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[RickB]

Good news! And it had nothing to do with calling CS!!

I was up to a list of the 6 or so issues to call them about, and have been busy so the call has not yet been made. However:

Yesterday I got prompted to d/l App updates and voila, some of my problems have gone away.

Mind you d/l the update was painful, even after it finished installing, MyTomTom wanted me to do it all over again (*sigh*), however, being the sceptic I am, I re-booted everything, PC and all, and everything is okay now with installing my own Community Content.

Still outstanding:
- No Europe maps as promised (don't really care though)
- TomTom can take up to 45 mins to find a RDS signal
-MyTomTom still wants me to install older map v8.70 over top of already installed newer map 8.80, but I just ignore that!

So, MyTomTom still sucks, but at least there is progress!

[dhn]

Rick, try moving the plastic egg thingy on the rds antenna so that it's as close as possible to the windshield. May improve the fm capture of the signal. Maybe. Or is your antenna built in to the windshield?

[RickB]

Originally Posted by dhn

.....try moving the plastic egg thingy on the rds antenna.....

Thanks, but I've tried that, (not windshield model but egg thingy) and no luck. Its an odd problem, with the wire/antenna in the exact same position on the dashboard, sitting in my driveway, sometimes it finds the RDS signal within seconds of being on, sometimes its still looking 45 mins later. Its intermittent, and no discernable pattern to it that I can see.

One thing I *think* has helped, if it appears to be stuck searching for a signal, turning the unit off and on again usually works & signal is locked in within a few seconds.

Things that make you go Hmmmmmmmm

[dhn]

Yeah, no kidding, eh?

Resetting the unit (hold the power button till you hear the drum sounds) may help speed up signal capture.

[RickB]

So far a quick off and on seems to work most of the time, so I am quitting while I'm ahead! :-)

[RickB]

I should have known....

After forgetting this problem, because it went away for a few months...

Its back. Add community content says 0 mb Free space, so I can't upload any custom POI files.

*sigh* Reinstalls, resets did not help.

Also, today trying to look at "manage content" causes a windows error: "Could not load Manage Content Module"

Anyone with ideas?

PS: Have they fired the people responsable for this MyTomTom nonsense yet?

[canderson]

More likely promoted, Rick.

Andy should pop up here with his own experience of seeing space but being unable to use it. We could probably draw a direct parallel to his situation, but if you can't get the Manage Content to work without blowing up, there's no way to see how much memory availability is being reported there. You're the first example of that kind of error ("Could not load Manage Content Module") I think I've ever run across. I hesitate to guess whether that means trouble on the MyTomTom side, or the unit side - in this case, the unit supplies much of the content for the page, and who knows which side the error is pointing toward...

[dhn]

Canderson, just curious ..........

Do you have the link to the screen dumps screen to post here? I KNOW that there should not be anything there on a production unit but ........

[Andy_P]

Originally Posted by canderson

More likely promoted, Rick.
Andy should pop up here with his own experience of seeing space but being unable to use it..

I thought of doing so, but then decided it was a subtly different problem.

My issue was that the bargraphs in MyTT were saying there WAS enough space, but if you tried to install anything (even a really small file) then it complained of no space available.

Removing an extra map that they had installed remotely solved the symptoms, but I never got a decent answer as to what the reason really was.

It could have been that MyTT was mis-reporting the actual space available, or that it was reporting it correctly, but the system needs a big chunk of free memory all the time.

[canderson]

Originally Posted by dhn

Canderson, just curious ..........

Do you have the link to the screen dumps screen to post here? I KNOW that there should not be anything there on a production unit but ........

http://169.254.255.1/dumps/

He can take a peek there, but as you say, there really shouldn't be a thing there.