SAT NAV(yes again)

[Kev_md]

What sat nav do you recommend for around £100,cheers in advance.

 

[cava83]

tom tom

 

[KDF]

tom tom

 

[McBunny]

im running a navman s50 itself its not that good but im actually running the nav n go igo8 software and thats very good

http://www.navngo.com/pages/global/eng/igo_8_description

 

[Deeg]

Tom Tom.

Used my mates 'cheap' sat nav, and it was terrible. Dunno what it was, whether it was a Navman, or Garmin or what, but everything about it sucked balls.

 

[Robclio98]

Garmin

 

[Gavin.]

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146672

Get that and you can put tomtom on it i have bought about 12 to date for various friends/family

 

[guysy]

Id go for garmin. Prefer my mates tom tom sometimes but overall i prefer mine. I have Nuvi 200w.

Maps have outdated now. Anyone know where i can get updates without having to shell out?

 

[AK]

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146672

Get that and you can put tomtom on it i have bought about 12 to date for various friends/family

How do you put tom tom on it?

 

[Rob182]

snooper

 

[Kev_md]

as zippo say the_gman ,how do you put tom tom on it,cheers.

 

[Gavin.]

How do you put tom tom on it?

Wipe the original card or back it up. Download tomtom off of the torrents and copy over to the card and the rename the tomtom executable file to navigator.exe from memory.

Do a google search there are a few "cracks" for that model.

 

[Gavin.]

"You need to obtain TomTom software, I used v6.010. Now the trick to making this work is to get hold of the "installed" files, I managed to do this by installing on my PDA first and then copying across the TomTom folder on my PDA to an SD card.

Then put the map folder onto the root of the SD Card.

By now you should have to folders on the SD CARD

>>Tomtom
>>Great Britain

Rename the Tomtom folder to "mobilenavigator".

Inside the "mobilenavigator" folder find "tomtom.exe" and rename it "mobilenavigator.exe".

Reboot and when you click the navi software button, tomtom will start. The first time i ran it I got an error, but ever since it has worked perfectly.

To get GPS and Tomtom talking you set the GPS receiver option in Tomtom to other NMEA receiver, Baud rate 4800 and COM1.

I have been using this for 2 weeks now and really pleased with my Navigo tomtom!

It is also possible to unlock WINCE but I'll save that for another day!


Notes:

Use a different SD Card, if this goes wrong you can just put the old back and it will work again.

The hardest part of this is getting the installed tomtom files, If you don't have a PDA then one way to get the tomtom installed files would be to extract them from the installer Cab file using a pocket PC Cab utility."

There you go

 

[guysy]

^ Interesting, Cheers.

Think i will try this tomorro.

 

[Gavin.]

well worth the buy for £47 i just put tomtom version 7.910 on mine tonight and that works just as well

 

[guysy]

Just sourced some 09 europe maps for my garmin, Will go with these first.

Might try the tomtom maps if i dont like the garmin's though.

 

[JJ!]

I recently got a Tom Tom One V4 and its been great - John Cleese is my current director lol

 

[Munson]

I'd say Tom Tom. I've played around with a couple of Garmin units, and it was like being barked at by a female dalek. I'd rather get lost. This was a good couple of years ago though, so they may have improved.

 

[M8XY G]

I have a tomtom but would recommend a garmin.

Grandparents have a garmin, i found them very user friendly and good although i dont live with it.

 

[McBunny]

seriously the nav-n-go igo8 software is much better than tomtom imho also running this plays vids music connects to internet remote desktop opns word docs basically will do anything
http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=109690