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I have a 910 and for a while it merrily bleeps away at every speed camera well in advance. The speed cameras were set as POIs. However, lo and behold, I update it yesterday and I've just noticed, it never beeped at the red light camera near my house. That was a little odd I thought - so I fiddled about with the POIs and not one camera is in there.
Is this, as I suspect, a way to force you to buy the camera subscription or have I cocked up somewhere?
Thanks,
Adam
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Why would you ever need a red light camera database tho Adam? You aren't planning on ignoring red lights are you??
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They're grouped the same as speed cameras. I couldn't care less whether I get warned about red light cameras but it's only as a result of it not beeping that I checked the settings and speed cameras aren't there either.
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Ah, now that's different!
If you can't get them back, give me a shout and I'll email you the speed camera sets.
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Cheers Gord - that's very kind of you!
I'm doing a bit of research now - it's a little underhand if it is what I'm thinking - apparently the speed cameras are €40 from the Tom Tom site!
Watch this space G - I might be getting in touch with you.
Thanks,
Adam
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When you buy a tomtom, depending on the model, you get a trial subscription to the speed camera databse for xx period of time.
Of course when your time is up, and you update from the TomTom site your subscription expires and so do your cameras.
Subscribe to the pcoket GPS world one anyway, its much better and very cheap.
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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Or the CheckPOInt one, which is good and completely free.
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Or the CheckPOInt one, which is good and completely free.
But which I have just removed from my iPAQ because since the last update it kept freezing TomTom.
I hard reset the iPAQ (wiped everything) and did a clean install but still no joy so it's removed for now.
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Hmmm. If I did that, and something went wrong with the device, would Tom Tom not tell me to get lost because I've updated it with somethign else? My uncle's went funny a while ago and they wanted screenshots of it and everything.
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Which one do you have?
CheckPOInt is a piece of software to allow you to easily download the speed camera POI files, but you can use them manually as well, it's not a problem.
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I was running TomTom in a shell inside the CheckPOInt application as well as the CheckPOInt overlays themselves. I did this because CheckPOInt gives much better warning configuration options than TomTom. The latter only allows you to choose the number of yards before a POI that you want to be warned This is poor since road conditions and actual speed have a desirable influence. You are also only warned once. The CheckPOInt application however allows you to choose a first and second warning (which can be different in terms of the .wav file played) and to choose the time (seconds) before POI that you want to be warned.
For info I also used a .wav to .ogg converter to generate some new .ogg files, and then used POIExtend to edit the TomTom executable and import these .oggs; I now have more warning sound options than TomTom first allowed.
For speed cameras I use an .ogg version of the Windows file cashreg.wav.
Search for it and play it; kinda suitable, I think! :-)
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Ha! Thats brilliant - very appropriate
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