On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 2016-03-11 08:06, stakanov@freenet.de wrote:
Well you would not believe up to where greed arrives.
yes...
The "new" TomTomGo Family has a dongled (that is, on purpose, a non standard) usb cable, NOT to allow "not vendor TomTomCable" to do data transfer. Recently you can find "cracked" third party usb-cable. If your read the manual of the device this is "crypted" by the sentence that the use of "non original usb cable" can lead to "problems during map update".
Oh :-(
What is more: the software seem to "sense" the presence of a "real" windows OS (it's a Volkswagen!), as the update is done via a browser plugin that does work in windows and mac but astonishingly does not allow Linux or the installation in Wine.
As I do not owe any copy of windows anymore, since a decade, and all my machines I do buy them without the "markeleader OS", my solution will NOT be to prime a producer's organized crime behavior and worse to buy in addition a IMO non functional spyware from MS.
Just install it virtualized, "for testing purposes", and without updates. Even if you get the black screen, it should allow you enough time for updates.
The fact that at the end I finished with TomTom was for despair and because it was "next!" in the queue, surely not because of conviction.
I have it because a friend had it. Initially they were not that close. At present, perhaps I would use an Android tablet instead. Google maps is very good, but needs internet (you can download your route at home in advance, though). OsmAnd is a reasonable alternative that uses stored, open, maps. BeOnRoad is another, but it is not that good. Then there is another one I can't remember, which works like a social network: you upload information as you go to other drivers, so that the system derives information about the best current route.
We use Navit. Works off line against Open Street Map data. It is available for a number of platforms. We use it on openSUSE and get data from gpsd. It can also read direct from the GPS.
The tomtom live has a pay system that works pretty well at big cities at least. From usage patterns they know about congestions and change the route on the fly to avoid them.
The file system is "crypted" on the device because the mentality is, that "as a user I am a potential criminal". The rational stays within the fact the before some individuals acceded like you say through the network to extract the maps and (yes these where real AOTDs) and so, since at the time there was the great idea to do alike the printer producer (sell cheap crap and earn on the map "run by bike" to follow the indications in direction "dune de pilar". It will send you directly on a well guarded French army base for the development of middle distance missiles "Camp Naouas". It claims that your "cycle way" is right through the base. I know because I had a smalltalk with the heavily armed buddy at the entrance that fortunately was amused Did send a report to TomTom, got notified "corrected" and (after 6 updates and a year later) tried it out - to find myself at the entrance of the army base. :-) PITA is PITA I guess. No further comment.
TomTom is very slow at correcting errors in their maps. They claim that they just buy the maps from another company and that it is their responsibility. Two years is normal :-/
-- Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
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