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DougSmith
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 Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 18:34 Post subject: TomTom Battery Life |
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The battery life in my TomTom 700 is hopeless. Does anyone know how to replace the battery or do I have to send it back to TimTom?
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| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 19:09 Post subject: Re: TomTom Battery Life |
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Hi Doug,
the battery is bad on all of them,
thats why it coms with a car battery charger, so that u can run it off the car while u r driving
holp thiss is help
Matthew
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the-ingeneer
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 01:36 Post subject: tomtom battery |
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I have found a trick for those bad battery ,but you lose your waranty
you need to open your tomtom , behind the screen you wil find the battery(for the Go 710 it is an 3.7 V ,2400mAh,samsung ICR18650-24)
you find 3 wires : red, black,yellow cut them of at the half of the wire size
, then cut off your car loader wire (tomtom)(5v), you will see again 3 wires inside :red,black,white
connect the red with red, black with black, white with yellow
(the best thing is to make a little hole in the cover to pass the wire, so it will be beter for closing the all thing)
I did it and it works pretty fine ,I had save 30 dollars  
I did in approximatly 30 min
remember you will have no battery any more and no waranty of tomtom!
It only works then with your tomtom car loader.
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Mark
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 22:32 Post subject: Re: tomtom battery |
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Dear the-ingeneer,
It must be some less labour intensive way to destroy your GPS. Using tools like hamer would probably be as efective as your modification...
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graycon
GPS: TomTom Go 720
Joined: 18 Jul 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 23:59 Post subject: Power trickiling, even if turned off |
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| Even if its turned off it still trickles power, so U need to power it uponce a week or so. Also for what its worth I just leave the car charger connected and haven ac charger for home use, charging via usb is long
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TomTom EXuser
GPS: TomTom Go 720
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| Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 14:09 Post subject: Tom Tom |
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| I bought a TomTom, I am an avid believer in GPS as I am a pilot and use one in my airplane. The Tom Tom GPS that I bought is absolutely, without any doubt or reservations, the worst that I have ever bought. The battery lasted about 6-7 months, after that, I HAVE to have it plugged into a power source just to keep it powered up. I went online to try and find a replacement and guess what? You have to send it back to Tom Tom to get the battery replaced. Tom Tom can kiss me and call me Shorty, I'll never in my life waste another minute of my time on a Tom Tom. I'm going shopping tomorrow for a Garmin or a Magellan.
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liu_zengsheng
GPS: TomTom GO 920T
Joined: 07 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 12:39 Post subject: Battery life |
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I got my TomTom GO 920 about half year ago
the battery life of it is only 60 to 90 minutes,
compare to what they say in the website,
3 to 5 hours...
I have no idea how they will get 3 to 5 hours
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