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> Just bought a second hand Tom Tom and want to update the software and maps.
> Can I do this without the product code or more to the point is there anyway
> around the product code??

> On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:26:11 +0100, DiXiE
> wrote:
>
>> Just bought a second hand Tom Tom and want to update the software and
>> maps.
>> Can I do this without the product code or more to the point is there
>> anyway
>> around the product code??
>
> TomTom maps have Product Codes and the unit itself has a Device Code. You
> can update the application/systems software with no codes whatever and you
> can buy new maps (which will come with their own new Product Codes) and
> those can be activated using the new Product Code in combinations with
> your TomToms Device Code which will allow http://www.ttcode.com/ to issue
> you the appropriate Activation Code. The Device Code of your TomTom GO is
> to be found on the Versions screen display. I dont think the fact that
> you are ignorant of the Product Code of your present old maps is likely to
> be any kind of handicap in any circumstance.
>
> Tony

>
> R.Peffers. wrote in message
> news:GYmdnXWxf9UlnR3ZRVny3w@bt.com...
>>
>> Anthony R. Gold wrote in message
>> news:ue0v7215g2om6ad5l3o68at7k9iar7vkq1@4ax.com...
>>> On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:26:11 +0100, DiXiE
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just bought a second hand Tom Tom and want to update the software and
>>>> maps.
>>>> Can I do this without the product code or more to the point is there
>>>> anyway
>>>> around the product code??
>>>
>>> TomTom maps have Product Codes and the unit itself has a Device Code.
>>> You
>>> can update the application/systems software with no codes whatever and
>>> you
>>> can buy new maps (which will come with their own new Product Codes) and
>>> those can be activated using the new Product Code in combinations with
>>> your TomToms Device Code which will allow http://www.ttcode.com/ to
>>> issue
>>> you the appropriate Activation Code. The Device Code of your TomTom GO
>>> is
>>> to be found on the Versions screen display. I dont think the fact that
>>> you are ignorant of the Product Code of your present old maps is likely
>>> to
>>> be any kind of handicap in any circumstance.
>>>
>>> Tony
>> Perhaps, though, the absence of a Product code may tell you something
>> about that, Second Hand, TomTom.
>> --
>>
>> Robert Peffers,
>> Kelty,
>> Fife,
>> Scotland, (UK).
>> (When replying take pam away from peffers.
>> Scotland).
>>
>>
>
>

> Are you suggesting it might be a bit warm?
>

>

> ossie bacchus wrote in message
> news:Z0Yfg.42$Yi3.33@newsfe3-win.ntli.net...
>> Are you suggesting it might be a bit warm?
>>
>
> Well the fact that the product code, and so on, are not part of the deal
> seem to indicate that fact. Most genuine sellers would know the code
> should be passed on to the buyer. After all that is the whole purpose of
> these codes in the first place.

>
> Anthony R. Gold wrote in message
> news:ue0v7215g2om6ad5l3o68at7k9iar7vkq1@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:26:11 +0100, DiXiE
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Just bought a second hand Tom Tom and want to update the software and
>>> maps.
>>> Can I do this without the product code or more to the point is there
>>> anyway
>>> around the product code??
>>
>> TomTom maps have Product Codes and the unit itself has a Device Code.
>> You
>> can update the application/systems software with no codes whatever and
>> you
>> can buy new maps (which will come with their own new Product Codes) and
>> those can be activated using the new Product Code in combinations with
>> your TomToms Device Code which will allow http://www.ttcode.com/ to
>> issue
>> you the appropriate Activation Code. The Device Code of your TomTom GO
>> is
>> to be found on the Versions screen display. I dont think the fact that
>> you are ignorant of the Product Code of your present old maps is likely
>> to
>> be any kind of handicap in any circumstance.
>>
>> Tony
> Perhaps, though, the absence of a Product code may tell you something
> about that, Second Hand, TomTom.
> --
>
> Robert Peffers,
> Kelty,
> Fife,
> Scotland, (UK).
> (When replying take pam away from peffers.
> Scotland).
>
>

>Well the fact that the product code, and so on, are not part of the deal
>seem to indicate that fact. Most genuine sellers would know the code should
>be passed on to the buyer. After all that is the whole purpose of these
>codes in the first place.