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TomTom Map Issues

Hi all,
I'm sure you are probably fed up with this topic from newbies by now, so I wikll try to make this as painless as possible.
I have managed to get TomTom 5.21 booting on my XDA Exec, but I am stuck with the obvious map issues ("no maps loaded" error). I have a folder full of the following files:
Great_Britain.Postal
cline.dat
cname.dat
cnome.dat
Great_Britain_Plus.mid
Great_Britain_Plus.pna
faces.dat
mapinfo.dat
poi.dat
setup.dat
tmccodes.dat
traffic.dat
What on earth am I doing with these files to create a coherent GB map file/folder?
Thanks in advance to anyone who can shed some light on this.

Hi,
- Create a folder called Great-Britain-Map
- Copy all of those files into it.
- Copy the map onto the root of your storage card
- On your PC create a new text file (in notepad) called CurrentMap.txt
- In the text file write \Storage Card\Great-Britain-Map\
- Save the text file
- Rename the txt file to CurrentMap.dat
- Create a folder on the device in the My Documents folder called TomTom
- Copy the new .dat file into the TomTom folder
That should do it!

Thanks very much for that clarification!
Is there any need to move the actual TomTom program files onto the storage card too - as I read in another guide in this forum?

Not that I am aware of - My TomTOm prog files are all on the device.

Hi,
After doing all of this, I am still getting the same error...
I'm at a bit of a loss here really...

Hi, I don have cnome.dat - mine reads cnode.dat. Try renaming cnome to cnode.dat

and make sure your map folder on your storage card is called "Great_Britain_Plus"

nmonger said:
and make sure your map folder on your storage card is called "Great_Britain_Plus"
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Correction... the folder you put those files in should really be called exactly Great_Britain_Plus-Map .
BR

I'm having a similar issue with TomTom5.21
I keep getting an error that "No Maps Found!" as soon as I execute the application. The only option is "Cancel" in the bottom corner of the screen.
I've tried playing with the "\My Documents\TomTom\CurrentMap.dat" file about 100 times.
I've had:
$ \Storage Card\Illinois-Map\
& \Storage Card\Illinois-Map\
\Storage Card\Illinois-Map\
Nothing seems to work on this thing. I even tried copying down maps from another state and trying that and it still tells me that it can't find any maps.
I am assuming that maps from 5.0 are compatible with 5.21.
I am also assuming you don't need to have your GPS hooked up and live. Mine hasn't arrived yet, but I wanted to have the software installed and running so when it does arrive I can just go.
Any ideas?

guys are we taling cracked versions or legal versions here as a legal version wont require this kind of messing about

It's a cracked version.
I'm not unwilling to shell out the cash for the full version, but from all the horror stories I hear about getting it to run and getting responses from the company, I'm hesatant to spend that kind of cash unless the program is REALLY worth it. If I can evaluate it first and then see if it works well, I'll order it.

just be sure to have an empty forlder named tomtom on the route of the sd card.
BR

@DonnieZ
In the UK you can buy a product and return it within 7 days - it is the law. So you can evaluate it.
I have TomTom (the software and Euro maps was UKP80 from a German seller on eBay) and it works really well. In fact, I only use my XDa Exec for this now.

How to move "pim.vol" location to Storage?

Hi there is a way to move "pim.vol" by register changes?

Re: There is way to move "pim.vol" location to Sto
zpdy said:
Hi there is a way to move "pim.vol" by register changes?
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Hi I have asked this many occasions - in fact I would also like to get rid of the document and settings directory. It currently takes about 1.5mb on my device.
There is a program cleartemp that will remove contents of directories during reboot. However I am pretty sure that the files contained in the above directory and pim.vol are needed by the system, so removing them could crash your device.
Matt

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, please.
I believe that if you were to make your own ROM you could edit the registry and move the files before flashing it into your Uni.
At the same time you could rip out WMP and PIE, replacing them with more useful apps like TCPMP and Opera, putting these programs into the 128MB flash instead of the 64MB storage. However, after reading a thread here about using MP3 ringtones and having WMP doing the decoding, I wonder how integrated it is and just what would happen if you took it (and it's registry entries) out of your system. Maybe just taking some crap like the Welcome program and some help/graphics files would leave you enough room in ROM to do this?
Grr, I should really get on and try this so that I can speak with certainty, shouldn't I?

Touchflo 3D library

I added music to my storage card, however i can't see them in the music tab. I added them to the WM library with the hope that they are linked, but nothing happened.
any tips ?

Mmmm...
When you say you can't see them, do you mean none of the tracks are there or just the images are missing? If it's just the images, you need to open your music folder on your storage card (with a file explorer that can see hidden files) and make a copy of one of the image files there and rename it 'folder'. Windows Media player names it's music images 'Album_Art.....jpg' - TF3D album needs 'folder.jpg' - If there are no image files, you'll need to manually copy them from your PC and rename as mentioned.
If the music is on your device, but not showing in TF3D album, try soft resetting and see if that refreshes the list.

i don't see the list of music. i tried soft resetting

Try the following:
1. disable touchflo in your start\settings\today\items screen
2. soft reset
3. use total commander to delete Application Data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\Audiomanager_Eng.vol
4. restart touchflo
It should then work. However, this process will also delete any playlists you have.

thanks mitsi. it worked :-D

How to add ringtones/alarms/notifications without showing up in mediascape

Hi just got my X10 last week, a huge leap for me who owned an X1. I had read from another forum that someone suggested to modify the audio folder in the SD card and make directories into
SD card>audio>ringtones
SD card>audio>alarms
SD card>audio>notifications
This way my customized ringtones show up together with the list of the default tones, but they tones also show up in the mediascape. Is there a workaround to hide them away?
Thanks

Unfortunately I don't think that there is a workaround. I have a game that installed, in its own folder in the SD card, some audio files, and Mediascape show this files, too. Other media players on the market allow to select the path of the audio files on the SD card, Mediascape don't.

There is an UNSAFE workaround:
if there is a file with the name ".nomedia" in the specific directory, that path is not treated as media.
you cannot create the .nomedia files from pc, so you need another solution
(create an empty file and rename it with a file explorer or use a shell, change to the directory and type: "touch .nomedia" to create the file)
Maybe it is a problem that android hides ALL media file in the directory (others reported that hiding cover arts pictures also made the music disappear)
Please tell us if it worked...
Bax
EDIT: CAUTION!!!!!!
Just saw that there are problems with the Android Media Scanner deleting files that existed in directories before the .nomedia file was created (bug) http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3692

Baxxx said:
if there is a file with the name ".nomedia" in the specific directory, that path is not treated as media.
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I added .nomedia file with Astro to the game folder (/sdcard/gameloft/games/asphalt5), then I unmounted the SD card and rebooted the device. However, all the .ogg files in that folder are still present in Mediascape. Somethiong is wrong or we need to force somehow the media scanner to refresh?
Edit: after some minutes the files disappeared. Apparently the media scanner needs some time do do a full refresh. No files have been deleted in the folder, but there were no JPEG files. I'll try also in the /sdcard/audio folder.

Coincidentally I had bought the same game lornova!
Thanks Baxxx for mentioning that work around! Did the same thing as Lornova and it seems to do the trick. I moved the file into the dir before Mediascape had a chance to pick up the files however.

Ally153 said:
Coincidentally I had bought the same game lornova!
Thanks Baxxx for mentioning that work around! Did the same thing as Lornova and it seems to do the trick. I moved the file into the dir before Mediascape had a chance to pick up the files however.
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Nice game! But I'm using it more to demo my phone than to actually playing! However, I play a lot to reversi

I don't know what i did to accomplish this but when I backed up my Sd card files, factory reset phone then replace all folders (only the folders in the root everything exe., txt. I left only) I no longer see it in my mediascape. Must be a list setting somewhere?

hi, I also have the same problem and I've tried the solution above, but it didn't work. I just took a silly game and renamed it to touch.nomedia. I've also rebooted, but I'm still staring at about 160 ogg files Did I do something wrong here??

.nomedia
I had the same "problem"
Open Notepad on your computer > Leave "blank" > File > Save as > File name: .nomedia > Save as type: All files.
Saved file (.nomedia) insert in the appropriate folder on the sd card. Turn off and turn on the phone.

where should i put the playlists for the music tab

I want to prepare a few playlist, and i want to add them to my music tab player of the htc sense. so where should i put the playsit files>????

hey,
i think i have some informations for you (wrote this to a similar post):
... the playlists (created in manila music tab directly) are stored in this file:
"Device\Application Data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\AudioManager_Eng.vol"
You can rename the file (as backup) and SoftReset your HD2. The playlist is deleted too.
!!! Be careful if you delete this file ... your music information and created playlists will be ... gone with the wind !!!
Own playlists can be stored in:
" \Application Data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\playlists"
...[*.pls-files / *.wpl or *.asx / i don´t know if *.m3u is possible too]...
They will be "activated" after SoftReset the device.
I hope this will help you.
greetings,
KenShiro

Thanks for the info, unfortunatelly, when i open the playlists they all are shown as empty and they actually are not. I tried with m3u and asx.

dddnnnggg said:
Thanks for the info, unfortunatelly, when i open the playlists they all are shown as empty and they actually are not. I tried with m3u and asx.
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Same here.
If i create a playlist in manilla its shows and plays OK.
If i transfer a playlist from the pc the show in the list but EMPTY.
What playslist files the manilla reads ????
Anyone on this ???
And if i backup the AudioManager_Eng.vol i have my playlist in tack after flash ????

when you create a playlist on your pc it also contains information as to where the music should be played from.. etc. "D:\User\Music\my song.mp3".. and since there are no such folder in your phone, the playlist will not find the song (just as it will not if you move the song after you created the playlist on your computer to another folder, etc. "D:\User\Music\Album\my song.mp3"..)
dont know how to solve it though.