Brian Watson wrote:
petetop wrote:
"trubble" trubble@t'mill - nah mean? wrote in message
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Anti-Spam wrote:
Got my first SatNav recently, which I am pleased with. I do a
lot of driving in areas I am not familiar with, so the speed
check / speed camera facilities are really welcomed.

I wish now to hardwire it into the dash of my van. I bought a
cheap cigarette lighter lead off ebay (so I dont have to destroy
my original TomTom one) which I intend to use to hardwire into
the electrics of my van. I already have a regulated 5V supply in
the van, which I currently use to power my hardwired MP3 player.

My question is, the 5V supply goes off when the ignition is
turned off. Is there anyway to set the tomtom up, so that it
powers down when the external power is removed. At the moment,
the internal battery tries to power the unit, when the external
supply vanishes, but does not have enough capacity to last the
night, which will destroy the internal batteries eventually.

Mark in Spain
Yes there should be. It's in preferences - Battery saving
preferences. Tap done on the first screen and the setting you
want is next. NB it won't turn itself on again with the power
though
Been through it a couple of times, and there is no Battery Options
under preferences.
Odd, I found it.

Try CHANGE PREFERENCES, Right Arrow, Right Arrow, Right Arrow (to
get you to
screen 4 of 7)

Top right icon says Battery Saving Preferences.

Set "Never turn off screen" then "Done"

You will then see "Switch off when external power is lost"

Touch box to insert a tick.

Press "Done" "Done"

And it's done.

:-)
No I only get, screen 4 of 5.
I am pretty sure, I have a Tom Tom One XL V2 with European Maps,
although I cannot be absoluteley sure as I cannot see a model number
on the unit. Just TomTom XL.
There is another less informative number 4EG0.001.00 on the unit.
Well, I've never seen this Battery Saving Preferences option on One,
XL or 6.75 so unless he can explain which model has it, I reckon it's
********.
Works for me on my tom tom one xl, I have the same version numbers on
my xl as Brian Watson, so its not ********.
Regards

Am tempted to say "so there!" but I'm trying to be helpful.

:-)

Letting the battery run down shouldn't hurt, the unit will turn itself
off at some point. Lithium powered devices have built in regulation.
My TomTom 130s drains the battery in around 2 weeks if not used. I have
friends who see same thing so it's not a faulty unit. Don't know about
other TomTom models but Garmin can sit unused without draining unit.
TomTom support gave me a supposed fix (reset unit when storing). This
helps but only by extending the drain time somewhat.
Dave Cohen