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HI all, just a word of caution for anyone using tomtom sat-nav units, mine is just a year old, and the memory card has a fault, when you switch on all you get is a pic of the card with a cross on it,
Now the tomtom site says, no prob, just re-load your maps onto the card,
But you must have first, at some point, saved the maps from your card onto your computer, which i had not!!,
Now the guy at Halfords says its a big problem with tomtom memory cards & happens regularly, but, if you have not backed up your maps on pc then you have to buy a new card, £50 !,
So, make sure you have that back-up, (& maybe email me a copy 😉 😉 )Re: TomTom warning
had the same problem with 2 of mine with card faults but luckly nice man (nick) in my local halfords exchanged them and gave me brand new ones without memory cards as new ones has maps built in even got europe on them with 1st ones didnt have and even better never brought them from there in the 1st place 8)
Re: TomTom warning
A bit naughty really on the part of tom tom as not every one has a computer to back up these cards.
Luckily i have and did do several backs up, as on one occasion was upgrading it and went completely blank, luckily had the back up and was able to reload.
Steven
Re: TomTom warning
I have a Tom Tom one and the SD card slot I never use as all the info is within it’s internal memory anyway.:con:
I did consider including up-grading USA/Canada maps before I went on holiday but because the internal memory was full with UK/Europe maps I couldn’t download them without using the SD memory card slot. I never bother with in the end.
How come you guys have to use memory cards? Isn’t the info contained within your plastic boxes memory then? 😕
Re: TomTom warning
think it depends which tomtom one you have, ( there are several on the tomtom site list) anyone got one to email then?? 😆
Regarding the flashing X . This is not a major fault . just a corrupted flash area, you can download a program from tomtom which will clear this area without you loosing any maps, you only loose the user settings and last visted places.
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