How can I update maps on my tomtom when I lost my bar code and receipt it is only 5 mths old

Who's life... yours or the TomTom's...?

(just kidding... I understand they are pretty good).

Get that receipt (or serial number) out... and go
ON-LINE to Lifetime support (below)...

TomTom Support

You really need the Product Code Card, try and request it at tomtoms customer support, although I hope you have the full receipt handy...

If/when you've just purchased a (brand) new TomTom GPS, you can register it (at the TomTom.com website) and download the latest map (for your device) .... free ... as part of the latest map guarantee.
Whenever you connect your GPS to the TomTom website (via TomTom HOME), you'll get (free) updates to your current map version - ... but they are NOT new versions of the maps.
To get new versions of your (current) map, you'll need to purchase the update (e.g. online, on the TomTom website). Upon paying for it, you will get the activation codes, etc. for you to download, validate and install the maps.

If your GPS has lifetime maps, (after you have registered), you'll be able to connect (via TomTom HOME) to get the latest map release, without requiring any code/password.

• If you Tomtom GPS is continually getting lost ad reconfiguring then it is time to update your map here

http://www.tomtom.com/page/mapupdateservice

• Once you update the map you will not have this problem anymore.

Regards, Tony

Go to the tomtom web site and get the latest software from there "tomtom home"

As far as FREE maps go then unless it is one of the newer "maps for life" units you would have to pay for the update.

Also check your tomtom device when connected to the PC as some had the tomtom home software installed on that !

Theres good news for you, you can get a SD card for your tomtom, and all you have to do is to install or download your maps on the SD card then fix it into your tomtom and you will be able to view your maps from there. For the lost maps, connect your tomtom to your computer, be sure to have your drivers software, then you select your tomtom form your computer, then you install all lost maps back on it by restoring all old maps. But for large downloads, download all new maps on a SD card. That should do the job.
Hope this information came in handy.

1.First of all check that TOMTOM actually still support this product and only perform updates using a wired network connection - WIFI can drop out and corrupt the downloads
2.Then see if they actually are supplying a new map for the 700
3.Without activating TOMTOM Home, plug your GO700 into your PC and let it recognise the 'drive assignment'
4.Take a FULL backup of all files on the TOMTOM 2Gb disk on your PC NOTE: this is totally separate and additional to any backups you might make with TOMTOM Home.
5.Disconnect your TOMTOM
6.Start your TOMTOM Home software and perform an update check from the 'help' drop down menu
7.Once you have this updated connect your TOMTOM
8.Perform a full backup again with the TOMTOM Home software
9.Search using TOMTOM Home for any GO700 application software updates and install these (NOTE - ONLY INSTALL THE APPLICATION UPDATES)
10.Reboot your GO700 to make sure that it works with any application updates
11.Re-connect your TOMTOM and this time perform a search for map updates to purchase and follow the instructions.
12.It is very likely that TOMTOM Home will say that there is not enough space on the drive to install the new map, it will follow an automatic process to remove your old map and then install the new one that you have purchased on lne from TOMTOM.
13. If Home has installed your new map correctly, when you log off and disconnect your GO700 it should then initialise - the long time bar rebuidling the maps and then start up normally. It can be necessary to reset your GO700 using the rest button under the base.

GOOD LUCK, This is currently a very messy process but one which seems to work for recovering the GO700 in the event of a failure, TOMTOM have been hopeless for me in getting any maps installed on a GO700, so this is my way of getting round their lousy support service.

Your best shot is to contact Tomtom, tell them what happened and they will help you out...
Be ready with purchase receipt....

Many people have had the same problem, (including me). The solution is to contact TomTom Support ( Link Here -> http://www.tomtom.com/support/support.php?ID=2&Language=1 ) They will need your details and a copy of your receipt, which you will have to send them via email scan/fax etc. once verified, they will add it to your TomTom Home account.

I brought my TomTom One Regional in March 09, but cannot find my receipt anymore, so I have not been able to claim mine. (any help with this would be much appreciated).

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There is no solution, and the manufacturer is not amenable to any news of this.

It used to be possible to remove the mapsettings.cfg file from the TomTom unit's maps before downloading and installing a new map, then to replace the file; however, TomTom changed the coding on the latest maps so that the software no longer recognises the old cfg file. There is a complex workaround where you change your favorites, one by one, into Points of Interest - but it seems pointless having a Favorites item when you have to do this.