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TomTom5 gets slower and slower when in use..

I've got a problem with my new MDA Pro and my legal copy of TomTom5.
It looks like TomTom is getting slower and slower when I use it, almost like there's a memory leak or buffers that are overflowing.
When I start TomTom and directly close it, there's no problem.
But when I start and navigate for about half an hour, the maps aren't draw smoothly anymore. Just like a cartoonmovie where some images are missing, the picture is "jumping" (hope you know what I mean).
When navigating for about one hour TomTom takes about 2 minutes to close and the program memory has about 10 Mb less than before I started TomTom. This memory is (as far as I know) only released with a soft-reset.
When navigating for more than 90 minutes TomTom doesn't close anymore and there's no reaction from my MDA. A soft-reset was the only solution.
I have this problem not only when navigating, also when I use the "advanced planning" option this problem occurs.
All POI's are disabled.
When TomTom slows down, it's not only the program. All other functions of the PDA slow down. For instance, when I receive a text message the sound takes about 30 seconds to complete the notification sound... :?
My MDA Pro is upgraded with the latest T-Mobile Netherlands ROM.
Don't know if the problem also occurs with the origininal ROM because I flashed it right after I bought it.
TomTom is version 5.21.
Any thoughts?

Using the same windows rom (vodafone ext) I have the similar issue, I can install it and get as far as choosing a voice, when it gets so slow it stops, after which it closes. Oh dear! No more tomtom. Big problem and no one knows how to fix it, amazed you got it to go as far as actually loading up at all.
Greg.

greg123 said:
Using the same windows rom (vodafone ext) I have the similar issue, I can install it and get as far as choosing a voice, when it gets so slow it stops, after which it closes. Oh dear! No more tomtom. Big problem and no one knows how to fix it, amazed you got it to go as far as actually loading up at all.
Greg.
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Greg...I can see you've searching up and down on this....pm me and Ill take your headache away m8.
BR

Any change you could let me in on the secret too?

Garmin XT 5.0.20w loosing GPS fix and more....

OK Guys I was searching this forum and not only this but could not find any answer or tip to my problem, so as far as i do not like to start new thread here we go....
It is a bit weird as it started to happen recently...my Garmin XT working ideally with TOPO maps when u hiking but as soon as i get into a car and connect my HD to power and try to navigate home it starts to loosing the plot... basically it will find the route and start navigating and then suddenly loosing GPS fix and switch screen off sometimes, and even once or twice unload itself so phone went back to main screen. also once it lost fix i can see that Garmin switching between full screen and full window view...as i can see top bar every now and then.
contacting Garmin is a waste of time....as they did not offer any solution except hard resetting the device, and i wont do that, to much work to put back everything together and not enough time.
if anyone have a clue what it might be please share ur thought, and give me a tip to sort this out.
I'm using non modified HD with standard WWE version on Orange UK.
Thanks for any help
PS. For MOD, do not know if I posted in right place so if need to be moved, just move it.

Oh and I thought my Garmin was going crazy ! Actually Sygic is working fine with me except that I get some lags sometimes but it is all fine. But yeah tell me about it ... I tried Garmin and it looked for me better with much more POIS than Sygic but few days ago I was driving and suddenly the software started to go into other direction, like it was tracking something else. I think it is a bug with the software maybe. Thank God I am not the only one aware of many things going on with my HD

have u ppl tried 1.13.25.24 radio rom??
with this update... getting fix is very fast (basically it does not search for com ports, shows u connected when u start GMXT).
only drawback is that u can not see the satellite bars in info section.
used gps for short distances (@ 140kmph not much lagging and no disconnection). maybe i'll go for a long drive this weekend... then i'll know if there is a problem of disconnection or lagging etc.

With TomTom i get the same problem, however i don't know what the problem may be because A-GPS is turned off, but it has happened twice where it would take 4 times as longer to find the signal, and whenever it did it would go find then lost.
Soft Resetting fixed it up however i did notice my QuickGPS was not up to date anymore, must have went out of date the day before and possible cause for it acting up.
Try updating QuickGPS, might fix it up and be sure to have A-GPS off.

still no solution
Psygnosis84 said:
Try updating QuickGPS, might fix it up and be sure to have A-GPS off.
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i did forgot to mention that my A-GPS is already switched off. the problem is that Garmin keep switching between full screen and full window view and i suspect that my be the bottom of losing fix in the car... i want to stress out that while walking & hiking i have no such problem..... ONLY IN THE CAR and that is most frustrating.
and changing radio....well i'm not convinced as this could halt my phone if something go wrong and i cannot let it happen, as it's not only a toy but business tool, so i rather dont play with it.
any solution????

marasp said:
i did forgot to mention that my A-GPS is already switched off. the problem is that Garmin keep switching between full screen and full window view and i suspect that my be the bottom of losing fix in the car... i want to stress out that while walking & hiking i have no such problem..... ONLY IN THE CAR and that is most frustrating.
and changing radio....well i'm not convinced as this could halt my phone if something go wrong and i cannot let it happen, as it's not only a toy but business tool, so i rather dont play with it.
any solution????
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Changing radio won't halt your device. As long as you have Hardspl on your phone beforehand you'll be fine!

And pelase report back if it does solve your problem

Is this a solution????
Hi there, I see we lost some posts over here....so again latest update...
On the way to work this morning I tried garmin with Intermediate Driver and it worked!! but....there always has to be some but....I saw increase in lag...also i did it a bit different way then usually as I did not connected HD to power... will test it again with power connection tomorrow.

i have extensively tested gps of touch hd while driving from 0 to 120 km in open highway
i never lost the fix
it kept locked to satelites but major problem was battery drain
so i have to disconnect gps latter on
i belive with gps on and satelite fixed driving around 80 to 100 km battery with die with in 2 hours .
otherwise there is lag of 5 to 7 km/hr in speed calculated via gps and its normal
my SiRF III CHIP based cowon q5 gps also shows 5 to 10 km /hr differance from actual speed of car
its normal i belive

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commando0 said:
otherwise there is lag of 5 to 7 km/hr in speed calculated via gps and its normal
my SiRF III CHIP based cowon q5 gps also shows 5 to 10 km /hr differance from actual speed of car its normal i belive
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from what i experienced earlier with garmin i can say that lag become much bigger...now when i'm past the junction, on the map i suppose to be either on or even before the junction... never had that before so i suspect that intermediate driver might be responsible for that. also i can say that when using tomtom i have no such experience.
wanted to ditch tomtom but with such a laggy response i will have to use both... garmin for off road navigation and tomtom for car navigation.
the only thing i can confirm is that using intermediate driver solved switching between full screen and full window problem as well as loosing gps fix... at least for me. but u get bigger lag instead....

igo 8

hello,
I have a problem with igo 8 3.july 2009
igo installation - normal
igo first run - normal
igo detect gps - normal
but, i dont know if i have some time limitation, because after
3-5 min igo crash and my rhodium go back to today screen.
please help.
any ideas how fix this problem?
my rom: energy photon 8.november
my radio: HTC LATEST
THANK YOU FOR ANY REPLY

my initial response was that it was crashing because of the RAM. I have seen a few phones crash Igo8 when the RAM usage gets high. try a soft reset, then use Igo8 for a while and see if it crashes. I know if I leave my phone on the RAM usage creeps up after a few days.
Were there any other programs running when it crashed? Also, maybe try and bump down the draw distance and graphic setting in Igo.
Try those and let me know what happens.

Try the igo8 tts fix (in this same section of the forums). It can help ya get back a lot of your RAM.
I use that & manually close Sense from the today screen & have no problems running igo8...

GPS suddenly Not working, in any application,

hi, i have had an unusual issue in that the GPS on the device does not work any more, it did before around 2 weeks ago when i used google maps with the compass working as well.
i have tried soft resets and to check the com ports (i am unsure of the defaults for com port, is it 0?) and have tried to set them manually and also to allow the device to automatically set them. The digital compass has allways been working.
i have installed a fue gps applications recently, since i last used the gps successfully, and have noticed the gps not working in any of these and then not working in the pre-installed applications;
(installed in descending order)
-iGO 8
-GPS sport computer
-wifi fo fum 2
-GPS speedo
-hd speedo
-gps cycle computer
i have uninstalled these since and the GPS still is not being picked up in the digital compass application and google maps (both the preinstalled apps on the original ROM out the box, and were working with gps around 2 weeks back).
i have made sure i am always in clear sight of the sky, but no prevail their.
if some one could please help me on what to do to regain the functionality of the gps again, i would be great full.
p.s. has anyone else had this issue or a similar one?

Try downloading something with setelite tracker. GCZII is such application (good for geocaching btw).
Sometimes, the GPS has wrong satellite data. You will see (on the satellite tracker) it can receive some signal, but the satellites will not show above you, but let's say all to the north.
Go to start/tools and run QickGPS and download new data. That should help. It will download current data via internet. But it may help not. Sometimes bad data on these servers are the source of the problem.
So next thing you can try is use file explorer and go to Temp folder. There is file xtra.bin. That's where the data are stored. Try to remove it and soft reset. Try running your GPS without the file. It will take some time to fix (up to 5 minutes), but it should work.
If that does not help, QuickGPS will get the file back. I had problems like this on X1 .. usually something helped, either refreshing, or removing the file. On HD2 I needed it once, and refreshing the data using QuickGPS helped.

I'd suggest to try htc's own gpstool and see if you get anything at all on com4. search the forum for htc debug tools, the exe is in that package. And...disable quickgps and delete xtra.bin from \temp

Nice application .. I was looking for something like that ! Thanks !

thanks for the replies.
sofar i tried the qgps file removal with out success.
i have aso found something else out thats concerning, thats in igo 8 when i run a auto detect scan for gps device it come back saying their is no gps device.
it also seems to be the case when i ran gczll and the htc-gps-tool.
so i think that the gps driver? or device is the root of the issue?
hope this helps with the suggestions on how to resolve the issue?
Thanks for the helping again.

Aslo check settings/external gps.
First tab (programs) should be: COM4
Second tab (Hardware) should be: None, and 4800 (or anything I guess).
Third tab (Access) should be: Yes, manage GPS automatically

Dr.Sid said:
Nice application .. I was looking for something like that ! Thanks !
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You're welcome ;-)
Have you installed any "tweakers" like BsB Tweaks, HD2Tweaks or similar? Have you messed around in the registry with drivers and such? I assume you didnt see any gpsdata at all on port com4 using the htcgpstool, what exactly happened when you opened com4?
Imho, if the above post by Sid doesn't do the trick, the easiest way out is probably a hardreset.
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what rom are you on, stock or custom, and have you never been able to use the gps or did this happen after a while, perhaps after you installed an app or something?

its stock rom, i havent ventured into cooked roms yet. (reading into it, getting a understanding of it all over last 2-3 days)
haven't messed around with the registy of bsb and dont have htctweaks (not sure on how to do that yet)
nothing happens when i run the htcgpstools, on com 4, same as it does nothing on any other application. it just continues to look (for a long time) or says no gps (like in igo 8).
im thinking that hard reset my be the best option as well.
could something have happened to the radio and broken down the communications of the gps device? (im not a expert, just a theory?)
and just on a cooked rom question.
i wanted a rom that has copilot removed and the full ram enabled, and just to include the performance update drivers (i have adk 1 runtime atm that improves the jitteriness) and other updates that hot fixes have done. but i want to keep stuff like animated weather etc.
from what i have seen it looks like dutty is the man for this type of rom?
could you recommend a cooked rom for a first timer/noobie?
Thanks.

I had a similer problem on my Touch Diamond.
Try switching off.... take the battery out for 1 hour, reinsert battery then turn on. I think that the GPS locked up.
Good luck

steveianson said:
I had a similer problem on my Touch Diamond.
Try switching off.... take the battery out for 1 hour, reinsert battery then turn on. I think that the GPS locked up.
Good luck
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Hmm, you might be right. I still believe your best shot is a HR...

OK well did a hard reset and that has done the trick.
The GPS works and locks with in 10seconds from my window so working brilliant again.
Thanks for all the suggestions and the time taken to help out.

GPS problems TomTom surfaced after long time use

I have been using my HD2 with differnt 6.5 ROM's (lately mhostly Energy's Max Sense), and that has never been a problem. But lately it suddenly has started to mess up. Either it locks up the phone when it's trying to get a fix (around 20-40 seconds after clicking the TomTom icon) or it can't get a fix and complains about bad reception, and asks if I am indoors. Then sometimes I actually manages to get a fix, and it will loose it after a while or lock up completely. Then it can take a day or two (it doesn't seem to matter how many soft resets I do) before I can get it working again.
I have another, very simple GPS program called GPS Speedo (use it to test speedos on bikes and cars), and that seems to work all the time. But I have tried reinstalling TomTom from the ground up several times. This doesn't change anything.
This has been intermittent for a while but getting worse and worse. So I tried to install the latest official ROM (from October or November 2011), and that works without a hitch. Does anybody know what this can be? Driving me crazy... THis weekend I have been navigating through Sweden with my Adam and Igo (which was the best I could find for Android) and I found out that I really don't like any other nav programs than TomTom very much!