gezt wrote:Nope sorry
Put SD card into tomTom then boot up whilst not connected to pc then connect to PC and get the file and paste onto SD card
Then with SD card still in unit and connected to PC use activate

Nope Sorry.
Your way adds unnecessary steps!! PLUS, my way sets up for future help, if necessary.

I bow to the master

Thanx for understanding.

Lol so one more time, the final procedure is..

tendriver wrote:Thanx for understanding.

No worries, I'm am amateur compared to you guys.

tom619 wrote:Lol so one more time, the final procedure is..

Post Number:#56

tom619 wrote:Thanks. This is exactly what I needed,
1. however I don't quite understand step 5. Put a copy of the "new" GO 730's ttgo.bif file on the card.
2. Where is the "new" ttgo.bif file retrieved from?

1. Edited for clarification. "new" was describing the device, not the ttgo.bif file.
"5. Put a copy of the GO 730's ttgo.bif file on the card."
2. There is a ttgo.bif file in your GO 730 backup folder.

Re: Step 2 Copy the 950 map folder to the SD card. Delete ALL .DCT files in the 950 map folder.

There are no .DCT files in the map folder, there are however the following two files:
Europe_TRUCK-100399.meta
Europe_TRUCK-100399.tmeta

tom619 wrote:1. Delete ALL .DCT files in the 950 map folder.
2. There are no .DCT files in the map folder,
3. there are however the following two files:Europe_TRUCK-100399.metaEurope_TRUCK-100399.tmeta

1. Edited for clarification. "Delete ANY .DCT files in the 950 map folder".
2. Great.
3. They stay. FastActivate uses them to create the .dct files.

Got you. Will give this a try as soon as my boss disappears

tendriver wrote:

tom619 wrote:Thanks. This is exactly what I needed,
1. however I don't quite understand step 5. Put a copy of the "new" GO 730's ttgo.bif file on the card.
2. Where is the "new" ttgo.bif file retrieved from?

1. Edited for clarification. "new" was describing the device, not the ttgo.bif file.
"5. Put a copy of the GO 730's ttgo.bif file on the card."
2. There is a ttgo.bif file in your GO 730 backup folder.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't the ttgo.bif file have 9.510 version info?

there is something wrong.

I copied the ttgo.bif from go730 internal to SD card, then when I run fastactivate patch navcore option the ttgo.bif file suddenly goes from being last modified on 05/10/2015 to a modified date of 01/01/2000?

Also, fastactivate did not give me an option of which removable disk to select and thus patch the right navcore?

tom619 wrote:1. Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't the ttgo.bif file have 9.510 version info?
2. when I run fastactivate patch navcore option the ttgo.bif file suddenly goes from being last modified on 05/10/2015 to a modified date of 01/01/2000?
3. Also, fastactivate did not give me an option of which removable disk to select and thus patch the right navcore?

1. You are correct, BUT FastActivate doesn't use any of that info, so it matters not.
2. A new ttgo.bif file is created EVERYTIME the device is booted. The last modified date, on the ttgo.bif that you have now, is not important.
3. If you had been given the option, which removable disk would you have selected? Perhaps the SD card?? Where is FastActivate located, per step 4? Perhaps the SD card also.
You weren't given an option, because it wasn't necessary.

tendriver wrote:

tom619 wrote:1. Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't the ttgo.bif file have 9.510 version info?
2. when I run fastactivate patch navcore option the ttgo.bif file suddenly goes from being last modified on 05/10/2015 to a modified date of 01/01/2000?
3. Also, fastactivate did not give me an option of which removable disk to select and thus patch the right navcore?

1. You are correct, BUT FastActivate doesn't use any of that info, so it matters not.
2. A new ttgo.bif file is created EVERYTIME the device is booted. The last modified date, on the ttgo.bif that you have now, is not important.
3. If you had been given the option, which removable disk would you have selected? Perhaps the SD card?? Where is FastActivate located, per step 4? Perhaps the SD card also.
You weren't given an option, because it wasn't necessary.

Fastactivate.exe is on the SD card. I run through options 1-3 and it looks fine, however when booting the TomTom unit no luck