Tom Tom SD card

[TVR keith]

Decided that as my 710 is 2 years old I would take advantage of Tom Toms kind offer to depart with nearly £60 and update my map of western Europe.
Paying then the money was easy, but then when trying to download the update it decided that there is not enough room on my card.
I cannot understand this as all I want is the updated map, the one I had was fully detailed, just out of date.
Deleted the existing map from the TT, it still won't take it. Restored it and all works fine (still got the old map) lost all my favourites, damm!
Disenchanted with TT, don't want to give them any more of my cash, is the card I need just a standard Sd card or do I have to get one of theirs?
The new map is 1610Mb the old map is 904Mb the card is 969Mb. TT price for a 2Gb card is £17.95, I can get a 2Gb one at Jessops for £11.50

Edited by TVR keith on Monday 3rd August 18:44

[JensenA]

You can use an ordinary SD Card, but get a good quality one. Just copy the original TT SD Card to your computer. Then copy it back to the new SD card with your new additional maps.

[SimonKD]

TVR keith said:

Decided that as my 710 is 2 years old I would take advantage of Tom Toms kind offer to depart with nearly £60 and update my map of western Europe.
Paying then the money was easy, but then when trying to download the update it decided that there is not enough room on my card.
I cannot understand this as all I want is the updated map, the one I had was fully detailed, just out of date.
Deleted the existing map from the TT, it still won't take it. Restored it and all works fine (still got the old map) lost all my favourites, damm!
Disenchanted with TT, don't want to give them any more of my cash, is the card I need just a standard Sd card or do I have to get one of theirs?
The new map is 1610Mb the old map is 904Mb the card is 969Mb. TT price for a 2Gb card is £17.95, I can get a 2Gb one at Jessops for £11.50

Edited by TVR keith on Monday 3rd August 18:44

£11.50 for a 2GB SD card is still way too expensive

Try here, a Sandisk 4GB is only £9, I've never had a problem using Sandisk with TT, just watch out for the cheaper brands.

Regards
Simon

[pbarlow0032]

Link to cheap memory card missing? I'm after a 4gb card too, would rather pay as little as possible!

[Vipers]

Cards are very very in-expensive on


http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/default.php?cat=6&...

Edited by Vipers on Thursday 13th August 15:41

[SimonKD]

SimonKD said:

TVR keith said:

Decided that as my 710 is 2 years old I would take advantage of Tom Toms kind offer to depart with nearly £60 and update my map of western Europe.
Paying then the money was easy, but then when trying to download the update it decided that there is not enough room on my card.
I cannot understand this as all I want is the updated map, the one I had was fully detailed, just out of date.
Deleted the existing map from the TT, it still won't take it. Restored it and all works fine (still got the old map) lost all my favourites, damm!
Disenchanted with TT, don't want to give them any more of my cash, is the card I need just a standard Sd card or do I have to get one of theirs?
The new map is 1610Mb the old map is 904Mb the card is 969Mb. TT price for a 2Gb card is £17.95, I can get a 2Gb one at Jessops for £11.50

Edited by TVR keith on Monday 3rd August 18:44

£11.50 for a 2GB SD card is still way too expensive

Try here, a Sandisk 4GB is only £9, I've never had a problem using Sandisk with TT, just watch out for the cheaper brands.

Regards
Simon

Link here http://www.mobymemory.com/

[Neil.D]

Any cards over 2GB tend to be SDHC (high capacity) which I dont think work in TT unless they are HC compliant. Just before you spend out needlessly.

[Ecurie Ecosse]

I bought a 2gb Sandisk SD card from Ryman today for £4.99. Good price, and it works OK in my TomTom One XL.

[sa_20v]

SimonKD said:

£11.50 for a 2GB SD card is still way too expensive.

Agreed, Jessops are always overpriced. I bought a 4GB Sandisk SD Card last week for just £7.99, see link.

http://www.checkoutspy.co.uk/browse/96/computers-a...

[bigdods]

before you do your update be sure to backup your tom tom and make yourself a copy of the file that maintains your 'home' and 'favourites' list (cant remeber its name but google is your friend).

When I did the same last week the map update wiped all my favourites and home location. This is apparently a 'feature' of the upgrade and the Tom Tom workaround to make them all POI's is crap. There is a single file you need to copy to your PC, then you do the map update, reboot the tom tom, copy the file back, reboot it again and everything is there but now with the new maps

[JVaughan]

just picked up 2x 4GB cards from tescos for £8 each. Copied all mu TomTom maps across. not have 1 card in the set. Cheers for the idea chaps

[Quick silver]

18 Months ago I fell foul of buyng a 1gb SanDisk SD card from a twunt on eBay that turned out to be duff.......I contacted SanDisk directly with the serial # & was promptly informed that the SD card was a fake.

SanDisk were not in the least bit interested in persuing the wnanker that was selling them.

[huckster6]

TomTom after sales service is GREAT!!!!

TVR keith said:

Disenchanted with TT, don't want to give them any more of my cash...

Edited by TVR keith on Monday 3rd August 18:44

I've had to call on TomTom Support on a couple of occasions and they really have been absolutely brilliant. The help they gave has been quite the most efficient that I've ever had from any company.

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Dell Computers' service is very poor!!

On the other hand, I recently bought a very expensive car cradle for my Rider 2 via Dell. Never again! They kept resheduling delivery dates, due to under-estimating demand. Eventually CityLink fouled up delivery and the unit got send back to Dell. They appear to have sold or lost my cradle and I had to wait for them to recommission the manufacture of a replacement.
My cradle eventually arrived from Bratislava, after three months, when the summer season was coming to a close.
They declined any kind of sweetener to make up for the rotten service.

Edited by huckster6 on Saturday 19th September 23:41