TomTom v5

[Steve Bate]

If anyone is interested TTv5 is now out and an upgrade from v3 is only 59Euro, this is including maps of all of Europe which is a significant cost reduction if you need the Europe maps.

HTH somebody!

Steve

[rimibar]

Hi have recently upgraded my TomTom Navigator 3 to v5 and cannot get it to work with Tomtom's own Wired Antenna. Never had a problem with v3, but v5 is causing me enormous problems!!

I know that their market success and therefore growth is just amazing, but it's a pity that their customer service isn't up to the challenge. I have tried to send messages via the "My TomTom" system, but no response as yet. If only they have a UK telephone that they answered.

All I get is that they are too busy with other calls, please try later, I'm now on try 10 and still nothing!!!

Rant over! Anyone else experienced such problems?

R

[crocodile]

I wouldn't advise anyone to upgrade to V5 as it's riddled with bugs & the "new" GB maps only appear to be current as of Q1 2003.

There's a bug list here but I'm not aware of any issues with the wired GPS. There's a 5.1 update on Tom Tom's site, may be worth giving that a go.

[rimibar]

Thanks Crocodile - although I haven't managed to get it to work yet, I am disappointed the maps have not been updated! This was the primary reason I upgraded!

The 5.1 upgrade appears to be for TomTom Go users only.

[crocodile]

The TTN5.1 update is here.

Have a trawl of the rest of the Navigator forum if you get no joy.

[rimibar]

Will give this a whirl crocodile. Thanks!

[woody67]

I have v5, but have not really noticed any problems in use from when using v2.4 -the speed of scrolling the maps is greatly improved (I am using it on an old Ipaq 3630).

I have a non-TT reciever, but it has to be set as a wired TT reciever to work. Have you checked and tried other com settings via the gps settings - in programs/gps?

[rimibar]

Yep, tried that Woody67, makes no difference. I'm starting to suspect that it's a faulty cable, but don't know anyone who could lend me theirs to test. Will await TomTom's response (sometime this century I hope!!)

[woody67]

Can't you reload v3 and see if the receiver is working with that?

[Jazz Monkey Jr]

Originally Posted by crocodile

I wouldn't advise anyone to upgrade to V5 as it's riddled with bugs & the "new" GB maps only appear to be current as of Q1 2003.

The maps have been updated, there is a estate round the corned that was built 10 years ago that has made it on, and the M6 toll road is on.

[rimibar]

Finally managed to get TomTom 5 working on my XDA2. Turns out that I had to switch off "Receive all incoming beams" in the Beam option of Settings. This liberates the appropriate COM port for TomTom to use.

Generally I am pleased with the new version, although I do find that the GPS is considerably less sensitive than v3. Anyone have any suggestions on how to improve this, or is it only solvable by an imminent firmware upgrade?

Thanks!

[Messiah]

Only real issue I have noticed with v5 is that the blue Bluetooth light on my Bluetooth GPS unit (pucker Tom Tom one) no longer stays lit to show it has a BT link. Very annoying as this version also seems to take much longer to lock on to the GPS signal so I keep thinking there is no BT link. Bl00dy annoying that an updated version has more bugs than the previous ones (i.e. with features that worked fine previously)

[Moviebuff]

I "upgraded" to TT5, and found it to be equivalent to taking a step backwards. It was installed on a "clean" system, that had just been hard resetted. Even though I had patched it with the latest update, I found it so glitchy, as to be not only annoying, but bordering on un-useable.

After giving it the benefit of the doubt, I scrubbed it from my system, with another hard reset, reformatted my storage cards, and re-installed TT3 !! Now works superbly!!!!

It was used, for those that are interested, with a Dell X50V, and a Globalsat BT338 gps receiver, storage being 1 x 1 gb Sandisk SD card & 1 x 4 gb Lexar 44x CF card.

[Shady]

Is the TT5.1 upgrade applicable to all PDA's or only those mentioned on the official site ?

Would it work on my iPaq 4150 and would I notice a difference (have recently been getting a lot of connectivity problems between the PDA and my Tomtom bluetooth GPS receiver).

Cheers

[crocodile]

Originally Posted by Shady

Is the TT5.1 upgrade applicable to all PDA's or only those mentioned on the official site ?

Would it work on my iPaq 4150 and would I notice a difference (have recently been getting a lot of connectivity problems between the PDA and my Tomtom bluetooth GPS receiver).

Cheers

The 4150 is included on the comatability list here. I'm running it on a 4150 but wouldn't really recommend the upgrade unless you can make use of the European maps. I also doubt upgrading the software alone will help with connectivity problems & may even make them worse.