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title: TomTom PNAs
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layout: default
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created: 2009-06-01 13:23:00 +0200
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updated: 2009-12-13 02:28:10 +0100
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toc: true
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tags:
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- know-how
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- hardware
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- tomtom
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- navigation
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**Homepage:** [tomtom.com](http://www.tomtom.com/)
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Custom Firmware
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For TomTom PNAs there are several inofficial firmwares. These allow you to run newer firmware versions on older devices.
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You can make the firmware believe it is on a different device to enable additional features. This is set by the file `config/model.txt`. The following values are possible:
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* `ori` - doesn't emulate any other device, i.e. runs the normal firmware for your device
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* `x20`
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* `x30` - gray/orange look
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* `x40`
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* `x40light`
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* `x40light2`
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* `x40light3` - *One XL Live* features
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* `x50` - Standard, all features (e.g. animations when opening and closing dialogs, "Eco"-planning mode)
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* `xls` - fresh white/blue look, old icons
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* `ttssdk`
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For my *One XL*, `x50` (blueish with animations) and `x30` (gray/orange look) looked beautiful but didn't get me any TTS voice output.
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I especially like the display of the lanes besides the next direction. I don't know why TomTom doesn't enable these features for all their devices. Very strange.
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`x40light` seems to be the native mode for the *One XL*. `xls` also works with TTS voices. [This posting](http://www.ipmart-forum.com/showpost.php?p=2542293&postcount=17) possibly explains
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why the LoquendoTTS voices don't work in all emulations other than `x40light`. But there is a *VocalizerTTS* system with a very limited set of languages available. It should work with these emulations.
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Additional applications
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=======================
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TomTom allows third party applications to be installed on their PNAs. If a developer has prepared a *TomTom HOME2* package, just unpack the files to your *TomTom HOME2*'s `Downloads` directory, usually located in:
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C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\TomTom\HOME\Downloads\complete
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Just create a new subdirectory and put the files in it. You can then install the application by going to *Add Traffic, Voices, Safety Cameras, etc.* → *Items on my computer* and
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clicking the **Add** button for the new items under the *Applications* category.
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Joghurts GPS-Site
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He has programmed *FuelControl*, a *Calculator* and a *Height* display. Download everything at <http://gps.dg4sfw.de/>.
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Delete Traffic Camera database
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[pasternak.net](http://www.pasternak.net/joomla/content/view/53/73/) has an application which can delete all traffic camera POIs with one touch - useful if you get caught by the police.
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Bugs
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Avoiding the Werner-Voß-Damm
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Trying to navigate from Hoeppnerstraße, Berlin (Germany) to the General-Pape-Straße 1, the device calculates a 3km detour instead of sending you right through the Werner-Voß-Damm (some 100 meters).
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This happened to me on NavCore 9.014, 9.022, 9.024 and with maps Western\_and\_Central\_Europe\_2GB v830 and v840.
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Crashing showing a specific crossing
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* **Preconditions:** Navigate from `N 52° 42.766', E 12° 35.623'` to `Humboldtallee, 14612 Falkensee` and have the "Hide map above speed" setting activated
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Approaching the round-about at `N 52° 42.134', E 12° 36.068'`, everything is fine. If you go above the "hide map"-speed, you'll see the roundabout, if you go below the speed, you'll see the map.
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After passing the roundabout, the map displays fine but as soon as you reach the speed where the device should show the next crossing, the device hangs and reboots.
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After it started up again and you're above the "hide map"-speed, it crashes and reboots again. The crossing which should show up is the one at `N 52° 31.744', E 13° 06.607'`.
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Tested with NavCore 9.014 and 9.024, maps 830 and 840. All combinations show the same behavior.
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*[PNAs]: Personal Navigation Assistants
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*[TTS]: Text to Speech
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*[POIs]: Points of Interest
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