TomTom Install Navcore, Maps & Patch Tutorial

[Foxylady]

Well, finally got down to it as i never done one, so i have provided a noob way and hopes it helps others.
A tutorial how to put navcore, maps and patch them with easytools

OK let's start and get you doing you maps and patching for 1st time.

First of all you will 3 things, NAVCORE (Tomtom Operating System) in my case my navore i use for my ONE devices is v8.204 as seen on my desktop, MAPS (We know what these are) & Easytools (Your Patching tool in order to make the maps work)
So you have downloaded the above mentioned, Place all the winrar files you downloaded on your desktop so everything nice and neat and no confusion later on.


Now place your sd card in pc or if no sd slot on tomtom connect tomtom via usb to pc, now a box will pop up being that of a drive letter i.e. J:, now double click on the map rar file you downloaded on your desktop and it should look like this on your desktop, keep 2 windows open side by side, now simply drag the map folder over to the sd card or tomtom.



Once completed close the rar window, now double click on the Navcore rar file for example mine v8.204 on my desktop, you will get a window like this, simply select all the files inside and drag over the the sd card or tomtom

Once done, again close off that rar window, now as you see in my right window the files will now look like this, one Map folder and navcore files surrounding it


If you look in the files, there is no TTGO.bif file, this will be created once we restart the tomtom, so turn tomtom off, insert card to tomtom or disconnect usb cable from pc and then power up the tomtom.
Once rebooted, you will have to do a few selections to continue in the tomtom.
Language English uk, right handed, miles or kilometres, voice etc.
Once you confirm this you should now get RED screen stating the words " You cannot use this map on this device"
Now turn off tomtom, connect sd card to pc or the tomtom via usb cable if no sd slot, then turn back on again, the tomtom will now have created a TTGO.Bif file in your tomtom.
So now you have successfully installed both Navcore and Maps for the tomtom, now we need to patch them in order for them to work.

[Foxylady]

Now go back into the drive letter which is your tomtom/tomtom files and you will notice the ttgo.bif file here, right click and open in notepad, at top you will see device id with 10 digit number, right click on this number and copy, then close off ttgo notepad window.



Ok now go to the Easytools rar file and extract the folder to the desktop, Now double click that folder and you will see this


Now you can see a file called Device ID in the easytools folder

Double click to open it and right click and paste that 10 digit number you copied from the TTGO file, click close on the box and it will ask for changes, click SAVE


Now go into the tomtom a double click on the MAP folder, at the bottom you will see 2 files which are needed, ending in .meta & .pna.

[Foxylady]

Right click and select both of these and CUT, now in the easytools folder you will see a folder called "insert meta from map here", double click and you will see this, now paste those 2 files (.Meat & .Pna) into this insert meta from map here folder you just cut from map folder.
so now in map folder the 2 files have gone and are now in the insert meta from map here folder in the left window


Press back button to go back to main easytools folder and double click Runmefordct and you will get this


click on your keyboard 1 & Enter
Again on your keyboard click 1 & Enter

You will get a window like this asking for device code, the one we copied earlier from the ttgo.ibf file in the tomtom, so go back to the ttgo file and copy the device id again and paste it in the command window, when pasted, make sure all digits in this part are together not 2 x 5 digits, paste like this, basically delete the space between digits

Now Press Enter

Once done it will say press any key to continue, hit enter and box closes.

Now go back into the "insert meta from map here" folder and you will now notice 3 files 2 x .meta and 1 x pna, not 2 as before, now select them and cut and now paste those 3 files back into the MAP folder



Now you can close off easytools folder on your desktop and delete it, keep the easytools rar file thou for future if you plan doing other tomtom devices.
You have patched your maps and now should be working fine.
Simply turn off tom tom and reboot and all should be well.
But now you have done them, you need to change settings for postcodes to operate correctly otherwise it may cause your tomtom to crash, simply go into change preferences, scroll right to KEYBOARD and change to Small & Qwerty, job done.
Once tomtom reboots it will ask about joing mapshare, say yes, start up tomtom home and it will download the mapshares for your maps.

More tuts to come, cams etc

[bigfella]

thanks ,,,this is a excellent tut...shud be a sticky

[G77]

nice tut, thread stickied.

[Foxylady]

As i can not post files on here as they are RS links, anyone of whom needs guidance and links to files, i can pass you maps, navcore (This differs depending on tomtom device you have) and cams You can contact me vai msn @ Pedrosgolf@live.co.uk, i will gladly help out.
For those of whom find it a little harder i also have Teamviewer i.e. same as remote assistance but better and i can do it from my chair
G77, I have pm'd you bud

[reddiesel]

Excellent job, i'l be trying this out.

[lkomnino]

Do you have any ideas of how to add maps to tomtom one v1, have tried this tutorial, but to no avail. Current app version is 7.9ish not yet 8, but the maps i have downloaded are all v8, eastern europe, central europe, western europe and greece. As you can see i plan on driving to greece so hopefully will be able to sort this out soon. Also if you can advise me on sites for the easytools and also the navcore i would be grateful. since mininova went down...... all others are a mear poor copy. Thanks in advance

[winactive]

Hi, new user here - trying to update UK & ROI maps to 8.50.2820 on a One v4N00.005 and can't seem to make it work - successfully updated to 8.15 previously on official Navcore 7.914.

With tools RunMeforMetaKey returns;

can't find *.pna
cline.dat - not present
cname.dat - not present
cnode.dat - not present
mapinfo.dat - not present
can't find g:\voices\*.meta file
data05.chk - present
data05.vif - present
Fault in ReadFromMeta file g:\voices\data05.chk
data05.chk - Bad

data04.chk - present
data04.vif - present
Fault in ReadFromMeta file g:\voices\data04.chk
data04.chk - Bad

wrong version select?


I take it these are the 2 voices I installed from TTHome when installing the Navcore - not that important but the device says 'No maps found' - last did this a couple of years ago, don't remember it being this hard!

Have completely formatted device to remove old files - wonder if my map is fake? Seem to be going around in circles, any advice? TIA

P.S. Maybe a mod could move these comments to a separate thread?

[lad]

What the hell am I doing wrong, trying to install new maps to my tomtom go 300,following your instructions to the letter apart from the files being unziped and copying the files to a new sd card and replacing the maps,the easyuse tool generates a new DCT file but still it comes up with "NO MAPS".