I was thinking of buying a second hand Go 50, but I've read on a couple of forums people having issues with patching them, particularly that they freeze/won't work properly when the patch is installed on the latest navcore, and that the only way to get it to work was to put it into recovery mode and install an older navcore that isn't the easy to find, and that process sounded complicated in itself.

Obviously I would just like a device that is straightforward to install the patch on, and avoid ending up in a situation where I have to spend hours trying to diagnose the problem and being frustrated, and risk bricking the device.

I suppose no one can give any concrete guarantee that the patch will work for any particular device, it's a case of try it at your own risk sort of thing. Although the patching process for NAV4s does seem a lot more complicated and long-winded than for older Tomtoms, with more inherent risk of bricking I should think.

[Login or Register to remove this advertisement]

From what I can gather people have successfully patched Go 50s, but only after a lot of trial and error experimenting with different navcore and patch combinations until something works.

languagetravel Reviewed by languagetravel on 6th January 2023. Is there known problems with patching Tomtom Go 50? I was thinking of buying a second hand Go 50, but I've read on a couple of forums people having issues with patching them, particularly that they freeze/won't work properly when the patch is installed on the latest navcore, and that the only way to get it to work was to put it into recovery mode and install an older navcore that isn't the easy to find, and that process sounded complicated in itself. Obviously I would just like a device that is straightforward to install the patch on, and Rating: 5