Manual install of drivers?

[jitter34]

I have a tomtom 1535ltm that the voice command stopped working I did a reset by following the instructions below and now its worse I want to reinstall the drivers manually but cant see where to get them?? any idea??

Navigation device not starting or displaying a cross

Note : These steps are not applicable to GO Discover, GO Expert, GO Camper Max, and GO Exclusive devices. Your navigation device shows a spinning cogwheel or a spinning wheel and then a ...

help.tomtom.com

 

[canderson]

Not sure what you mean by 'drivers'. That's the sort of thing that you find on the PC end of a device connection (in this case, MyDrive Connect). Am guessing you mean the device firmware for your 1535.

It hasn't been possible to manually load firmware (or the bootloader) to a TomTom device since the last Nav2 units were released in ~2012 (I think some of the Nav2 Start series were the last ones). Once we hit Nav3 in 2010~2011, this ceased to be possible due to the closed architecture.

 

[jitter34]

I think its time to throw this one out. Now since I did the recovery process not only does voice command not work BUT tinkering around with some routes I see they take me the long way around. I dont know what happened here but this ones going in the trash. Not sure what to replace it with. My wife loves voice command ( good idea) keeps both hands on the wheel. BUT now the mapping dorections are funky tossing this tomtom out. I dont like using the ones on the cell phones because if u get a call it interfers with using the gps.

what to replace it with any ideas???

 

[canderson]

You say "I dont like using the ones on the cell phones because if u get a call it interfers with using the gps." That isn't true if you don't enable the hands-free feature on these devices.

IF you need/want custom POI support, there are still a very few GO 620 devices available (TomTom store at Amazon). Those are the last that support that feature.

The most recent devices are a lot faster (in all respects) than the older ones. Apart from voice command (which almost never false enables these days!) what features are important to you?

Here is a comparo chart for the current stable of devices. The Supreme and Discover both offer voice control:

TomTom Car GPS | Latest TomTom GO Series for drivers

Find out everything about TomTom's latest GPS navigation devices for cars. With latest maps, live traffic, speed camera, and more.

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On the Discover, the "New Live Services" includes things like fuel prices (very accurate here in the U.S. - I think they get them from Gas Buddy), live parking info for some cities, and some weather at destination info. If you want to know the price for regular unleaded at the Murphy's at Citi Centre and 17, you just pan over, zoom up, and there it is. The Discover also comes with a 7" screen. Nice for aging eyes.

I prefer to connect them for traffic & etc. using my phone as a WiFi hotspot. Seems to be a very reliable solution. Bluetooth tethering also works for that purpose on Android, but not always predictably on iPhones. I wish Apple wasn't still trying to create/support their own Bluetooth stacks. Too proud to buy it from companies who have been in that business since the beginning, I guess.

 

[jitter34]

You say "I dont like using the ones on the cell phones because if u get a call it interfers with using the gps." That isn't true if you don't enable the hands-free feature on these devices.

IF you need/want custom POI support, there are still a very few GO 620 devices available (TomTom store at Amazon). Those are the last that support that feature.

The most recent devices are a lot faster (in all respects) than the older ones. Apart from voice command (which almost never false enables these days!) what features are important to you?

Here is a comparo chart for the current stable of devices. The Supreme and Discover both offer voice control:

TomTom Car GPS | Latest TomTom GO Series for drivers

Find out everything about TomTom's latest GPS navigation devices for cars. With latest maps, live traffic, speed camera, and more.

www.tomtom.com

On the Discover, the "New Live Services" includes things like fuel prices (very accurate here in the U.S. - I think they get them from Gas Buddy), live parking info for some cities, and some weather at destination info. If you want to know the price for regular unleaded at the Murphy's at Citi Centre and 17, you just pan over, zoom up, and there it is. The Discover also comes with a 7" screen. Nice for aging eyes.

I prefer to connect them for traffic & etc. using my phone as a WiFi hotspot. Seems to be a very reliable solution. Bluetooth tethering also works for that purpose on Android, but not always predictably on iPhones. I wish Apple wasn't still trying to create/support their own Bluetooth stacks. Too proud to buy it from companies who have been in that business since the beginning, I guess.

you said >>> You say "I dont like using the ones on the cell phones because if u get a call it interfers with using the gps." That isn't true if you don't enable the hands-free feature on these devices.<< I was talking about NOT getting a gps and only using the smartphone with waze or google maps,

They work well BUT IF you get a call while using the gps on your smart phone you risk possibly missing some directions if someone calls you.

this is why I wanted my wife to have a seperate gps unit and NOT use the cell phone as a gps.

 

[canderson]

Ah, NOW I get it!

 

[Willy875]

They work well BUT IF you get a call while using the gps on your smart phone you risk possibly missing some directions if someone calls you.

this is why I wanted my wife to have a seperate gps unit and NOT use the cell phone as a gps.

Normally not with Tomtom GO
if you receive a call you do not lose guidance navigation.