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TomTom 5 Maps Install problems

Hi
Please help me before i go completely mad. I cannot get those pesky maps to install. I am installing from the original tomtom 5 cds in the Software + maps of western Europe version. The main software and UK jane voice all install Ok. But when i insert the second cd and select any of the UK maps option the install programjust disapears. I tried doing a Hard reset on my Universal and starting again. Still get nothing. When i run the TT sw it says "no maps found".
Then i stumbled accross this thread read it through and see that there are many more hurdles needed after i get the maps but found a few usefull threads on maps so. I did another hard reset and tried the suggestion of copying the Cab files direct to my SD card and running from there this time I get the message "Installation of Great_Britain_Plus was unscessful" I have tried this on 2 different SD cards a 1 gb and a 4gb both with plenty of space.
I would be really greatful for a step by step guide or a pointer to the correct thread on this or any other site. I am even happy to pay someone who lives in London to install for me. I am going away on a driving holliday in the UK next week and was hoping to use GPS for the trip but am feeling a bit dissapointed about it now.
Many thanks for any helpfull suggestions
Regards

Try putting the SD card in a reader and install the new map to the card reader (you get the location - where to install option during the install process) instead of on the PDA through active sync. Then simply open Tomtom and go to options and select change map and select from the one/s that you have installed through the card reader.
Hope this makes sense, and possible helps

put the maps into your root of storage card , remeber to keep the orginal names of foldesr. it looks like this in my case..
\storage card\great_britain-map.v5.66
you also have CurrentMap.dat file put in the TomTom folder in My Documents and creat empty TomTom folder in storage card. voices should be put it Voices folder of the storage card .
cheers, cudo
hope it helps ..

get the lastest update from the tomtom website for the universal otherwise youll have trouble getting it to work the isnt set to write protect is it

TomTom 5 latest version is 5.21. That said, the map installation software is horrible.
The only way to install the maps is to specify to a memory card. Do not use the install to Pocket PC or Folder. Select Other and use a memory card.
It goes very slowly ... so have some patience, get some coffee/tea/snacks while you do this.
I can't believe that this is a commercial software. It just not workable in this manner.

Tomtom6.3 No voice navigation(Found solution)

Happy day!!!!!!
i just found there is a update for trinity from tomtom.com
all we need to do is download latest tomtom home, install it, then download the new voice file from tomtom home(the old voice files cannot be readed by tomtom 6.03 on trinity)
here is the link http://www.tomtom.com/support/index.php?FID=6736&Lid=1
Hope this can help everyone who get the same problem as me. cheers
after i install the tomtom6.3 on my trinity(wm6), the voice doesn't work. i do have the "voices" folder in my sd card, but the voice just doesn't work!
anybody knows why this happened? thanks.

sailer1983 said:
after i install the tomtom6.3 on my trinity(wm6), the voice doesn't work. i do have the "voices" folder in my sd card, but the voice just doesn't work!
anybody knows why this happened? thanks.
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put all voices (all files inside \voice\ folder) into tomtomnavigator folder, where is tomtom navigator.exe...
usually this trik works
bye!

ervius said:
put all voices (all files inside \voice\ folder) into tomtomnavigator folder, where is tomtom navigator.exe...
usually this trik works
bye!
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thanks man, but i have tried this way before, it doesn't work.

when i use Garmin iQue M5(windows mobile 2003), tomtom6.3 works perfect.

Is there a newer version than 6.03? My installation has a Program files/Navigator/Voices folder with a file called collected on the phone. On the SD card there is also a Voices folder with a collected file and two data08 files, one of which is quite large (671kb). Also , the sound is muted if TomTom is launched when there's a data connection.

sailer1983 said:
thanks man, but i have tried this way before, it doesn't work.
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How about deleting the collected.ini file, I vaguely remember reading that you need to delete this file in both voices directories (making sure tomtom is not running). Then restart tomtom.
Also put the voices file into the program files/navigator/voices directory on phone - I've never had any luck with the voices directory on the storage card, even though my maps are on there??
Sorry if somebody has already suggested this...
Cheers.

Voices are located in sd card root folder "voices", if you have problems try to download voices from tomtom, even if you have a "trial" version i think you can download.

PGMMA said:
Is there a newer version than 6.03?
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No- 6.03 is the latest version

sailer1983 said:
after i install the tomtom6.3 on my trinity(wm6), the voice doesn't work. i do have the "voices" folder in my sd card, but the voice just doesn't work!
anybody knows why this happened? thanks.
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Have you tried rerunning the initial setup wizard- you may be able to reselect the voice you want from the list, then TTN will copy it to the Navigator folder as the data0*.chk file.

In the directory of the map you are using, replace files TRAFFIC.INC and MapSettings.cfg with original versions from these. Make a copy of them first (e.g. as xtraffic.inc and xmapsettings.cfg)
This works for me.
You will loose references to favorites, home, etc.
I hope this helps.

thanks everyone here, appreciate for your help.
the way from CRH66 doesn't work. but thanks all the same.
MJ, i have to say, i have the right files in vovics folder, and it is in the root directory, i also put them in program files/navigator/voices
not very clear about Benzin's method use which file to replace the one your mentioned?
i will try NeilM's trick later, then i will let u know what happed. cheers

sailer1983 said:
...not very clear about Benzin's method use which file to replace the one your mentioned?
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Each and every map directory contains cline.dat, cname.dat, etc, and also the two files I mentioned. These two files are updated each time you use TomTom. Sometimes they become corrupted and TomTom looses the voice. You need to replace them with an earlier version that works. Copy them from another installation (a friend, emule, etc.) and substitute the ones you have.
Sometimes just deleting/renaming them and making a soft reset may work.
I insist, this works for me. If this does not solve your case, there is information in other fora about the deletion of a file in the windows directory. I tried this before without success.
Sound has a big bug in TomTom 6.030

... late
Thanks for the information in the first post. I hope this solves completely the issue.

The latest version is 6.03. What sound bug - never had a problem myself.

No sound bugs in tomtom 6.03
As far as i know, the latest release of TOMTOM 6.03 contains no bugs voices.
Well the main and best thing, would be better u unisntall your soft completely from your mobile with activesync, "off your mobile completely for 1mn" then reinstall the soft again again.
better to try something than not to try anything.

The Thread Starter has now updated his 1st post to say the problem is fixed!
AFAIK there is no problem with the older versions of TTN and the Trinity, nor with 6.03 and voices, but certainly installing TT Home often helps because it allows the configuration to be managed.

Benzin said:
Each and every map directory contains cline.dat, cname.dat, etc, and also the two files I mentioned. These two files are updated each time you use TomTom. Sometimes they become corrupted and TomTom looses the voice. You need to replace them with an earlier version that works. Copy them from another installation (a friend, emule, etc.) and substitute the ones you have.
Sometimes just deleting/renaming them and making a soft reset may work.
I insist, this works for me. If this does not solve your case, there is information in other fora about the deletion of a file in the windows directory. I tried this before without success.
Sound has a big bug in TomTom 6.030
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Hi Benzin, the problem has been solved, but thanks any way for your kindly help.

NeilM said:
The Thread Starter has now updated his 1st post to say the problem is fixed!
AFAIK there is no problem with the older versions of TTN and the Trinity, nor with 6.03 and voices, but certainly installing TT Home often helps because it allows the configuration to be managed.
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NeilM, i completely aggree with u. there is no bug in ttn6.03.
and i think i have found the point.
when i install ttn6.03 and it's voices into my Garmin iQue M5(WM2003se),it works perfect. Then i install the same program and voices into my Trinity(WM6), the problem comes, no sound!
After downloading the new voice files via Tomtom home, i found there are different voice files for WM2003se and WM6. The voices for WM6 are a lot bigger than the one for WM2003se!!!
It means the same voice files will work for WM2003se but not for WM6!
All those people who have this voice problem should update their voice files

Artemis (XDa) TOM TOM Installlation

Hi all
I hope someone can help me with this I'm using an XDa Artemis and I have TT6. I have previusly copied files from the TT6 SD card direct to my storage card on my device and the system picked up the necessary installation files and sorted it from there.
However every now and then when I started TT6 on the device, it would fail to recognise the location of the maps though the software appeared to be working ok. The resolution to this was to re-set the device and wait for it to reload the software. (a bit of a pain but...)
Just lately the device and or TT have failed to start properly no matter what I do. I have tried re-installing the files, I have removed the TT software from the XDa using add remove progs.
I can not now get the Xda to recognise the newly copied files to a newly purchased staorage card irrespective of whether I install to the device direct or to the storage card when installed in the comuter.
My TT home software does not recognise my device and I'm stumped...
Any advice welcome, particularly in relation to getting the TT Home software to recognise my device and allow me to install the software direct from the C rather thn thru the above methods would be great.
Thanks
Pete

check you setting for the GPS Port in the TT& software. the baudrate should be set on standard 4800 and the com port ist Nr. 4 (usually the one at the top. if it still doesn't run, then try hard-reset your pda and also formatting the sd card and start reinstalling the whole TT6 package

Thx for that, yes it's all ok and I had already done all of that except hard reset. (trying to avoid that as I dont want to spend days re-installing all my other apps).
What I've done is purchase a new card, copy the TT^ data across to it and that seems to have worked (fingers crossed). Since doing this my device has only once failed to recognise TT6 so I'm hopeful....
Cheers
Pete

How to install TomTom Navigator on storage card

Hi All,
Anyone know how to install Tomtom Navigator on Storage card?
Similar question applies to other CABs I have I would like to know for those which do not offer choice of destination installation, how to install either alter tha cab to give the choice or other solution?
Please can you help?
I asked similar question earlier but only answer I had was to use WINCE CAB Manager which I don't know how to change...
Thanks

Whenever I install Navigator it gives me the choice of storage card or device. Do you not get those choices? And it still installs a lot of files to the device even though I chose storage card, I think it's unavoidable.

Can you send me a link of TomTom Navigation software so I would discover out and tell you ?

The way I did it was to install TomTom onto the devices internal memory as normal then move the program files directory etc over. Point the shortcuts into the correct exe location and it all works perfectly fine. Even after flashing the device several times since I'm as yet to reinstall it as I don't need to!

Help With TomTom

Right so i have my Touch HD and i have installed TomTom 7 following instructions:
bmcconalogue said:
Can't help you with the freeware (aside from Google Maps, and the missus reading the instructions out loud, or maybe a map!)
To get TTN7 working (this is legally):
Go to this thread to get the link to 7.915 which works on the Touch HD.
In case you haven't installed stuff before:
Connect your Touch HD via ActiveSync
Copy the cab file to your touch (anywhere, I keep cabs I'm gonna install in a folder on microSD card)
On your HD click the cab to open and follow the instructions. I installed to the microSD card and it works fine, but people on here have said it works installed on the device too - whatever floats your boat)
Try running TomTom to check it works (you'll get a warning about having no maps, but it should give you the option to download a mall city map. I got the London map which only took a few seconds to download).
I'd then unplug the HD for the moment. Download the latest version of TTHome (this always give the latest version)
Before connecting your Touch you have to doctor TTHome to recognise the HD. Thanks to Noiz for helping me out here:
Go to C:\Program Files\TomTom HOME 2\xul\chrome and paste this over the contents.
Now you can plug your HD into your PC and TTHome will recognise it.
Finally in TomTom Home or the website buy the maps you want (the USA maps are still down for TTN7 last time I checked, but you can get full Europe, and lots of others still, and traffic and speed camera subscriptions).
Once you've bought them they'll appear in TTHome. It shouldn't (after the Noiz fix) say the map isn't compatible, but it won't install it. It should let you download it, it will go to the download directory (you can set that in TTHome options). Simply go there, extract the zip file to the root of your storage card with a folder the same name as the zip file. Extract the cab file that begins activation in the same folder.
You can now download new cars, voices, mapshare updates, speed camera subscriptions.
Sorry if I've written any of this wrong, in front of a different machine with none of this installed so doing it all from memory and glancing at bookmarked pages.
(None of this work is my doing, I have just got some hints from people on the way and combined it onto one post). All thanks to them!
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so i have got to the part where i have added my free map, but i have a quick question before i continue - can i move the maps i have downloaded to a new memory card or will i have to redownload / buy them?
as im using a 512mb card at moment as mine didnt arrive with its 8gb card

you should be OK using a different card, because TomTom uses Device ID (switching Phones wouldn't work) not Card ID
anyone know differently?

okay thank you for the help - i just wanted to make sure before i go any further