I’m told this works with any TomTom
Problem - I wanted ‘ITINERARY PLANNING’ and ‘POI MANAGEMENT’ menu items on my TomTom. I have a cheap as chips TomTom One v3 c2007 which had been updated to v8 application software and includes the ‘HELP ME’ and ‘MAP SHARE’ menu items that I don’t really need and are not compatible with the ‘ITINERARY PLANNING’ and ‘POI MANAGEMENT’ menu items that I wanted. I was told by TomTom I would need to shell out a substantial amount of hard earned for an all new, all singing, all dancing model, or maybe I should just go for a Garmin?
After much to do with Googling and a little beg, steal and borrow I found it was possible, here’s how
You need a registered/activated TomTom with map (which I had) and the v7 application software (which I beg, stole, borrowed - thank you Tim).
With the TomTom connected to a PC via ‘TomTom Home’ use ‘Windows Explorer’ to move/replace the files. Move all the files from the TomTom to the PC hard drive for safe keeping just in case it all goes pear shaped. Copy the TomTom v7 application software to the TomTom together with the map folder that’s registered/activated with the TomTom device, the map folder will be called something like ‘United_Kingdom_and_Republic_of_Ireland’ or ‘Western_Europe_1GB’. Then follow the instructions found at the inter webby links below to add the new ‘SDKregistry’ folder containing the revised TomTom.mnu file. You can also customise the menu to include only the menu items you want in the order you want, if you do this you may also have to re-number the menu pages, happy days.
gpsreview.net to add the ‘ITINERARY PLANNING and POI MANAGEMENT’ menu items
opentom.org details a more complete list of menu items
gregoryduncan.com download the freeware beta version 1.2 TomTom menu designer
You’ll also want
ITN Converter very useful for planning, saving and converting etc your routes, itinerary’s and POI’s.
The downside to all this is you lose the ‘HELP ME’ and ‘MAP SHARE’ menu items and you can never update the TomTom Device, note if you update by default you’ll end up with the v8+ application software which is not compatable with the ‘ITINERARY PLANNING’ and ‘POI MANAGEMENT’ menu items.
Disclaimer - I’m no expert here, I’m just passing on what worked for me and how I got my TomTom doing what I wanted a Sat Nav to do. Mess with your TomTom at your own risk, if it all goes pear shaped don’t blame me.