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Tom Tom App Savages Power

  • 01-07-2010 5:10pm
    #1
    Evergreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭


    I have the Tom Tom turn-by-turn gps app on my 3GS (running on iOS4).

    On Tuesday morning I had to drive from Wicklow Town to Larne to collect a trailer from the port. When I left Wicklow by iPhone was fully charged, I had the charger plugged in for the entire journey (3 hours), and when I got to Larne my battery was down to half power.

    Are all TBT gps apps this power hungry or is it just the Tom Tom version?

    Not happy :mad:


Comments

  • #2
    VisionaryP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭VisionaryP


    Evergreen, it's GPS. Even dedicated GPS systems chew up power. They're designed, for the most part, to be plugged in while you're driving.


  • #3
    120_Minutes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    How could your battery be at half power if it was plugged in for the entire journey?


  • #4
    sink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭sink


    Evergreen wrote: »
    I have the Tom Tom turn-by-turn gps app on my 3GS (running on iOS4).

    On Tuesday morning I had to drive from Wicklow Town to Larne to collect a trailer from the port. When I left Wicklow by iPhone was fully charged, I had the charger plugged in for the entire journey (3 hours), and when I got to Larne my battery was down to half power.

    Are all TBT gps apps this power hungry or is it just the Tom Tom version?

    Not happy :mad:

    Sounds more like you bought a cheap piece of crap charger, or one that is faulty. I bought a charger and dock from ebay for €10 and suffered from the same problem. I replaced it with a €15 logic3 charger bough in an O2 store and now my iPhone actually charges when using tomtom.


  • #5
    Evergreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭Evergreen


    120_Minutes wrote: »
    How could your battery be at half power if it was plugged in for the entire journey?

    This is exactly why I was shocked.

    Although I take Sink's point in his reply and will try out the charger he recommended.


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