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Anyone know about the workings of these?
5 year old TomTom one and it keeps losing all satellites but strangely just as often just picks up two or three, so knows roughly where it is but acts totally confused.
If it lost all of them all the time then fine it's time for a new one but I'm a bit puzzled by the way it's behaving.
Snaps
My new Flash Fiction blog. All my own work
500ish
I used to be with it, but then they changed what `it` was.
Now, what I`m with isn`t it, and what`s `it` seems weird and scary
Irrespective of duff signal and operation, its five year old and the road map will be well out of date, and the cost to update, if you can, would be more than the unit is now worth.
Solution, ditch it and buy another. They start at £50+ new for a 2" screen (if you can see detail in that, I can't), and £100+ new for 6" screen (more like it 
)
As to the map being out of date, yes it is but I know the areas where it gets lost. Like all the alterations round the new hospital etc and there's actually very little that changes year on year.
I think the last time I plugged in to Tom Tom online was about 6/9 months ago.
Thats actully what I was asking the question about I'm none to sure how all the satellite detection works and why it would only pick up say three out of the 9 available.
Snaps
My new Flash Fiction blog. All my own work
500ish
I used to be with it, but then they changed what `it` was.
Now, what I`m with isn`t it, and what`s `it` seems weird and scary
Probably needs replacing but for the last week or so have been dans la merde car wise. So a distinct absence of funding.
Maybe a look in cash converters window, see if there's any second hand ones.
Snaps
My new Flash Fiction blog. All my own work
500ish
I used to be with it, but then they changed what `it` was.
Now, what I`m with isn`t it, and what`s `it` seems weird and scary
Would you consider buying a sat nav app for use with a smartphone or tablet? I'm using the Google Nexus 7" as my primary sat nav. Have to plug in as the battery drain is terrible.
I've paid for both Tom Tom & Co Pilot. I use Co Pilot more than Tom Tom.
There are of course free apps for navigation, Google's own Maps & Nav Free which is pretty good. A decent tablet mount is around £10 from eBay & Co Pilot is around £22 from android play store.
EDIT-
Found a review of copilot-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-app-reviews/9085845/Copilot-Live-Premium-Android-app-review.html
forgot to say why I prefer copilot. It lets you backup to a cloud account with them, so reinstalling in a new phone is much simpler. :-)
This item was edited on Tuesday, 13th May 2014, 18:36
Plugged the old Tom Tom One in last night and found one small update available which I installed and suddenly we're back to fully functioning again.
Whenever I've updated in the past nothing has ever had a massive effect at all so I've no idea what the difference was this time. The speed of going from normal use to the thing being totally lost had me convinced it was a fault on the actual unit.
Ta for the suggestion about co-pilot but with the cab radio now having a screen about the same size as a Nexus already, two of them and I'd never see the road.
I did try using my Galaxy S2 as a at nav for a long journey recently (two hour) and it sucked the life from 100% to please plug in and you could fry eggs on it by the end.
Snaps
My new Flash Fiction blog. All my own work
500ish
I used to be with it, but then they changed what `it` was.
Now, what I`m with isn`t it, and what`s `it` seems weird and scary
This item was edited on Wednesday, 14th May 2014, 09:55