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> Heres my experiences with it:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/axry6

> Heres my experiences with it:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/axry6

> Conor wrote:
>> Heres my experiences with it:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/axry6
>
> Hi Conor,
>
> Ive just finished posting something very similar to this myself elsewhere
> in this NG.
>
> Im afraid there are even more problems than you have listed.
>
> TTN5 as it stands, is useless to people with VGA devices. It has a memory
> leak, and the only workaround is to hack the executable to make TTN5 non
> VGA aware. A process which leaves TTN5 stable, but leaves the VGA device
> running it in QVGA.
>
> To get your 7 digit postcode working, you have to create an empty
> directory called TOMTOM on the card you have your maps in. Bizarre, but it
> works.
>
> What really cheeses me off, is that these Dutch crooks know about these
> issues, but have not put them in the support FAQ.
>
> HTH
>
> Martin
>

> Martin wrote in message
> news:42c6d834$0$30842$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net...
>> Conor wrote:
>>> Heres my experiences with it:
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/axry6
>>
>> Hi Conor,
>>
>> Ive just finished posting something very similar to this myself
>> elsewhere in this NG.
>>
>> Im afraid there are even more problems than you have listed.
>>
>> TTN5 as it stands, is useless to people with VGA devices. It has a
>> memory leak, and the only workaround is to hack the executable to
>> make TTN5 non VGA aware. A process which leaves TTN5 stable, but
>> leaves the VGA device running it in QVGA.
>>
>> To get your 7 digit postcode working, you have to create an empty
>> directory called TOMTOM on the card you have your maps in. Bizarre,
>> but it works.
>>
>> What really cheeses me off, is that these Dutch crooks know about
>> these issues, but have not put them in the support FAQ.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Martin
>>
>
> Well, Ive just done an 800+ mile navigation with it on my iPaq VGA
> screen with no problems at all. Did you do a clean install? It works
> perfectly for me.
>
> Having said that, I dont like some of the new ways it works.

> JB wrote:

>>>
>>
>> Well, Ive just done an 800+ mile navigation with it on my iPaq VGA
>> screen with no problems at all. Did you do a clean install? It works
>> perfectly for me.
>>
>> Having said that, I dont like some of the new ways it works.
>
> Well, it is a known issue which Tomtom have acknowledged, and promised to
> fix in two or three weeks.
>
> Which VGA device are you using?
>

> Martin wrote in message
> news:42ced5c8$0$6288$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
>> JB wrote:
>
>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, Ive just done an 800+ mile navigation with it on my iPaq VGA
>>> screen with no problems at all. Did you do a clean install? It
>>> works perfectly for me.
>>>
>>> Having said that, I dont like some of the new ways it works.
>>
>> Well, it is a known issue which Tomtom have acknowledged, and
>> promised to fix in two or three weeks.
>>
>> Which VGA device are you using?
>>
>
> What is the issue?

> Software wise, one of the postcodes I put in didnt take me to where I
> wanted to go to - which was strange and I find it really unhelpful that I
> can no longer navigate from start to somewhere, theoretically as it is so
> I can tell how long its going to take me. If that had been on the no
> longer available features I really might not have upgraded.