iphone 4 and tomtom car kit

Kyle Garzia wrote:
Hopefully TomTom takes care of us loyal customers who put out a good deal of money for the car unit.

You are joking?? I mean the parallel I draw is +'In the same way that perhaps Michelin should give us a free tyre exchange for the new low profiles we just bought when the new shape C-Class comes out and we find out that Mercedes are using a different wheel size?+
Or maybe my take is a little off?

Yes, I'd say you're off a bit. We're talking about a VERY SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME that this device has been out and, without the home remedy, is obsolete. That's the difference here. That's my take. And I agree with Kyle. But if they don't, the felt fix works just fine for me.

Paul, the wiping of favorites was a bug in 1.4. The 1.4.1 should have put them back.

And they do disclaim that the install process requires twice as much space as the app is. I'm sure all apps are like that, but their's is just so big, we notice it.

All of these posts seem to be in June prior to the iPhone 4 release. I bought a 3gs in mid May and Apple/AT&T offered to let those of us who purchased in May up-grade to the iPhone 4. I pre-ordered it the first day possible and picked it up at AT&T on release day. Except for needing to up-date my version of iTunes - everything transferred to the new phone with no problem. I've had a few dropped calls but I had a few problems with connections before - no worse now. When I got the 3gs, I bought the Tomtom app and the car kit. I REALLY didn't like the app. so I bought the NAVIGON and I use it with the Tomtom car kit. I loved it. Today I used the new iPhone 4 in the Tomtom kit. Navigon ran well. What didn't work was the audio output on the mount. I used the output plug on the top of the phone and connected it to the car stereo system. It seemed to work well, but when you use the output on the kit the sound is amplified by the kit (as is the GPS signal) The phone fits the cradle well enough (is secure) but I'm not sure that the new phone presses into the back of the cradle to activate the kit's GPS booster. SO, my best answer to all of these inquiries is that it works but not perfectly and I won't be happy either to have to buy a new kit since I just bought this one in May 2010. Maybe they'll come out with slightly different cables that will run from the mount to the stereo but I doubt it!

If you use a small piece of padding just behind the dock connector as described before dock works normally. All functions work including gps. Issue with the iPhone 4 is not thick enough to fully depress the dock connector back against the dock.

I've got a bunch of those felt chair foot pads. They have an adhesive on the one side - that should work. How big should the felt circle be (or not be) to activate the pressure switch without interfering with the function? Thanks for the help BTW

AH HA! I just looked at an earlier post that had 2 pictures - showed just where to put some padding - I had thought it was to go on the rubber "push button" but I see that it should go below that - thanks again. Way earlier on this thread someone commented that the "users" are the most interested and given the chance will come up with solutions - as in all of life, we're better when we work together!

Exactly. Not going to get anything from Tomtom on this one. After you get some padding on there check the tomtomcar kit tool app to verify the gps signal is going through. I noticed the audio and Bluetooth was working on mine but needed slightly more padding (and I mean slight) to get the gps signal.

Interestingly, I'm not sure the gps chipsets in the car kit is any better then the new gps chipset in the iPhone 4.

Yes it does fit. That said you need to make a small modification as shown here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvR_2TgxsFI

I did this and it works fine, IPhone will then dock and you can use all the functions as normal.

Yes it does fit. You have to make a slight modification use velcro as shown here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvR_2TgxsFI

Prior to watching this on youtube, I could not get the tomtom car kit to work. Basically this modification makes sure the phone is making contact with the contacts on the car kit and the bottom of the Iphone by making it the same size as the Iphone 3GS.

It works fine.

My experience with the "fix" has been somewhat different, It charges, and works, however it doesn't use the speaker, Doesn't work with speaker phone

You need to adjust the thickness of your pad then. When I did one layer, I got some functionality but not all. When I put a 2nd layer, everything came on as it's supposed to.

Gave that a whack, added another layer, still charge with no other functionality. The Tomtom app says its docked, but no docked icon on the main GUI. No speakerphone etc..

I take it you have tried pairing it via Bluetooth?