Mio 168 with Navigon5 (slow)

maca2 · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 303

Hi,

I see some of you are using the new Navigon 5 software with the Mio 168.
I have just purchased the Mio & navigon 5 bundle but am having trouble with it.

I did have a mio 168 some months ago & I used Tom Tom 3 which worked fine & was very fast with the Mio. That old 168 broke so I have been waiting for ages to buy a new one & Novatec had them for £213 so I brought it with the navigon software last week. I loaded the software as per instructions but it runs very slow & often stops responding & I have to reboot the mio to get out of the prog when it freezes.

In navigation mode on the road it runs slow & the marker is behind where the car is by some way unless I drive very slow. TomTom ran in rael time & was always spot on so I laoded TT3 on this mio & it runs fine as do all the other functions on this mio so I can't see what im doing wrong & wonder if you have any simular problems with Navigon 5/Mio 168.

I have -

Reset the mio back to factory setting & re loaded the Navigon software

I brought a faster SD card (Kingston Elite Pro 256mb)

I set the mio to run at top cpu speed

I moved the memory slider on the mio to give the prog more memory

I made sure all other progs were shut down when running navigon.

Any advice would be very helpful

Thanks in advance

lbendlin · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:49 am Post subject:

Navigon MN|5 runs slow on every Pocket PC. Nothing you can fix.
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maca2 · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 303

Is there a reason for this ?

NeilBennett · Regular Visitor Joined: Sep 18, 2003 Posts: 69

maca2

I have a Mio 269 running MioMap 4 a vesrion of the navigon product I think, but have installed TomTom instead. The speed difference is noticeable. TomTom is much more real-time at speed especially in 3d mode, MioMap was sometimes often a full second behind although the verbal warnings were always sufficient to navigate by. I am not sure where the overhead is though - pehaps the fact that it knows and speaks the next road ??

I am sticking with TomTom

Pocketgps · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:53 pm Post subject:

Have a look at what others are saying

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=23901

maca2 · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 303

Thank's very much that link says it all.

I was about to send the Mio back to the shop where I purchased it due to the speed of this prog. It looks like I will load my old TT3 & take Navigon out, it may have an out of date map but it always runs smooth on the mio.

Thanks

Pocketgps · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 5:32 pm Post subject:

I am not sure but have read on some forums that Navigon are re-doing the maps because of the poor colours, so just may be they will update the gps engine as well so that it works faster, this is not just a Mio thing, it applies to every type of gps unit, they all run slow.

Navigon should have updated version 4 with new graphics and maps but seem to have changed everything and it does not work well, I cannot imagine why it was past as being OK by the managers.

Version 4 did not suffer from the waiting game, I have seen version 5 on a 625Mz Dell and it is not any better than the Mio's 300Mhz for v5, it is clearly the gps engine that is wrong.

I am now using Navigon v4 and TomTom3 hoping that they will fix it, but that may be just a pipe dream.

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