I got tom tom 5 on an MMC and it works on a Nokia 6600
but when I put the card in my Nokia 9300 the Logo will apear but when I try to start the aplication the following apears on the schreen:
System:
Cannot find the specified object.
TOMTOM claims it is compatible with the 9300. but I can`t get it to run.
Any ideas???
I didn't realise it was released yet, but shouldn't you get a specific series 80 version? From what I have read on the TomTom site you need to state the model of phone you have so that they can send the correct version. The icon will appear because the os recognises the *.app file as a program and shows it, but if it is not written, or does not have the correct support files, for s80 then it will not work.
Right. You can't run a Series 60 version of TomTom (for phones like the 6600 or 7610, etc.) on a Series 80 device (9300 or 9500). You must get the Series 80 version of TomTom for that.
Sounds like it should be Tomtom to sort this..
If Tomtom have told you series 60 should work on Series 80, & it doesn't. Its up to them to fix.
lakeywhite wrote:The icon will appear because the os recognises the *.app file as a program and shows it, but if it is not written, or does not have the correct support files, for s80 then it will not work.
Incompatible versions can't be installed on different devices. If S60 is not compatible with S80 (as i suppose so), the installation process should quit before ending, leaving a "not compatible version" error.
That's, indeed, what happens, if the programmer that developed the installation package knows what he or she is doing (when so called platform ID's are checked and specified correctly).
Playerkiller wrote:Incompatible versions can't be installed on different devices. If S60 is not compatible with S80 (as i suppose so), the installation process should quit before ending, leaving a "not compatible version" error.
However TomTom is not installed, it comes preloaded on an mmc in all its correct directories, so it does not go through an installation process of checking what handset it is on.
That explains it, then.
Of course, if an app is distrubuted in that fashion, it should be written to do a system check when it starts so that the user does not end up confused like now. Again, a measure of how good/professional the developer is or has been (or hasn't been).
Also, with Symbian OS 9 this problem is solved partially by the operating system; the installer cannot be bypassed like that any more (it'll be a while before any Symbian OS 9 devices appear, though).