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- TomTom Model(s)
- 720 go
It has been a very long time since I was on this forum. So long that likely my account was deleted, or just that I have moved isp and don't even know what email address i was using back then.
I have a very old TomTom GO 720 that I got with my old Ford Exporer. That car is long since dead and been replaced by several others and the TomTom got banished to the junk draw. Well, it was clean up time and I found it. Rather than toss it into the garbage, I thought I would plug it into a power supply and see if it would boot. Low and behold it does start up, but I am going to suspect that with the 2020 atomic clock rollover on the GPS satellites, the firmware inside this old unit won't work.
Now I know I have some firmware from here, and I am thinking of updating it to get it working again. My current car has Andriod Auto so I can get full screen GPS through that, but as I live near the US border and cel phones love to charge an arm and leg along with first born children once you cross over from your country to anther here in North America, I figure having a REAL GPS unit in the car might be a great idea. That way I can figure out how to get to places in the USA without the roaming phone costs.
So. I guess I am here just to figure out how to get the firmware side of the unit upgraded enough to get it back to a working condition.
thanks
Matt.
I have a very old TomTom GO 720 that I got with my old Ford Exporer. That car is long since dead and been replaced by several others and the TomTom got banished to the junk draw. Well, it was clean up time and I found it. Rather than toss it into the garbage, I thought I would plug it into a power supply and see if it would boot. Low and behold it does start up, but I am going to suspect that with the 2020 atomic clock rollover on the GPS satellites, the firmware inside this old unit won't work.
Now I know I have some firmware from here, and I am thinking of updating it to get it working again. My current car has Andriod Auto so I can get full screen GPS through that, but as I live near the US border and cel phones love to charge an arm and leg along with first born children once you cross over from your country to anther here in North America, I figure having a REAL GPS unit in the car might be a great idea. That way I can figure out how to get to places in the USA without the roaming phone costs.
So. I guess I am here just to figure out how to get the firmware side of the unit upgraded enough to get it back to a working condition.
thanks
Matt.