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- TomTom GO 510
For those who have bought TomTom GO 510 units from woot, don't give up hope. My unit had crashing and rebooting issues and now they are all gone.
I'll try and summarize solutions in one post so bear with me.
Before you do anything, run TomTom Home on your computer and backup your device.
If you're technical, you can go into the disk and save the maps to the computer.
If the device is charged and doesn't start-up, try resetting it:
http://www.tomtom.com/support/solution.php?GID=1&PID=234&SID=0&CID=216&Language=4&FID=7134
If the settings don't get saved when you power-on the device, use the clear flash tool:
http://www.tomtom.com/support/index.php?Language=4&query=clear+flash+tool&FID=6211
If the unit freezes up and reboots once in a while, try backing up, reformatting the SD card, and then restoring everything.
PC users can right-click on the drive-letter (eg. F: or G: ) and format the device. Name it TOMTOM DISK, and then restore from TomTom Home
Mac OS X users can use the disk-utility in the Applications > Utilities folder to erase the TOMTOM DISK. Make sure you format it as an MS-DOS format and NOT MacOS extended or anyting else.
Hope that helps!
I'll try and summarize solutions in one post so bear with me.
Before you do anything, run TomTom Home on your computer and backup your device.
If you're technical, you can go into the disk and save the maps to the computer.
If the device is charged and doesn't start-up, try resetting it:
http://www.tomtom.com/support/solution.php?GID=1&PID=234&SID=0&CID=216&Language=4&FID=7134
If the settings don't get saved when you power-on the device, use the clear flash tool:
http://www.tomtom.com/support/index.php?Language=4&query=clear+flash+tool&FID=6211
If the unit freezes up and reboots once in a while, try backing up, reformatting the SD card, and then restoring everything.
PC users can right-click on the drive-letter (eg. F: or G: ) and format the device. Name it TOMTOM DISK, and then restore from TomTom Home
Mac OS X users can use the disk-utility in the Applications > Utilities folder to erase the TOMTOM DISK. Make sure you format it as an MS-DOS format and NOT MacOS extended or anyting else.
Hope that helps!