Get it to any device in seconds. How to hack tomtom device. Publish for free today. Go explore. For those not so bold, examining the TomTom's source code has yielded a litany of interesting tricks that can still customise the device while minimising risk because the actual images being executed are still the original, supplied, programs.
These tricks include making custom menu structures , changing the startup and shutdown screens and even adding utility via event loggers , offroad navigation and reversing an itinerary , helping you get back home again. There's no end to what can be achieved with little more than an inquisitive mind.
If you have a TomTom, check out the OpenTom project and become familiar with the new things you can make your device do. If you are a software developer, see what you can do to expand the repertoire and give back to the community who has brought freedom this far.
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Loading Comments Free and up to date maps, free traffic, and the nav is pretty good too these days with lane indication. I'm still using my TomTom GO , even though they've stopped updates. I'm holding off upgrading because I don't think the newer versions are hackable. Early on TomTom published an API for writing add-on applications, and you could do things like play audio files to interact with users.
But they gave up on that business model and gradually updates stopped exposing the API. My machine still runs a daemon process to save the NMEA data every second, and another process that listens for a bluetooth connection to upload to the cloud via an Android app. I generate tile overlays to display over Google Maps, and have details of every journey since I first learned that they were discontinuing updates when I accepted the last update, which unfortunately trashed the unit.
I don't know if it was deliberate or a coincidence, but luckily I did have a backup, although not containing the very latest map updates, so I'm behind by a few revisions.
Not sure whether to build some custom hardware to track my car I've made a wearable tracker that uploads over GSM for when I'm on foot or on public transport or go with a mobile app for satnav and do the tracking within the phone.
You can report errors. You mark the errors, say what changes to make, eg, no right turn, a mini roundabout, bollards, and I religiously did that on my standalone for years, getting the stock update periodically.
Did they ever incorporate my corrections? Not one! I moved to Garmin, with lifetime updates, which really seem to be that, but hardly use it now as the car we use most has a built in satnav.
So I get missed junctions and roundabouts, incorrect speed limits, directions to leave a motorway and then join it again, you name it. LifeTime Maps is for the life of the device, so as soon as TT bring out a new device to replace yours you stop being able to receive updates.
Last edited by a moderator: May 6, Mike said:. I reported a mistake in Google Maps on Thursday and it was fixed and online within hours. Felbrigg Hall was marked incorrectly. It required satellite images to see this. Yet, a lane near home that has had bollards at the top for years, at least 30, maybe forever, a mini roundabout of some 15 years standing, and a nearby junction that is five way but with access restrictions, were never fixed by Tomtom.
I was regularly routed up the first, the second had no warning, and the third had a no right turn that drivers daily ignored, causing danger to a nearby school and holding up traffic behind the illegal turners.
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