More TomTom stuff
Easter eggs
Switch off the unit and take out the SD card. Press and hold the power on button for a few seconds. You will see a status display with version information, memory size, battery voltage info and so on.
My custom menu file
I have the menus set up like this now:
I find this a more logical layout as it removes some of the features I don't use and puts the ones I use the most right on the first screen. Note that the 'Voice prompt preferences' is a bit of an Easter egg as it's not documented and not on the standard menus. It lets you enable/disable the 'Ahead...' early warnings and 'Keep to motorway lane' instructions.
I have dispensed with the route browsing options as these are all available by tapping the bottom right of the main nav screen anyway. The GPS status screen and TomTom software version are also available from the route display screen (tap the GPS signal bar or 'version x.xxx' box respectively).
My tomtom.mnu file. Create a folder on your TomTom called 'SdkRegistry' (case sensitive) and drop this in it. Your menus will now look like the above. Edit the .mnu file in a text editor to rearrange things as per OpenTom's instructions or use the Menu Builder webapp.
Watch videos on your TomTom
For passengers only, of course, assuming they're not riveted by your intriguing phillersophical conversation, you can turn the TT into a car media player!
Making a bootable mplayer SD card
It is all a bit proof-of-concept at the moment as you can't really control the media player except if you've a laptop and serial cable, or plug in a USB keyboard (hardware hacking required). But I think it goes without saying that this is pretty frickin' awesome. Oh, you can also play MP3s with it.
Switch off the unit and take out the SD card. Press and hold the power on button for a few seconds. You will see a status display with version information, memory size, battery voltage info and so on.
My custom menu file
I have the menus set up like this now:
I find this a more logical layout as it removes some of the features I don't use and puts the ones I use the most right on the first screen. Note that the 'Voice prompt preferences' is a bit of an Easter egg as it's not documented and not on the standard menus. It lets you enable/disable the 'Ahead...' early warnings and 'Keep to motorway lane' instructions.
I have dispensed with the route browsing options as these are all available by tapping the bottom right of the main nav screen anyway. The GPS status screen and TomTom software version are also available from the route display screen (tap the GPS signal bar or 'version x.xxx' box respectively).
My tomtom.mnu file. Create a folder on your TomTom called 'SdkRegistry' (case sensitive) and drop this in it. Your menus will now look like the above. Edit the .mnu file in a text editor to rearrange things as per OpenTom's instructions or use the Menu Builder webapp.
Watch videos on your TomTom
For passengers only, of course, assuming they're not riveted by your intriguing phillersophical conversation, you can turn the TT into a car media player!
Making a bootable mplayer SD card
It is all a bit proof-of-concept at the moment as you can't really control the media player except if you've a laptop and serial cable, or plug in a USB keyboard (hardware hacking required). But I think it goes without saying that this is pretty frickin' awesome. Oh, you can also play MP3s with it.