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All Europe maps with Metacodes too big for TomTom XL, what now?

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    So after almost 4 hours of tinkering around and jumping into this whole TomTom Hacking stuff as a newbie I finally managed to upgrade Navcore on my XL to 9.510 and being ready for new map updates.
    Well, so I thought... I realized that this thing only comes with ~1GB of internal memory and no external way of upgrading that (no SD slot or anything else). And all the maps I would need, such as Eastern/Central Europe that have Metacodes available) are above 1.5GB currently.
    So what do I do now? How can I reduce the size of those maps if at all? I saw that there are some Europe maps that are under 1GB but those lack Metacodes so they can't be activated, what can I do with those then?


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    Stef18 Reviewed by Stef18 on . All Europe maps with Metacodes too big for TomTom XL, what now? Hey there! So after almost 4 hours of tinkering around and jumping into this whole TomTom Hacking stuff as a newbie I finally managed to upgrade Navcore on my XL to 9.510 and being ready for new map updates. Well, so I thought... I realized that this thing only comes with ~1GB of internal memory and no external way of upgrading that (no SD slot or anything else). And all the maps I would need, such as Eastern/Central Europe that have Metacodes available) are above 1.5GB currently. So what Rating: 5

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    All Europe maps with Metacodes too big for TomTom XL, what now?
    Go for a second hand GO with an SD slot, these 1GB devices are more or less useless now
    Only good for some small maps like benelux for example

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    Only problem is that this XL belongs to my mum who refused to give it up due to an emotional bond to it... It once belonged to a now passed away family member and she got it from him, now she doesn't want to switch

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    All Europe maps with Metacodes too big for TomTom XL, what now?
    That is a completely different problem.
    There is a definite model where it is possible to build in extra memory yourself,
    but that requires some knowledge of soldering on very small parts.
    That is a special model, but I am sure that I mean Rusigor one
    Another model of a compact flash card has provided, ask him through a PM


    Where is the navigator most used, there may be some parts
    omitted such as the poi file, I myself also have a One with
    only 1GB of memory that can still turn two maps, but that
    she, as I wrote before, was small, benelux and, for example, the UK

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    Main and really only use is in Austria and maybe Italy but nothing more so far. Most important would just be Austria for now.

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    All Europe maps with Metacodes too big for TomTom XL, what now?
    The only ways are to either find a smaller map that covers those countries you MUST have, delete all cspeech files from the map folder (as you don't need/can't use them anyway), remove all but one voice file, or, drastically, get your soldering iron out and see here
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    PS you may just find something usable here:-
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    PPS remember, irrespective of your navcore, there's no advantage in getting a (larger) map with cspeech/ASR which requires a device with a mic which the XL doesn't have as it just takes up more memory/space
    PPPS we get (direct from the backdoor of the TT servers) and publish links for, ALL the maps but metacodes (which are required to activate a map) can ONLY be obtained/generated/shared by someone who's actually bought that particular map which is why the difference in map counts.
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    Not sure why I missed that one yesterday... I guess after 4 hours of tinkering around I was just too tired to think straight anymore
    Thanks! I'll try that one! Btw. do you know what the difference between the "DACH" and "DE_AT_CH" version is?

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    All Europe maps with Metacodes too big for TomTom XL, what now?
    I think it must be possible to use DE_AT_CH 1015-9104 which Biggerdave suggested at the same time with Italia 1015_9104
    When you remove all cpeech files DE_AT_CH is in size 484MB, while Italia is in size 331MB

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    Thanks a ton to everyone in here! Thanks to you guys my mom can get some more use out of this device before she finally has to switch in a few years from now on once the maps really become too big to fit all on it You don't even know how much this means to her!

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    All Europe maps with Metacodes too big for TomTom XL, what now?
    Good news. NOW do a full Windows backup of the memory!

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