Warning! These instructions are not for the faint of heart and you should have some experience in soldering on a SMD level!
I take no responsibilty for devices damaged as I only provide the collected info and would not know if you made mistakes.
If you do this you do it at your own risk!

Many of you might have had the problem in the past that they wanted the Truck map or a big ...

First my apologies for taking so long to create this and for being complicated, but it is a hard probelm with TT's....
In this posting I will update on
a) how to modify the crippled TT LoquendoTTS V7 voices to conform to Loquendo standards
b) how to modify certain words and phrases with the use of the working Loquendo engine

Important: I only tested on a 9.400 Navcore with the 885.4021 version of the Australia ...

I think the problems are related to the way the map is installed and selected.
Example: 860map is installed and running fine, new 880 map get's added and activated - all fine device boots and you switch to the new map in the menu.
860map is installed and working, new 880 is added and the old map deleted - many devices will hang and stop to work normally.

You might wonder why but it is ...

Since there are new postings popping up with questions like :
Can I install... on my VIA52, Go500 ...
I will tell you on which models nothing like "crack", "hack", "activate", "copy" or "patch" can be applied :


GO Essential
GO 500/510/520/620/5200/6200
GO 6000 Series
Via 52/62 Series
6000 TRUCKER
PRO 9100
Start 40/45/50/52/55 Series
Sony XNV

To speak in correct and noob-free terms:
The above models and all other/upcoming models based on Navcore ...

If you want to play with plugins, TTS etc. on small devices (32 MB RAM) you run into the problem to have not enough available RAM.
Navigation gets slower or freezes.

Latest NavCores get more and more features while needing more and more RAM.

Startung with NC v9 most plugins stopped working properly.
The interface to the gps has been changed.
Printing popup-messages on the screen became difficult.
"Snap-to-road" feature got lost.

IMHO the best ...

Some of you are "hunting" for the latest available NavCore and think the largest version number is what you want.

This is definitely wrong.
If you want to know which NC release is the latest, you should take a closer look on the "birthday".
Also keep in mind that NCs for completely different models than yours could cause surprising results.

This information can be found in
<sdcard:>\TomTom-Cfg\release.nfo

I think that if the birthday of a ...

Maybe someone who don't has a Rider or has an old Rider wants to try the NC 9.205 (Urban Rider; Birthday= 05 July 2010) to use the features of the new Urban Rider.

I have an One 2nd edition (32MB RAM).

I can use use this original NC, but
- available RAM shrinks to ~0MB.
- the GUI looks oldfashioned and not like a Rider.

Thanks to DSA it is possible to run this NC ...

Got it working!!! TomTom Start upgraded to full NavCore 9 with sound working. :thumbup:

My Tomtom Start was from New Zealand, purchased around Oct 2010. Started as: App: 8.544 (1836/091016) OS: 367764 64MB RAM, GPS: v1.20, Boot: 5.5238

Kudos to Mireille for this. I just added the following few additional instructions:
Download the goods from: http://rapidshare.com/files/447143493/NC9_ME_v2.0.0-pre1.rar

1a) Robocopy Backup all files & folders from original device onto ...

WinCE Mapshare patch

1. Make copy of TTNAVIGATOR.BIF to TTGO.ORI

2. copy these files to root directory download WinCE Mapshare patch

3. "Current MAP" folder contain CurrentMap.dat files

default CurrentMap.dat contain scandinavia, so you must use folder name scandinavia for your map
copy some .dat file to root of device (rename it and replace old one).
you can open .dat files with notepad and you see what is inside but do not edit anything

eg. ...

Installation instructions for WinCE5 64MB PNA devices.

Dedicated device guides.
Binatone
Mio Moov or Navman
Windows Mobile PDA's

Does not work on WinCE4.2 or WinCE6 devices, Or with WinCE5 devices with screen resolutions larger that 480x272

I know it's possible to install Tomtom 7 on WinCE4.2 and WinCE 6 devices with the aid of Mortscript but to be honest there are far more reliable options out there for these devices like iGO Primo or Garmin ...