TomTom Go.
 

Has anyone got Tomtom Go ported or working on the N800? Any valuable information would help to get this to work. I have maps from my old ppc device.

Re: TomTom Go.
 

Highly impossible.

Re: TomTom Go.
 

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

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

Re: TomTom Go.
 

I hadn't realised those things run Linux. This got me thinking,about my newish TomTom GO 710. Following instructions (http://opentom.org/Btconsole) I've been able to get root on the TomTom with a view to possibly streaming NMEA data out over a PPP connection into some device, possibly an n800. I've stuffed a 2GB SD card in it for good measure (the 1GB card was nearly full).

For now, I'm using my NSLU2 running Debian with an advent bluetooth adapter to get into the TomTom, as its well positioned for bluetooth coverage, and I haven't got minicom running on the n800 yet, although it's compiled in scratchbox. Any tips on packaging?

Re: TomTom Go.
 

Works because the Zaurus and the GO are also ARM-arch and not ARMEL-arch. I imagine there's a way to convert between the two, but it won't be as easy.

As far as packaging, the simplest way to get a single-binary app like minicom over is to configure with '--prefix=~/minicom' (and make a ~/minicom directory): you'll find the binaries in that directory under ~/minicom/bin/ --- actual Debian packaging isn't hard, but it's certainly more fiddly than this method.

Re: TomTom Go.
 

Hmm. Unless I'm misreading or misunderstanding things, I think both the TomTom and the n800 are little-endian.

Linux TomTom 2.6.13-tt1619 #1 Tue Apr 17 08:21:15 CEST 2007 armv4tl unknown

Linux Nokia-N800-10 2.6.18-omap1 #2 Wed Mar 7 15:36:09 EET 2007 armv6l unknown

A quick google found someone else's Zaurus reporting:

Linux zaurus 2.4.6-rmk1-np2-embedix #1 Tue Jul 30 08:38:25 PDT 2002 armv4l unknown

Am I wrong?

Re: TomTom Go.
 

Any news on homebrew ports? I contacted Tomtom to see if they'd develop their software to be used on the n800 since I currently have maps from my Axim device that I've sold. This is what they wrote:

Blah, blah, blah. Looks like were on our own.

Re: TomTom Go.
 

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

so... if the base system is the same... it should be possible to "mount" this image and chroot into it...

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

and I believe that Angstrom is beying ported to the 770/800, right?

Re: TomTom Go.
 

does anyone have the tomtom go 300 device? Maybe you can pull the software off and try and port it from there.

Re: TomTom Go.
 

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...

Re: TomTom Go.
 

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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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.

Re: TomTom Go.
 

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.

Re: TomTom Go.
 

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

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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.

Re: TomTom Go.
 

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.