GO 920: Cannot See the SD Card...Can U Help?

[terbolee]

New Year greetings!

Okay, I pop in a FAT32 formatted 286MB (testing for now...will use larger capacity later) which contains MP3 music and JPG pics. I turn on my GO, I select Music and Media, TomTom Jukebox, Song.

I'm expecting an option to switch to my SD card. But no, all I get are "default" songs that came with the unit...which I believe are in resident memory.

I select Find and I get a keypad ?????

Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[ex-egll]

Hi, Had the same problem myself. You need to create a folder on the SD card called MP3 for the MP3 files, photos for the pictures, audionooks for books etc.

 

[terbolee]

Hey, that was spot on! Many thanks. I now have to see if I can create sub folders so I can organise my music better.

Gee, I hear that the weather's lovely there...what with all the wonderful snow! It's hot, hot, hot here in Sydney.

Regards

 

[F22]

Just for info:

Some of us have gotten 8 gig cards to work - after a fashion.

Generally, files have to be added to the card in a separate card reader. The 920 appears to only be able to write/copy about 4gigs of files to the 8gig card. But if the files are added from a card reader, the 920 appears to recognize and use the files. Some older card readers will not deal the the larger 4-8 gig cards.

With that, it is probably safest to use a 4gig card at a maximum.

 

[ex-egll]

Gee, I hear that the weather's lovely there...what with all the wonderful snow! It's hot, hot, hot here in Sydney.

Regards

Glad it worked. Yesterday was -20C (-29 with the windchill) and around 3ft of snow in the backyard. Perfect winter wx.

 

[pinballwiz]

Just for info:

Some of us have gotten 8 gig cards to work - after a fashion.

I want to get a larger card for my TT920. What was required to get the 8GB card to work? Is there a specific brand or type that I need to look for?

Thanks,
Rob

 

[F22]

Just for info:

Some of us have gotten 8 gig cards to work - after a fashion.

I want to get a larger card for my TT920. What was required to get the 8GB card to work? Is there a specific brand or type that I need to look for?

Thanks,
Rob

I have the PNY Class4. Others report Transcend also works. And in UK, a Peak

Rather than retype a bunch, you can read some of the exasperation yourself in the thread contained:

http://www.gpsreview.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3495

You will see that while that other guy thought he had it working FULLY, it was still limited

Although, I just read on another forum someone claims it is working. Who knows....

 

[terbolee]

8 Gigs? That's heaps for pics & music! Not sure if the 920 can play videos...can it?

Regards

 

[mhuebner]

I just got the 4gb sandisk hc card and i cant get it to work for the life of me.

 

[F22]

8 Gigs? That's heaps for pics & music! Not sure if the 920 can play videos...can it?

Regards

There is an application (their support seems a bit amiss??? at the moment) called Mobilnova that will convert videos to a format and includes a TT player to play them back. It works pretty well.

 

[F22]

I just got the 4gb sandisk hc card and i cant get it to work for the life of me.

You MIGHT need to format it - either in the TT or in a separate card reader.

You can try, RightClick on the drive and select format. Make sure it is the SD card that you are formatting!!!

 

[terbolee]

There is an application (their support seems a bit amiss??? at the moment) called Mobilnova that will convert videos to a format and includes a TT player to play them back. It works pretty well.

Thanks fot that info...will go looking.

BTW, I copied my JPG files into the "photos" folder on my SD card but can't view them. Wondering if I need to convert them to BMP. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Regards

 

[F22]

Thanks fot that info...will go looking.

BTW, I copied my JPG files into the "photos" folder on my SD card but can't view them. Wondering if I need to convert them to BMP. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Regards

NO, jpg's work. Make sure that the folder is called

photos (lower case matters)

I noticed that the samples on my 920 are 480x274 - fairly low resolution but show okay. You might try just a few - it they are large, they make too much time to "index." But I did view 4megapixel images - slow rendering.

 

[mhuebner]

I did format the card and still cant get it to work. So frustrating.

 

[mhuebner]

Is anyone else using the San Disk 4 GB HC card and working?

 

[GOer910]

Yes I have the SanDisk 4GB HC and it works with no problem at all. What are you trying to load on your card is the first question? I loaded my MP3s and my photos, 3.5 GB worth and the 920 reads the card fine. But you have to create an "MP3" folder and a "photos" folders (w/o ") and copy your files under these folders in order for the card to be recognized. After that, when restart the 920 you should see two disks on the display when the system boots up, also when you connect to TomTom Home it will ask you which memory card you want to upgrade. Good luck.

 

[terbolee]

NO, jpg's work. Make sure that the folder is called

photos (lower case matters)

I noticed that the samples on my 920 are 480x274 - fairly low resolution but show okay. You might try just a few - it they are large, they make too much time to "index." But I did view 4megapixel images - slow rendering.

Yes, what you shared makes sense. My JPGs were 1024x768. Will try it again. Thanks.

 

[terbolee]

Glad it worked. Yesterday was -20C (-29 with the windchill) and around 3ft of snow in the backyard. Perfect winter wx.

Gee, that's cold! Beautiful but cold. Having lived in the US (Indiana & Ohio) before, I fully understand the cold and the wind chill factor that you're going through.

My next Go 920 challenges are to view pics and videos.

Stay safe!

 

[F22]

I thought that I would report that I am having problems using an 8 gig PNY card.

While it worked at first, I think the TT920 has limited capacity to write to the card and the limitation might be DIRECTORY related or just how much space is used over the normal 4 gig amount.

I had viewed my photos but suddenly the TT locked and then spontaneously rebooted while trying to display the folder. I found a 33kb thumbnails.dat file on the device in the folder where the photos were located. I believe that writing that file or some other access to the actual DIRECTORY structure when over 4 gigs causes problems.

I will note that I have succeeded in copying 1kb files while the card was in the TT but that larger files resulted in an "incorrect parameter" error from Windows (xp, sp2).

Just my observation.