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martin63 Lifetime Member

Joined: Jul 30, 2004 Posts: 7
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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:24 pm Post subject: annoying cmaera alerts |
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Swapped from tomtom to Garmin 660 and used it this weekend on a trip to london and found that the camera alert beep is annoyiin the fact that it goes off so many times (a constant beep beep beep) can it be set to only sound once.
Also can the instruction on the turn to make is also repeated four or five times can this be set to sound only once or twice
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RedMick Occasional Visitor

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Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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On a similar theme, I get annoyed when the bongs are warnings for a different road! On the M56 near Manchester, every overpass gives out 40mph warnings over and over, even though it's clearly a 70mph zone.
Also, why do I get speed warnings for, say, 40mph zone, when I'm only doing 20mph in traffic??? I thought the warning was for if I strayed over 40.
Sorry for the mini hijack of the thread, but the questions are similar I think. |
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xtraseller Frequent Visitor

Joined: 15/07/2003 22:59:27 Posts: 1050 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 4:20 pm Post subject: Bongs |
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Not the answer, but you could turn off the Garmin bongs, install the PGPSW ones and put your own sounds to them - including silence - so they will just pop up on screen or just alert you to the ones (ie POI group) you are interested in... _________________ TomTom Go Live 6100, 600
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff


Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15388 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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You only get persistent / repeated 'bongs' on approach to a camera POI if you are over the set speed limit. Easy way around this is to slow down
Something else to check is whether you have it set correctly when you installed the speed cameras. If you have POILoader set to 'KPH and Meters' then a 30mph camera will warn constantly at anything over 19mph.
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turboccc Regular Visitor

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Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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Slow down? Are you kidding?  _________________ Latest RGN_Tool, GIR_Editor, Extra_POI_Editor and other Garmin tools: Click HERE |
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RedMick Occasional Visitor

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Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:50 am Post subject: |
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MaFt wrote: | You only get persistent / repeated 'bongs' on approach to a camera POI if you are over the set speed limit. Easy way around this is to slow down
Something else to check is whether you have it set correctly when you installed the speed cameras. If you have POILoader set to 'KPH and Meters' then a 30mph camera will warn constantly at anything over 19mph.
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I get the bongs, even 5mph below the speed limit, yes, it's set to mph. |
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff


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Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:53 am Post subject: |
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Martin and Redmick - how are you installing the POIs? are you using anything like Ash10's software or CBROM's GPX convertor?
Do you have the latet software for your nuvi?
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RedMick Occasional Visitor

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Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 10:53 am Post subject: |
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MaFt wrote: | Martin and Redmick - how are you installing the POIs? are you using anything like Ash10's software or CBROM's GPX convertor?
Do you have the latet software for your nuvi?
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Now you're confusing me, Garmin POI loader, yes software updated recently. |
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff


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RedMick Occasional Visitor

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Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 11:53 am Post subject: |
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Did that just before latest POI update. No worries, it's not the end of the world  |
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff


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Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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my guess, then, is that garmin have changed how they deal with 3rd party POI warnings...
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