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Originally Posted by Frankowitz (Post 61268)

Why would anyone want to do that? Tom Tom's are so cheap, you almost get 'em for free... :) And even if you'd get it to run, it would be so slow, you would miss every single direction it gives you...

First of all, if you think $150 is cheap for the oldest/slowest used tomtom device, good for you, not everyone swims in a pool of their own money. Secondly the lastest tomtom 6 runs smoothly on a old 200mhz arm Ipaq. And if you already didn't know the N800 runs at 320mhz arm. And lastly I have maps from my old pda that I've sold which means I wouldn't have to spend $150+ on Navicore software or an
"outdated maps" and "cheap" $150 tomtom gps device. Understand now rich boy!

one more thing. The so call cheap old tomtom go device is at 200mhz. Do your research before talking out of your as*.

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Originally Posted by lmf (Post 60092)

Someone at this forum ,explains hot to peek into an update image from a standalone device:
http://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=16826

at a latter post on that forum, they mention:
"...Angstrom *will* run zomtom without any patching..."

yes, I have tomtom running on Angstrom distribution on my zaurus 3100; it needed the right kernel with the right framebuffer option (as far as I know it will only run in 320x240 without crashing, but perhaps it will run on the resolutions used by the new tomtoms too?).

It runs at a reasonable speed without overclocking. Still no sound though.

Follow that thread for the latest posts.

I am still trying to find out whether TOmTom will sue me IF we release the tools required to do this - even though our toolkit contains no tomtom files we could be accused of encouraging copyright violation. So far no response, tried a developer whose email I found through dejanews^Wgoogle news and the only email address I could find - the support people didn't care or understand.

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Originally Posted by maxilogan (Post 53983)

Well not so much if it has been ported to run on Zaurus :D

http://www.zaurus.org.uk/opentom/index.html

yup, that's my site :-)

it's not so much as ported, we have a chroot'd environment with fake /proc, /dev and /sys files as needed (use strace to determine what the tomtom binary wants), and a wrapper which creates the type of touchscreen tomtom needs, and sets the framebuffer into the mode that tomtom is hard-wired to expect.

sound eludes us though.

There is a Tom Tom GO application that has been released as open source for about four years now...

From my limited understanding of that page, its saying that only certain parts of the TT program are open-source, and most of the program is not, though I could be wrong.

You're right.
They've open sourced what the GPL forced them to.
Of course, they can't open source the entire application as that's the one they're selling.

What's released are the tools their application relies upon.