Date: 2008-06-21 00:09 Subject: Making my TomTom GO 720 GPS work again... and Linux! Security: Public

I spent some time today on that, it had gone increasingly gaga after some software and POI updates, then lost the plot completely, and then didn't want to boot anymore. The usual reset/restore procedures didn't improve things, so I invented my own which did not involve a restore procedure. I basically formatted the flash and reset the NVRAM and then added the basic stuff until it did stuff again ;-) So now my GO works once more. Horay... just need to figure out where the favourites were stored so I can restore them, setting that up from scratch is a pest.

Along the way, while searching for info online, I actually found out that the TomTom GO series actually runs a Linux 2.6 kernel. There's a few custom modules for the specific hardware, but basically it's just an ARM processor.
So there ya go. Good stuff!