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iphone 4 and tomtom car kit

if i replace my 3gs with the new iphone 4, will the new one fit in my tomtom car kit?

mac mini, crap LG monitor, iphone 3G16gb, wacom, bose sound thro express, Mac OS X (10.6.3), love it!

Posted on Jun 9, 2010 4:40 AM

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Jul 6, 2010 7:07 PM in response to bpeacock22

Absolutely, Bpeacock22.
And here is the first video that was posted on this thread before yours (by chapstick)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvR_2TgxsFI

For the sake of this thread becoming completely unhelpful and rambling...

The truth about the tomtom car kit and iphone 4 is that it all works super fine...

After a small easy modification to the mount. It will work for anyone and everyone. Yes it will!

The key to the modification is understanding that the dock on the tomtom rocks backwards and forwards. It is effectively a switch to make things work. It needs to be rocked fully backwards to work. Because iphone 4 is a bit more slim than other iphones this phone will not rock the dock backwards far enough without some help. The solution is to place a small pad of some sort, so that it sits between the dock and the back of your phone; So that you phone now presses on the back of the dock hard enough to push it fully back. This pad can be anything so long as it is of suitable thickness, such as thick card, a piece of soft velcro, even one of those slidey things you put under the feet of furniture to make them glide across the floor, that someone mentioned somewhere ( ! ).

If it doesn't work, then rethink the thickness of your pad.

Watch that youtube link.

And think about it.

In order to help folk find this magic solution, without having to wade through pages of waffle, perhaps folk can restrain from posting on this thread:
a) in order to moan that tomtom have designed their mount in such a way (get over it)
b) to announce to the world that it works (we know it does)
c) to whine that you are too stupid to fix a bit of stuff to your tomtom mount (come on, you play at the cutting edge of technology - you can do it!)
d) anything else that is totally off topic

There, I've said it.
Boy I'm feeling grumpy today.
sorry.
I'm not trolling.

Jul 13, 2010 8:18 PM in response to Paul Richards4

Ok guys- I had a moment of panic because I could not get my new iphone 4 to work in the TomTom car kit, which I use everytime I'm in the car. Someone else posted the need to trigger the rocker switch in the back- this is the key. Since the iphone 4 is thinner, it doesn't press the rocker switch back to activate the charger.

Solve: I cut a small piece of thick double sided tape, left one of the backings on the side touching my phone, stuck the tacky side to the rocker switch, and viola! The Tomtom car kit works!

Thanks for the rocker switch info- you guys rock!

Jul 31, 2010 3:04 AM in response to bpeacock22

After trying myself for a while i can tell you this - even if the top clip of the TomTom mount was 3/4" taller to accommodate the new iPhone with the bumper's added girth it still would not work because the dock doesn't reach long enough to get past the bottom part of the bumper and fully into the iPhone 4's connector. Combine those two problems with the already known flaw that prevents the unit from even turning on without a mod and you got a total iPhone 4 failure dock. Here's hoping TomTom makes just a few slight modifications to their next gen dock.

iphone 4 and tomtom car kit

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