-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Uzair Shamim Gesendet: Fr. 11.03.2016 02:58 An: opensuse@opensuse.org Betreff: Re: [opensuse] TomTomGo Gps Map update on opensuse.
I am not sure how you update this device but if it is just a USB connection you can easily make windows VM in KVM, do USB passthrough on the device and then update from windows. WINE is not always reliable so you may want to try KVM if needed.
-- Regards, Uzair Shamim --
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Well you would not believe up to where greed arrives. 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". 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. Therefore, either I make it with this, or I will have to stick to internet cafés (as long as they still work with virtualized windows machine on linux hosts. My hope is the arrival on the market of some Chinese producer However Medion (AFAIK Lenovo) has "windows-mobile" on its devices .... and given the reliability of the latter OS (hands on experience) they should come directly inside a waste bag! (As to show that also Chinese industry happen to do all wrong sometimes). Garmin sells hardware with "best before date" having care to glue the battery inside the apparatus and needing 10 minutes and a reboot(!) to find the satellites. 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. Guess that gave you an idea. PS: 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. --- Mail & Cloud Made in Germany mit 3 GB Speicher! https://email.freenet.de/mail/Uebersicht?epid=e9900000450 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org