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TomTom Nav 3 on SD Card

Hi folks,
is there a way to place TT N3 on my 512 MB SD card? Since I've got the maps on it and TT N3 is of no use without them, I just would find it logical to put them together and remove the whole lot by taking the SD out.
The BT GPS receiver software should still stay on the MDA.
Thanks

It wont work because some files are also written to the main memory even if you choose sd card as install destination.

You can move the app itself over to SD but performance suffers badly and it results in frequent lock-ups. It's not a supported configuration and best avoided.

During installation of TTN3 I installed the app on Storage Card and not in Main memory. Indeed a few items are installed on main memory, but the main app itself resides on CD Card. I have not experienced a lockup o f TTN3 during normal use.
I am a happy user of TTN3 on SD Card.
O2 XDA-I 32 MB:
ROM Version: 4.01.16 ENG
ROM Date: 02/04/04
Radio Version: 4.16.00
Protocol version: 32S54

The lockups occur most on MDAII/XDA2/Qtek2020/iMate.
It is all dependent on the max. data-transfer rate of your SD-card.
I can run from SD fine, IF I do not use POI.
BTW: I dont see the advantage for MDAII/XDA2/Qtek2020/iMate to run completely from SD. With every Hard-reset you will have to re-install because of the tiny bits that are installed in main memory.
For XDA1 I can imaginge that limited memory space is a reason.

tomtom on sd
i have tomtom on my sd!
it can be done!
The app and all components in their own folders on the sd!

From my experience installing TomTom on the SD card does not seem to work to good…

Poor performance huh!!!!
hmmm not sure about the poor performance!
Could you advise me of what I will gain by adding TomTom3 to my XDA rather than my 512mb SD card?
I would love to know what I am missing out on speed wise! :lol:

After a short amount of time TomTom just starts to slow down and then dies!! - Installing TomTom into Main Memory or Storage/ExtRom works fine...

Jimbob, are you saying that you could remove your sd card and have a complete install of tomtom 3 on it, if you try the sd in another phone/pda I think you will find errors thrown up because files will be missing.

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cruisin-thru
You are correct!
I have tried it! it works fine!
merlin_uk
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Thats not how it works!
If you had any shred of brains, you will know that processes only run as quick as the item they are running on!
As long as all other apps and utils are not running, TomTom will run at full capacity!
Dont listen to merlin_uk he knows not***************************
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JimBobUK, please remove your comments towards myself from this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=61794#61794
I was only talking from my experience... there is no need to be nasty!!
If your comments are not removed I will report this post to the moderators.
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JimBobUk, there are other ways to point out that someone is wrong. Merlin was not offensive, so no reason for you to react like that.
now for the issue:
My experience is that TomTom can lock-up IF the data transfer rates of your SD-card are not high enough. I experienced this. It has nothing to do with TomTom itself, but with the maps/poi files.
I would like to know HOW you did install tomTom on the SD card completely. When I tried it I noticed some bits that were installed in main memory. Also the registry settings are in main memory. THIS means that if you put your SD-card in another (similar) device TomTom wont work. Also, after a hard-reset TomTom wont work.
These findings were reason enough for me NOT to install TomTom itself on SD.

Our US Editor is always looking for ways to install SatNav to memory cards and leave as much precious system memory free. He has been investigating which components of TomTom can safely be installed to a memory card and which need to remain in main memory.
His findings are about to be published in a short guide he has prepared on how best to achieve this with Tomtom Navigator. It requires some work and mods to the registry and there are parts of the install that need to be left installed in main memory if you want a stable system as well as registry entries etc.
It is not possible to install every element of TomTom Navigator to SD such that transferring the card to another device will allow access to TomTom.

i will put my card in another device that does not have TT3 installed and give you the results
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So there’s no confusion, I thought I would restate my experiences when installing and using TomTom 3 on an SD Storage Card…
When installing TomTom, for the application I specified that the installed location would be the SD Storage Card. Installation went smoothly and the following components were installed as follows:
Installed onto the SD Storage Card:
TomTom Navigator Voice
TomTom Navigator
Installed into Main Memory:
TomTom Wizard
TomTom GPS
What happens is that the components TomTom Navigator Voice and TomTom Navigator get installed on to the target specified during installation and components TomTom Wizard and TomTom GPS always get installed into Main Memory.
I then install the TomTom Maps on to the SD Storage Card.
The above installation all seemed to worked perfectly… but what I was finding was that when using TomTom in the car and after some time driving, TomTom seemed to slow down… what I mean by this is that the refreshing of the screen slowed down and began to become jerky… some time after this the device would hang which meant doing a soft reset (a little difficult when driving!!)
So I uninstalled TomTom and then reinstalled it, but this time I stated that the installed location for the application would be Main Memory, which meant that only the TomTom Maps would be installed onto the SD Storage Card. By doing this, it all seemed to fix the problem for me…. at the time I did not have time to investigate the reasons why I was having these problems, I just needed to have a working version of TomTom that I could rely on in the car.
The problem could not be anything to do with the number of processes running as I always made a point of closing everything first before running TomTom. Also if it was a process problem, then this would have affected TomTom irrespective of whether it was run from Main Memory or Storage Card.
My conclusion at the time was that it was not going to be suitable for me to run TomTom from the SD Storage Card, and therefore decided to install to Main Memory instead. This has recently changed, however, and I now run TomTom 3 from my Extended Rom which all seems to work great and frees up my Main Memory.
I hope this clarifies my experiences with TomTom 3.

Has anyone else got problems recieving phone calls whilst using TTN3 ?, my phone wont ring whilst TTN3 is running and i seem to miss all my calls,
Is there a solution to this at all ?
Cheers

merlin_uk said:
I now run TomTom 3 from my Extended Rom which all seems to work great and frees up my Main Memory.
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Probably a silly question, but how did u install TT3 to ur X. ROM?
Smiley

smiley_thing69 said:
Probably a silly question, but how did u install TT3 to ur X. ROM? Smiley
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When you run the installer you choose 'Storage Card' rather than 'Main Memory' but this does not install everything to storage card.
We will be publishing an in-depth guide to how to move everything that can be safely run from the storage card shortly at PocketGPSWorld. There are a few small files that need to be left in main memory to ensure stability.

smiley_thing69 said:
Probably a silly question, but how did u install TT3 to ur X. ROM?
Smiley
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I used the ExtendedRom Unlocker to gain access to the ExtRom, the download can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/download.php?id=567
I then copied the content from the ExtRom to my SD Storage Card and then deleted everything from the ExtRom.
When reinstalling TomTom you should now be able to select the ExtendedRom as the target installation location...

TomTom SD Card Install?
Hello,
Does anyone know whether it's possible to put an install for Tom Tom onto an SD Card?
I've got to install TT onto like 70 M1000s then ship them out. I'm concerned that the battery may die in transit and main memory will be wiped. In which case TT will need re-installing :evil:
I've gotta get an activation code for each copy of TT before installing it onto the M1000 and the install takes over 30mins
With activesync I'm not able to install it onto more than one unit at any one time but if I could copy the files direct to SD card and run the install from there I could save myself a lot of time and hassle! Plus if the battery runs out I could fire up the install and everything would be sweet.
My concern is putting the install onto the SD card and passing the activation code to it.
If anyone knows an answer to this I'd be grateful for some pointers!
Thanks

xda IIi General questions Please help :)

will this phone take sd cards and if so what size if not what memory slots does it have
Will it open PDf files and word and excel
Thanks
EDIT will this load skype

could someone help me please

mtt.tr said:
will this phone take sd cards and if so what size if not what memory slots does it have
Will it open PDf files and word and excel
Thanks
EDIT will this load skype
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MMC/SDIO memory slot (Unsure to what capacity)
Yes it will open PDF, word and excel documents as it has Pocket Office and a PDF veiwer.
Hope this helps!

Thanks just waiting for the company to respond if i hear what i want to hear then i will be the new owner of an xda IIi

Sorry question again
Is it possible to put applicatoins on the sd card then use the phone to install in instead of using active sync
Also like previously mentioned of the usb sync doesn't work can i do it buy bluetooth

Depends on what you really have, the previous thread mentions an XDA iii, aka Blue Angel, now it's an XDA IIi, aka Alpine.
Can't speak as far as the BA is concerned but the Alpine wil only take non HC cards, think there's a 2Gb limit, mine will certainly cope with 2Gb, not tried it with any bigger. Also the Alpine cannot be upgraded to WM5 or WM6, you are limited to WM2003.
Applications can certainly be installed direct from the SD card, just copy the CAB file onto the card, either by Bluetooth or by putting the card in a media reader on your PC, and then just run the file on the XDA.

[Q] SD Card read but cannot write

I am having trouble getting A phone to write on Memory card.
Tried 512mb, 1Gb, 2Gb all mini with adaptor (tried 2 different)
and a 1Gb SD. None SDHC.
None was locked.
All cards are writtable through Card reader but
only readable through my Qtek 9000
Tried different roms, mornings evenings, full moon, even during Oprah while all Gremlins are occupied...
Help, I am clueless.
I bought the phone in mint cond., but have no knowledge about previous cons.
Massage is:
"Cannot remove.... Access is denied.
Be certain that the folder is not write-protected and is not currently in use."

Welcome to forums,
What is the device is not working on?
But on Universal does?
Will move this thread to Q&A section

orb3000 said:
Welcome to forums,
What is the device is not working on?
But on Universal does?
Will move this thread to Q&A section
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none of the memory cards is not working on my Universal but throught card reader yes.

Try Formatting the card on the phone

little help, with what should I format?
At this time, I don't have any program on phone.
Last step is open surgery on the usb pins inside the phone

Pins look ok. There is contact.
Nobody had the same problem?

Just to add,
bought 4gb and 8gb pqi micro SD with adapter
and they both work on Rom with SD settings app...
Now I am trying to make some work on my 9090...

Internal sd card who prevent application exportation to real sd card

Hi everyone,
My friends who's making a world tour on bike just bought a smartphone to help him in his journey.
The MTT Smart Robust (can't put the exact link but it's easy to find on google)
We added a sim card of 64GB in it and tried to move applications on it because the internal memory is only of 4 GB.
We encountered a surprise when inside the phone there were an internal memory of 2GB, a phone memory of 2GB and the SD card.
And when we try to export the applications they never end up on the SD card.
Can you explain to us how to bypass the phone memory which looks like an other sd card (and act like one since the exportation of the applications ends up on it) ?
Because, we are trying to install application with offline maps and also google traduction offline. 4GB is not enough
Thansk in advance for your answer !

Sorry to up this topic but we could really use some help
Isn't there a way to bypass this intermediate phone memory to use the real sd card to export the applications ?
Thanks in advance.

Why not replace the phone memory with the new sd card, just copy everything on phone memory to the new sd card first...
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Thanks Talsadus, but the phone and internal memory are not accessible. That's the trick.
I don't know what the people who made this phone tried or if it's a normal doing but The only accessible sd card is the one we put. there are no other place. : /

If you go into Settings->Storage can you unmount the Internal SD Card that is acting as external SD Card?
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We just look and there's no button to umount the phone memory which plays as an external sd card.
The phone is not rooted and I kind of don't want to do it because my friend just bought it. (for the warranty)

[Completed] Cubot one [rooted][miui4.08.29] sd card storage specific problem

Hi. I posted in another thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=66162018#post66162018
but nobody seems to follow it or answer for 8 days now...
I believe my problem is not model specific, rather universal, so i need just a little bit of assistance in finding the file neccessary for editing, and edit it accordingly. I'll paste the important part here:
"cubot one has about 8 GB of INTERNAL memory which is again (probably virtually) divided into internal memory of about 1,06 GB and external memory of about 5,96 GB.
under storage settings , no matter which i pick, external or internal storage for gallery , video , music, it doesn't work...
i cannot shoot pictures, video, download pictures or video from whatsapp, download ringtones etc because it is always saying that there is no sd card. how do i force it to accept that "virtual" sd card or even internal memory?
edit: i managed to get the storage working, but not permanently. i put in sd card from my phone into my wife's phone, shot some pictures, video, etc. removed the sd card, and checked if i got the same message. I DIDN'T! storage is still working, pictures and video are going under /storage/sdcard0/dcim/... ringtones are also available for download and i can finally access the "local" tab with default ringones. As i said, this is not a permanent solution, because as soon as i reboot the phone, the problem is back again. I believe it is all a matter of changing a few lines inside a single file (maybe vold.fstab? ), so i need someone to help or at least put me on the right track to do it myself."
thank you in advance.

Hi,
XDA Assist is here to help new members navigate the site, not for support. Unfortunately answers can be hard to come by with less popular devices.
For more about the purpose of XDA Assist, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2764768
You've already posted in the best place, so I will close this thread. And good luck! :good: