Tom Tom Rider Headset Charging

Quick and probably stupid question. How long does it take for a Tom Tom
Rider bluetooth headset to charge up? Presumably a new one is utterly
dead, unlike the Tom Tom unit itself.

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18 hours from new/unused.

 

Thanks a lot. The instructions give no clue that I can find , only 2
hours for the main unit. It will be visual instruments approach only
for a while then.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Pete Fisher belched forth and ejected the
following:

About two hours and no, it's not totally dead.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, belched forth and ejected the following:

Wait 'till the red light goes out, you mong.

 

In communiqué <>, Whinging

What red light would that be then? This confirms my suspicions that
there is something up with mine. Red light on the charger? Red light on
the bluetooth unit? No sign of either, although the mains charger does
get warm. The car kit charger green light comes on but after 24-hours of
pretty much constant 'charging' no sign of life (or a red light when
charging'). Halfrauds have sold me a duff one it seems (Tom Tom Rider
with free car mounting kit deal and I was in a hurry).


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In uk.rec.motorcycles, Pete Fisher belched forth and ejected the
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You won't get a red light on the BT headset if it is charged and it
takes a *long* time for it to use enough power to accept another charge.

Have you used the headset? Does it work?

You could take it back to Halfords but I'd see if it worked first. Leave
the headset switched on overnight and it should then accept a charge in
the morning. Mine does anyway..

 

In communiqué <>, Whinging

Won't come on at all, even for the Halfraud's 'techie'.

Halfrauds conveniently had sold the last Tom Tom rider by the time I
returned this morning. TBF they would have swapped the headset
immediately if not. More stock in on Wednesday they say and meantime I
shall try Tom Tom as I don't really mind waiting for them to swap mine
by post in a jiffy bag. The display is so easy to follow ,in a car at
least, that the headset is not essential, and in any case I haven't even
started to look at how the unit will fit on the tart.

Having said that, I am v. impressed with it. Inordinately useful in
finding the Formula 1 hotel on Friday night and an out of the way bike
dealer yesterday, as well as pointing a Ruskie in the right direction.


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In uk.rec.motorcycles, Pete Fisher belched forth and ejected the
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You do have to hold the on/off for an awfully long time, something like
at least 10 seconds.

Mmm. I've tried finding something else for the car, I didn't like
wearing that earbud. I tried all sorts of BT handsfree kits and nothing
worked so resorted to cutting the bud off and fixing a 1watt speaker on
the end. Works a treat, if a little quiet.

<Nods>

I'm in the process of downloading the latest Western Europe maps as we
speak.

 

In communiqué <>, Whinging

I did think at first that it was just me not waiting long enough, but
Halfrauds tested it this morning.

I thought of mini-speakers from Poundland, or a nifty little tiny
amplified speaker (also with built in microphone or external input) I
got from Tandys years ago. That would need a AAA diet though.

Do report back. I will be wanting to do that.

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In uk.rec.motorcycles, Pete Fisher belched forth and ejected the
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It sounds like it's knackered then.

An amplified speaker would be good. The amplifier built into the headset
isn't man enough to power an external speaker with any kind of usable
volume.

At the moment it's very slow. It's been downloading for the last two
hours and there's <checks> 143 minutes to go. If you want to download
everything that comes with the upgrade it's a 965MB download so you'll
obviously need a 1GB card at the very least.

 

I take it this is from the TomTom site? Even though mine's only 6
months old, the maps is apparently already out of date and there
doesn't seem to be an upgrade for the UK only which I have, just the
full European version, and I have to pay for it. Curses.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, GungaDan belched forth and ejected the following:

I was a trifle miffed about this, too but having thought about it, full
WE maps will be useful as I'll be doing France next year as well as
(hopefully) other jaunts on the continent and as it comes with speed
cameras and traffic, jobs a goodun.

I'm not sure if my maps were at all out of date. I come from a position
of knowing bugger all about maps and who makes them but apparently
Navteq who do the Rider mapping have better maps than TeleAtlas who do
the other TT maps. I had NT maps on my Rider but it's no alleged I have
TA maps. All I can tell you is that TA didn't have a stretch of road in
East Sussex last week and my NT map did but now the new WE maps are
installed and ready to go, I'll have to see if there's an improvement.
There were several roundabouts missing on my travels and at some T-
Junctions it didn't know the road had ended which resulted in a gamble
of right way/turn round.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, GungaDan belched forth and ejected the following:

Bad form but yes, it was from the TomTom site.

79 Euros

 

In communiqué <>, Whinging

If I had the necessary SD card reader on my PC I could answer this
easily, but is the standard card you get with a TTR big enough?

BTW, headset on its way to Tom Tom in cloggie land via UPS. Surprisingly
efficient web based returns system (so far). Total cost a used jiffy bag
a bit of clear tape and a quick phone call to UPS.


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In uk.rec.motorcycles, Pete Fisher belched forth and ejected the
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http://www.crucial.com/uk

Get a 1 gig SD card from these. 12 quid and I got two days later with
their free delivery[1]

I never had to send anything back but a handlebar mount broke, I took it
to a Halfords I didn't buy it from and they replaced it then and there
without question.

[1] I've bought RAM from them before and been nothing but impressed with
their quality of product and service[2]

[2] Damn, I think I'm going to buy a gig of RAM for this laptop now,
too.

 

In communiqué <>, Whinging

I have even considered buying the pre-loaded SD card rather than a
download.

BTW, you seem somewhat cross this evening.
Thanks!


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I'm tempted to upgrade while the 20% offer is on and have vague
theoretical plans to venture into Europe at some point.

Let us now how you get on then.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Pete Fisher belched forth and ejected the
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It's an extra few quid for the SD card or DVD but whatever floats your
boat.

I'm never cross )