TomTom - I give in!

[kryogenik]

Hi all - great forum. Hoping to be around for good while soaking it all up.
:)

I'm a new owner of an SPVM5000. Loving it with Opera and running it on WiFi with Terminal Services.
Proper happy with it - but, I want to get TomTom working on it.
I've downloaded all manner of pirate copies/maps etc, simply because I don't know if it works and wanted to try it first - and more specifically, know which version to buy..
I mean, once I know what works, I'll go and buy the thing from somewhere but, as yet, I can't get it working. Am I missing something glaringly obvious? I keep getting a "No Maps Found" error.
Anyway, Google tells me this is doable and I'm not looking for piracy tips, just a nod as to what version will work and perhaps the cheapest place to get it from if there's anywhere else than TomTom's naff site.
Ideally, I'd love to chuck some credit card details somewhere and get a legit download for it that I can put onto the SD card and away we go, but I think I might be pushing it - it's all boxed goods I think?

Any help for one of your older members, I'd be very grateful.

Cheers!

[diegodargo]

Hello there,

I have Navigator version 6 running very successfully on my SPVM5000.
A couple of things to check.

1. Is your memory card inserted? tomtom needs this, as the maps will be stored on it.

2. The maps are stored in a folder on the root level of the storage card.
The name of the folder depends on what geographical version you have.
Being in the UK my folder is Western_Europe. Inside the folder you are looking for 3 files. cline.dat, cname.dat and cnode.dat. They are the map files. If they are not there you have been given no maps!!

Hope this helps.

[kryogenik]

Hi - thanks for the reply.
I've followed the guide on here to change the registry for the GPS options and now if you say TT6 works, I can go with that. I had read TT5 is quicker so that's an option too I guess.

Yeah, the maps have the filenames you mention there and they were on the root of the storage card in a folder named Great-Britain-Map

Cheers.

[hooperman]

mail me with details, i have the instructions for spv m5000 installation of tomtom

[kryogenik]

Thanks - I'm up and running now.

[Jimbo73]

Do you still need a GPS BT Reciever with the Universal? Or does it have built in GPS?

I am new to PDA's and all this malarky.,.,

[kryogenik]

GPS receiver needed mate.