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- Sep 5, 2017
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- TomTom Model(s)
- XL
Perfectly good device until I plug it into the computer for the first time and, upon trying to install the very important and certainly experience improving update that isn't just gonna drain at least 5 hours of my life in figuring out the ****show it caused, the gps no longer gets past the startup screen(the one where you can put a custom picture into). Upon backing it and up and updating, TomTom Home also kept bringing up errors such as ''cannot create file'' x or y.
I copied and pasta'd all the files in the gps to a folder on my disk and formatted the gps. Trying to copy them back to it but I can't get over 7kb/s and I/O errors keep popping up.(I have a feeling the usb cable may not be working properly, though it's still strange considering I've already tried two)
Turning the gps on as it is, all it shows is a red cross on a blue background.
I swear, I'm eating my own shoe the day updating whatever company's software upon being barraged with the constant very important update reminder is a good idea.
Help is certainly appreciated, and any extra useful information will be gladly provided.
Update:
Some 3 hours or so into re-copying the files into the device it was finally back as it used to be - literally - because it's still getting stuck in startup. Had the fabulous idea of removing the files that had a recent modification date in an attempt to undo what the supposed update had done but it was to no avail.
Conclusion:
Plugged into a different computer. Update magically installed properly. Tomtom back to work.
Cheers.
I copied and pasta'd all the files in the gps to a folder on my disk and formatted the gps. Trying to copy them back to it but I can't get over 7kb/s and I/O errors keep popping up.(I have a feeling the usb cable may not be working properly, though it's still strange considering I've already tried two)
Turning the gps on as it is, all it shows is a red cross on a blue background.
I swear, I'm eating my own shoe the day updating whatever company's software upon being barraged with the constant very important update reminder is a good idea.
Help is certainly appreciated, and any extra useful information will be gladly provided.
Update:
Some 3 hours or so into re-copying the files into the device it was finally back as it used to be - literally - because it's still getting stuck in startup. Had the fabulous idea of removing the files that had a recent modification date in an attempt to undo what the supposed update had done but it was to no avail.
Conclusion:
Plugged into a different computer. Update magically installed properly. Tomtom back to work.
Cheers.
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