Tom Tom - 2nd account ?

[Mr.T]

I've had a Tom Tom 1 XL Europe for a while now, with a subscription to map updates & speed camamras etc. I've just brought my Dad a Tom Tom XL 2 IQ for xmas, and am setting it up for him. He won't be able to keep any updates or whatever's going, so I want it registered to my pc/email account, seperatly from my unit, but I can't seem to do this by using the same email account - I get to the stage where I enter a different password for his, and everything seems to start from the begining again.
I'm not a techy, but would welcome simplistic instructions how I can get updates etc for his Tom Tom as well as mine, but from the same email account. Am I trying to register this incorrectly or ?.
Many Thanks

[mmm-five]

I never managed to get 2 devices working with one account. Ended up making another account just for the 2nd/3rd/4th devices instead and forward all emails from those accounts (very similar to the original email address) to my main one.

[JimmyTheHand]

Mr.T said:

I've had a Tom Tom 1 XL Europe for a while now, with a subscription to map updates & speed camamras etc. I've just brought my Dad a Tom Tom XL 2 IQ for xmas, and am setting it up for him. He won't be able to keep any updates or whatever's going, so I want it registered to my pc/email account, seperatly from my unit, but I can't seem to do this by using the same email account - I get to the stage where I enter a different password for his, and everything seems to start from the begining again.
I'm not a techy, but would welcome simplistic instructions how I can get updates etc for his Tom Tom as well as mine, but from the same email account. Am I trying to register this incorrectly or ?.
Many Thanks

TomTom will only let you register one device per email address. I don't believe it is even important for the email to exist as they only send you spam (sorry offers ) to it. But if worried I would suggest you just create a hotmail/gmail/yahoo address for it. I don't believe there is only issue connecting different devices to TomTom home software

If you need more info - I would suggest trying to search/ask on This forum

[Mr.T]

Thank people, very helpful, and clears up what is needed. Shame Tom Tom aren't a bit more customer focused ??. Looks like a 2nd email address it is then.

[devnull]

If you are a gmail user, you can do some tricks to make one email address look like multiple addresses, which might suit your situation. Have a look at http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/1-awesome-gmail-tip-y...