sD card

[Kim]

How come at the bottom of my TomTom there is a little sticker that say no SD card needed? i only have about 57megs left on what I have now. How do I go about getting more room for it then?

 

[F22]

There is generally a dummy card in the slot. A card is NOT needed if you do not run out of room. But getting a card is an option so that you can store more maps or poi files or more likely, mp3 or photos or even videos (with 3rd party software).

If you get a card, you will want to create folders on it that are named the same as in internal memory (upper/lower case matters). So to put mp3 files on the card and find them, they must be in a folder called mp3. If you want to add poi to the card, they would go into a folder that has the same name as your primary map folder in internal memory.

 

[dhn]

How come at the bottom of my TomTom there is a little sticker that say no SD card needed? i only have about 57megs left on what I have now. How do I go about getting more room for it then?

You may not NEED a sd card but you more than likely will WANT a sd card (maps are getting larger and larger, for example).

Peel off the sticker. You may find a dummy piece of plastic in the slot. If so, remove it. A 4 gig sdhc card works well in a 720. Make sure it's formatted for fat 32.

A nice thing about x20 and x30 series of tomtom's is that they see the memory card's storage as **additional** memory to the internal 2 gigs; no need to copy the operating system to the card to get the 720 to recognize it.

 

[gbullman]

You may not NEED a sd card but you more than likely will WANT a sd card (maps are getting larger and larger, for example).

Peel off the sticker. You may find a dummy piece of plastic in the slot. If so, remove it. A 4 gig sdhc card works well in a 720. Make sure it's formatted for fat 32.

TomTom's official position seems to be that the 720 does not support SDHC cards (ie, max of 2 GB). Just want to make sure that you are successfully using a 4 GB SDHC in a TomTom Go 720.

Thanks for confirming.

 

[Bama Rambler]

I'm successfully using a 4gb sdhc card in my 720 and I moved everything off the internal memory to the card.

 

[agentphish]

I too am using an SDHC 4gb card. Made by A-Data. No issues so far. Running newest maps and all.

It was my first foray into TomTom "modding" as far as getting a more updated map and such, worked like a charm.

 

[Kim]

You may not NEED a sd card but you more than likely will WANT a sd card (maps are getting larger and larger, for example).

Peel off the sticker. You may find a dummy piece of plastic in the slot. If so, remove it. A 4 gig sdhc card works well in a 720. Make sure it's formatted for fat 32.

A nice thing about x20 and x30 series of tomtom's is that they see the memory card's storage as **additional** memory to the internal 2 gigs; no need to copy the operating system to the card to get the 720 to recognize it.

How do you format it for fat 32? Thanks.

 

[dhn]

How do you format it for fat 32? Thanks.

Many of the 4 gig sdhc cards are already formatted for fat32 but if you place the card in a card reader and use Explorer, an option when you navigate to the external storage (the sd card) by right clicking (if I remember correctly) is Format and then there are options for fat 16 or fat 32. (something like that, anyway).