Hi, sorry if there are already threads on this, but search brings up nothing.
Basically I want to know which is the best sat-nav software for the Touch Pro in terms of reliability, stability and function.
I used to use TomTom 6 with my old iMate, but it crashed a bit and annoyed me how you couldn't run it in the background. Can anyone tell me if you can continue listening to music with the Garmin software?
I don't know for garmin but in tomtom7 you can listen to music while navigating.
I'd go for the iGO8 as I think it is the best Navi software. The reason is it's just too fast , the curser keeps on following you real time, if you turn, the map turns with you immediately.
Why would you Navigate and listen to music on your device ? Don't you have a radio in your car ? BTW most raidos these days allow AUX connection for listening to MP3
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I'd go for the iGO8 as I think it is the best Navi software. The reason is it's just too fast , the curser keeps on following you real time, if you turn, the map turns with you immediately.
Why would you Navigate and listen to music on your device ? Don't you have a radio in your car ? BTW most raidos these days allow AUX connection for listening to MP3
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I use my Touch Pro as an MP3 player and as sat nav. My car stereo supports A2DP.
I would like to be able to have music on when I drive or walk around and be guided at the same time.
Does iGo 8 let you listen to music in the background?
I use Garmin Mobile XT 5, and it has the latest NUVI GUI... and works perfectly.
You can listen to music and run the MobileXT in background. As soon as you got a direction, the nav software goes in front and then goes back, living you with whatever program you where working, all this while listening to music, video or radio.
I was tempted by Garmin. The XT looks great. Really snazzy.
The thing that puts me off is that I play in a band. We have Garmin as our main sat-nav and it is terrible. It'll send us hours out of our way regularly and try and take us down roads that don't exist.
If you make a wrong turn in London it can't recalculate as quickly as you're driving and there's nowhere to pull over.
It is a running joke with a lot of touring bands that if you're late for shows you probably have a Garmin.
I've been using Garmin Mobile XT 5. The application looks nice and has lots of useful features, however, I do have some issues with lag yet I don't know whether this is software or hardware related. I think you can download a trial version from their Website so you could at least demo it.
You should check first the map coverage for your country, TeleAtlas vs Navteq vs Wherever Regional Provider; You can choose the navigation software after, as from my experience even if the interface is nice, if the maps are S***T, there's no use.
As a personal choice, i like Igo8.
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Basically I have an XDA2, and I'd like to get a GPS for it, but I have no car. Does sat nav provide any benefits for people walking the streets?
I was thinking maybe something along the lines of city maps with pubs marked on, or maps of popular holiday destination with points of interest highlighted, that kind of thing.
Is there anyting like this?
TomTom 5 has route planning options for *on foot* but if you are in town areas on foot walking on the pavement the satellite signal won't be as good, and you might find out it drops the line of sight quite often.
Gaz, as the man said, tomtom 5 has the pedestrian option when planning routes and will choose the shortest route by foot. You will need a bluetooth gps which you can strap to your arm with an armband or maybe on your head/hat. You could use an sd gps but then you wouldnt be able to use tomtom 5 because of memory restraints. It maybe that you can download smaller maps for sepcific areas, in which case the sd card method would be the tidiest and least cumbersome. Do not buy a cabled gps as this will be unusable in the pedestrian situation. The other option would be purchase of the backpack for xda 2, this gives you an option to use cf card gps while leaving the sd card slot free for your maps and tomtom. Having said all that, it might be cheaper and make more sense to buy a standalone gps which will allow downloading of street level maps plus poi's and maybe autorouting feature. Some of the cheaper ones allow planning a route on the pc which is then downloaded to gps as a series of waypoints, others allow full autorouting on pc or gps. Make sure you do your research and that the kit you buy actually achieves what you want. I would go for the bluetooth option with tomtom, there are a huge amount of third party points of interest freely downloadable and you can even make your own and share them on the web. Just do a search for tomtom poi.
The TomTom mk2 bluetooth GPS device that comes with TomTom 5 for PDA's has a hole through it so you can attact it to a lanyard or something.
Most rucksacks and backpacks have a pocket at the top of the bag, so of you carry one of these, it would be fine in there.
Except that Rucksacs are soon to become a banned item in the UK.
Yes, and dont wear a heavy coat either.
im thinking of getting a navigation system for my car. ive used a garmin c330 which my friend lends me on long drives. i generally like it for its ease of use.
now my question is:
1. since i have an 8525, is getting a gps bluetooth reciever (suggestions welcome) and a mapping software (suggestions also welcome) comparable to the garmin c330? like voice, turn by turn instructions and what not.
2. im thinking going the 8525 gps system will be cheaper. am i right?
thanks for the help guys.
Yes it will work out cheaper and do just the same in terms of navigation turn by turn instructions etc.
You will need a Bluetooth GPS device, and some Navigation software / maps there are plenty to choose from, I use Route 66 and TomTom. (Depends where in the world you are located though as to which mapping is best)
Don't forget to get a car holder and power cable for use in the car, if you run off just the battery you will flaten it very quickly running software such as TomTom - Mike
Hello to all of you out there. I have the following question. For navigating i am using navigon select 3.5.4. My phone is connected to a parrot MKi9100. When navigating i usually set the sound to off when i am on the freeway. The problem is that when i mute the sound in navigon i still get mutes on my car stereo. I don't here any directions, just mute. Is this a bug of the navigon software and if so, is there a solution?
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Hello to all of you out there. I have the following question. For navigating i am using navigon select 3.5.4. My phone is connected to a parrot MKi9100. When navigating i usually set the sound to off when i am on the freeway. The problem is that when i mute the sound in navigon i still get mutes on my car stereo. I don't here any directions, just mute. Is this a bug of the navigon software and if so, is there a solution?
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Do you mean that navigon mutes the other sounds, like music playing through your car stereo from your phone?
If yes, thats probably a bug in navigon and there is not much you can do except write a bug report to the devs.
It is as you describe it. That sucks. Does anyone know if this issue is also appearing with other nav programs? I have tried Sygic Aura and google nav, but i am not quite happy with those programs.
So I got my hands on a Samsung Focus and decided to give WP7 a shot. Much to my surprise, I can't put the phone down. I've gone so far as to pull the SIM from my Galaxy Nexus and started using the Focus as my daily driver.
However, as with anything I have a few gripes (which I hope have resolutions). Any help would be appreciated!
Streaming music is dodgy at best. I've used wpFandora, Metro Radio, and Zune Pass and with all of them I get constant drops, song skips due to buffering problems, etc. I don't have these problems on Android or iOS devices. So, is this inherent to WP7 or maybe just the Focus?
Is there any way to prevent screen time out in music apps? I use my phone while driving, and having to wake it and unlock it to change media is troublesome and dangerous.
Bluetooth. When paired to a BT headset, there's no ringtone played on the headset. If I'm listening to music and the phone rings, it mutes the music (but doesn't appear to PAUSE) and that's it. The only ring is from the phone itself, nothing over BT
Really, that's it for me. I really hope these are fixable and/or device specific because I'm salivating to pick up a Lumia 900 once its available!
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Not sure I can help you with the first. I use T-Mobile, so my coverage is poorer than your but my network less saturated, and I almost never have trouple with streaming Zune Pass.
Press the Volume rocker once, either up or down, while at the lock screen. This will show the media controls, and allow you to pause or skip music (and change volume, of course). True apps can also disable the screen time-out (I don't think there's an option in the built-in player), though the effect on battery will be significant.
It takes the phone a second (literally, as in about 1000 ms) to sync to the headset when a call comes in. After that, the headset will either play the ringtone or text-to-speech the caller, depending on the headset and the settings on the phone. Also, on music playback that supports Pause (i.e. Zune Pass streaming, but not radio), the phone will pause music playback when a call arrives.
HTC HD7, build 7720 (quite out of date, by intention; your Focus should be on a newer version). It's possible the problems you are having are Focus specific. For example, there used to be a really bad bug where the Focus would vary the Bluetooth volume continuously while on a call, making it sometimes impossible to hear. I thought they fixed that though...
definately make sure that focus has all the updates installed (including firmware)
Also since you like streaming - check out tune in radio. it finds all the local stations around here and even tells you when shows are on like bob and tom.
Granted, if you have a headset plugged in you can also use the fm radio.
Streaming is normally not a problem at all. Might be the network towers you are on, but then other phones on att / verizon or whatever should have the same issue.
update all your focues firmware to get best experience out of it
Here's my woe:
I want to be able to play my FM Radio (or CD, or USB stick - just any audio source I choose in my car) and hear Google Maps Navigation over my car spearkers. Currently I can do that if I listen to BT audio and listen to music from my phone.
My work phone is an Iphone 5s and it does this flawlessly because there's a checkbox option in google maps navigation settings "Play as Phone call" which allows it to work flawlessly. The Android app doesn't have that option. Why is that?
I have tried SoundAbout and it's terrible. Half the audio plays on the phone then it switches to my speakers and is terrible and skips words. As for other apps, I've tried BTmono, I've googled my fingers to nubs and tried every setting (turn off multimedia on the phone, on the car etc).
I'm wondering if I root this phone can I fix this at all? Or is there an alternative APK of maps with that option (maybe beta or something)
(Also can you get Google Now voice to go over the car audio like the iphone voice commands does natively, Google Now requires it to be in BT audio source as well.)
I also know this is not car specific because I tested it with a VW Passat with my phone and a Samsung Galaxy S5 and Motorola Droid something or another my coworker owns and it behaves the same in his car as well as mine.
This feature is absolutely frustrating and a dealbreaker for me. I'd happily just use my work phone in the car but anything on that phone is subject to FOIA from the general public. No thanks to that. I asked in another forum and they said it's because the iphone doesn't do a2dp or bluetooth audio out or whatever but that's not true, my iphone does play music over the bluetooth audio source. And I realize the iphone isn't as sophisticated, I'm android through and through, which is why this is making kittens cry blood for me.
Please help me. And Thank you so much for even reading!
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Phone: Samsung Galaxy s6 (lollipop)
Car: 2012 Camry (No entune).
I've come back to the forums for this exact problem you are describing. I believe it's true that for Google Maps voice prompts, the iPhone will indeed route them using HFP (hands free protocol) to mimic a phone call, so your car will lower the radio volume and let the voice prompt through. As far as I can tell Android has no such similar feature, and yes it's annoying as heck. Since Google Maps works on iOS but not on Android, I can only conclude that this is some oversight by the Android team, or perhaps some kind of hardware limitation that Google doesn't think is worth spending money on.
I'm a bit surprised that after all my internet searching, this problem hasn't made a big enough fuss to get to Google's attention.
I wish they would fix this and am surprised more people are not making a fuss about it
I have made an app for that. It's called AudioBT on Google Play...
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And this is still an issue. And when connected to my truck via bluetooth it won't give voice directions through my phones speaker either. Hard to convince someone Android is better than ios when something that works so well with an iPhone doesn't work at all with an Android. Please fix this!