OT TomTom GO 910

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No but just baught a ONE and am seriously pissed off with the company. It works fine out of the box but try and buy upgrades and they just take the piss, after they've taken your money of course!. In fact taking the money seems to be the only part of their system that actually works. Anyone know of a forum or list for TomTom users please? Greg

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Have you tried

What's the issue Greg?

-- Darren Griffin PocketGPSworld.com

I have TT Go 910 and think it is superb, better then the factory fit sat-nav in my Disco too. Easy to use, quick to lock onto GPS, hands-free Bluetooth works a treat too. Maps are bang up to date and a hard drive on board means I could use it for MP3's etc but can't really see the point.

Best sat-nav I have ever used.

Andy

Heh, try driving through Bristol! There's entire juctions and joining roads missed out in one of the busiest traffic points, and we're talking 3-lane roads here, not little ones. They haven't quite finished making them yet though so not entirely fair.

Maps are one of the most complained about tomtom issues, however it's not really fair, all satnav systems seem to suffer from map lag.

Anyone come across a Sat Nav device that's aware of 'green lanes'?

Well my tomtom tried to lead me up one once, in the audi A4 sadly..

But no, green lanes aren't on the horizon, most of them don't even really have any capability for you to add your own routes so you can't even add them yourself most of the time.

I used to have a MIO PDA, with GPS, to which I added "Memory Map" for when I used to go walking. Not greenlaning but OS maps you can import to your PDA.

My Navman keeps wanting to take me through Sainsbury's car park.

Pathetic support really, I bought the speed (correction 'safety') camera subscription and the traffic subscription as a package, after I had paid they just said something like "you can now down load them" and that was that!. As far as I can find the tomtom home software will not handle these for you, I had to download a zip file, unzip it, wasted ages trying to put the files into somewhere tomtom home would recognise as 'content on my pc' and in the end gave up and found out how to put them directly onto the SD card, no thanks to tomtom's help of course. At least this now works...

Then came to the traffic info, eventually realised I had been conned and can not download via PC but have to do it over blue tooth link to mobile for which I 'may be charged', they said nowt about that before I bought it!. So I duly try to establish a connection to my brand new Razer V3 with o2 and get nowhere with automatic configuration, try manual following tomtom help and get no further. Well pissed off and can't be arsed to waste more time on it at the moment. It's all so stupid as this could all be handled transparrently through tomtomhome. Greg

Think the point is that the traffic info needs to be live to be of any value. So unless you put your PC in the car, and have a REALLY long extension lead.........

;-)

David

Hmm, not sure about that, I know that my TTG910 downloaded speed camera updates recently via the "Home" application, just a week or so ago. I don't use "Home" much though so don't really know how to work it, it just happened. Did you create a tomtom plus account and feed the username/password to tomtom home and tell it to log in? That's the point at which it checks for updates and downloads any new cameras.

Tomtom support isn't much use though.

In the old car I had the TomTom and it was paired with my phone and got the traffic updates no problem. Never noticed any horrendous charges on my phone so have no idea what it cost but it never took more than a few seconds to update. I am always very wary of these type of things as you can never tell if you are making better progress than carrying on, but on a journey up to Wales on a Friday afternoon I made pretty good time and never hit any tailbacks following the diversions given. Found it very interesting as well, not just following the motorway.

I got the speed trap warning as well and I'm less sold on that one as I tend to spot them and don't travel enough to be in strange places with strange cameras.

Only problem now is the Lightweight being 24v, I'm trying to work out a way to power it. Ohh and some cheeky blighter stole the cradle when it was in another car so need another one. Just the cradle though!

Check the power adapter, on my Go 910 the adapter is 12/24v and all the tomtom adapters I've had have been (one GPS unit and another cradle for a PDA). I use it in the Pinzgauer which is also 24v and no smoke yet ;-)

Assuming a valid subscription then TomTom HOME will download their saftey camera updates. The Traffic service requires a suitable mobile as the data is 'live' and can only really work in that way. However the costs are not huge even for the most expensive providers but IIRC you will need an O2 Contract account rather than a PAYG one as you require GPRS Internet which for O2 is (and again I say IIRC!) only available to contract accounts. PAYG get GPRS WAP only.

-- Darren Griffin

Cameras yes, traffic info no 8-(.

Yes, did all that, but that's another issue, when ever I try to update I just get 'there is a problem try later' an have done for 3 days now, pile of shit in my book. Greg

The roadworks aren't exactly going to change much in the few hours between me updating from my pc to encountering them, from what people have told me the info is not up to date enough to know that a jam has developed in the last few minutes so I need to divert, but I only know this second hand because I can't use something I've paid for!. Greg

I'm on PAYG and that does look likely to be the problem, of course tomtom said f*ck all about either needing a phone connection or needing a particular type of account, not until I had paid when they told me in small print it was ONLY available over the phone.

I can see absolutely no reason they can't provide it by download so people can update immediately before a journey, so what it a tiny bit of the info is 2 hours out of date, that's my choice. You can say the same about changes to the cameras which can be updated either way, I strongly suspect they get some cash from the phone calls otherwise why not provide the file for download as they do for the cameras?.

Anyway, beware, the tomtom is great out of the box but updates are a real headache and you need the right sort of phone and contract to use any of their much advertised PLUS services. Greg Greg