Tom tom 720 with a broken screen - is it repairable ?

You could try gently inserting a straightened paper clip into the small round reset hole in the base of the Go720 and pressing/holding slightly on the reset button for c.6 secs. This should reset most basic problems.

Do you have the TomTom Home software that was supplied with the TomTom machines - if you open that on your PC and then attach your TomTom via the supplied cradle or USB lead it should provide a screen asking you if you want to connect to PC. If it boots straight past this you would normally reset it, as above, then restart and accept the question. This should then check the software on the device for updates etc.

Otherwise if no screen display it could just have been dropped and damaged, might be worth opening up to check if the backlight has been broken, though I'm not sure you can get spares (certainly not from TomTom). There is a firm at www.satnavrepairservice.com who will quote you for repairs that need parts.

HarrisonIT

Try to restore the firmware first. If that fails, there may be a motherboard issue. There is a third party tomtom Repair service that will replace the logic board and a tomtom repair guide if you want to replace it yourself, the screen is available on ebay.

If you only just bought it NEW then you should use your "latest map" guarantee that comes with tom toms.

Showing speed options is set from the preferences and safety option

The TomTom 520 and 720 are the same unit. the differance is the maps. The 520 has maps of the US and the 720 has maps of Europe. Download the free clearflash utility from TomTom and run it a couple of times. This should clear up your problem. Sometimes the mapset config in the map gets full and it has to be cleared.

WHEN CONNECTED TO YOR CPU . YOU TOMTOM SCREEN WILL ADK CONNECT TO COMPUTER NO or -YES. TA YES ON YOUR TOM TOM SCREEN.

You need to press and hold the power button down until you see the screen come on.

Well I finally figured it out for those who might run across this problem.

It seems that when it got hot and expanded the grey bezel around the screen would touch the screen just enough to activate it. I gently pried the bezel up just a bit and it seems to have solved the problem.

From Ban One

You can get the replacement screen for several Tomtom models here:

http://www.piezas.biz/epages/wwwpiezasbiz.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/demo132390/Products/%22Pantallas%20para%20GPS%22

my opinion is downloading was not successful again download

okay turn on your tom tom then touch he screen so the navigation menu comes up click change preferences then push the arrow key until the screen comes up with change language then select the language