop wouldn't fully complete. then put sd in card reader, plug in card reader then switch on computer. once computer is running put stuff on sd. when finished pull out sd and lock it!! then put it in XDA. works fine for me now. hope this is of some use.
found this,seems good.
found this today, good, quick clean-up for ppc
Thanks, I had the same problem after using Tomtom with Checkpoint. After formatting al works again!
This caused by the FAT table is corrupted (this is a part of the hdd/memory card, where stores which file is where is on the disk/card and what it its size). I have this on my PC few years ago... 60GB on my 1.7 GB HDD...
I already have an SD card in my XDAIIi which NEEDS to be in the device in order for some applications to work.
However, I also need to install TomTom5. The versions of TomTom i have received are all on SD cards.
So, i have copied the content of the tomtom SD card, to my own SD card (keeping the file names/strcture the same).
I have installed tomtom5 using the cabs in the 2577 folder. When i go to activate it using the key provided in the box, it doesnt work.
I get an error telling me that the activation code is not correct.
Has anybody else tried similar, or know of any reason why this wont work?
This is doing the same thing on 3 copies that i own.
Any thoughts, or methods to get around this?
Im not trying to steal/distribute/crack the version, i only want to move the files to another place for my legit version.
I have contacted tomtom but they always take ages to reply.
I managed to copy all the tom tom stuff to my own SD card without any problems. I did an install of tomtom 5 to device, upgraded to 5.21, then I copied all the folders on the tom tom SD card to my own SD card. I then deleted some folders I reckoned I didn't need from my own SD card so that the only ones I'm left with are:
great britain map
licences
tomtom
voices
zip
Hope that helps.
Did you find a method to do it without installing from the original SD card first?
The problem I have is i am going to be handing out 650 devices with SD cards in them.
I want to put the install files onto the SD cards and setup a shortcut. If the owner of the device requires TomTom, they can install the application, then call the IT helpdesk to get a key/licence and to activate the product.
The probem i have at the moment is after doing the install, none of the valid licence keys seem to work.
I have found a method to get it working though, similar to your steps above. However when there are 650 devices in the field, you can imagine how many copies of tomtom they would lose on a spare sd card unless it was in their device all the time :lol:
I'm afraid I did the original install from the TomTom SD card.
Even if you said to TomTom 6 to be installed on the Storage Card, it will install itself on the MAIN memory !
Has someone managed to move the 2 biggest files:
- Tomtom navigator.exe (~2MB)
- data.chk (~2MB)
to the storage card to save (4MB here!!) the precious main memory ?
I have found nothing except this but it is for TomTom 5:
http://www.4winmobile.com/q-how-can...934.html?sid=494a2df12b48a1e8fdca8ae0e7bfb752
Yes, I moved the whole Tom Tom directory that is installed to the Main Memory, to the Storage Card and run the Navigator exe from there.
Another thing is if you do a Hard Reset you dont after reinstall it again, it will run directly from the Storage Card, you just have to create a shortcut.
The difficulty with copying everything across to the SD card is that TomTom Home then can't find the installation on the pocket PC. Have you found any way around this?
Andrew
Yes, what are the consequences of moving the folder to the storage card ?
chris247 said:
Yes, what are the consequences of moving the folder to the storage card ?
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Well, the only problem is that it is a little slower to startup and get going, but once thats done Ive never noticed any difference.
The only thing is you cannot use the Today plugin (but I never did anyway), I just created a new shortcut in the Start Menu, that does it for me.
I agree with coercri (although I don't find it is any slower to start from my SD card, probably because I stuck in a relatively fast card ). But that still doesn't get around the problem of not being able to update the POIs using TomTom Home (which is much more convenient than copying the individual files to a number of map sub-directories). Maybe the answer is a Registry hack to point the installation directory to the card. I will try it.
I don't use the Home application so this is why it has never bothered me, I donwload the Camera Updates and just copy them to the GBMAP directory.
Thanks for you advice. I moved my TomTom folder in Program Files from main memory to the SD card. It works great !
The speed is the same as on the main memory and the application load is as fast as on the main memory. Maybe this is due to the fact that I took a fast SD card.
I am not using TomTom Home so I don't have this problem. I suggest you use Resco Explorer Registry editing tool and make a search for '\Program Files\Navigator' you should find so occurrences, change them to '\<name of your storage card>\Program Files\Navigator'
Thanks for that. In the end, I simply went back to copying the OV2 files across.
Incidentally, I have now moved TomTom to the Extended ROM and it is faster than running from the SD Card.
I currently have a new TyTN II. I already had a 2gb microSD. Due to arrive in my hand shortly are a full version of TomTom 6 and a 4gb.
Is there a way to transfer all of the data/apps on the 2gb card to the 4 without having to re-install everything?
Just put the 2GB in your computer / an SD Card reader and copy the entire contents of the 2GB to a TEMP folder on your computer. Now remove the 2GB card and insert the empty 4GB card and recopy everything from the TEMP folder on your computer to the 4GB card.
SIMPLE!!!
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Just put the 2GB in your computer / an SD Card reader and copy the entire contents of the 2GB to a TEMP folder on your computer. Now remove the 2GB card and insert the empty 4GB card and recopy everything from the TEMP folder on your computer to the 4GB card.
SIMPLE!!!
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Thank you for your response. To clarify my question with an example, if I had TomTom installed to the 2gb, would the process you describe work without reinstalling the program?
When you say "TEMP", do you mean just create a new folder on the desktop, for example?
It seems that I have tried to simply copy the contents and the programs then had to be reinstalled.
Yes it will work that way. I've done it many times, although not with tomtom, but every other app I have installed on it works so I don't see any reason why it wouldn't. I've even copied my miniSD from my wizard on to my microSD for my Kaiser and all of the programs still work without being installed over again.
You can name the folder anything you want on your computer, besides, you may want to keep it for backup in case something happens to your card anyway. I backup my card about once a month since SD cards tend to corrupt a little too often.
I guess I have wasted a lot of hours of my life reinstalling apps when I have changed devices. HP4700 to TyTN to TyTN II over 3 years or so.
Thanks again for your help.