Advantage and TomTom

[dtread1]

Hi to All:
I have read few posts about the low performance of TomTom V6.030 that comes with Advantage.
Some people say that the problem is because TomTom takes 4 times longer to draw the picture in landscape.
Other’s says that the problem is de VGA screen in the Advantage.
Whatever the real problem is, the question remains: Why HTC includes in a brand new (and expensive) PDA, software (TomTom) that simply doesn’t work as supposed to do????
They don’t test before selling it???
Again, we have to pray that some one in this excellent forum find’s a solution!
In the mean will, I’m gone send a email to HTC and TomTom support to se watt they says.

[eagle 1]

I really don't have any problem with TomTom other than the internal GPS takes 3 or 4 minutes to lock on sat's from cold start.

I added mu USA and Canada maps and everything works. No slowness or anything.

[wu5262]

Hi to All:
I have read few posts about the low performance of TomTom V6.030 that comes with Advantage.
Some people say that the problem is because TomTom takes 4 times longer to draw the picture in landscape.
Other’s says that the problem is de VGA screen in the Advantage.
Whatever the real problem is, the question remains: Why HTC includes in a brand new (and expensive) PDA, software (TomTom) that simply doesn’t work as supposed to do????
They don’t test before selling it???
Again, we have to pray that some one in this excellent forum find’s a solution!
In the mean will, I’m gone send a email to HTC and TomTom support to se watt they says.

it's really not HTC'S problem, it's TOMTOM, they don't seems to care about landscape VGA device, anyway, it's really just a bonus that HTC include the TOMTOM, and whether it's fast or slow (not that slow), we are still using it without problem.

btw, have you try the latest version, i heard the screen refresh rate is now fix for Landscape VGA device.

[lbendlin]

It is still relatively slow for TomTom 6.030 in Landscape. But this is no surprise because in reality the screen in the Athena is a portrait screen (Try TomTom in Portrait mode to see the difference). Each single frame needs to be rotated 90 degrees.

Someone said that in WM6 the frame buffer performance is a bit better.

[QAN]

Does someone have a utility to force an application to use the QVGA resolution? I have seen a tool force highres that forces an application to use the VGA resolution. Can someone make a forcelowres version to test TOMTOM on QVGA in landscape mode?

[QAN]

I have removed the trayap.exe from the init part in the registry. By removing this part the bottom tray does no appear anymore. I have noticed that now my GPS fix is within 5 to 10 seconds. Can somebody else try this?

[LTxda]

I haven't noticed any problems with TomTom. It runs fine on my device if i'm in low res or high...meaning QVGA and TrueVGA. The screen looks the same when I go into TomTom and doesn't seem slow to me compared to my CoPilot software.

[jjwerrett]

I noticed that tomtom only ran slow when i ran it from the micro drive as if your sat at traffic lights or that the micro drive turns off as we all know after few seconds to safe battery, problem is when you start moving off again it has to start up again to send the data to tomtom of your current location. and sometimes can constantly spin down and up if the map is not moving round alot.

Try installing it on a SD Card i got mine on a 2GB Sandisk Ultra II and have no problems what so ever now, as bristol used be very slow for it on the micro drive with it having to spin up and down to send data to tomtom or even receive the gps commands to say where you are, and it now takes around 40seconds lock on at my house before i set off, but that is only cause use the quickgps application.

[apd]

I find TT6 fine either in landscap or portrait.

However, if you use a large map (eg the map of western europe), it slows right down. Much better to use a smaller map, but then you can't navigate across borders.

...and we wonder why people prefer MioMap or Igo!;)

[mort29]

This is actually a gamble not a question! I couldn't get the TomTom which came with the Advantage to work with my maps so I wnet back to 6.010 but have to have me my map installed on both microdrive and sd card because TomTom seems to randomly decide whether it will see the microdrive or not and if it does it then does not search the sd card.

The only solution to force it to use the SD card is to start in safe mode and use WM Storage to disable the microdrive. But if I start the device normally it is impossible to predict whether it will see the Microdrive or not.

Any ideas anybody?