nice. im gona look on ebay for a tomtom now.

Posted at 11:22 pm on Dec 29th, 2006 by Ryan Nelson

Always interests me how many consumer devices run Linux and the world at large has no idea about it.

Posted at 11:41 pm on Dec 29th, 2006 by TJ

i did something like this on a tomtom i got for xmis once i solber up enu to find ausb cable ill upload the mp3 player
ps YAY 3rd POST

Posted at 12:31 am on Dec 30th, 2006 by alex

Ha, I’m kind of surprised my tip made it up here. I put it in while bored at work, and only half expected it to even be seen.

I was looking for a reason to justify my buying the tomtom, and this really seems like a reason. The 910, though expensive, could be made into an entire mini-linux enabled system. It has alot of potential I think.

Wardriving on it would be the killer app though.

Posted at 12:51 am on Dec 30th, 2006 by knives788

no leds? now i#m a sad sad steve

Posted at 5:47 am on Dec 30th, 2006 by steve

I have a tomtom and although its great for GPS, the MP3 player functionality of OpenTom is quite awful. It doesnt save your playlists from one session to the next, and it is painful to add playlissts as you have to add one MP3 at a time, can’t add whole directories and it has trouble playing things with low bitrates (like audiobooks). If anyone can (or has!) developed something that does these things, it would be quite incredible!

Posted at 9:11 am on Dec 30th, 2006 by Seidleroni

@2 — I agree. The linux kernel has been so important in the consumer device world that it would be terrific to see a “built on linux” sticker on these devices. I think such a campaign would go a long way toward consumer adoption of the OS.

Posted at 9:45 am on Dec 30th, 2006 by Andrew Pollack

That is certainly an interesting idea. They had “Intel Inside”, so why not a similar advertisement campaign for devices that use the Linux kernel?

Of course, I guess the issue is the lack of one large entity controlling and pushing to get the kernel into as many devices as possible. Intel had a whole advertising department that came up with and implemented the stickers.

Best they could do with Linux would be to amend something onto the license. “All embedded devices using the Linux kernel must clearly display clever stickers.” Worth a shot.

Posted at 12:06 pm on Dec 30th, 2006 by TJ

@7 — you’re almost there. You’re right in comparing it to “Intel Inside” — that was a brilliant campaign and set AMD back years. AMD did ultimately gain through a superior product line (at least briefly) but it took a long time.

Intel Inside actually made consumers care about having a particular kind of processor when in fact it make no difference to 99% of them.

The only place you lose me is when you want to amend the agreement to force the issue. I think if you did something a like a small, understated version of the penguin with a ‘built on linux’ slogan you could get plenty of volunteer compliance.

Posted at 9:08 pm on Dec 30th, 2006 by Andrew Pollack

Hey I also posted the opentom project to hackaday. THe only problem is you either have your tomtom act as a satnav product or an MP3 player, it cant do both together which seems a bit pointless, dont you think???

Posted at 9:20 am on Dec 31st, 2006 by DJ-Q

@9: It looks as though, in the screenshot, there is functionality to run the GPS and the mp3 player without a reflash…
@10: The mp3 player is just a proof of concept, not to be taken seriously as of yet

Posted at 10:25 pm on Jan 3rd, 2007 by ViceVirtue

hello i want to know is anyone now how to hack a tomtom map australia v7.20 update please thanks my email address is ala2006@live.com thanks

Posted at 9:37 am on Aug 10th, 2008 by ala

This is interesting. I didn’t know the tom tom could be programmed for using linux

Posted at 11:20 am on Sep 17th, 2008 by Free TomTom

heay is there anyone who cn help me find a free tomtom one map download for south africa?if there is plz drop me an e-mail and tel me hw i gc get it. doc.q@webmail.co.za

Posted at 10:58 am on Oct 31st, 2008 by doc

Anyone fancy making a tomtom software that will data log for track use… so you can download data from the TomTom onto your computer and get things like lap times, top speeds, track, track lines…

I cant find anyone else that has done it, and im not too good at coding with Linux, so someone out there must be able to do it.

Posted at 2:43 am on Jun 16th, 2009 by Jamz