Have CoPilot Live, but it will not install the maps b/c "not enough space". I travel and and need the full US Map (think 1.2gb). Which obviously isn't going to fit on the internal. Whats the point of an app you can't even use??!? I tried searching on here and still don't get how your supposed to use maps from the external card. I see dozens of threads saying modify this, change the config to this, try to config this way etc. I copied the app folder to the external but still can't get maps to download, and if it did now I would have two installs of CoPilot (internal and external card).
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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 ?
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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.
For those like me who have had many failed attempts with TT6 and TT7 using legitimate software and maps I asked ALK (CoPilot) if their CoPilot 7 Touch Diamond edition would would on our devices and allow it to install to an SD card rather than internal memory. They replied that it could be manually copied.
I ordered it and got the CD today.
I copied the CD (DVD) to an SD card, and then moved the files in the Data directory into the CoPilot directory on the SD card.
Inserting the SD card triggered the WM6 cab file to lauch and install the base application on the device.
It's not TomTom but am well pleased with the results and a GPS satellite lock took around 2 minutes even from indoors.
I've downloaded the Camera POI's from PocketGPSWorld and loaded them and all looks good.
Money well spent I think
I just sent back my Garmin (have two units for the vehicles, but don't like that you can't move the data on the card to another, and the ones they sell have 400MB free).
Do you have a link? I want to ensure I can get the US covered with their software. Right now, I'm just using Google Maps. It works well for freeware, but it has me at a location half mile away.
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I just sent back my Garmin (have two units for the vehicles, but don't like that you can't move the data on the card to another, and the ones they sell have 400MB free).
Do you have a link? I want to ensure I can get the US covered with their software. Right now, I'm just using Google Maps. It works well for freeware, but it has me at a location half mile away.
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There is also an option to buy and download the diamond application from handango for the same price. Its a 275MB download for the UK maps. Copied the files onto SD card, which then autorun and loaded the main application (11mB) onto the main memory. At last, my estate is correct - the latest maps from tomtom still have non existant roads and roads that go through houses!!!! Full postcode support as well.
iGO8 is great too
Yes, but you are locked to the SD card they provide or is there a way around that and using my own SD card?
BTJ
yes there is AFAIK
I don't know more
Quick question;
Is it possible to install the maps and other directories for Tomtom7 anywhere other than the root of the storage card? Ideally, I'd like to put them all in a TomTom7 folder on the storage card.
you only need one folder on the root of your sd card for tomtom on any version, which should contain maps, poi's, and what not. I have my voices set to a separate folder but i don't believe this is necessary.
So I can have a 'Storage Card\TomTom' folder which the other folders ('maps', 'raster', 'voice', etc) and TomTom will automatically pick it up?
I'm sure I've tried this before and had no luck - I figured there might be a configuration setting or something. I'll try it again when I get home.
Thanks.
Hello all,
Installed my trusty 16 gig card that already had Copilot installed on it. Proceeded to Market and downloaded the app and installed.
Typically the app will find the maps on the sd card and all works fine.
Well with the 5 or so gigs considered "internal sd" and the "external sd" in the file system, Copilot didn't pick up the maps! I tried Copilot Central on the desktop and considered my phone a Copilot device, but saw 0 bytes free so I couldn't reload the map from my PC.
So long story short I had to manually copy the NA map folder off of my 16 gig "external sd" and copy it into the Copilot directory on the "internal sd".
After that Copilot worked fine.
So I dont know if this is the way this "internal/external sd" card stuff typically works (first phone with this much usable internal space", or a bug in the way Copilot handles things?
Hope this helps someone.
fhaines
I copied the EU map in the correct folder in the internal sd, and doesn't see the map.
I loved this phone when I bought it. In the last 2 days I had so many problems I never had with other phones. The wifi hotspot gave me a lot of problems. I'm not able to use gps. The whole internal / external sd is really annoying. With my old phones I never had this problems. I regret I sold the HD2, was perfect with WM and Android
Hello all!
I have HTC Sensation for a few weeks now. I have got 8Gb SD memory card in ti (it is original, I get card with phone).
Well, I love to listen the music and I just wont to upload about 6 Gb of music to card, but there was just about 3 or 4 Gb of free space. So I hust upload 4 Gb of music. (And now, I can't even shoot a movie , becouse there is not enough free space )Well, then I search the memory card and realized, that there is a lot of folders which was not copied on the card, but Android made them. And I have got all applications which I download from market installed in internal storage. So, should I format memory card? Will phone work normally after formatting?
BTW: But there is a map .data which is 2Gb big. That is a lot. And there 4 maps in there. 3 are almost empty (HTC Watch, trips, footprints) and one is 2Gb big. It is map called "navigator". Should I delete it, and if I delete it, will phone work? (Probably yes )
Thanks, and I almost forget, sorry for my bed English =)
Try format it with Panasonic SDFormatter Tool.
View attachment SDFormatterv3.0.zip
Thanks for this tool, but will phone work after formatting. Probably yes, but whay then are this .data map for?
First thing I did when I got my sensation was to put the 16GB sd card into it from my Hero. I made a copy of the Sensations existing SD card contents (by mounting as disc drive) on my PC first so that if I needed anything I could use it.
The map in the navigation folder is for use with HTC's Locations software, which is a mapping software similar to Google Maps, only with onboard maps. As I understand it yours comes with a standard map of the country you bought the phone in - so mine came with UK and Ireland (and also France). You can download as many other maps as you want free of charge. If you go into the Maps folder it will tell you which ones you have got, because the file name is the country name.
If you want it to act as turn-by-turn navigation then you have to pay for an update. I have been told it is based upon some pretty old sat nav software (Route 66 I think) and is not very good.
So if you don't want it just delete the maps file. It won't affect your phone, but you won't be able to use HTC's Locations. But then you can probably download the maps later if you want them
peterc10, thank you very much!
I don't have bigger card, so, I will delete this useless files (but I will made backup on computer ) =) I hope everything will be all-right.
Thanks!
matejm1994 said:
peterc10, thank you very much!
I don't have bigger card, so, I will delete this useless files (but I will made backup on computer ) =) I hope everything will be all-right.
Thanks!
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Don't forget to backup your movies and important data files before.