TomTom mobile 5 POI moved

[Guest [email protected]]

hi all

I was looking for a petrol station on my way home last week and tomtom directed me to someones house, bizzare but i thought no more of it. anyways i was just looking at my tomtom "browse map" of my locale area (ok i was bored) and noticed all my POI's are in the wrong place.

It seems they have all moved east by a couple of hundred meters, quite strange.

anyways being a good boy i always have a back up, so i copied the POI.dat from the original TOMTOM card over my phone yet the problem still remained.

Now i just tried deleting tomtom from the phone and reinstalling from the orignal and its still wrong.

Is it possible that there is data in the phone for tomtom after i deleted it? if so how can i remove it.

this is perplexing me, and i really don't fancy hard reseting my phone to clear it as i have alot of usefull stuff i would have to reinstall.

any ideas?

[Guest [email protected]]

I have contacted tomtom and they are going to post me another memory card for £5. i still think the problem lies with the phone but will have to wait for the card to show up.

[Guest Miniman99]

A friend had this (TomTom reading 100m to one site), he found that it was the GPS reciever that was mis-calibrated. It was a third party unit and it had to be factory reset. His came with a small application to do that. All ok after he reset it.

[Guest minty1978]

try taking the battery out of the GPS unit for 30 mins. that should reset it. you will probably need to re-pair the BT unit.

S

[Guest [email protected]]

try taking the battery out of the GPS unit for 30 mins. that should reset it. you will probably need to re-pair the BT unit.

S

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thank you for the suggestions but i have the original TOMTOM gps reciever and cannot remove the battery.

I have also noticed that the POI's are in the wrong place if i have the GPS turned off and just browse the map in tomtom.

and after a bit more fiddling about i found that it is only the petrol stations that are wrong, everything else is fine ;) this is most annoying as petrol stations are the only POI i use frequently

[Guest [email protected]]

well i got my replacement card from TOMTOM today but it did not fix the problem :D but on the plaus side it appears to be a newer map version :)

gonna try hard resetting my phone and reinstalling everything and see if that fixes it.