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Would you like to use custom made TomTom car symbols?

System: TomTom Navcore
Difficulty level: Easy
Time required: 5 minutes

On your PC
1. Open mspaint.exe ( Start > Run > mspaint.exe )
2. Open BMP image that you want to use as a car symbol ( File > Open )
3. Edit image to make some nice symbol
4. Fill in the image background with red (RGB 255,000,000)
5. Resize to size between 24 x 24 pixels and 128 x 128 pixels (e.g. 80 x 80 )
6. Save image as 256 color bitmap (BMP) to your PC
7. Copy your customised car symbol to your TomTom in the subfolder /art/cars


On your TomTom:
1. Disconnect TomTom
2. Goto the main menu > Change preferences > Change car symbol
3. Select your customised car symbol

Enjoy





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New car symbols for TomTom are available for download here: TomTom Car Symbols.
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I have just bought a TomTom One XL and was wondering if you can put these Car Symbols on it?

Thanks for any information,
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Don't worry about replying I have found out how to do it now.

These guys have a great little app which get the right files to where they need to download this (link removed) patch.

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Hello

Symbol fix guide for all older TomTom devices:

- Download the (link removed).
- Run Start to install the patch
- Once installed the software can be found in Start > Programs > TomTomHeaven
- Once you have chosen the car symbol that you prefer click on OK

This has been tested on a tomtom XL and a tomtom One V1.

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does the car symbol work with a tomtom 3rd i cant seem to get the symbol to work for me
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Did you ever get your new car symbol patch to work? I cannot get mine to work. I click onto a different car symbol (Fahrzeugsymbo) - It says it has changed to the new choice, but it keeps the old arrow (Fahrzeugsymbol-Default).





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Does anyone know how to add the car icon to the PDA version of Tomtom? thanks in advance.
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Ming wrote:
Would you like to use custom made TomTom car symbols?

System: TomTom Navcore
Difficulty level: Easy
Time required: 5 minutes

On your PC
1. Open mspaint.exe ( Start > Run > mspaint.exe )
2. Open BMP image that you want to use as a car symbol ( File > Open )
3. Edit image to make some nice symbol
4. Fill in the image background with red (RGB 255,000,000)
5. Resize to size between 24 x 24 pixels and 128 x 128 pixels (e.g. 80 x 80 )
6. Save image as 256 color bitmap (BMP) to your PC
7. Copy your customised car symbol to your TomTom in the subfolder /art/cars


On your TomTom:
1. Disconnect TomTom
2. Goto the main menu > Change preferences > Change car symbol
3. Select your customised car symbol

Enjoy


I did this with a small simple black image of a rhino and it worked just fine. Now I am trying to do it with a small color pic and it won't accept it. I can make it 80x80 with a red background and save it as a .BMP and load it on my TOMTOM and it even shows to be there with the other icons. But when I chose it for the symbol it says that it can't use it. Any ideas???





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chewd88 wrote:
Does anyone know how to add the car icon to the PDA version of Tomtom? thanks in advance.


You have to manually creat the art/cars direcory on your device in the \Program Files\Navigator directory.







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Picture is too big. Check your kbs.
See here: http://tomtom.gps-data-team.com/car_symbols.html





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Others have written that you can add a car symbol to their TomTom One XL, but they say they use a software that ends in .exe. I have a macintosh and .exe programs are for the PC world. Anyone have any ideas how to install car symbols on a TomTom One XL?

My wife bought a TomTom One (the small gps device) and it came with five different cars in 'preferences'. I bought the TomTom One XL thinking it would have all of the same features as the TomTom One. But it seems as if TomTom didn't put the old features in the newer Tom Tom. I don't understand why they would not make a newer and more expensive TomTom that didn't have the features contained in their older models.

Anyone have any ideas how to put a car symbol on my TomTom One XL.





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ka wrote:
Did you ever get your new car symbol patch to work? I cannot get mine to work. I click onto a different car symbol (Fahrzeugsymbo) - It says it has changed to the new choice, but it keeps the old arrow (Fahrzeugsymbol-Default).


I searched forever and finally found in fine print that the map has to be in 3D instead of 2D for anything other than the arrow to show up.





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