Favourites to POI

[GO50user]

I have only recently bought the new generation Tomtom Go 50 and I have (more or less) sorted out the method to transfer pois to the satnav.

I have also started the process of becoming familiar with the use of favourites but theses seem to me to be incredibly limited in their use.

I could with my old TTs save a favourite at then later convert it to a poi.

With the 50 series it seems that all i can do is save a favourite and then use it as a destination etc. It appears that there is no way I can convert this to a poi, using the satnav, nor can I see any way to save my favourites to a computer using My Drive.

Surely the software on the current TTs cannot be that bad!!

 

[dhn]

See here:
http://download.tomtom.com/open/man...alnavigationinformation-MyDrive-CONNECTED.htm

 

[GO50user]

Not really what I am looking for.I want to add current position to custom poi set.
But if I did safe as favourites when I update my maps would I loose all my places /favourites?

 

[dhn]

You shouldn't but call support to assist:
United Kingdom
02079 490 134
Monday - Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Also, here's a link to the user guide for your device:

http://download.tomtom.com/open/manuals/new_GO/refman/TomTom-EU-RG-en-gb.pdf

 

[canderson]

Surely the software on the current TTs cannot be that bad!!

Well, yeah .. it can. Custom POI support of any sort was late in coming to this new Nav4 generation code, and there are still quite a number of features (almost all of them seen before on Nav2 and Nav3 generations) that seem to be MIA. Manipulating custom POI on the unit in most any way is a non-starter. About all you can do is delete one from a custom list. We're still lobbying constantly to get them to support making them visible in the main driving view as well. Meanwhile, you're stuck with MyDrive Connect plus whatever 3rd party POI tool you prefer to maintain your custom lists.

 

[GO50user]

I have tried everything to solve this. No joy.
I have returned my tomtom Go. And reverted to an out of date XL.
When Tomtom fix this I will look again.

New releases are supposed to be progressive, this is definitely NOT.

 

[canderson]

You're accustomed to your Nav2 device. When they initially released the Nav3 devices (one generation back), there was no custom POI support at all. So 'supposed to be' hasn't been the case for a while, I'm afraid. They release yet another entirely new platform when it can get you from A to B, and only then start working on all of the ancillary stuff that makes it really useful in the real world (sigh).

 

[GO50user]

Aye. Any sat nav can get you from A to B. It's the "ancillary stuff" that used to set tomtom's systems apart from the rest. Now it's just part of the herd.
A real shame.
Anyway I've returned mine. Luckily I bought it online, which gave me the right to return it within 30 days at no cost to myself.