TomTom Sound Issue

[weinson]

Question -- I have TomTom on my Tilt ... it installs fine, and works fine ... however each time I start it up the sound is turned off .. .and I have to touch the screen, turn on the sound twice before the change in settings "sticks" and I get the voice giving me directions.

Any thoughts how I can fix this?

[dgold21]

Mine does the exact same thing, otherwise it works perfectly. Running XDA Live 1.1 ROM...

[GSLEON3]

That is the default function. You must always activate the sound after starting.

[smittyofdhs]

That is the default function. You must always activate the sound after starting.

hate to tell you guys, but it's not the default. The sound is on when I fire up Tom Tom on my Tilt, I've never had any issue nor had to go into settings to turn it on before. Are you guys using a ROM other then the original one?

[GSLEON3]

Default off on both my HK Kaiser & my AT&T Tilt. Don't know what to tell you.

[jwbrint]

I have found that all I have to do is to rotate the volume wheel on the side of my Tilt and the sound gets turned on without having to go through the preferences menu. It will repeat the last direction when you do this but it doesn't bother me too much and it lets me know that the sound is enabled.

[wisniak]

And on other PPCs as well (eg IPAQ hw6910).

But it does not happen always, so I deduce it's related to conflicts with other softwares.

And it certainly isn't a feature, as a previous poster suggested.

TT as a default always starts with sound ON.

[Dave...]

Question -- I have TomTom on my Tilt ... it installs fine, and works fine ... however each time I start it up the sound is turned off .. .and I have to touch the screen, turn on the sound twice before the change in settings "sticks" and I get the voice giving me directions.

Any thoughts how I can fix this?

I didn't have this problem until about 30 minutes ago, I received the Carcomm Cradle I ordered for the car, installed it, tried out TomTom and now I have the same problem as you.

Are any of you using a Carcomm Cradle?

The only other thing I changed before the sound problem is I bought a "Veripart 3-in-1 Converter HTC ExtUSB" so I can charge the PDA and listen to music using the 3,5 mm jack port.

[forza]

I also have exactly the same problem, and solve it with the volume wheel. I also had this problem on my Hermes.

[_Alex_]

FWIW, not sure why, but the volume wheel never solves my problem in a predictable fashion, so I've went and found the following apps that make things easier:

TomTom Menu Builder (http://www.gregoryduncan.com/ttmd/index.php) -- Change the location of where the 'Turn on sound' or any button shows up in the menu for faster access. e.g., I've placed my 'Turn on sound' button on page 1 with 'Navigate to' and 'exit application'. The menu also allows you to enable all sorts of 'hidden' menus, with the most useful being the voice preferences menu, which lets you choose how verbose the speaker is. Alternatively, if you're not up to installing the menu builder, you could download my TomTom menu (see attached). Either way, place TomTom.mnu in \TomTom\SdkRegistry.

TomTom Starter (http://www.freewareppc.com/travel/tomtomstarter.shtml) -- Make your phone volume max and turn off all notification popups before starting TomTom. Reverses volume and notification changes after exiting TomTom. Great for when you forget that your phone is on vibrate or at a low sound setting.

BTW, its not the ROM that is the problem, it most likely has to do with TomTom. I'm using 6.03, non-taster edition.

[michi123]

The sound will be muted when you start TomTom with a data connection active. If you disconnect your data connection (G, 3G or H) before starting TomTom the sound should be on.....

[_Alex_]

The sound will be muted when you start TomTom with a data connection active. If you disconnect your data connection (G, 3G or H) before starting TomTom the sound should be on.....

Thanks michi123, I seem to recall reading about this in another thread. However, that's still yet another application (comm manager) and button I need to press before starting TomTom.

It's much easier for me to use the two applications I've included, as I'll need to go into the menu anyway to enter my navigation point and should I forget to turn off vibrate or crank up my volume, TomTomStarter fixes that for me...

[Dave...]

The sound will be muted when you start TomTom with a data connection active. If you disconnect your data connection (G, 3G or H) before starting TomTom the sound should be on.....

Hey your right, I turned, the data connection off and it's Ok now.

Thanks...

[weinson]

The sound will be muted when you start TomTom with a data connection active. If you disconnect your data connection (G, 3G or H) before starting TomTom the sound should be on.....

Excellent! That works. And unless you have changed the functionality of your end button (like in the xda ROM) it is pretty quick to hold down the red end button (to close all data connections) before opening TomTom.

[wisniak]

I mean, would you turn off your phone every time you'd want to load TT, and then have to remember to turn it back on (while still inside TT)?

[weinson]

I mean, would you turn off your phone every time you'd want to load TT, and then have to remember to turn it back on (while still inside TT)?

All holding down the end key does is cancel all active data connections .. it does not "turn off" the phone (unless you happen to be on a call). So yes, if you want to tun TT when you are on the phone, this solution will not work, but if you want to run TT when you are not actively speaking, holding down the end key first solves the sound problem. Then, you can still make and receive calls and, for that matter, you can still use data programs too, all with TT running.

[tonyb15re]

Very useful thread, I've just updated mine and my G/Fs TyTns, we both have exactly the same ROM and RADIO, hers starts with Volume on, Mine starts with Volume off, the only real difference is that we're on different service providers, we both have MS ActiveSync running against our different corporate Exchange servers, and I have reduced my connectivity to GPRS to save battery. Will give the Tweaker app a go and see what happens. Sh

[tytn2user]

Alex. What version of tomtom are you running. I cannot get the menu file to work with my version 6.032(8351) no taster version.

[Ramakin]

Hi guys,

I just wanted to post on here cos I noticed some information that I didn’t agree with and also I have tested what others have said and it works so I thought I would say thankyou :D in one breath and bugger in another.

I have tested TomTom 6.031 SDK version on a HTC TyTN2, Glofiish, HP614c, HTC p3300 and a HTC Cruise and all of them start TomTom with the sound muted if they have a data connection active!

Sound is not muted at start-up if there is no data connection. This is great to know as I was baffled by it all but it also causes me a pain in that I need the data connection all the time, so I think its a mistake if TomTom themselves presume otherwise.

I have a XDA Orbit 2 on order but I am guessing it will be the same with that. I dont remember this issue with Windows Mobile 5, but it happens for sure on 6.

Also I have an issue with the 6.031 SDK and the unmute function call doesn’t appear to work!

Ho hum... so many devices with the same issue....:eek:

Ram

[Ramakin]

I have to admit I made a slight error in my statement above, I hadn’t tried it on the HTC p3300 and got the same result, it would appear that the HTC p3300 is the only device out of the many I have tried that doesn’t switch to silent when loading TomTom while a data connection is active.

I am trying to work out why this is as I am running the same software installation on all the devices.

[insol]

It seems the problem is only in v6.030. I have also noticed that the sound doesn't seem to play unless it has a GPS device (the device seems to have to be there... not necessarily locked-in).

I have read in other threads that using the jog dial turns it back on... For those of us without a jog dial clicking left on the d-pad (perhaps right for some), seems to do the trick. I will be looking into Mortscript to see if I can get this all seamless.

[insol]

FWIW, not sure why, but the volume wheel never solves my problem in a predictable fashion, so I've went and found the following apps that make things easier:

TomTom Menu Builder (http://www.gregoryduncan.com/ttmd/index.php) -- Change the location of where the 'Turn on sound' or any button shows up in the menu for faster access. e.g., I've placed my 'Turn on sound' button on page 1 with 'Navigate to' and 'exit application'. The menu also allows you to enable all sorts of 'hidden' menus, with the most useful being the voice preferences menu, which lets you choose how verbose the speaker is. Alternatively, if you're not up to installing the menu builder, you could download my TomTom menu (see attached). Either way, place TomTom.mnu in \TomTom\SdkRegistry.

TomTom Starter (http://www.freewareppc.com/travel/tomtomstarter.shtml) -- Make your phone volume max and turn off all notification popups before starting TomTom. Reverses volume and notification changes after exiting TomTom. Great for when you forget that your phone is on vibrate or at a low sound setting.

BTW, its not the ROM that is the problem, it most likely has to do with TomTom. I'm using 6.03, non-taster edition.


It seems the problem is only in v6.030. I have also noticed that the sound doesn't seem to play unless it has a GPS device (the device seems to have to be there... not necessarily locked-in).

I have read in other threads that using the jog dial turns it back on... For those of us without a jog dial clicking left on the d-pad (perhaps right for some), seems to do the trick. I will be looking into Mortplayer to see if I can get this all seamless.

[tembares]

Hello,

I do understand why this problem occurs.
With a active dataconnection the settings are like a live phone-connection. With a live phone-connection TomTom mutes.

I use PointUI, a new UI-interface (I can recommend that). An option in that program is what the program must do after a phone-connection. They have the same 'mistake' that a phone-connection will be handled the same as a data-connection (do you guys understand what I mean? English is not my native language).

[TangerineTractor]

The data connection is a strange one.. I've used teh same version of Tomtom (6.03) on a Wizard, Artemis and Elfin with no problems, but on the Niki it starts up muted... I'll try a slightly older release and see if that fixes it, and let you know.


BTW, if you want to create custom menus, this is the easiest way to do it: http://www.skux.net/tomtom/menubuilder2/index.php

[mb]

I can confirm that the newly extracted Diamond version of Tom Tom 7 also suffers from sound being muted when a data connection is active.

Also making matters worse is that the jog scroll wheel on the Kaiser is no longer working with this version, so you cannot bring the sound back with just a spin.

[rickc1978]

I found on the net if you go into preferences then sound settings and untick the Relate sound to external noise then it fixes this issue.