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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kev Murphy on September 04, 2015, 08:40:53 PM
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GPS died today. After returning home from a shopping trip to Warrnambool, I discovered that according to my TomTom Via 225, I am still at the western set of lights at Warrnambool! Most confuzzelating! Looks like Tri state meet will be a 'jump on and go, guess-where-to-turn' trip.
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Isn't that the most fun way to do it (sometimes)?!
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Going back to touring for several years during the 70's when there was no such beast as a GPS, every new town was an adventure. I don't think I will have any problems.
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Kev, it may just need resetting . . Back to factory settings then updating again?
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It is still on factory settings, Terry... it just cannot receive any sat connection... just blindly searching.
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Battery out reboot?
Works for lots of things...
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Might try that one, Bill.... hadn't thought of it. Will do it in the morning, too cold outside now.
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Hmmm ... on inspection its a sealed unit, cannot remove battery. So, I will let the battery go flat overnight, and recharge in the morning. More than one way to skin a cat, hey! :grin
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According to the manual this is how to do a reset . . .
Device not starting In rare cases, your TomTom Via navigation device may not start correctly or may stop responding to your taps. First, check that the battery is properly charged. To charge the battery, connect your device to the car charger. It can take up to 2 hours to fully charge the battery.
If this does not solve the problem, you can reset the device. To do this, press and hold the On/Off button for 15 seconds and release the button when your device begins to restart.
Charging your device The battery in your TomTom Via navigation device charges when you connect it to the car charger or to your computer.
Manual available here . .
http://download.tomtom.com/open/manuals/via/refman/TomTom-Via-en-GB.pdf (http://download.tomtom.com/open/manuals/via/refman/TomTom-Via-en-GB.pdf)
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Thanks Terry... its operating correctly again. You're a Legend, mate!
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Slightly off topic, but many of these units with internal batteries can have the batteries replaced when they won't hold a charge, with a little bit of patience and the replacement battery from evilbay!
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Hi Andrew, battery doesn't need replacing, it's only 2 years old and holds charge ok, it was just a fritz in the operating system at the time... I did a reset as per Stroppys post and its now working perfectly again.
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Yep I saw that. Like most devices with an OS, they occasionally have a "Fritz" - a great saying too, by the way!
Sent from my HTC_PN071 using Tapatalk
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Many years ago I was advised to never turn the device off whilst its talking (especially if it's a female voice) ++
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Many years ago I was advised to never turn the device off whilst its talking (especially if it's a female voice) ++
And this was before GPS's Andrew? :grin
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:think1 :grin :like
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Funniest thing about "THE VOICE!" that I encountered in my travels....Jan 2012.... heading east on the Capricorn Highway in Qld from Barcaldine, turned left at Emerald for Townsville, and "THE VOICE!" announced "Turn left, 602 Km!"
Well.... TYVM!.... nothing like them there advanced warnings about intersections ahead! ;-*
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Funniest thing about "THE VOICE!" that I encountered in my travels....Jan 2012.... heading east on the Capricorn Highway in Qld from Barcaldine, turned left at Emerald for Townsville, and "THE VOICE!" announced "Turn left, 602 Km!"
Well.... TYVM!.... nothing like them there advanced warnings about intersections ahead! ;-*
I thought 56 km was a bit much on advanced warning.
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GPS died today. After returning home from a shopping trip to Warrnambool, I discovered that according to my TomTom Via 225, I am still at the western set of lights at Warrnambool! Most confuzzelating! Looks like Tri state meet will be a 'jump on and go, guess-where-to-turn' trip.
Sorry Kev but really!
Your settling on a guess?
Its Warnabool back to your own home.
Last visit down my way was a few weeks ago and the signs are still up.
A guess? no your smarter than that.
sad though your TomTom has s&1t the route but man warnambool to SE sa is only a few inches by a paper map :p