I've had my 910 since just a few weeks after it hit the market. Being that this is my first GPS unit I love it and couldn't live without it, but...
The first update I ran for this kept the device from shutting off automatically when power is cut to it; this in my opinion is bad. Why do you ask? Because there is now the oppurtunity to forget to turn it off when you leave your car in a dark area in a questionable neighborhood, or maybe just downtown for a night out. No, that's not an oppurtunity for me, it's a 4 hour window of oppurtunity for the local meth/crack head to see the pretty $800 glowing light in the car to break the window and take the device to fulfill their chemical dependancy needs for the next few days/weeks.
...Not good.
I know why this change was made, the mount. However would not have been a better and possibly more intelligent solution to simply add a selection to the already plentiful menu's to either enable, or disable autoshutoff? I don't know, maybe TomTom feels that if we need a device like a TomTom to find our way around that we must be too stupid to make a decision like that on our own so they felt they would make it for us. Generous I suppose.
After much tinkering and online how-to's I managed to get an original copy of the software and loaded that back on, now my device again shuts off automatically...good...
Now, the September update. It didn't say anything about whether it corrected that fun little problem or not so I happily backed up my 910 and installed the September update...Ok, it stays on again, damn, oh well...A guy can hope a company like TomTom could grow a brain right? Oh, but wait! There's more! A NEW problem! The device no longer switches from day/night mode any longer! Woo hoo!!! Another bonus! I go into brightness and docked settings, what the heck, one of them should work right? Nope...Select switch to night view and pitch black middle of nowhere 2 in the morning kind of darkness and there's the day screen at 100% brightness! So, I manually select night mode and this incredibly intelligent device designed and supported by even more incredibly and intelligent twits asks me if I would like it to automatically switch to night mode when it's dark! WOW! Why YES! I select, and bam! I'm staring at the day screen at 100% brightness like I never did a thing!
...Oh, and yes, the opposite is true at high noon on a sunny day.
It's back to the backup I go, bye bye september update!...It shuts off now, but apparently it really didn't like switching to night/day mode automatically because that problem is still there!
COME ON!!!!!!!!!!
Every time there's a new Tom Tom update I don't know what to do, update or not to update...Chance getting even more pissed off for the slight and remote possibility this could end my TomTomTorture..., or hmmm...
$800 initial can't live without it device, for every update this thing is becomming a $700 device, then a $600 device, then a $500 device...when it gets to zero I'm throwing it out the window.
The first update I ran for this kept the device from shutting off automatically when power is cut to it; this in my opinion is bad. Why do you ask? Because there is now the oppurtunity to forget to turn it off when you leave your car in a dark area in a questionable neighborhood, or maybe just downtown for a night out. No, that's not an oppurtunity for me, it's a 4 hour window of oppurtunity for the local meth/crack head to see the pretty $800 glowing light in the car to break the window and take the device to fulfill their chemical dependancy needs for the next few days/weeks.
...Not good.
I know why this change was made, the mount. However would not have been a better and possibly more intelligent solution to simply add a selection to the already plentiful menu's to either enable, or disable autoshutoff? I don't know, maybe TomTom feels that if we need a device like a TomTom to find our way around that we must be too stupid to make a decision like that on our own so they felt they would make it for us. Generous I suppose.
After much tinkering and online how-to's I managed to get an original copy of the software and loaded that back on, now my device again shuts off automatically...good...
Now, the September update. It didn't say anything about whether it corrected that fun little problem or not so I happily backed up my 910 and installed the September update...Ok, it stays on again, damn, oh well...A guy can hope a company like TomTom could grow a brain right? Oh, but wait! There's more! A NEW problem! The device no longer switches from day/night mode any longer! Woo hoo!!! Another bonus! I go into brightness and docked settings, what the heck, one of them should work right? Nope...Select switch to night view and pitch black middle of nowhere 2 in the morning kind of darkness and there's the day screen at 100% brightness! So, I manually select night mode and this incredibly intelligent device designed and supported by even more incredibly and intelligent twits asks me if I would like it to automatically switch to night mode when it's dark! WOW! Why YES! I select, and bam! I'm staring at the day screen at 100% brightness like I never did a thing!
...Oh, and yes, the opposite is true at high noon on a sunny day.
It's back to the backup I go, bye bye september update!...It shuts off now, but apparently it really didn't like switching to night/day mode automatically because that problem is still there!
COME ON!!!!!!!!!!
Every time there's a new Tom Tom update I don't know what to do, update or not to update...Chance getting even more pissed off for the slight and remote possibility this could end my TomTomTorture..., or hmmm...
$800 initial can't live without it device, for every update this thing is becomming a $700 device, then a $600 device, then a $500 device...when it gets to zero I'm throwing it out the window.