I just bought TomTom XXL 540TM 5-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator two days back. I was kind of skeptical together with the map updates and activation code not working, after reading through via lots of assessments relevant with update failure etc.

So I began which has a full explorer backup of your unit at windows level. It took about 45 minutes. Then I took an additional backup working with Property software. That was an additional 45 minutes.

Then I deleted unwanted voices to totally free up some space. It possibly removed some 30-40MB of space. There was close to 400MB totally free after this step.

Then I entered the activation code for lifetime totally free map updates working with the home software. It labored fantastic (at the least it didn’t give me any mistakes).

Then it detected that there’s new versions of map obtainable for download. I downloaded the new maps, which took an additional twenty minutes or so, and took additional half-hour to update the device.

The downloaded dimension of new maps was about 1.7GB, whereas the previous versions of maps occupied 1.43GB. Now my unit has close to 60MB totally free from the 1.9GB memory it has. I feel if I’d not have deleted unwanted voices, I’d have come close to filling up all the space.

I also downloaded the GPSquickfix.

For that security camera, when I had entered Canada as the home country, it didn’t exhibit any details obtainable to download. But after I switched it to US (from inside of Property software package), then it showed the info for US-Canada security cameras, and I was ready to download them.

So overall, I didn’t encounter any issues earlier reviewers of TomTom XL/XXL series had mentioned.

Relating to overall performance, I was really impressed together with the velocity it took to acquire satellite signal. I’ve a four 12 months old HP-IPaq GPS (which runs TomTom software package), and this new one particular is a lot quicker than the HP one.

Now previous to I made this obtain, I had bought Garmin 755T last week. I didn’t like it for one particular key good reason that it didn’t have up to date maps of my spot (especially it didn’t exhibit my home even after 7 years it truly is on TomTom maps). I updated the maps to hottest, and even now didn’t exhibit my home street. Contacting the customer assist for Garmin was a discomfort, with 30-40 min. of wait each time I tried to call them. It was a breeze to speak to TomTom support. 1st time I was connected quickly, and each time after that, it took only number of minutes to have connected. Finally, I didn’t just like the color schemes and sounds which came with Garmin. Could be that’s my personalized preference. But Garmin is just not too a lot customizable, really fundamental stuff you can configure. So it went back again inside of number of days.

Hope this evaluate will probably be beneficial to you all.

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